Tennessee: Meet Your Iceberg

"That is how you sabotage your own season, ladies and gentlemen."

You had to think one team had to do it, and it ended up being the Tennessee Titans, who took the plunge into the Atlantic's icy depths on Wednesday and claimed the recently waived Randy Moss from the Minnesota Vikings.

In the wake of the potential costly loss to injury of wide receiver Kenny Britt, the Titans could not restrain themselves from apparently putting their 5-3 season at risk.

Moss's talent is undeniable. He is a six-time Pro Bowler and he did win offensive-rookie-of-the-year honours back in 1998, which makes one wonder if this isn't just the Titans' way of reliving the past and rekindling an unrequited love affair that budded back in the 1998 NFL draft when the Titans - then the Oilers - opted to go with future bust Kevin Dyson instead. Moss went to the Vikings five picks later.

While Moss can be considered a relative bargain at $3.34 million for the last eight games of the season, so can a gorgeous prostitute practically giving it away for $20 per hour... until you find out about the STD she gave you as a going-away present. And that's what this waiver claim will most likely boil down to, the transmission of a disease, in this case cancer in the locker room.

If his being traded away for close to nothing from the New England Patriots wasn't a big enough hint, his being waived by the Vikings just one month later should have been. And the fact that the Titans, despite ranking 23rd in the league's waiver system, were able to get him should send up huge red flags. That they were the only team at all to put in a claim for him should send them straight to the hospital for a blood test as a pre-emptive strike in their fight against what they've most certainly and ignorantly contracted.

So the Titans as a result can suffer the dubious distinction of being the first team to go through three name changes in just 13 years, from the Houston Oilers to the Tennessee Oilers in 1997, then to the Tennessee Titans in 1999, and now to the Tennessee Titanic.