Randy Moss Does A Disgusting Act
In the famous tundra of Lambeau Field one brisk wildcard night in January of 2005, the Minnesota Vikings, a wildcard team, was facing the Green Bay Packers, the division winner. The Packers had beaten the Vikings twice in the regular season and believe it or not, in all their years of existence, had never played each other in the playoffs. The Vikings beat them, 31-17. The Vikings scored 17 points in the first quarter alone and Green Bay never caught up. If you were tired of the cheeseheads and loved the Vikings, as I did at the time, this was a delightful game.
The game itself however might not be all that remembered if the final scoring play hadn’t gone down the way it did. By the mid-4th quarter, the Packers had managed to squirm within 7 points, and the score was 24-17. Culpepper decided this was as good a time as any to put a lid on it and chucked a bomb to Moss, who caught the touchdown in the corner of the endzone. Randy, ever the best, decided to really rub it into the fans who he effectively just sent home. He ran over to the goalpost, mimed dropping his pants and “mooned” the crowd, then rubbed his ass like a dog on the goal. It was hilarious. I remember laughing my butt off, my dad laughing his butt off, and my mom laughing with mild amusement. We were laughing so hard I actually kinda missed Joe Buck’s call of the event, which is now famous.
As a side note, apparently Cris Collinsworth was Buck’s color commentator that game? Weird.
Buck has gotten his fair share of justified criticism over the years but that call remains probably his worst. Moss fake mooning the crowd was pretty hilarious and if he had said nothing and barely reacted, I doubt anything would have come of it. Was it vulgar? A bit, sure. Kinda crass for a primetime game in front of millions? Yeah, maybe not the best time to mimick pulling your pants down. But on the other side of the argument, it was barely obscene. Mooning is something kids learn about at a young age because as rude gestures go it’s more comical and goofy than outright rude. He didn’t even actually moon anyone, he just pretended to. No kid alive to watch that was offended. They were all probably laughing as hard as I was. My parents were both the type of people to frown on dancing and celebration and they were laughing at it. Apparently, the only person besides Packers fans who also weren’t laughing was Joe Buck.
His overly sanctimonious call “That is a DISGUSTING ACT by Randy Moss” is now NFL lore. It was such a self-serious call and even at the time people were mocking how absurdly dramatic Buck sounded. Buck spat that call out as if Randy had just whipped his dick out and peed on the Packers logo. A playful moon might not be the cleanest of celebrations but acting all Helen Lovejoy about it was unnecessary. You could almost hear Buck’s monocle drop into his martini. The nonsense worked though, and Randy’s already poor reputation as a diva got him sent to the Raiders the following year. The Disgusting Act is actually his final touchdown as a Viking until his very brief return years later.
Anyway Buck should have saved that call for the next season when the Vikings went and had Sex Boat. Lots of disgusting acts on Sex Boat. Randy would have loved Sex Boat.
This all feels very meta. Is it still cool to work the word “Inception” into things, or have we gone back to calling things-within-things a Russian nesting doll? Hmmm.
Randy Moss: Moons crowd, wipes ass on post.
Joe Buck: That is a DISGUSTING act by Randy Moss!
Dave: That is a DISGUSTING call by Joe Buck!
Me: That is a DISGUSTING comic by Dave Rappoccio!
Other commenter: That is a DISGUSTING comment by Big Bluberries!
I am DISGUSTED that you stole my (or anyone else’s) opportunity to make that last comment. Shame.
I waffled severely on if it would be funnier to let someone else make that joke, ultimately I didn’t want to look any more stupid than I already am. X’D
But here, let me make it up to you. *feigns pulling pants down, rubs ass on monitor*
… Well that is actually a very disgusting act.
What a DISGUSTING call.
This game would have been remembered as another Favre disasterclass in the playoffs if not for Joe Buck’s call. He had 4 picks on the day and was just plain bad all around.
Also I’m surprised you don’t remember that Chris Collinsworth used to be on FOX. That was back when they tried doing a three man booth with him, Buck and Aikman for a couple of seasons or so. It’s pretty jarring to watch now, but it’s also pretty hilarious. Seemed like Collinsworth and Aikman did NOT get along well while Joe Buck was just kind of there droning on with his dry play-by-play. No surprise that Collinsworth bailed as soon as he an opportunity at NBC.
I remember Collinsworth was on the halftime crew at Fox for a bit but I never recalled him being in the booth till NBC
Wasn’t there a reason why Moss mimed mooning the crowd too? Like, every time the Vikings play in Green Bay the fans have a tradition of mooning the team bus or something? I feel like something like that, if you’re a fan you just go “Well shit, I guess he got us there.”
Didn’t a GB fan moon the Vikings earlier and that prompted Moss to ‘retaliate’ here?
Yes, this is the story I’ve heard many times (that the GB fans had a tradition of mooning the Vikings bus, and he was just imitating that). Not sure how I could actually “verify” that though, so to speak 🙂
Well now I know that Buck is a freak.
“Pujols squeezes out number two”
The best part was the game after this, when the Vikings went to Philadelphia for the divisional round and Freddie Mitchel caught a TD from McNabb and celebrated by “putting his pants on”.
Miiiiiight as well face it, you’re addicted to plugs
Miiiiiight as well face it, you’re addicted to plugs
(HAD his hair plug addiction yet taken root by this point?)
The worst thing about Buck is that he actually has pissed on things.
There’s a reason he is called SHOEPISSER on many sites on the internet.
I got into a tiff on Reddit over this not long ago, because apparently Buck has alleged that his view was obscured and he thought Moss had ACTUALLY pulled down his pants and underwear, not just mimed it, and that’s why he was so over the top. I call BS on this, as I remember it well live, and there was no indication whatsoever of that. Seems like a CYA story after the fact. I also have trouble believing that none of the replays on FOX or the stadium JumboTron would’ve corrected idea pretty quickly if he had made that mistake.
Kinky.