Vikings' Moss Fined $10,000 by NFL for `Mooning' Celebration

Pffffffffffft Pocket change

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aXZWifspsd0k&refer=us

Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Randy Moss was fined $10,000 by the National Football League for pretending to expose his backside to Green Bay fans after scoring a touchdown in last week's playoff win over the Packers.

NFL rules say players can be disciplined for obscene gestures or other actions construed as being in poor taste. Moss was notified of the unsportsmanlike-conduct fine today.

``Your actions were based on poor judgment, did not reflect well on you or the Vikings, and were insulting to many,'' NFL Director of Game Operations Peter Hadhazy said in a letter to Moss. ``They have resulted in widespread criticism and needlessly detracted from Minnesota's dramatic playoff victory.''

In 1999, Moss was fined $40,000 for squirting an official with a water bottle, a penalty that was reduced to $25,000 on appeal. The Vikings fined him $15,000 in 2001 after he verbally abused corporate sponsors on the team bus. Moss also had to attend anger management classes.

In December 2002, Moss was fined $1,200 for bumping a traffic officer with his car in downtown Minneapolis.

This faux outrage is outraging ME

but I'm a Packer fan.

Go Vikes!

And that was full-on nipplage.

that kind of money doesnt mean much to him. take away his time on tv.

A FAKE mooning? I have seen touchdown celebrations that were way more sexually suggestive than that....err excuse me what Moss did wasn't even sexually suggestive.

made love to a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader in the endzone after scoring a toucdown in the '79 NFC playoff game against the Rams? Tasteless!

Any time a player does something colorful or entertaining, the league moves with all possible haste to stifle it.

Up yours Emperor Tagliabue.

*GASP*

The Vikings fined him $15,000 in 2001 after he verbally abused corporate sponsors on the team bus

other was a fine levied by his team.

last March?

LMAO

Otherwise the mooning is an equal travesty to the fine. I live in Packer Central and this is not the big news.

it even tops Janet Jackson's nipple.

How did this even become a BLIP on the news? A fake mooning? This country is insane.

Okay I don't watch ESPN much anymore but any discussion of this surely gets the "What did he do? Can I see it?" quesitons from anyone who didn't see it live.

There was no nudity. He faced his backside to the stadium ... but it's like theatre in the round, your backside's always facing someone if you're on the field.

He stuck his butt out, but football players are always standing around with their butts sticking out.



He moved his hands from waist high to thigh high. Is that it? hands cannot be moved downward while the butt is sticking out? I am just so lost on this one. I want to be outraged. I want to see the connection between this and the decline of moral values in America. I want to see this as worse than bombing civilians in Iraq. I want to fit in.

You just have to celebrate and taunt unnecessarily. That's what Randy did.

Fine. So they take $10K out of Randy's wallet.

What do they do with money? Pay for more half-naked cheerleaders?

The reason Moss did what he did is because Packer fans always drop their pants and moon the visiting team when it leaves the stadium on the bus.

as he represents the league and the sport. Packer fans aren't. If Packer fans had a league, I'm sure they'd be appalled by the behavior of a few bad eggs and issue fines for their behavior too. Regardless, one tasteless act doesn't always deserve another. The league expects more from it's players. If Moss wants to be part of that and make his bazillions of dollars, then he has to play by the league's rules - fair or not.

Now that you mention it, I'm curious why security at the stadium or the police aren't involved if this is something that happens on a regular basis. Or are we taking Moss' word for it that Packer fans moon the exiting team?

and I am not a Viking fan.

On edit (for those that always want a link):

Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy said Monday that Moss was simply making a "kind of humorous" response to a "tradition" among Packers fans: "They moon the visiting team's bus. And they go all the way."

Dungy did not seem upset about Moss' gesture.

"It's not the kind of thing you want to see on national TV, but I understand what it was all about," he said.

Asked Monday whether Packers fans motivated the move, Vikings coach Mike Tice said he can't speak for Moss but added that while he's "always felt that Green Bay fans had a tremendous amount of class, I didn't see that displayed particularly often Sunday."

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/vikings/2005-01-10-moss-fake-moon_x.htm

So far, it's Moss and Dungy's word against the Packer security and the local police.

http://www.packersnews.com/archives/news/pack_19389472.shtml
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Commander Ken Brodhagen, who directs the Green Bay Police Department’s security at all Packers games, has been working the games since 1976. We offer him as a source on the behavior of Packers fans.

Jerry Parins has been the Packers corporate security director for more than a decade and before that worked in security at the stadium when he was a member of the Green Bay Police Department. We offer his perspective as evidence.

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Here’s what Brodhagen said:

“That’s news to me. Maybe something like that happened a long time ago. But we have officers in the visiting team compound and something like that has never been mentioned.”

