When a San Antonio entrepreneur Red McCombs, bought the Vikings in 1998, all hell broke loose. Purple Pride was all the rave, as the good ol boy who never squats with is spurs on, stumbled into a season of purple love and passion. The Vikings made him look like a savior, going 15-1 with SuperFreak Randy Moss leading the way.

With promises of a future in Minnesota, new stadiums, and purple prosperity in Free Agency, nobody cared that he was insulting the team with his slangy annunciation of the team name V-eye-KINGS. But season ticket holders (buyers) beware; Once a used car dealer, always a used car dealer. Old Red made his fortune as an automobile dealer. (Insert crooked used car salesman joke here).

Before the Texan sold the Vikings for a huge profit, he traded the franchise player to Oakland for what turned out to be revenge. According to S.I.com

“Randy Moss had always enjoyed his time with the Minnesota Vikings but had grown weary of owner Red McCombs’ unwillingness to spend big money on free agents, the receiver’s agent said Friday.”I think that part of his frustration with the organization is that they’re [more than $30 million] under the salary cap,” Dante DiTrapano told The Associated Press. “You need good players to advance in the playoffs and you can get a heck of a lot of good players for $30 million. He felt they weren’t spending the money to get a supporting cast to advance. If they don’t score 40 points, they’re not going to win the game.”

Word in the Tailgating Parking Lot circles was that Randy was so angered at the greedy owners tight pockets, and unwillingness to pony up the cash to buy a defense, that he stormed into his office one day, and called a cheapskate. The story confirmed in the book, Purple People-The Crazy Culture and Customs of Minnesota Vikings Fans, the Best Fans in the NFL

For cheating the Vikes fans of the great state of Minnesota by sending Randy to Oakland, for taking our money and sending it to Texas (a great school by the way, no complaints about that here) and leaving us without a Head Coach, or Defense or a chance in hell to win- after your scorched earth used car deal worth millions of dollars, here’s to you looking up, and a beer coming down on your cheap, Texas polyester Cowboy hat!

A reliable source indicates a possible sale of the Vikings is so close, the law firm representing Red McCombs says today that it is imperative that their e-mail service not be interrupted.