SEE ALSO:-- Vikings have one of the ugliest uniforms in pro sports, according to ESPN-- Paul Allen's "No!" call the greatest of all time, says NFL.com [VIDEO]-- ESPN's Mike and Mike still unaware of Vikings stadium deal, think team might move to L.A.Are you ready for some Minnesota Vikings 2012 foot ... More >>
The Vikings ranked 28th out of 32 teams in passing yards per-game last season. Their wide receiving corps was devoid of a big-play down the field threat. But with glaring holes along the offensive line and in the secondary, spending a high draft pick or lots of money on a free agent wide receiver ... More >>
Randy Moss and Cris Carter made sweet music together as the best receiving tandem in Vikings history.Moss was the home run hitter, CC the sure-handed possession receiver. During their 1998-2001 run, the team made the playoffs three times, including two ill-fated runs to the NFC Championship game. ... More >>
By Andy Mannix and Mike Mullen This week began with a bit of news that finally gives cause to celebrate the Minnesota Vikings: Since 2000, the Vikings are leading all other NFL teams in arrests. This was too good to be ignored, or judged on its face. So City Pages has gone deeper, investigating ... More >>
Tinucci's Newport location is still open. Tinucci's, the restaurant famously trashed by former Viking Randy Moss, has decided to close its Woodbury location. The South Washington County Bulletin talked to owner Greg Tinucci, who said the reason behind the closure was not for lack of busines ... More >>
Ricky Rubio: Caution, savior at work.Ricky Rubio has arrived in Minnesota with all the fanfare of a rock star, and now has the not-so-enviable task of trying to help the Minnesota Timberwolves earn the respect of their fans rather than ridicule.So in honor of Rubio's arrival, let's look back at f ... More >>
A documentary on super fans gets a boost from a super awful season.Just when we'd relegated the Vikings' epic 2010 implosion to the far reaches of our collective craniums, University of Minnesota journalism student Elizabeth Giorgi has come along to remind us of the whole, sorry affair. But i ... More >>
This year's most-read posts. Drumroll, please...The Hot Dish has racked up a lot of readers this past year, folks who were curious to find out about what might posses a man to eat only Chipotle burritos for a week straight or what not to eat on a first date. From jinxed restaurant locations ... More >>
Bernard Berrian, snappy dresser.Bernard Berrian had something to prove Sunday, after skulking in the shadows of the Vikings' torrid but doomed love affair with Randy Moss. So the receiver went out against the Cardinals and caught nine passes from Brett Favre, including an overtime slant wor ... More >>
The public weighs in on the Tinucci's debate with their business.While Randy Moss was going out in a blaze of shit-talking glory before being waived by the Vikings, he managed to burn Tinucci's Restaurant, which catered a post-practice buffet. "I wouldn't feed this [expletive] to my [expleti ... More >>
Were Moss's criticisms legit? We ate at Tinucci's to find out.Even though Randy Moss doesn't make his living as a food critic, he might be the harshest one in town. "I wouldn't feed this [expletive] to my [expletive] dog," he famously said of the food that Tinucci's restaurant provided after ... More >>
The NFL's leading rusher should feast on the 'Cards run defense.
Fall means football and beer at Hot Dish.It's now truly fall and one thing is for sure--this week at the Hot Dish has seen a lot of football-related news, thanks to now ex-Viking Randy Moss. However, in addition to this grand tale of spoiled behavior sparking a deal for diners, we also served up ... More >>
Moss's antics lead to...a free buffet!When an athlete acts like an asshat, the best thing a 52-year-old business can do about it is generate a little publicity. That's what Tinucci's Restaurant in Newport (396 21st St., 651.459.3211) plans to do in response to Randy Moss's recent diss of the ... More >>
UPDATE: Randy Moss will play for the Tennesee Titans.Randy Moss may soon be wearing a New York Jets uniformMedia outlets are reporting that Randy Moss was in New Jersey yesterday meeting with the Jets organization.If the rumor bears out, and the New York Jets pick up Randy Moss on the waiver wir ... More >>
Randy Moss is going to TennesseeRandy Moss will take his talents to Tennessee.The Titans put in a waiver claim at No. 22 and no one else higher in the order wanted to pick up the petulent wide receiver, so Moss is headed south.This is welcome news to the Vikings, who would have been on the hook f ... More >>
C.P. obtains rare "transcript" of first Moss interview . . . with himself.
