Like me, you may have thought Brad Childress released Randy Moss because of his lack of effort and, uh, interesting press conference on Sunday. You'd be wrong.
Michael Silver, you can print it, I don't care how you put it on yo' ink:
I like to imagine that scene playing out like this, with Rodney Dangerfield in the Randy Moss role and Brad Childress played by Judge Smails:Even before Sunday’s surreal address to the media following the Vikings’ 28-18 defeat to the Patriots at Gillette Stadium – during which he questioned Childress’ leadership while effusively praising his former coach, Bill Belichick, and the Patriots’ organization – Moss had alienated some of his teammates with his brash, entitled behavior, most glaringly in an incident that occurred in the team’s locker room last Friday afternoon, Yahoo! Sports has learned.As is the team’s custom on Fridays, a local food establishment was invited to the training facility to serve a catered, post-practice meal in the locker room. In this case, a St. Paul restaurant that is a favorite of former Vikings center Matt Birk. As the proprietors helped serve chicken, ribs, pasta and other dishes to Vikings players, Moss paced up and down the serving line and loudly expressed his displeasure with the offerings.
According to one player who witnessed the scene, Moss yelled, “What the [expletive]? Who ordered this crap? I wouldn’t feed this to my dog!”
Anyway, moving on:
Said the witness: “It was brutal. The truth is, he deserved to be cut after that. It was such an uncomfortable moment. You know that feeling where you just can tell someone feels so small? That’s what it was like being there.
“This wasn’t a chain – it was a mom-and-pop restaurant, and you could tell it was their best stuff. They had a special carving station set up, and there were players and other support staff lining up to eat it. And [Moss] is at his locker saying, ‘You know, I used to have to eat that crap – but now I’ve got money.’ You just felt so sad for them. I had never seen anyone treated like that.
“And by the way, the food was actually really good.”
While I can't condone that type of behavior from Moss - it just doesn't fit with the hyper-annoying, Minnesota-based, passive-aggressive way of complaining only when the people you're complaining about are no longer within earshot - I'll reserve judgment until I find out what restaurant was catering the Vikings' meal. Because if it was fucking Dixie's, then I'm siding with Randy.
(edit: The restaurant was Tinucci's. Menu is here. I've never eaten there, but investigative reporting seems to indicate Randy's outrage was defensible.)
Finally,
When Childress, according to one person in Monday’s meeting, said of Moss, “This just doesn’t fit with how we treat people, how we talk to people and how we act,” it was clear that he was referring to the incident that occurred last Friday. Sunday’s stream-of-consciousness statement to the media only reinforced the internal perception that Moss was going out of his way to disrespect the organization.
Disrespect. The second worst thing to cite in any reasoning, narrowly trailing "haters." What an organization.
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Moss is a prick...this is news how?
You'd think that Moss' behavior in Oakland, the incident with the traffic cop, the incident with the water bottle, his bullshit with Tice, and some of his behavior would have clued them into that.
But his teammates do supposedly love him. I mean, my buddy played with him in Oakland, albeit for only one year, and he told me that Moss is as smart a football player as there is in the NFL and that he only says in public what the other guys in the locker room are thinking but don't have the credibility/balls to say themselves. Which is basically borne out, in this instance where Moss has criticized Childress, by Favre and Harvin's similar comments on Chilly's ability to coach a football team.
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