Well, it was a nice run.
I was at "work" when news came down that the Minnesota Vikings released Wide Receiver Randy Moss. People are coming down hard on Head Coach Brad Childress about cutting a guy whom they knew was kind of ... OK, a loose cannon, plus they're 2-5 and could use all the help they can get.
What seems to be lost here is the outright insubordination Moss exhibited in his postgame press conference. It was so traitorous as to be crazy; even people who aren't happy with their team wouldn't go out of their way to suck the dicks of the people, in this case the New England Patriots, that traded him less than a month ago. I really didn't think he would pout and be an asshole at all this season because he seemed to like the situation in Minnesota. Apparently even he couldn't keep a good attitude even for a month.
But the sports departments of the news stations here have had a field day with the Moss cutting, and I love it. It may be tabloidy, but the taglines and package names have been awesome. In particular, I credit WCCO for prefacing their highlight reel of things Moss said in his presser as, "$#*! Randy Moss Says," a great allusion towards a sitcom on CBS, which WCCO is the local affiliate of. And kudos also to KSTP, the ABC affiliate in the Twin Cities; before throwing to commercial, they teased the sports and the main story with the tagline, "Straight Cut, Homey!"
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