Posted on 01/13/2005 11:56:03 AM PST by TheBigB
Randy Moss has been told he will be fined $10,000 for his end-zone celebration, a Vikings source told ESPN's Chris Mortenson on Thursday.
NFL officials would not confirm or deny the report.
Moss caught a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter of the Vikings' 31-17 win over the Packers on Sunday and headed toward the goalpost. He then turned his back to the Lambeau Field crowd, bent over and pantomimed pulling down his pants.
Moss didn't practice with the Vikings on Wednesday because of a sprained right ankle, but he's listed as probable for Sunday's playoff game at Philadelphia.
Sunday night, an NFL spokesman told ESPN's Chris Mortensen: "Randy Moss can expect to be hearing from us."
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Thanks for pointing this out to the Freepers that might not know it. Moss is a part personal tragedy but this incident made me laugh. The worst part again was Tom Jackson. The RUSH incident & now this. Tom thinks that football is the like of a swearing in of a Supreme Court Justice in the Vatican & worse than Iraq is a player spitting on another.
Regardless of what we think about the stunt itself, it serves the purpose of attracting more eyeballs than it repels. More people will be watching this coming weekend to see what Moss does.
That's the bottom line.
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But he could have set off a riot. Or maybe the next time it will be a Terrell Owens or a Ray Lewis or some other brain dead thug that incites a drunken opposing crowd to respond in a violent manner.
The NFL needs to get on top of their employees' conduct.
If the behavior of these people matter so much... why not just go after the entire collection of professional football players?
I thought the taunt or celebration was not worth all the fuss. It just gives airtime to the sports commentators-- another story for another week, endless threads on FR, and a spotlight on the perpetrator. Don't we all know who Randy Moss is now! And don't we all know what he's done.
He gave it back to the fans... who were a whole lot indiscrete than he was.
If so, the problem would not be attributed to Moss, but the Packer fans..
This was about the dumbest post I've ever read... And while I am from MN, I'm not a Culpepper/Moss fan at all.
Have you ever heard a football player say that they don't have fun playing in the NFL, or hear a true football fan say that they don't have fun attending or watching a NFL game?
You never answered if that includes Brett Favre (who puched an opposing player during the same game, wasn't penalized, and won't be fined by the NFL).
I guess you were in a coma when the Pistons-Pacers melee happened a couple of months back.
While a fan riot is unlikely to ever occur in Green Bay, I think it's quite possible in Oakland or Cleveland or New York or Philadelphia or other locales.
While you are complaining about Moss and his fully-clothed moon, I see you are not responding at all to the multi-questions about Favre and his punching of one of the Vikings defense.
I would think Moss's "moon" fades in significance to Favre's angry outburst. Hmmm, maybe something like that may lead to a riot somewhere ???
Indeed. Purple targets were all Favre was able to hit that day (4 INTs & one punch).
Heh.
Yes, because the criminal justice system favors the rich and condemns the poor.
If your reasoning is correct, then the NFL should be encouraging this type of behavior instead of fining players who do it. Maybe players should start doing something silly, disgusting, or outrageous after EVERY play, and not just when they score a touchdown. That should send the NFL ratings through the roof, shouldn't it?
But it kind of lost it's perspective, didn't it?
It's an inside joke that should have stayed inside.
I fully expected the Packers to win, but watching the game reminded me of the early superbowl games that the Vikings always choked in. Seems like Favre didn't have the heart to win. 4 ints ?? Wow
2 completely different things.
That's on-field player to player activity. The refs could have and probably should have flagged Favre for an offsetting unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. As for a league fine? C'mon, Farve slapped a helmet with his hand during an on-field scrum. A six year old girl could have delivered a harder blow. There is rarely ever a fine for that kind of minor in-game skirmish.
Where was the flag for Russell's repeated borderline late hits on Packer receivers? He intentionally rolled on Walker's and Driver's knees and ankles just after the whistle blew at least 3 times.
It's part of the game. The Vikings still won. The Packers still lost. So what.
But after the NBA's Malice at the Palace, player conduct toward the paying customers and potential for riot should be a major concern for all professional sports leagues.
Even when Favre went waaaaay past the line of scrimmage and blindly -- and stupidly -- flipped the ball into the end zone, all the announcers could talk about was how much fun Favre was having playing the game.
What a crock. They should have been talking about how it was a rookie-type mistake & ripped him for not lowering his head & trying to dive/push into the end zone. You know, like football players are supposed to do.
Favre *used* to play that way. No more. Now he's a chump who punches opposing players because he knows the refs won't penalize him.
If Randy Moss would have thrown that same punch everyone would be crying for his head.
I see. So Moss' three-second TD celebration is deserving of a fine and/or suspension.
But when a Packer player literally jumps into the stands to celebrate............?
Since it was Favre (and I do like Favre), the announcers just brushed off that horrible play. Having fun ?? How nice...
Hmmmm ---- why can't the announcers just say that Moss was "having fun" in the endzone ?? Isn't that about the same thing ?
I thought yours was a clever turn of phrase.
Ditto that.
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