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Mooning Football Players and FCC Indecency

January 9, 2005

Today, Randy Moss mock-mooned the fans in Green Bay after he caught a touchdown for the Vikings. Immediately, the announcers were calling him out, saying that was "disgusting." Give me a break. He didn't actually moon them, he was just having some fun. What's the big deal?

I can't stand how sports pundits expect players to act like they're proper gentlemen. This is football, not polo. Let the players show some emotion. I don't care and I'm pretty sure that most folks watching grown men knock the shit out of each other don't care if someone has a goofy touchdown celebration.

I'm sick of all this mock concern for morality and decency. According to this article from Mediaweek, there were just below 1.1 million complaints about indecency to the FCC in 2004 up until October 1st. 540,000 were made in regards to the nipple slip at the Super Bowl. Of the remaining 500,000 or so, 99.9% were from one group, the Parent's Television Council (PTC). In 2003, 99.98% of all complaints were made by the same group. If you take those away, 500 complaints were made by other folks over a nine month period in 2004. That's it.

With that being said, I hope you too can endorse Randy Moss's mock-mooning. I just hope those folks over at PTC can cool their freakin' jets so I don't have to listen to people up in arms over a mock-mooning. Sheesh.

Comments (5 comments so far)

Comment #1:

My concern about Moss isn't the "mooning," but rather his overall attitude about sports-- he simply does not care. I believe that if Mike Tice were actually a coach (instead of a guilty bystander) he would have benched Moss for his "walking off" incident in Washington last week. It is apparent who wears the pants on the Minnesota sidelines.

Going back to the fake mooning, I don't believe that indecency is the issue. He didn't actually moon anyone; however, I believe that you need to draw a line between showing emotion and being an ass in front of thousands.

Posted by James Brosher on January 10, 2005 at 12:59AM

Comment #2:

Your comments seem odd, have you forgotten the Pacers Pistons brawl just a month ago? Bad sportsmanship is rude, and mook mooning the fans, the people who pay hundreds of dollars to see the game, could start something similar to that other fight. These guys get payed hundreds of thousands of dollars a game, yet they still can't contain themselves in front of the entire nation, including children. Randy Moss makes me sick, maybe he should take some lessons from Marvin Harrison, cause he's got Artest-like problems.

Posted by B Todd on January 10, 2005 at 4:50PM

Comment #3:

Let me preface this by saying "I am not a Vikings fan". I have lived and worked with Minnesota Viking fans and Packer fans my whole life. Packer fans are the worst sports fans I've ever seen. They have no lives outside of football. They worship a dead, authoritarian football coach who was lucky enough to coach at a time when a coach could be a ruthless, intimidating asshole and players could do nothing about it... and there was no free agency. Lombardi wouldn't be worth shit today. These fans have excuses for everything and are normally intoxicated by 10:00 am when the gane is at 3:30. I am disapponied that Moss didn't drop trou and shack his dick at the swine-like fans. These people flock to Minnesota to the Metrodome and are as rude as anyone could be. Randy, you didn't go far enough. Did I just hear the explosion of unattended dairy cattle with excessive milk build-up?

Posted by Mike on January 10, 2005 at 5:32PM

Comment #4:

I think that Randy Moss should be fined for his actions. That was totally wrong. I wanted some body to hit him.

Posted by Joe Kilberg on January 10, 2005 at 5:41PM

Comment #5:

Coach Dungy says the mock-mooning was payback for Packers fans own misbehavior:

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Posted by MDP on January 10, 2005 at 9:33PM

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