Randy Moss Is A No-Good Thug

[monosylab1k]

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/sports/x1183938077

Moss vows commitment to W.Va. kids
Mar 21, 2008 @ 11:55 PM
By ANTHONY HANSHEW
The Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON -- Randy Moss clearly was settled into his comfort zone, and it had nothing to do with dismissing overmatched defensive backs.

In what admittedly was an emotional, memorable day, the record-setting NFL standout was honored for efforts removed from football. Moss, Marshall University's first Heisman Trophy candidate, capped Friday with an engaging, often jovial speech at the Boys & Girls Club of Huntington annual fundraising dinner. Moss served as guest speaker at the invitation of his Thundering Herd coach, Bobby Pruett, and Elsie Pruett.

Earlier in the afternoon, the U.S. Postal Service unveiled a limited-edition envelope honoring the New England Patriots wideout. He then visited the Boys & Girls Club of Huntington before delivering his message to a packed Pullman Plaza Hotel crowd.

Over and again, the Rand, W.Va., native stressed his commitment to youth-based charities within the Mountain State.

"I feel it's important to get ourselves right," Moss said of putting West Virginia community efforts first.

Moss annually hosts autographs sessions near his hometown and travels busloads of children to amusement parks and sporting events. Friday's recognition for efforts beyond a burgeoning Hall of Fame career led to his tearful response.

"I don't need the pat on the back," Moss said. "The kids do. That's what really got me caught up and emotional, because all I could really think about was growing up and not really having access to anything and now that I have that opportunity to give back -- maybe with my time, a few words, an autograph, a hug, whatever it may be -- I just want people to know that I'm sincere.

"I want you to know that what I'm going to continue to do for the state of West Virginia is all coming from my heart and nowhere else."

The mood was decisively light at Pullman Plaza Hotel, established early by Marshall football coach Mark Snyder. Bobby Pruett was unable to attend because of duties as Virginia's new defensive coordinator, and Snyder filled in. After stepping to the podium, Snyder drew laughter from the crowd and Moss by donning a New England Patriots "hoodie" sweatshirt made popular by Pats coach Bill Belichick.

He then spoke of a Son of Marshall who often averts attention from his community work.

"Class is what you do when you think nobody is looking, and Randy does a lot of things nobody knows about," Snyder said.

Highlighting the evening was a question and answer session with the crowd. Youngsters eagerly grabbed the microphone to speak with Moss, who set an NFL single-season record with 23 touchdown receptions last season.

What sparked his signature touchdown move (spreading his arms apart, palms out) last season? After hearing critics opine that he possibly had lost a step and no longer was a gamebreaker, Moss said he wanted to show he "could still part defenses."

Who was his favorite NFL player growing up? The late Chicago Bear Hall of Fame running back Walter Payton. Moss gladly paid an NFL fine after writing Payton's No. 34 on his towel during a game, a violation of the league dress code.

Friday's common thread, however, was providing opportunities for children. Moss said he'll continue that effort this summer by hosting a first-time golf event at Sleepy Hollow Golf Club in Hurricane.

"I'm not going to stop giving back," Moss said. "I want to start here."

[Denver>SA]

Randy Moss Is A No-Good Thug
Well, he is black.

[Evan]

Well, he is black.


.............distance :bike:

[Whisky Dog]

Having a bad attitude and running over a meter maid doesn't really make you a thug.

I never thought of him as a thug, mostly just a self absorbed dude caught in a team sport who tends to make bad decisions. A lot like TO. Not bad guys, but in a strong team atmosphere can come off as such.

[Evan]

Not bad guys, but in a strong team atmosphere can come off as such.

Or an overly aggressive dramatic media that stirs thing up and makes a story about what they want instead of reporting the true and sometimes bland facts.

[O-Factor]

Moss isn't a thug, he just plays when he wants to play.

[mikejones99]

he is one of the top 10 recievers ever.

[bostonguy]

Moss is an awesome wideout however when push comes to shove in the postseason, he cant take it to the next level. This shitty postseason said enough. That superbowl td was due to a defender on the giants falling down. Moss was fucking worthless when it counted. Love the guy and glad we kept him , but he still lacks the toughness to step it up in the playoffs on a regular basis.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Did he pass out dime bags as party favors?

[monosylab1k]

That superbowl td was due to a defender on the giants falling down. Moss was fucking worthless when it counted.
Um, did you even watch the playoffs?