Here’s what Parins said:

“About four years ago, a visiting team reported that there was an incident on Ridge Road where a couple of individuals mooned them. We also had an incident where two ladies in a private suite mooned people down below. Heck, when we went to Chicago last week, two large older males — at 8:30 in the morning — mooned us as we went into Soldier Field.”
<snip>

Apparently, as usual, the press only has half the story. Remember, this is the city that had planned to fingerprint people for running a stop sign. This is facism central. I can't help but think this kind of thing wouldn't be tolerated by the GBPD. But what do I know? :shrug:

Sorry Packer fans, but we are talking football, not politics.

If he spiked the ball, he'd pay the same fine.

Bascially, the NFL says this is no different than spiking the ball or doing a dance.

the fine I mean. Now bumping the traffic officer - THAT was indeed offensive.

Sounds like Mr. Moss has developed a reputation that perhaps attracts more attention to his lesser infractions.

Lighten up and concentrate on real problems like steriods.

End zone celebrations are allowed and they really have reached new levels of creativity in the past few years. They are part of the show.

Moon the opposing team's bus when they're leaving the stadium. I think this whole thing is being blown way out of proportion. And Moss should get an acting contract when he's finished playing football-- that was a very good faux mooning.

Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy said Monday that Moss was simply making a "kind of humorous" response to a "tradition" among Packers fans: "They moon the visiting team's bus. And they go all the way."

Dungy did not seem upset about Moss' gesture.

"It's not the kind of thing you want to see on national TV, but I understand what it was all about," he said.

Asked Monday whether Packers fans motivated the move, Vikings coach Mike Tice said he can't speak for Moss but added that while he's "always felt that Green Bay fans had a tremendous amount of class, I didn't see that displayed particularly often Sunday."

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/vikings/2005-01-10-moss-fake-moon_x.htm

"In December 2002, Moss was fined $1,200 for bumping a traffic officer with his car in downtown Minneapolis."

he wasn't shot. Cop must have recognized him.

This isn't a government fine people, it is the freakin NFL! So stop getting the two confused.

It wasn't that what Moss did was indecent for TV, it was just excessive and inappropriate taunting by the NFL's standards. And the NFL hands out fines for celebrating left and right, so this is no surprise.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

A Black man made a fool out the Packers and Brett Favre "the great white hope" of Green Bay.

The only offensive thing about it was the Packer's Defense.

NFL = Bullshit...

RL

Collingsworth said that he was on the field and to be fair, the fans were calling the players all kinds of racial slurs (i.e. buckwheat, etc.) for their afros. of course, that is never mentioned. but i find this whole incident just pure bullshit. you nailed it exactly, RetroLounge.

"A Black man made a fool out the Packers and Brett Favre "the great white hope" of Green Bay."

He made a fool of the packers on the field with his great athlete ability. He made a fool of himself in the end zone with his sophomoric behavior.

If he had any class, he would have acted like he had been there before, and no, I'm not a Packers fan (or a Randy Moss fan).

Anyone that takes the time to verbally abuse corporate sponsors is alright by me. I've also read somewhere that Randy does his own charity work because he feels the NFL uses the players and takes undue credit for their work. If anyone should be fined it should be Joe Buck for going instant hissyfit about it on live TV.

especially when this arrogant, egocentric jerkwad hit a cop with his car.

The rancid pompous twerp should be rotting in jail, with a girlfriend named Rock. x(

and see if your boss laughs it off or fires your ass.

Mr. Orange.

Moss is a paid employee under the umbrella company that is the NFL. The NFL has rules, just like any other company. Their rules say that a player will be fined if he violates their terms. Moss did that. If he doesn't like it, I think AFL has less rules for him to remember to follow.

It just should have been ignored. So now personal obscenities are outlawed in public...or is it just public broadcasting? This nation is on a very slippery slope, indeed. We can't fine Bush for lying and getting our children killed and bankrupting the future of this nation but we can fine a black football player $10,000 for an act that hurt only his own image? Pardon me while I ponder this.

Now I am hear three times a day.

I saw the game, the announcer says, "Moss with the touchdown, now he's mooning the fans." The announcer is kind of laughing at it. Then Super asshole Joe Buck chimes in "What a disgusting act". Sorry Joe, the only thing disgusting was the way you sucked Right-wing Christian ass about the whole thing. Hey Joe, ever meet a football player, or even a high school kid? When they moon all you see is the big "full moon" as it's pressed against the car window. Joe Buck, get real, ASSHOLE!!

What a bunch of stuffed shirts. He didn't do anything that was remotely obscene or indecent. It was funny when I saw it without the context, it's even funnier knowing that Packer fans really moon the losing team's bus after games. He's just giving a little bit back to them. These "outraged" people have got to get over themselves.

so he did the classiest thing he could think of.

That would be a better fine.

Course I hate professional sports and would rather see all that money and effort being spent on really important things like need starvign children, poverty, cures for diseases and other such silly things.