Naughty and Nice List

It is the holiday season, again. The Daily Hat Trick, true to the season, has had to find out who is naughty and nice. Without further adieu, here is our 2010 naughty and nice list.

Naughty


Brett Favre - This is low hanging fruit for any sports writer. The man had his alleged attempted dalliances with a woman, 14 years his junior, exposed. As if that were not embarrassing enough, alleged photographs of his manhood circulated the Internet. Brett's appearance on the naughty list does not take into account his punking of his head coach, Brad Childress, whom he helped run out of Minneapolis on a rail. It also does not take into account Favre's annual ritual of stringing along his coaches, teammates, management, and fans during training camp...for the purpose of avoiding training camp!

Radny Moss - Moss has often had jerk-like flare ups during his 13 seasons in the National Football League. But insulting the local caterers of a team meal during his brief stay in Minnesota was an all-time low. This act proceeded his exile from the New England Patriots, a team he declared, in week 1, he would not likely play for in 2011. Ironically, he all but asked for his old position in New England less than a month after being traded to the insane asylum that was the Childress-led Minnesota Vikings. The Patriots may have obliged Moss had he cleared waivers, according to sources cited by ESPN and other major sports outlets. Moss did not clear waivers because he was claimed by the Tennessee Titans. Though, through two games, I have yet to see what the Titans are receiving for the remainder of Moss' 2010 salary, upwards of $6 million. 1\


Ben Roethlisberger - Big Ben decides to yearn for the lessons of his days at Miami of Ohio and take another shot at picking up college chicks. One would think that Roethlisberger learned how to step up his game and use his super-star power to entice women to give into his will. Unfortunately, Roethlisberger was accused of skipping the steps following "A" and taking "Z" from young women in Milledgeville, Georgia, whether the ladies wanted to share their "Z" with Roethlisberger or not. This would be less baffling had Roethlisberger not been accused of behaving similarly just one year prior to the Georgia accusations.

Nice


Mike Vick - Mike Vick destroyed his life by getting busted for dogfighting and made his situation worse by trying to hide the unhide-able from federal investigators and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. He rebuilt his life stronger than before. Vick is the league's highest rated passer and, barring injury, is on pace for an MVP-caliber season.

Donovan McNabb - In spite of Washington Redskins Head Coach Mike Shanahan removing McNabb from a one possession game in the final two minutes to replace him with (you might want to sit down for this one) Rex Grossman, McNabb remained above the fray. He did not throw his coach under the bus in spite of the fact that Mike Shanahan and his son, assistant Kyle Shanahan, could not have deserved such treatment more than they did. He was rewarded less than two weeks later with a lucrative long term contract with up to $40 million in guarantees, reportedly worth between $80-$90 million.

Terrell Owens - No finger pointing...no deflecting...no "look at me" antics. T.O. has assumed an elder leader role on a very bad Cincinnati team. Better late than never....


1) Source: boston.com