new Stadium for the Vikings.
Here's the link to a NY Times article -- showing the Vikings lead all NFL teams
in the number of player arrests (44, twice the average for all teams) over the
last 14 years.
The article suggests "team culture" could be one factor. Of course the Wilfs
were held in New Jersey to be de facto criminals -- civil racketeers -- in one
lawsuit.
Here's a link to the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/upshot/what-the-numbers-show-about-nfl-player-arrests.html?action=click&contentCollection=Pro%20Football&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article&abt=0002&abg=1
Here's a section of the article on possible cause-and-effect relationships:
"The data don’t tell us anything about why these patterns are so persistent,
but there are two possibilities that seem to stand out. First, there could be
club culture. The top management of a franchise may send a message to personnel
scouts and coaches that they are either more or less tolerant of signing
players who have had legal problems in the past. (One might imagine that the
personal style of the coach could play a role as well, but coaches tend not to
have long tenures in the modern N.F.L.; no coach has led his team continuously
for the entirety of the time covered by this arrest data, though the Patriots’
Bill Belichick misses that honor by only a few weeks, having been hired in late
January 2000)."
"Second, there is geography. Different cities have different patterns of living
and different approaches to law enforcement. Perhaps players for the Jets and
the Giants (both with persistently low arrest rates) are at less risk of arrest
for D.U.I. because people are less likely to need to drive themselves to
nightclubs in Manhattan. Or perhaps in some cities, young African-American men
driving expensive cars attract more police attention than in others."
"Regardless of the reasons, a handful of franchises have persistently higher
numbers of players who end up being arrested, and may want to learn from their
rivals in other cities as to why."
bobagain
East Harriet Farmstead
"candidate-journalist" -- next candidacy TBA -- "writer-wing republican"