Randy Moss released

[KC kid]

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[BigMeatballDave]

Moss now officially waived, per ESPN.

[Reerun_KC]

Whats the chances that the Chiefs sign Moss?

[Marcellus]

They are saying on ESPN Radio right now that Moss pissed off his team mates last week when he went off about the catered food they had at a pre or post game meal. Can't member which.

Said he was yelling and complaining and told the caterer he "wouldn't feed this shit to my dog".

Nope he isn't an issue or possible bad influence on young players.

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

Whats the chances that the Chiefs sign Moss?

He would have to pass by several teams to get to us.

Edit: What I should've said was, several teams would have to pass on him.

[JD10367]

Originally Posted by Marcellus

They are saying on ESPN Radio right now that Moss pissed off his team mates last week when he went off about the catered food they had at a pre or post game meal. Can't member which.

Said he was yelling and complaining and told the caterer he "wouldn't feed this shit to my dog".

Nope he isn't an issue or possible bad influence on young players.

He was shipped to the Siberia (literally) that is Minnesota, to a losing team which he quickly deduced was badly-run and coached by a reerun. They're lucky he didn't grab a rifle and find a bell tower.

Is he a great influence? Probably not. Is yelling about some catered food a good reason to cut a future Hall-of-Famer you just gave up a 3rd round pick for? Um, no.

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by Marcellus

They are saying on ESPN Radio right now that Moss pissed off his team mates last week when he went off about the catered food they had at a pre or post game meal. Can't member which.

Said he was yelling and complaining and told the caterer he "wouldn't feed this shit to my dog".

Nope he isn't an issue or possible bad influence on young players.

I didnt hear or see anything that specific. Its conjecture at this point.

[siberian khatru]

Boorish behavior also contributed to Moss’ demise

When Minnesota Vikings coach Brad Childress told his players Monday afternoon that Randy Moss(notes) would be released because “we want good people that are good football players, and this just doesn’t fit,” several of them nodded their approval. Though Childress isn’t especially popular in the locker room, some Vikings were on board with his decision to move on without Moss four weeks after the polarizing wideout was reacquired in a trade with the New England Patriots.

Even before Sunday’s surreal address to the media following the Vikings’ 28-18 defeat to the Patriots at Gillette Stadium – during which he questioned Childress’ leadership while effusively praising his former coach, Bill Belichick, and the Patriots’ organization – Moss had alienated some of his teammates with his brash, entitled behavior, most glaringly in an incident that occurred in the team’s locker room last Friday afternoon, Yahoo! Sports has learned.

As is the team’s custom on Fridays, a local food establishment was invited to the training facility to serve a catered, post-practice meal in the locker room. In this case, a St. Paul restaurant that is a favorite of former Vikings center Matt Birk(notes). As the proprietors helped serve chicken, ribs, pasta and other dishes to Vikings players, Moss paced up and down the serving line and loudly expressed his displeasure with the offerings.

According to one player who witnessed the scene, Moss yelled, “What the [expletive]? Who ordered this crap? I wouldn’t feed this to my dog!”

Said the witness: “It was brutal. The truth is, he deserved to be cut after that. It was such an uncomfortable moment. You know that feeling where you just can tell someone feels so small? That’s what it was like being there.

“This wasn’t a chain – it was a mom-and-pop restaurant, and you could tell it was their best stuff. They had a special carving station set up, and there were players and other support staff lining up to eat it. And [Moss] is at his locker saying, ‘You know, I used to have to eat that crap – but now I’ve got money.’ You just felt so sad for them. I had never seen anyone treated like that.

“And by the way, the food was actually really good.”

While Moss had his share of supporters in the locker room, some Vikings had grown disillusioned with his attitude. From the receiver’s uneven effort in practice to his displays of self-centeredness off the field, some veterans believed Moss was becoming a bad influence to young players like second-year wideout Percy Harvin(notes).

There was also locker room speculation about Moss’ effort – or lack thereof – on two plays in recent games. With the Vikes facing a last-gasp fourth-down pass in a 28-24 defeat to the Packers in Green Bay two Sundays ago, quarterback Brett Favre(notes) threw a high pass in the back of the end zone that sailed over Moss’ head, though it didn’t appear as though the receiver made an effort to jump for the ball.

In Sunday’s game against the Patriots, with the Vikings trailing by 10 midway through the fourth quarter, Moss drew a pass-interference penalty on Patriots safety Brandon Meriweather(notes) while streaking down the left sideline. It appeared as though Moss might have been able to catch the pass for a touchdown after the penalty occurred but that he broke off the route once the flag was thrown.

