You just can't get good help for $10 million a year anymore...
It has to be a dollar for every one of our lakes.
No way that Randy Moss has even close to that many active brain cells!
Mis-read the headline. Thought it said "Vikings star fired for celebration." Thought that was a bit tough. The fine is too slack. A one game suspension plus a $50,000 fine would get his attention.
I really had to laugh when I heard one of the Vikings officials (GM? Owner? Jockstrap washer?) asked or demanded that Fox Sports not allow Joe Buck to call Vikes games anymore. What a maroon.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen! Who would have dared to fine Erik the Red for shaking his booty after ransacking some hapless village? People quaked in fear of Vikings before all this PC non-sense came along. But of course, Moss is no Erik the Red, either.
[Randy] Moss to be fined [$10K] for celebration
ESPN Online ^ | 1/13/05
Posted on 01/13/2005 1:56:03 PM CST 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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That would be similar to us getting a $100 fine. Whoop-dee-do. Make it meaningful, cut his hair off.
Another example of: a guy who can catch-throw-hit a basket--
and, because someone can make money from that talent, he is exempt from rules and decency.
FROM Sports Illustrated:
The NBA is going to pot. But so are the NFL and Major League Baseball. Does a week go by nowadays without an athlete getting busted for marijuana possession? The list of tokin' offenders is too long to catalog here, but it cuts a wide swath, from Mets reliever Grant Roberts -- who was pictured smoking in a New York tabloid in September -- to Randy Moss, whose run-in with a traffic cop was compounded when marijuana was found in his Lexus.
From The Smoking Gun:
Meet Randy Moss. The 27-year-old Minnesota Vikings receiver was arrested yesterday (9/24) by Minneapolis police and charged with two misdemeanors. According to this arrest report, the mercurial football star drove his 2002 Lexus into traffic agent Amy Zaccardi after she ordered Moss to pull over (the athlete had just made an illegal turn). Moss, hit with careless driving and failure to obey a traffic officer charges, should have known that the bump and run is restricted to the gridiron.
Randy Moss is nothing but a jerk.
GO EAGLES!!!!
Given the 'tradition' of packer fans mooning the bus of a losing team when they leave, I think Moss' antic is hilarious.
Underwear endorsements alone will be worth the Ten Grand...
But other people should pay up for allowing this to happen. HOW ABOUT THE GREEN BAY PACKERS? Especially the so-called "defenders" on the field at the time. Is that how much pride they have in their legendary team, home field, and fans? They just sit and watch while the biggest punk in the league pretends to pull his britches down, moon the fans, and then wipe his dirty rump on their goal post??? At least the Cowboys had a little pride and went after Terrell Owens a few years ago when T.O. tried to dishonor the STAR at mid-field after scoring a T.D. SOME Packer should have ran over to Moss and tackled him. Oh, wait, they haven't hardly made any tackles this year, I almost forgot. Seriously, where was the Packers' pride? So what if you get a penalty, or even get kicked out of the game?! Maybe it would have given Green Bay and the fans some energy.
Now the poor guy can't afford a haircut...
The 10K fine is a joke. Did you hear what his response was to the punishment given? I believe he said something like wait to see see what I shake the next time.
This statement could have been a lot worse had he been driving a SUV. ;-)
http://www.startribune.com/stories/510/5185169.html
"Ain't nothing but 10 grand," he (Moss) said as he stood at the door of his automatically started, warming truck in sub-zero temperatures late Thursday afternoon. "What's 10 grand to me?"