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Brad Childress has admitted in the past that acquiring Randy Moss from the Patriots last year was a mistake. But he took the Moss situation a step further this week when he criticized the receiver for “vomiting on” his locker room.
“We had good guys, by and large, [but Moss] walked in the locker room and vomited on it.”
Regular readers know that I’m not a huge Moss fan. I think he was blessed with elite talent and if he had Jerry Rice’s work ethic, he could have been the best receiver to play the game. Instead, Moss picked his spots to be great. He was motivated when he first came into the league because so many teams passed on him in the 1998 draft, so he worked his ass off in Minnesota. Then he was traded to Oakland and completely shut it down. When he was sent to New England in 2007, he was hungry again to prove his worth and wound up being an MVP candidate for the Patriots. When he wanted a new contract at the start of last season and didn’t receive one from the Pats, he shut it down again and became a distraction in Minnesota and Tennessee.
But despite my feelings about Moss, I find it interesting that in the same breath Childress didn’t mention how big of a distraction Brett Favre’s situation was last year. Now, don’t make this a race thing – it’s not about race. My point is that there were tons of things that went wrong in Minnesota last year, most of which happened before Moss even arrived. So why didn’t Childress speak out about that while he was busy pointing the finger at Moss?
It’s not hard to believe that Randy Moss was a distraction and now that he’s not associated with the organization any more, Childress has the right to speak his mind. But if he’s looking to point the finger, he might as well point it at more than just Moss. Favre was a distraction from Day 1; first, nobody knew whether or not he was going to return to Minnesota because he did his annual song and dance routine for months, then he became a distraction again when the Jenn Sterger story broke. Funny how Childress says he has no regrets getting on his knees and begging Favre to come back, yet Moss “vomited” on his good-guy locker room.
Please. Childress was the root of the issue in Minnesota. The players didn’t respect him, he never had a handle on how to manage the different personalities in the locker room and he allowed guys like Favre to do whatever he wanted. The head coach sets the tone for the rest of the team and very few players in that Vikings locker room were ready to march to the beat of Brad Childress.
The Vikings may not make the playoffs this year under Leslie Frazier but I can almost guarantee you that it won’t be because the players don’t respect the head coach. And for that, the franchise is in much better shape now than it was at this point last year.
Carlos Boozer told ESPN The Magazine that he “definitely” plans to play overseas if the NBA season is delayed or canceled.
Boozer told ESPN The Magazine on Wednesday that he will pursue signing with a foreign team if the season doesn’t start on time.
“I think as players we have to look at this lockout as an unfortunate challenge, but one that can create other unique and positive opportunities,” he said. “When I was part of Team USA that won Olympic Gold in Beijing, that experience changed my life in incredible ways.
“If the NBA season gets delayed or postponed, I plan on using those months to experience something similar to what I did in the summer of 2008. That’s why, if the lockout continues, I definitely plan on playing overseas.”
Meanwhile, Dwyane Wade had this to say:
“I’m going to play basketball this year,” Wade said from New York, where he’s taking some business meetings. “I don’t know where, but I love the game so much that I will play it. And we will figure that out.”
This could just be posturing, but things are going to get really interesting if the lockout drags into October.
Titans general manager Mike Reinfeldt said Thursday that he’s ready to make Chris Johnson the highest-paid running back in the NFL.
From the New York Times:
General manager Mike Reinfeldt told The Associated Press on Thursday that Johnson’s agent was the first person they called once the NFL’s lockout was lifted. The Titans reworked Johnson’s contract a year ago to give him more money in 2010 and promised to talk to him again a year later.
Reinfeldt says they already have talked about the perimeters of this new deal for Johnson and would like to have the running back in camp to learn the offense with a new coach while negotiations are finished.
This has always been a no-brainer in my eyes. Johnson has been one of the most productive running backs in the NFL the past couple of years and arguably deserves to be the highest paid RB in the league.
It’s not like this is a risky proposition for the Titans, or at least not in the way signing a player coming off an injury or a down year would be. Johnson is only 25 and barring injury, he presumably has four or five productive years left in him. If the Titans make him the highest-paid running back now and lock him in for five years, then everyone (i.e. the player, the team and the fan base) should be happy.
Of course, there are always unforeseen issues that arise. Maybe Johnson will be upset in three years because another running back has surpassed him in terms of their contract status. Maybe he’ll get paid and shut it down like Randy Moss did when he got to Oakland. Who knows? We can only go off the information presently at hand and the information presently at hand suggests to pay the man what he’s worth and reap the benefits of having him locked up for the next X amount of years.
For some people, football is just like any other sport. However, for others, football is life or maybe even a religion. Those who are football fanatics and have favorite teams can testify that missing a game is not usually an option. Some fans will even sit out for days to get seats to their favorite team’s rivalry game.
So what does it take to be the ultimate football fan? To start, most fans don’t just sit at home and watch the game on TV. Real football fans can be spotted hanging out at the local tailgate lot with all of their football buddies. If you’ve never been tailgating, now is a great time to start. This is a great and often inexpensive way to celebrate your team and have a good time with friends or family. Most avid fans don’t just look at football as a pastime but rather as something they belong to. After the tailgating, most fans have tickets to the game where they will sit next to other fans and scream at the top of their lungs as the quarterback throws the touchdown pass.
Another part of being a football fan is obviously football gear. Now most fans will have a nice hat and maybe a sweatshirt that they can sport at the games. But then again there are the fans who go all out with their football paraphernalia. Some fans may come to the game decked out in nothing but clothes with their team’s logo, and others come wearing a bit less but sporting a bit more by scrolling their team’s name across their chests or stomachs in body paint. There isn’t really anything that compares to sitting outside in the cold with nothing but pants on. Shopping for fan gear can be something fun that you do with your best girlfriend, but if you’re looking for good deals and convenience, you can shop for fan apparel on eBay!
One of the biggest separations between a normal fan and an ultimate fan will happen when the game is nearly over and the fair-weather fans have left the stadium. There are a few people left standing and waiting for the game to end; sometimes this means watching the team lose to its rivals, but sometimes this means getting to see that winning touchdown and rush the field with the remaining fans. Every real fan can enjoy calling their fair-weather buddies and gloating that they stayed and saw the whole game and the winning goal.
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