Vinny
shiny happy fan
Ever imagine what would happen if a used car salesman ran an NFL team? This was totally classless. If you were considering firing the head coach you don't go to the media and club him like a baby seal and humiliate him by telling the world that you were going to fire him on a hunch that you could spark some stats out of Moss.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2004074McCombs said he considered firing Tice
Associated Press
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Minnesota Vikings owner Red McCombs said Thursday that he nearly fired coach Mike Tice last season in an effort to get more out of star receiver Randy Moss.
Randy Moss
Maybe Al Davis and Norv Turner can give Randy Moss the spark he was missing in Minnesota.
In his first public comments since trading Moss to the Raiders, McCombs also acknowledged that he knows the Vikings didn't get enough from Oakland in return. The deal was made last week and officially completed on Wednesday.
McCombs said he was so desperate to "get a spark out of Randy" that he considered firing Tice just before Moss returned from a hamstring injury. At the time, the Vikings had lost three of four games after starting the season 5-1.
"I gave serious thought to replacing Mike when Randy was coming off injury," McCombs said, speaking by teleconference from Texas. "I was trying to think, 'How can I make this thing work where we get that spark?'"