Link: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/michael_silver/10/20/silver1020/index.html

The article is based around an interview with Vikings center Matt Birk, currently on injured reserve after hip surgery. (As an aside, you may remember that Birk volunteered to play the 2005 season, despite a torn labrum in his hip, which would be extremely painful and possibly career-threatening, if the Vikings would guarantee a significant proportion of his contract. The Vikings declined to do so, so Birk did what was right for him and underwent surgery).
You get a clear sense in this article of a dysfunctional franchise with the head coach living on borrowed time, and a number of out-of-control employees, who appear to be suffering from hubris and an exaggerated sense of their own importance. I'm pretty sure that Bill Parcells would have sorted this lot out a long time ago, and some of the current Vikings players would anywhere but playing in the Twin Cities...instead, we get to watch the unravelling of the team in public. This is going to stay ugly for a while, and I suspect that we will see big changes in the off-season.