In May of 2005, two notable events in Vikings history occurred: the Wilf family was approved as the franchise’s new ownership group … and running back Onterrio Smith was detained at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport with a Whizzinator — a kit designed to beat drug tests. That transgression by Smith would prove to be a footnote in the organization’s 2005 off-field embarrassment story after several players had a memorable party on Lake Minnetonka during the bye week in October.
A month later in November, Zygi Wilf distributed a new 77-page “code of conduct” to Vikings players, coaches and others related to the team.