They were doing everything possible to take Moss out of the game. It's tough to get open when they're playing way off and double-teaming the whole game. It's even more tough when the OC refuses to do anything but send you deep all game long.

The guy who sucked in the postseason was Donte Stallworth. He was brought in here to be the guy who went over the middle on intermediate routes, which, if he had done that even remotely well in the playoffs, would have freed up Moss because the opposing team couldn't sell out to stop Moss if Stallworth was killing them for 15 yard gains. Welker did his job underneath and Moss was drawing double-teams and had a safety blanketing him at all times. Stallworth was the guy that had to step up and he didn't.

And the biggest problem was our piece of shit Offensive Coordinator who waited until 6 minutes left in the 4th quarter of the Super Bowl to start sending Moss over the middle. Moss was absolutely the key on that drive, if he doesn't start catching passes over the middle, they don't even get past 7 points.

Moss stepped up big when the team needed him most, unfortunately Steroids Harrison couldn't do the same.

[MajorMike]

Clearly another lame flame try from someone who recently had his jock handed to him on the same subject.

[monosylab1k]

Clearly another lame flame try from someone who recently had his jock handed to him on the same subject.
Except you still haven't provided a shred of evidence to prove your point. What a dumbass.

[MajorMike]

Mmmm hmm... that's why you got torched by everyone else in that thread. Keep trying, son, you'll grow some pubes one day.

[monosylab1k]

Mmmm hmm... that's why you got torched by everyone else in that thread. Keep trying, son, you'll grow some pubes one day.
i could care less if i was or wasn't "torched" (btw your love of gay internet lingo strongly suggests you enjoy eating KFC Bowls at 2 AM by yourself), but the bottom line is you claimed Randy Moss ruined the Raiders and provided nothing to prove your point. So I guess you "flamed" yourself by throwing out some bullshit with no basis. Nice try though.

[MajorMike]

America, eatin' my lunch from a single bowl in my parents basement, where I'm livin'. Happy Birthday, I'm forty-three.

Don't want to waste those precious calories...chewin'. Jesus come move my jaw for me, help me get my sloppy food down my throat.

[Obstructed_View]

"Moss earned a full ride to Notre Dame in 1995 before a racially-motivated fight his senior year in high school saw him charged with two counts of simple battery and cost him his dream of playing for the Irish.

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Bobby Bowden gave the youngster that opportunity at Florida State where Moss raised some eyebrows as a redshirt freshman.

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But despite all his natural talent, trouble continued to follow Moss when he tested positive for smoking marijuana at Florida State and was kicked off the team. That's how he found his way back to West Virginia and a three month stay in jail for violating his probation. "

Verdict: Thug.

[monosylab1k]

"Moss earned a full ride to Notre Dame in 1995 before a racially-motivated fight his senior year in high school saw him charged with two counts of simple battery and cost him his dream of playing for the Irish.

snip

Bobby Bowden gave the youngster that opportunity at Florida State where Moss raised some eyebrows as a redshirt freshman.

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But despite all his natural talent, trouble continued to follow Moss when he tested positive for smoking marijuana at Florida State and was kicked off the team. That's how he found his way back to West Virginia and a three month stay in jail for violating his probation. "

Verdict: Thug.
1. I'd like to know how many people on ST would want every poor decision they made as a 19 year old put into the news, and how many of them would want everyone to judge them as a person based on what they did when they were 19.

2. Tell that stuff to all the children he's helping out. "Hey kids, the guy donating money & time to help you out, well he did some stuff 10 years ago. So he's a thug. And you kids don't mean shit."

[MajorMike]

Prove it.

[stretch]

Prove it.
Dude, you are seriously obsessed with Mono.

[monosylab1k]

Prove it.
America, eatin' my lunch from a single bowl in my parents basement, where I'm livin'. Happy Birthday, I'm forty-three.

Don't want to waste those precious calories...chewin'. Jesus come move my jaw for me, help me get my sloppy food down my throat.

[TheSanityAnnex]

The title of this thread is the most intelligent thing monosylab1k has ever posted about the Patriots.

[MajorMike]

Dude, you are seriously obsessed with Mono.

Prove it.

[monosylab1k]

Prove it.
America, eatin' my lunch from a single bowl in my parents basement, where I'm livin'. Happy Birthday, I'm forty-three.

Don't want to waste those precious calories...chewin'. Jesus come move my jaw for me, help me get my sloppy food down my throat.

