I suppose I have to accept this as reality. The Minnesota Vikings really have traded Randy Moss. For the first few days after the announcement was made I tried to pretend it was just more rumors. Never mind Moss’s agent said it was so. Maybe it was a rumor. Maybe Reggie Fowler would speak up and tell Red McCombs to finally stop being an idiot and not trade the team’s star player while a sale is being considered by the league.
Doesn’t look like that’s going to happen, though. Moss is going west.
Sure, he was a problem. But in a league where the rule is to win at any cost, Moss’s mooning of the Packer fans, his walking off the field with two seconds left in an obviously lost cause is minor stuff. All you have to do is look at the team performance during the games he missed this season vs. those in which he played to see how important he is … was … to the Vikings.
And look what we got in exchange for the most exciting player in the league. Napolean What’s-his-name and a No. 7 pick. Trading for draft picks is always risky because you can’t be sure a college star will make it in the NFL. And that linebacker? Who is he? He’s no Greg Biekert and certainly no Brian Urlacher. Will he improve the Vikings’ leaky defense? Ain’t likely.
The Vikings have traded the best wide receiver in NFL history for what appears to be an injury-prone no-name linebacker and the possibility of getting a good young player with the seventh pick in the draft.
Sometimes it appears the team management is still as dumb as a rock (remember the Herchel Walker trade that remade the Dallas Cowboys). But now this rock can’t even keep the Moss it had gathered.
Hello Packers. Come give us the whipping we deserve. There’s nothing to fear in the Metrodome now.
Steven E. Wedel 
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