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Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Randy Moss is almost sure to be fined for pretending to moon fans in Green Bay during a playoff win, according to NFL rules.
â?? It's not the kind of thing you want to see on national TV, but I understand what it was all about. ... The fans in Green Bay have a tradition in the parking lot after the game where they moon the visiting team's bus. â??
â?? Colts coach Tony Dungy
The league is looking into the star receiver's antics in the Minnesota Vikings' 31-17 win over the Packers on Sunday and will announce its ruling later this week.
When asked for a reaction to the touchdown celebration Sunday night, an NFL spokesman told ESPN's Chris Mortensen: "Randy Moss can expect to be hearing from us."
When asked by AP whether the oft-fined Moss would be penalized again, a league spokesman recited NFL rules mandating discipline for "obscene gestures or other actions construed as being in poor taste."
SportsNation
How much should the NFL fine Randy Moss for his actions in Green Bay?
$0
$5,000 or less
$5,001-$25,000
More than $25,000
A fine for the first offense under those guidelines is $5,000. Moss has not previously been fined for such action, but paid a $25,000 penalty in 1999 for squirting an official with a water bottle.
In the last year, the NFL has dealt with a couple of highly publicized situations that many fans found objectionable. There was the Janet Jackson breast-baring episode during the halftime show of the Super Bowl in February and the steamy "Monday Night Football" introduction this season featuring Philadelphia receiver Terrell Owens and "Desperate Housewives" star Nicollette Sheridan.
On Sunday, Moss caught a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter and headed toward the goalpost. He then turned his back to the Lambeau Field crowd, bent over and pantomimed pulling down his pants.
"Just having a little fun with the boys," Moss told a Fox reporter as he left the field. "I hope I don't get in trouble by it, but if I do I'll take the heat."
Moss, making $5 million this season, declined comment Monday.
Vikings coach Mike Tice said he spoke Monday with NFL vice president Art Shell.
"The league has called me," Tice said. "I didn't see it until last night."
Tice added he always thought of Green Bay fans as having "a tremendous amount of class" but that he didn't think they acted that way Sunday.
Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy said he saw Moss' action and, "I thought it was kind of humorous."
"It's not the kind of thing you want to see on national TV, but I understand what it was all about," he said.
"Anyone who has played in the NFC Central knows what that's about. The fans in Green Bay have a tradition in the parking lot after the game where they moon the visiting team's bus," he said. "It's kind of a unique sendoff."
"I had seen it seven times because when I was with the Vikings, we lost to them seven times up there," he said.
Fox did not show a replay of Moss' display during the game.
"It was inappropriate to replay it in the context of the game," Fox spokesman Lou D'Ermilio said.
ESPN declined to show the replay Sunday because, "in the end, we decided a conservative approach, taking a breath rather than rushing to air, would be prudent," spokesman Josh Krulewitz said.
He added: "In hindsight, we could have shown it once the day it happened while being very mindful of not being gratuitous about it."
Krulewitz said replays were to be shown Monday "conservatively, based on the NFL's and the Vikings' reaction to it."
Last month, Denver quarterback Jake Plummer was fined $5,000 for an obscene gesture.
Randy Moss
Moss
Moss was originally fined $40,000 in 1999 for squirting an official, but it was reduced to $25,000 on appeal.
Moss verbally abused corporate sponsors on the team bus in 2001. That resulted in the team fining him $15,000 and forcing him to attend anger management classes.
In December of 2002, he was fined $1,200 by a judge after being charged with bumping a traffic officer with his car in downtown Minneapolis.
And last week, he was chewed out by teammates for leaving the field before the end of a loss in Washington. Center Matt Birk, one of the Vikings' leaders, confronted him and quarterback Daunte Culpepper also was upset.
Moss, his hair poofed out in a giant Afro, had four receptions for 70 yards and two touchdowns in Sunday's game.
After Moss' second score and resulting show, Birk just shook his head and smiled.
"That's Randy," he said. "You take the good with the bad."
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
moss fine
January 11, 2005 at 05:44PM View BBCode
Monday, January 10, 2005Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Randy Moss is almost sure to be fined for pretending to moon fans in Green Bay during a playoff win, according to NFL rules.
