Randy Moss... the Numbers Game
I've been trying to keep up with the NBA trade deadline (probably my favorite trade deadline... maybe second only to baseball's trade deadline. But in the NBA, you get big names traded for big names. In the NHL [back when there was such a thing] and MLB, you get big names traded for crap). Anyway, ESPN has been going back and forth from basketball to the Randy Moss trade. I've been thinking, about this Randy Moss thing... and this has nothing to do with anything, but check it out: Jerry Porter is number 84; Randy Moss was number 84... what happens to #84 now? Is Randy a bitch about it (which I think he will be)? or does Randy take another number with the Raiders? Does he take #81, Tim Brown's old number (that should be retired with the Raiders but won't ever be), or does he take #80, Jerry Rice's old number (which should be retired by the 49ers, Raiders, and the Seahawks [again] when HE retires). Every other 80 number is already taken. He wore #88 in college, perhaps he pays Doug Jolley to take the number from him. And, for those of you that don't think the number is a big deal, get this: Last year, Eli Manning bought punter Jeff Feagles a vacation for his whole family in exchange for his #10. The jersey number can/is important to a lot of athletes. So don't simply disregard this whole thing as being silly. Well, it is silly... but I'm still interested to see what happens. Porter is full of himself enough to not give up #84... and Moss is full of himself enough to want it. When two huge egos butt heads, it always makes for interesting drama. Or it makes for something that's going to force me to take a nap... right now.