I'm not gonna defend the guy.... but what amazes me is how the press always acts like they're so shocked. this is the exact same thing they're doing with the steroid thing now in basebal. like they had no idea it was going on and are just opening their eyes to all the "evils" around them. ridiculous.
This shouldn't be a huge shock, but appartently its "Big News"...Give me a break, he's been smoking the mota since he was a baby...
It's big news because of all the kids that now think if Randy Moss can smoke weed maybe I should be smoking it too. And whether or not you think smoking is ok or not. It's still against the law. So all these kids who have it, who are smoking, who sell it, who give it to their friends, are breaking the law. And that ain't good. Their is no grey area here. It's wrong. So that's why it's big news. You gotta guy saying here he breaks the law. And sure, you can say parents and friends are a bigger influence. And you'd be right. But, kids are influenced by stars. Look at their clothes, look at what they buy, look at who the emmulate. It's the stars. So the influence there is huge. It's big news because it's big news.
i agree wholeheartedly he shouldn't be doing it. i don't wish he was doing it. but taking this snippet out of the interview and trumpeting it around all over the place isn't helping me raise my kids, either! my point is that we all knew randy moss PROBABLY smoked weed sometimes. nothing in this is shocking. the media will spend all day talking about this...and they'll pretend its news....but it ain't. because we already KNEW it. but, hey...it might sell an extra paper or two. and, hey...sports radio has to talk about something!!!
It's already well confirmed that Moss has space for rent in his head. The guy tried to run over a cop. He was probably smoking weed when he did that.
The way espn broke into this story on Cold Pizza made me think they were going to announce Clemens or Pujols was suspended for roids. I was like, "it must be true". Then they started on Moss and I wasn't bothered by them reporting it, just the way they were acting. They were obviously trying to make it a bigger deal than it was. It was pretty silly. The thing about Moss and the sports media is this, they still refuse to accept that half of the league were idiots for not picking him before the Vikings. They were all so happy that a player finally fell in the draft because of his character issues that they refuse to accept this is the only guy who has a shot at running down Rice's records. Everytime he does something its blown out of porportion (except the incident with the traffic cop) because they some way feel vindicated because they predicted he would screw his career up.
Patrick and Obermann claimed to have smoke weed as well. These are the media guys trying to say we've blown it out of proportion. Yeah, cause your a weed smoker. Of course you think that. You'd rather it wasn't a big deal.
Were the 60's fun? Because all the people that grew up during that time seriously don't want anybody else to smoke it seems.
In and of themselves, Moss' transgressions are generally not as big of a deal as they tend to be reported. That being said, he does so many of these things that they do get over reported. - altercation with traffic officer - squirting official with water - "I play when I want to play" - sideline arguments with teammates and coaches - leaving the field with time left on the clock - berating corporate sponsors - "mooning" the Green Bay crowd - verbally abusing officials - etc.
What's so bad about all that stuff is it's so freaking silly (except hitting the traffic cop) ~ comparing him with T.O. makes sense, but considering him a really bad person is wrong. Such a big deal is made out Randy, but you hardly ever hear anything about the cocaine trafficking Jamal Lewis or his double murder accessory teammate Ray Lewis.
If Randy worked at McDonald's and admitted to smoking dope would he get to keep his job? ________ ...The Million Man March. Had all the positive black leaders there. Farakhan, Jesse, Marion Barrie... Marion Barrie! At the Million Man March. It was a day of posititvity. How'd he get a ticket? You know what that means? That means that even in our finest hour, we had a crack-head on stage. How the hell did Marion Barrie get his job back? Smoked crack, got his job back. How the hell does that happen? If you get caught smoking crack at McDonalds, you can't get your job back. They're not going to trust you around the happy meals. Who ran against him and lost? Who was so bad they lost to a crack-head? What was their campaign like, were they on heroin? Don't vote for crack, vote for smack! How you gonna tell little kids to not get high, when the man's on crack? Don't get high, you won't be nothing... I could be mayor or a multi-million dollar NFL wide receiver...
That's the whole point. In and of themselves, most of his transgressions aren't a big deal. It is the accumulation of so many of these infractions that makes them note/newsworthy. Is he a bad person? That's hard to say. Is he irresponsible and unprofessional - definitely.
why should athletes and celebrities be role models? i'll raise my children, thank you very much. much ado about nothing.
