Robservations: Throw the book at Randy Moss
I don’t know Randy Moss. I wasn’t there Tuesday night when he allegedly pushed a 27-year-old traffic control officer with his car.
But I do know this. I’ll bet you, before too long, Moss’s bank account will be a lot lighter.
Moss, who was labeled as trouble all the way back to his days in college, spent a night in jail Tuesday after being charged with a pair of misdemeanors for allegedly pushing Amy Zaccardi down the street after she tried to stop him from making an illegal turn.
According to an Associated Press account of the story, Moss pushed Zaccardi along the street, stopping when she fell off his car.
Now, here’s where things get downright stupid. In his “apology” in a Thursday press conference, the Minnesota Vikings star said he was sorry to his team, to his family and his friends — but not to Zaccardi.
Hello? You hit her with a car!
“I am human. I am a man. I do take care of my responsibilities, and I stand up for my actions,” Moss was quoted as saying in the story, written by the AP’s Dave Campbell.
Hello? You hit her with a car! You whistled while you walked out of the jailhouse, hid your face under your jacket and went right back to practice! And you didn’t even say you were SORRY!
“I don’t know if trouble is out to find me,” Moss went on to say, “but I’m certainly not out to find trouble.”
Hello? You’re not out to find trouble? You ran smack-dab into trouble! You hit her with a car!
Over the past month, we’ve all heard a lot about accidents, and the punishments that come from accidents. And, as a way of “relating the learning to life,” as Dr. Greer used to say, in my mind I’ve drawn a lot of parallels in reading about this whole Moss fiasco with what we’ve seen here in Warren County lately.
But gang, What Moss did was no accident. She wasn’t inadvertently struck with his car. And felony, misdemeanor or whatever, here’s one friendly neighborhood sports editor that thinks the book should get thrown at Moss, and then Moss’s checkbook should get thrown to the young lady that was just doing her job before being treated like an orange parking lot cone.
And by the way, during the police search of Moss’s car following the incident, they found a marijuana cigarette. But, as of Thursday, no drug charges have been filed.
Hello?!?
• Back to more locally based football issues…
Looks like we’re all going to need a program Saturday night, when the Pioneer football team hits the field against Tullahoma.
Let’s see if we’ve got these all straight…
Smith, out. Mitchell, in.
Jarvis, out. Cunningham, in.
Bratcher, out. Grissom, in.
Morrison, suspended. Wilson, in.
With their depth already suffering, the last thing the Pioneers need is another swarm of injury bugs. But, like one of the team captains said during practice a couple of weeks ago, “you’ve gotta roll with the punches.”
• You hate to see anyone forced out of a game, but at the same time, safety is always first.
Jonathan Bratcher, the Pioneers’ starting quarterback last week against Cookeville, got a concussion during that game, and spent much of this week seeing doctors and healing up.
A visit to a Nashville neurologist brought some bad news: While Bratcher is in fairly good condition after the concussion, there is a good risk of more permanent damage if he should sustain another hard shot like the one he took last Friday.
So Bratcher made the safe decision, and the smart one, and ended his football career.
But never fear, Pioneer soccer fans, because reports are he’ll be ready to roam the goal when the season begins this spring.