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Vikings players unfazed by Foley saga
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[Gotham Dark Knight]

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - Fran Foley's messy exodus from the Minnesota Vikings drew plenty of attention - both for the timing of his firing as vice president of player personnel and his pledge to sue the team.
The players' response to the latest turmoil at Winter Park? Yawn.
"I didn't know too much about it," Pro Bowl free safety Darren Sharper said Saturday. "If you put him in front of me, I wouldn't know what he looks like."
Foley was fired on May 4, three days after playing a major role in the team's draft. The move ended a tumultuous three months in office for Foley, who admitted to lying on his resume and had several personality conflicts with members of the organization.
Foley hired high-profile sports attorney Jeffrey Kessler to handle the lawsuit and figures to get an arbitration hearing with NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue in the near future.
It's just the latest in a long, long line of negative press for the Vikings, from last year's "love boat" scandal to Daunte Culpepper's trade demands to Onterrio Smith's Whizzinator. And that was just one year.
As center Matt Birk once put it, "We put the 'fun' in dysfunctional."

Anyone actually see this dys-fun-ctional team headed any where this year?

[Lefty Noob]

"If you put him in front of me, I wouldn't know what he looks like."

Ouch. I think Darren Sharper just got cut from Fran Foley's Christmas card list with that one. What a mess this team is. With all of these distractions, the internal turmoil and the kind of players they'll put on the field, if they manage six wins in 2006, I'll be stunned.