With Thanksgiving just around the corner this story seems appropriate.
Randy Moss can be a bit of an a-hole if I can be perfectly frank. There are a lot of athletes who aren’t the greatest guys when they aren’t on the field, so he isn’t in the minority.
Do they all get release?
No, but while releasing Moss after a month of services was very short sighted on Brad Childress’ part, Randy’s hands aren’t clean in this.
The thing about this though is that the Vikings knew what they were getting in Moss, so I don’t understand why they were so surprised especially considering it wasn’t the ideal situation for Moss.
Here is another example from Yahoo Sports that when Bad Randy comes out it isn’t a pretty sight:
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(notes). 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!”
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.”
I despise “off the record” comments from teammates. If you are man enough to tell a journalist something, you should be man enough to have your name attached to it. Who knows if this is exactly how it happened. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
With that being said, I am not shocked.
Moss is like a child, when he isn’t getting exactly what he wants or the attention he thinks he deserves he acts out and he acts out loudly.
He tried it in New England and he got traded.
He tried it in Minnesota and he got cut.
Who will be the next contestant on that Summer Jam Screen?