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Vikings: Down-to-earth Mike Tice still a hit with players, and at Bunny's

ALAMEDA, Calif. -- The boys from Bunny's Bar and Grill arrived Friday and barely had time to exit the airport before Oakland Raiders offensive line coach Mike Tice was texting about shirt sizes.

The delegation from Tice's favorite St. Louis Park watering hole is chaired by bartender Steve "Crazy" Johnson and includes Mutt, Scooter, Ole, Snides and McClune, whose real name is Nylund, but that's a long story involving a U.S. Marine drill sergeant.

Tice, the lovable former Vikings player, assistant coach and head man, was lining up black-and-silver home jerseys for his visiting Minnesotans to wear Sunday in his wife's suite at O.