MINNEAPOLIS, June 30 (UPI) -- Minnesota Vikings head coach Mike Tice admits making a mistake and now he will have to pay a $100,000 fine to the NFL for scalping Super Bowl tickets.
"I used poor judgment and it will not happen again," Tice said in a statement reported on WCCO-TV, Minneapolis.
Tice acknowledged in March that he had sold some of the dozen Super Bowl tickets he received last season and said he had resold tickets when he was a Vikings assistant coach from 1996-2001.
He apologized to his family, National Football League Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, the league, the Vikings organization and Vikings fans.
The NFL prohibits reselling of Super Bowl tickets above face value.
Vikings' assistant coaches Dean Dalton and Rusty Tillman were fined $10,000 each for scalping tickets to the Super Bowl.