â?? It's not the kind of thing you want to see on national TV, but I understand what it was all about. ... The fans in Green Bay have a tradition in the parking lot after the game where they moon the visiting team's bus. â??
â?? Colts coach Tony Dungy
The league is looking into the star receiver's antics in the Minnesota Vikings' 31-17 win over the Packers on Sunday and will announce its ruling later this week.
When asked for a reaction to the touchdown celebration Sunday night, an NFL spokesman told ESPN's Chris Mortensen: "Randy Moss can expect to be hearing from us."
When asked by AP whether the oft-fined Moss would be penalized again, a league spokesman recited NFL rules mandating discipline for "obscene gestures or other actions construed as being in poor taste."
SportsNation
How much should the NFL fine Randy Moss for his actions in Green Bay?
$0
$5,000 or less
$5,001-$25,000
More than $25,000
A fine for the first offense under those guidelines is $5,000. Moss has not previously been fined for such action, but paid a $25,000 penalty in 1999 for squirting an official with a water bottle.
In the last year, the NFL has dealt with a couple of highly publicized situations that many fans found objectionable. There was the Janet Jackson breast-baring episode during the halftime show of the Super Bowl in February and the steamy "Monday Night Football" introduction this season featuring Philadelphia receiver Terrell Owens and "Desperate Housewives" star Nicollette Sheridan.
On Sunday, Moss caught a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter and headed toward the goalpost. He then turned his back to the Lambeau Field crowd, bent over and pantomimed pulling down his pants.
"Just having a little fun with the boys," Moss told a Fox reporter as he left the field. "I hope I don't get in trouble by it, but if I do I'll take the heat."
Moss, making $5 million this season, declined comment Monday.
Vikings coach Mike Tice said he spoke Monday with NFL vice president Art Shell.
"The league has called me," Tice said. "I didn't see it until last night."
Tice added he always thought of Green Bay fans as having "a tremendous amount of class" but that he didn't think they acted that way Sunday.
Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy said he saw Moss' action and, "I thought it was kind of humorous."
"It's not the kind of thing you want to see on national TV, but I understand what it was all about," he said.
"Anyone who has played in the NFC Central knows what that's about. The fans in Green Bay have a tradition in the parking lot after the game where they moon the visiting team's bus," he said. "It's kind of a unique sendoff."
"I had seen it seven times because when I was with the Vikings, we lost to them seven times up there," he said.
Fox did not show a replay of Moss' display during the game.
"It was inappropriate to replay it in the context of the game," Fox spokesman Lou D'Ermilio said.
ESPN declined to show the replay Sunday because, "in the end, we decided a conservative approach, taking a breath rather than rushing to air, would be prudent," spokesman Josh Krulewitz said.
He added: "In hindsight, we could have shown it once the day it happened while being very mindful of not being gratuitous about it."
Krulewitz said replays were to be shown Monday "conservatively, based on the NFL's and the Vikings' reaction to it."
Last month, Denver quarterback Jake Plummer was fined $5,000 for an obscene gesture.
Randy Moss
Moss
Moss was originally fined $40,000 in 1999 for squirting an official, but it was reduced to $25,000 on appeal.
Moss verbally abused corporate sponsors on the team bus in 2001. That resulted in the team fining him $15,000 and forcing him to attend anger management classes.
In December of 2002, he was fined $1,200 by a judge after being charged with bumping a traffic officer with his car in downtown Minneapolis.
And last week, he was chewed out by teammates for leaving the field before the end of a loss in Washington. Center Matt Birk, one of the Vikings' leaders, confronted him and quarterback Daunte Culpepper also was upset.
Moss, his hair poofed out in a giant Afro, had four receptions for 70 yards and two touchdowns in Sunday's game.
After Moss' second score and resulting show, Birk just shook his head and smiled.
"That's Randy," he said. "You take the good with the bad."
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
kingjames0405
if he is fined though it should only be 1,000 or something in that range
January 11, 2005 at 05:46PM View BBCode
i dont think he should be fined at all. because a packers tradition is to moon the vistiting team bus as they enter the stadum so i think they deserve what they give outif he is fined though it should only be 1,000 or something in that range
kingjames0405
the moon dance
January 11, 2005 at 05:47PM View BBCode
heres the pickingjames0405 has attached this image:
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