Access Vikings gives you access to people pretending to be Randy Moss's agent.The Star Tribune admitted today that it ran quotes falsely attributed to Randy Moss's agent Joel Segal.Access Vikings reporter Judd Zulgad ran a quote purportedly from Segal saying Moss was "very sad" about being put on ... More >>
"I wouldn't feed this to my [expletive] dog!"Randy Moss may have done a lot--a lot--of assholey things in his football career-- bumping a traffic cop with his car, leaving the field before the end of the game, and pretending to moon Green Bay fans (well, OK, that was just funny)--but Moss's m ... More >>
WikiSounds like Randy Moss misses that Patriots uniform.Randy Moss sounded like a guy with a severe case of buyer's remorse yesterday, after the Patriots handed the Vikings their fifth loss of the season. First he told reporters he was no longer going to answer their questions because the N ... More >>
WikiRandy Moss made it sound like he'd rather be Patriot.This is now officially a disastrous season: NFL.com is reporting that Randy Moss has been waived by the Minnesota Vikings. That bizarre press conference yesterday when he told the Patriots how much he loved them and missed them probab ... More >>
Via yFrogDoh!Michele Bachmann, ever the clever congressional campaigner, wasted no time in finding herself a Vikings No. 84 jersey to honor the return of wide receiver Randy Moss -- and parading around for the cameras. We assume that the 6th District incumbent is burying that jersey deep in ... More >>
BernsteinBooks.comRandy Moss just cost this author a lot of money.In addition to leaving Vikings fans high and dry, Randy Moss's weird antics have just killed a book deal for one of Minnesota's hardest-working sportswriters. Today was a very, very bad day for Ross Bernstein, Minnesota author ... More >>
Moss needs to end his 14-straight game streak below the century mark.
Bachmann goes bananas for MossCrazy congresswoman Michele Bachmann gets offended by Tarryl Clark and begs for cash. But now she's flying the purple and gold for prodigal Viking Randy Moss, who managed to offend just about everyone in Minnesota before he was first traded away to Oakland in 2005. ... More >>
Not a good day to be a gunslinger.Update: Favre dodges questions about the photos. More after the jump. Deadspin said they had the Brett Favre penis pictures, and today they offered evidence, posting images said to have been sent by the gridiron gunslinger to former Jets sideline reporter Je ... More >>
Photo: Wikipedia Randy Moss: He's back.Wide receiver Randy Moss is going to be a Minnesota Viking again. Quarterback Brett Favre will finally get to pair up with a guy he's had his eye on for years. Fans will have to come to terms with a guy not known for being Minnesota Nice. And Sidney R ... More >>
Randy Moss and his mooning ways.Just as the Vikings bring Randy Moss back to town and crown him savior, Wisconsin has to remind us of his mooning ways. Thank you, cheeseheads. Moss and his 2005 moment of infamy at Lambeau Field were part of a campaign ad montage of football players being air ... More >>
Randy Moss gets things screwed on straight.Brett Favre's ready to go deep with Randy Moss, and Vikings fans smell the sweet scent of a resurrected season with the wide receiver's return. We're glad to see Moss back too. And in his honor we've assembled some of his classic YouTube moments.
Randy Moss is back, bitches.With the confirmation this morning that Randy Moss will be rejoining the Vikings, there's one unexpected beneficiary: people selling Randy Moss Vikings jerseys.We conservatively estimate that these items will double in value now that they will have unforeseen future li ... More >>
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