It's time for hiring and healing.

With the firing of Mike Tice as MN Vikings head coach, owner Zygi Wilf continued to place his stamp on the franchise. In addition to hiring a new coach, Wilf will be looking for a new personnel director to serve as the de facto general manager.

For the coaching job, I'm sure many names will be thrown around over the next couple of weeks, including various Minnesota "heroes" (or "heroes" sons, like Mike Grant.)

For this article, I'd rather not focus on the hunt for the new coach, but the hunt for the new porsonnel director/general manager. I think the person who would be extremely qualified for that job, being that he really knows the organization, would be none other than Mike Tice. Yes, that's right, Mike Tice.

Now that Mike has been fired, it's time to get him hired! Wouldn't it be great if Wilf, who just fired him as head coach, quickly rehired him as personnel director?

Why have I become such a HUGE Mike Tice fan? Think about it. If he doesn't get hired soon, this domain will be worthless! Zygi, please help a brotha out! If Tice gets a job at a McDonalds or something, no ones going to care about the "FireMikeTiceFromMcDonalds.com" domain.

Now everyone chant, "Hire Mike! Hire Mike! Hire Mike!"

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The Minnesota Vikings fired coach Mike Tice after Sunday's victory over Chicago.

The team announced that owner Zygi Wilf would not renew Tice's contract less than an hour after the Vikings' 34-10 win over the Bears in the regular season finale. Tice, who finished his fourth full season with a 32-32 record, had already addressed the media before the move was made public.

His tenure was mostly marked by streaks and scandals, with a $100,000 fine levied last summer against him by the league for scalping his Super Bowl tickets and a wild boat party during the team's bye week this season that produced misdemeanor charges for four players.

After starting 2-5, the Vikings won six straight before losing two in a row to fall out of contention for the playoffs.

Vikes Lose to Steelers; 911 tape released!

As expected, the Vikings lost to the Steelers this Sunday.

In other news, police on Thursday released a transcript of a 911 call in connection with allegations of lewd behavior by Minnesota Vikings players.

A woman called police around 9:20 p.m. on Oct. 6 to report some men had gotten out of a vehicle and urinated in her yard, according to the transcript.

The caller said, "There was a big shuttle bus limousine that pulled up alongside of my house, and there was like seven black men who got out and stopped and peed all over my yard."

The dispatcher asked, "How many?"

"There was like six or seven," the caller says. "There was a whole busload of them. But the bus driver stopped right alongside my house, and there was six or seven black men that got out, probably, I'd maybe say 19, 18, 19, maybe even 20."

The dispatcher then informed the caller that these black men, whom are rarely seen in her trendy Lake Minnetonka neighborhood, were likely rap stars or athletes and probably had been drinking, smoking weed, and having sex and just needed to relieve themselves in the same manner as white people do.

The caller was satisfied with the dispatcher’s answer and hung up. Oops, these last two paragraphs don’t really contain what happened next, do they?

I give up (now read this!)

I doubt Mike Tice is going anywhere anytime soon (we may still have hope at the end of the season though.)

Let's talk about something more interesting, like that I received an email from some long lost relative somewhere in Africa that offered me $20,000,000 to get the cash out of the country (his brother the former ruler, was overthrown by some brutal dictator.) Or, we could talk about the emails that say that Bill Gates is going to donate $1 to some charity for every person that the email is forwarded to. Or, better yet, that if you've read this blog and don't chant "Fire Mike Tice" seven times while naked in front of the mirror within the next 2 hours, your testicals will grow to become the size of basketballs and your penis will fall off.

Happy chanting!

Anyone want to set-up a new site, HireMikeTice.com?

Since the Vikes have found a way to win their last three games, I am beginning to think it's unlikely that the Zigmeister will fire our beloved (just kidding) head coach anytime soon.

Drastic times call for drastic measures. Maybe the new campaign should be to encourage other teams to solicit him and try to woo him away from Minnesota. For instance, I heard that a high school team in Arkansas is looking for a new football coach...

By the way, the domain name HireMikeTice.com is available.

The return of Jerry Burns! Have a listen!

Even though the Vikes has pulled off a couple of wins, coach Tice's job is still in jeopardy. It seems that former Vikings head coach Jerry Burns has been more visible as of late. Does this mean that he's trying to get his old job back? Doubt it, but I scoured the web and found this little gem. Have a listen!

Burnsie blows a gasket!

The saga continues! Vike’s dump suspected “love” boat garbage!

Local news station, KSTP, obtained the garbage, which included aluminum tins of food, beer and champagne bottles, fireworks, disposable camera boxes, hallowed out cigars, something that looks like a marijuana bud, sexual and feminine hygiene products and Victoria's Secret underwear.

There was also a drink receipt with Bryant McKinnie's credit card number and boarding passes with his name on them, as well as a list of women's names.

The list was titled "Incoming Flights (pickups)" and was written on a piece of Minnesota Vikings paper. It contained women's names, airlines and flight times. The names 'Iris and Liris' are at the top, followed by 'Nivie + 5', 'Ayana and Dionne and Aisha', 'Sandra' and 'Tanika plus 3'. The total is 16.

KSTP contacted one of the women on the list named Ayana Angel, who stated that "I really was legitimately going to go. Actually, I didn't go because they had a similar situation here with some other football players. But it's something they do every year."

Angel says every year Vikings players bring in girls from Atlanta for a rookie party. "They're mostly strippers that they fly up and - given the situation - if you pay them, they'll do extracurricular activities," Angel says.

According to Angel, the price is roughly $1,500. Angel says that the women are often paid in cash. " As the girl, you really don't care who paid you."

When KSTP asked McKinnie about women being paid for extracurricular activities, he responded, "That's a lie. No lady on this list told you that. No woman would say, 'Yeah, I'm a prostitute."

McKinnie did admit to dumping the garbage in the construction dumpster, but he says it is from a birthday party he had two weeks prior to the boat party.

McKinnie's lawyer denied that there was any evidence of marijuana, and McKinnie says the women on the list were just friends. He describes them as everyday working women.

Moore would not talk about the list or the boat cruise. He did admit to dumping garbage with McKinnie, but says it was just his home garbage that wouldn't fit in the barrel.

The garbage is now in the custody of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department, which is investigating the items.

Source: KSTP/ 5 Eyewitness News