The old adage says that a rolling stone gathers no moss. The new adage goes: Randy Moss must have been stoned out of his mind when he delivered his post-game press conference on Sunday.
His comments go far beyond ones uttered out of innocent nostalgia. It’s really as if he’s trying to apologize to a scorned lover and the press conference is his big romantic gesture that is sure to win her back at the end of some sappy romantic comedy.
Come on, Bill Belichick, take him back. You know you want to. He’s come to terms with who he is, don’t you know? He’s ready to change... only that he acted as he did means that he hasn’t and he’s the same old Randy Moss that fake-mooned the crowd at Lambeau Field once upon a time... brazen, way too into himself, and admittedly somewhat entertaining, no matter what commentator Joe Buck has stuck up his butt.
Despite his rant directed at the NFL and the media, despite his clearly having an ego the size of Minnesota Vikings head coach Brad Childress’s forehead, Moss being waived on Monday was as big a shock as him and his New England Patriots losing to the New York Giants in the Super Bowl three seasons ago. Several factors play into this reasoning:
There’s the fact that he’s a six-time pro bowler that, all things considered, was performing relatively well in his four games back with Minnesota. There’s also the fact that the Vikings only acquired him in early October from the Patriots, meaning he was with the team less than one month before the organization had had enough of him. Finally, there’s also the fact that Minnesota traded him away in 2005, meaning they knew what they were getting and that, if the trade wasn’t some weird masochistic cry for attention by a team so desperate to lose that they decided to start a 41-year-old quarterback with a broken ankle, I don’t know what is.
Even with him getting fined $25,000 by the league on Friday, one had to assume that everything was kosher as he stepped up to the podium on Sunday after the Patriots dispatched his now-former-Vikings teammates. Even as he started speaking. Even when he mistook the word axe for the word ask. Even when he mistook the word ask for the word answer.
Boy did he surprise us. Shame on us for not expecting the real Randy Moss to show up and reveal his true controversial colours... apparently red, white, and blue, with his man-crush on Belichick clearly knowing no bounds.
In truth, the earlier mentioned proverb refers to people who refuse to stay in the same place too long for fear of getting attached, gaining responsibilities, and, in general, bettering themselves. I can think of no better proverb to describe Moss as he seems incapable of learning or willing to learn from his simplest mistakes. What’s sadder is that neither do we, because undoubtedly fans of every other team in the NFL are now hoping that Moss ends up there.
Childress has been under fire recently for his decisions revolving around the old-man wonder Brett Favre and now Moss, but, rest assured, he and the Vikings made the right decision to waive him, just as the next coach will have made the right decision in letting him go the next time around and so on and so forth. History has a nasty way of repeating itself.
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