[Spawn]

Good post Mono. This is a side to athletes that most of the MSM doesn't want the general populace to know about because it deviates from their athlete=souless/selfish/ money grubbing robot narrative.

[possessed]

Interesting, considering he makes a point of living hundreds of miles away in south Florida from his own kids in West Virginia. I guess it gives him something else to do when he visits his own kids in "The Mountain State".

[Obstructed_View]

1. I'd like to know how many people on ST would want every poor decision they made as a 19 year old put into the news, and how many of them would want everyone to judge them as a person based on what they did when they were 19.
I'd take him on my team any day of the week, but the "poor decisions" he made when he was 19 weren't the only ones, they were just the first public ones. Until he actually stops making them, his poor decisions are going to be how people judge him as a person. A fluff newspaper piece from his hometown newspaper doesn't change that, so don't try to justify your fandom; he's a Patriot. I root for TO because he's a member of the Cowboys, but I'm not going to go out of my way to defend the stupid shit he says or does.


2. Tell that stuff to all the children he's helping out. "Hey kids, the guy donating money & time to help you out, well he did some stuff 10 years ago. So he's a thug. And you kids don't mean shit."
Good for him. Glad he's helping them. Doesn't change the fact that he's a thug, just makes him a thug with a checkbook and a PR agent. Whooptie do. Where his peace prize at?

[Flight3107]

I'd take him on my team any day of the week, but the "poor decisions" he made when he was 19 weren't the only ones, they were just the first public ones. Until he actually stops making them, his poor decisions are going to be how people judge him as a person. A fluff newspaper piece from his hometown newspaper doesn't change that, so don't try to justify your fandom; he's a Patriot. I root for TO because he's a member of the Cowboys, but I'm not going to go out of my way to defend the stupid shit he says or does.


Good for him. Glad he's helping them. Doesn't change the fact that he's a thug, just makes him a thug with a checkbook and a PR agent. Whooptie do. Where his peace prize at?


+1

[stretch]

Prove it.
Well the fact that 85% of the threads he posts in, you go and try to start an argument with him should speak for itself.

[MajorMike]

Prove it.

[stretch]

well, looking at your post history, basically every page in the past 300 posts of yours contains arguments with mono.

[monosylab1k]

Prove it.
America, eatin' my lunch from a single bowl in my parents basement, where I'm livin'. Happy Birthday, I'm forty-three.

Don't want to waste those precious calories...chewin'. Jesus come move my jaw for me, help me get my sloppy food down my throat.

[monosylab1k]

well, looking at your post history, basically every page in the past 300 posts of yours contains arguments with mono.
Getting so pissed at what I write that he has to quote me in his sig just might be a sign of obsession as well.

[monosylab1k]

Until he actually stops making them, his poor decisions are going to be how people judge him as a person.
Stops making them? When was the last time he did anything? When he "mooned" the Packer crowd? You're right, lock that SOB thug up now.

[MajorMike]

well, looking at your post history, basically every page in the past 300 posts of yours contains arguments with mono.

Fail.

[stretch]

I Fail.
fixed.

[MajorMike]

Sad; now you are resorting to mono's tactics. I see why you stick up for his adolescence, now.

[monosylab1k]

Sad; now you are resorting to mono's tactics. I see why you stick up for his adolescence, now.
America, eatin' my lunch from a single bowl in my parents basement, where I'm livin'. Happy Birthday, I'm forty-three.

Don't want to waste those precious calories...chewin'. Jesus come move my jaw for me, help me get my sloppy food down my throat.

[monosylab1k]

nothing says "I'm a mature adult" like responding with "fail" to a post. yep.

[MajorMike]

nothing says "I'm a mature adult" like responding with "fail" to a post. yep.


Or having no other feasible comeback other than equivalent to, "I know you are, but what am I?" that follows:

America, eatin' my lunch from a single bowl in my parents basement, where I'm livin'. Happy Birthday, I'm forty-three.

Don't want to waste those precious calories...chewin'. Jesus come move my jaw for me, help me get my sloppy food down my throat.

Threads with no caps or punctuation are pretty cool, too.

[stretch]

Sad; now you are resorting to mono's tactics. I see why you stick up for his adolescence, now.
actually i've been doing that for a long time, much like many people in this forum, including spurs fans. so bitch at everyone about it, or quit bitching period.

[MajorMike]

actually i've been doing that for a long time, much like many people in this forum, including spurs fans. so bitch at everyone about it, or quit bitching period.