The Vikings got the ball at the New England 9 and scored four plays later, though not before Favre sustained a lacerated chin that knocked him from the game.

Most of all, however, Moss’ treatment of the restauranteurs in the locker room convinced some teammates that he wasn’t worth the trouble. Since becoming the Vikings’ coach in 2006, Childress has consistently preached that he wants “good people who are good football players,” and Moss clearly didn’t seem to be projecting himself as someone who fits in the former category.

When Childress, according to one person in Monday’s meeting, said of Moss, “This just doesn’t fit with how we treat people, how we talk to people and how we act,” it was clear that he was referring to the incident that occurred last Friday. Sunday’s stream-of-consciousness statement to the media only reinforced the internal perception that Moss was going out of his way to disrespect the organization.

With all of that said, Childress still has major credibility issues with his players, most of whom side with Favre in his ongoing clash with the coach. And there’s no guarantee Childress will stay the coach for the remainder of the season. However, his decision to part ways with Moss was, for some, viewed as an understandable consequence of the receiver’s behavior.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slu...110210&print=1

[siberian khatru]

Actually, this is a better version of it:

Shooter Now: Randy Moss unleashed profanity-laced tirade about buffet in Vikings' locker room

By Charley Walters
[email protected]
Updated: 11/02/2010 02:06:16 PM CDT



Randy Moss' classless actions at a recent Minnesota Vikings' locker-room buffet had to have embarrassed the team, which this week dumped the controversial wide receiver.

Tinucci's Restaurant and Catering, which operates out of Newport and Woodbury and has been in business since 1958, hosted a buffet for Vikings players Friday afternoon.

"We had the whole buffet set up, and we had a nice spread — chicken, ribs, round of beef with a carving station, the whole deal," Tinucci's co-owner Gus Tinucci said today. "(Moss) he comes in, and I'm helping one of the guys and didn't look up, and all of a sudden I heard, 'What the (expletive) is this? I wouldn't feed this (expletive expletive) to my (expletive) dog!' And he's screaming it at the top of his lungs.

"He never even came through the line. He walked up towards it, looked at it, made the big stink and walked away. He didn't eat."

Tinucci said the locker room, filled with players, got quiet.

"Nobody said anything except for one (player) who said, 'Shut the (expletive) up, Randy,' " he said.

"If (Brett) Favre would have had a ball, he would have beaned him right in the head. Favre looked at him like, 'Are you kidding me?' "

Tinucci said nobody on coach Brad Childress' staff was there. Tinucci said one Vikings locker room attendant in charge of the luncheon apologized to him.

"He said, 'Don't worry about it, Gus, he's an (expletive). He's done this every time we've had food.' "

Tinucci said the other Vikings players "absolutely loved" the spread.

"They were coming up and thanking me, and I don't know if that was because of what happened prior, but they did," he said. "It was quite an interesting afternoon, to say the least."

Gus' brother and partner in the family business, John, wasn't there, but asked Gus if he had responded to Moss' actions.

"What was I going to say?" Gus said. "I'm not going to make a stink; they're our customer."

Tinucci said he's confident the Moss-less Vikings will invited him back.

"The guys who hired us really liked us," he said.

More at: http://www.twincities.com/sports/ci_...nclick_check=1

[siberian khatru]

Tinucci said the locker room, filled with players, got quiet.

"Nobody said anything except for one (player) who said, 'Shut the (expletive) up, Randy,' " he said.

I want to know who that player was.

[BigMeatballDave]

Well, congrats to Minny for pissing away a 3rd rd pick.

[ReynardMuldrake]

Originally Posted by BCD

I didnt hear or see anything that specific. Its conjecture at this point.

While his teammates lined up to dig in, Moss lashed out, according to the report.

Moss yelled "What the [expletive]? Who ordered this crap? I wouldn't feed this to my dog," a player who witnessed the incident said, according to Yahoo! Sports.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5755561

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by BCD

Well, congrats to Minny for pissing away a 3rd rd pick.

Those don't matter anyway. You have something like a .004% chance of getting a decent player in that round.

[Bwana]

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

Whats the chances that the Chiefs sign Moss?

Low

[Joe Seahawk]

Originally Posted by siberian khatru

I want to know who that player was.

Steve Hutchinson.

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by warispeace

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5755561

I posted that before I read anything specific about the Catering incedent.