# Dear Red McCombs. Go fuck yourself.

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 13, 2005, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-red-mccombs-go-fuck-yourself/284500 "2005-01-13T04:18:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-red-mccombs-go-fuck-yourself/284500/1 "2005-01-13T04:18:35Z")

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For all you jealous Packer hating Vikings fans, take a gander at what power ole Red thinks he wields over all things football.

For those out of the loop, there was a little firestorm last Sunday over Randy "My ego is bigger than Owens’ " Moss pantomiming a mooning to fans at Lambeau Field. (Not Lambert Field, Mr. Kerry) [why let political jabs die so easily?] 😉 Almost immediately Fox Sports’ play-by-play man Joe Buck called it “disgusting”.

Well, the usual suspects showed up to decry the overreaction of Buck and denounce any thought of a fine or suspension. I would have thought with all the negative media Moss has been catching, Red would want to downplay this. The team is up for sale and controversy can’t be good for the profit margin.

But now ole Red is firing back. Not only should Randy be exonerated completely for the act, but for fuck’s sake he wants Buck [removed from the MN/PHI game this weekend.](http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs04/news/story?id=1965529)

Here’s the kicker. In the 3[sup]rd[/sup] paragraph he says he felt Buck’s comments

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**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-red-mccombs-go-fuck-yourself/284500/2 "2005-01-13T16:08:10Z")

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I’m here to help you finish your OP, **duffer**. THEY told me you omitted a part…

…in the 3[sup]rd[/sup] paragraph he says he felt Buck’s comments “suggested a prejudice that surpassed objective reporting.”

Coincidentally, Paul Zimmerman’s [annual rating of commentators](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/dr_z/01/12/drz.announcers/index.html) came out this morning with this gem regarding Buck, Collinsworth and Aikman:

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> So why aren’t they even lower? Because these are bright guys who are OK when they’re in their province, which is the passing game, and I had them at three stars, right until the Minnesota-Green Bay wild-card contest. That one dropped 'em. Brett Favre apologists abound, but when the guy screws it up, for God’s sake say it, don’t cop out every time. No interception was his fault; it was always the guy running the pattern.

In sum, McCombs is an idiot, Buck is an idiot, and bring back Leon in the commercials. He sold them, not Joe Buck.