I know... lots of kids on the forums.

[monosylab1k]

Or having no other feasible comeback other than equivalent to, "I know you are, but what am I?" that follows:


Threads with no caps or punctuation are pretty cool, too.
America, eatin' my lunch from a single bowl in my parents basement, where I'm livin'. Happy Birthday, I'm forty-three.

Don't want to waste those precious calories...chewin'. Jesus come move my jaw for me, help me get my sloppy food down my throat.

[monosylab1k]

rofl "threads"

[Spuradicator]

nothing says "I'm a mature adult" like responding with "fail" to a post. yep.

that and posting another Rick Roll link.

[monosylab1k]

that and posting another Rick Roll link.
fail.

[Obstructed_View]

Stops making them? When was the last time he did anything? When he "mooned" the Packer crowd? You're right, lock that SOB thug up now.
Are you suggesting that's a good decision? He was 25 when he knocked the cop down with his car. You said he shouldn't be judged for what he did when he was 19, except that he got arrested six years later. Doing stupid shit like mooning the crowd, taking plays off, admitting he smokes dope in interviews and getting restraining orders filed against him doesn't help make the case that he somehow makes good decisions.

[monosylab1k]

Are you suggesting that's a good decision? He was 25 when he knocked the cop down with his car. You said he shouldn't be judged for what he did when he was 19, except that he got arrested six years later.

It was a meter maid, and it wasn't a big incident. A 16 year old girl who just got her license could do the same thing easily, and it doesn't make her a "thug". So he's a shitty driver.


Doing stupid shit like mooning the crowd

fake mooning a crowd that would do real mooning of the opposing team bus as they left. everybody would have laughed this off as a stupid TD celebration if Joe Buck hadn't expressed such moral outrage over it like Moss just took a shit on the American flag.


taking plays off

doesn't make him a thug, just a lazy player.


admitting he smokes dope in interviews

shame on him for being honest. i'm sure he's the only guy in the NFL who has smoked on occasion.


and getting restraining orders filed against him doesn't help make the case that he somehow makes good decisions.

the restraining order was removed and he was completely exonerated.

[monosylab1k]

Pacman Jones is a thug. Chris Henry is a thug. Randy Moss is a guy with a bad attitude who did a few really stupid things as a teenager.

[TheSanityAnnex]

why do you start a pointless thread and then act surprised when people disagree?

[monosylab1k]

why do you start a pointless thread and then act surprised when people disagree?
Sorry I guess a story about an NFL star helping out underprivileged children is pointless.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Sorry I guess a story about an NFL star helping out underprivileged children is pointless.
That wasn't the point of your thread and its obvious by your choice of thread title. One PR deed isn't going to sway anyones opinion on Moss. This thread had nothing to do with the kids and its pathetic to pretend so.

[Obstructed_View]

Pacman Jones is a thug. Chris Henry is a thug. Randy Moss is a New England Patriot.
Fixed.

[monosylab1k]

Fixed.
I had this opinion of Moss well before he was a Patriot. Calling him a thug is about as ignorant as calling TO or Chad Johnson a thug.

[monosylab1k]

I'd love to hear what Spur Fan thinks of Stephen Jackson. They all seem to love the guy and think he's the best thing ever.

[TheSanityAnnex]

I'd love to hear what Spur Fan thinks of Stephen Jackson. They all seem to love the guy and think he's the best thing ever.I thought this thread was about the underpriveledged children?

[monosylab1k]

I thought this thread was about the underpriveledged children?
No thread on this site has ever digressed?

[Obstructed_View]

I had this opinion of Moss well before he was a Patriot. Calling him a thug is about as ignorant as calling TO or Chad Johnson a thug.
What's ignorant is comparing Moss to two guys who have never even been arrested.

[monosylab1k]

What's ignorant is comparing Moss to two guys who have never even been arrested.
So JJ Redick is a thug? He's been arrested.

[peewee's lovechild]

I think it's time to back off of that Moss bullshit.

[Obstructed_View]

So JJ Redick is a thug? He's been arrested.

Since Moss is not a thug, by your definition, Redick can't possibly be with one arrest. But he's a hell of a lot closer to Moss than TO or Chad Johnson are. You're moving in the right direction finally.

[mrodgers]

randy moss is not a no good thug he is probably the best player on the patriots and it was randy moss that brought the patriots to the super bowland all tom brady would do is throw it up and randy moss would catch it