This week's edition of Sports Illustrated features a lengthy story on the infamous Oct. 6 boat party on Lake Minnetonka and quotes an unnamed current player as saying owner Zygi Wilf delivered a "profanity-laced address" to the team during Friday's meeting. It also alleges, according to three members of last year's squad, that coach Mike Tice, during a late-season 2004 meeting, "offered to fight any team member who wanted a piece of him."

Tice and Wilf, who also reportedly threatened to remove players responsible for planning the party from the roster during last week's meeting, could not be reached for comment on the article, which was co-written by Michael Silver and George Dohrmann and ran under the headline: "Adrift on Lake Woebegone."

The article also describes in at-times graphic detail what happened on the two cruise boats during the outing, which the attorney for the charter company Al & Alma's has said quickly degenerated into an out-of-control party that included lap dances and acts of oral sex involving some Vikings players.

Attorney Stephen Doyle, who could not be reached for comment on the SI article, has turned over the names of 17 players who were identified by crew members as being on the boats to the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, which is investigating.

As first reported by the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the article quotes former players as saying the rookie party is a Vikings tradition in which first-year players are required to pay for a team activity, planned by certain veterans, that typically takes place during the bye week.

The same player told Sports Illustrated that he attended the 2004 dinner portion of the party, which was held at a glass-enclosed restaurant in the Mall of America, overlooking the Camp Snoopy amusement park, and included dozens of women who had been flown in.

The player told the magazine he left the party, which later moved to a downtown Minneapolis club, after witnessing a shopper with two preteen daughters ascending an escalator near the restaurant.

"The restaurant had set up a deejay booth," he said, "and right as the three of them came up the escalator, a big ol' stripper was up there on the mike doing an explicit rap."

"The incident was very damaging, and we're working through it," Bagley said. "Zygi has said he'll do everything in his power to build a class organization on and off the field."

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