Jeff Moss is the editor of Detroit Sports Rag and has quite the reputation for stirring up trouble amongst Detroit sports and the media that covers them. Here he is taping his own ejection from a Pistons game earlier this month, for example. But apparently that was far from the only trouble he's found himself in recently. Moss sent some sarcastic tweets to Chrissie Wywrot, editor of the team's official site, one of which asked for a photoshopped picture of Lions owner William Clay Ford, Sr. and site reporter Tim Twentyman in a casket.
Well, it took 11 days, but the team told the police about it. According to the News-Herald:
Eleven days after the tweet was posted, Cory called the police and asked them to come to the training facility.
“The week that the Seahawks and the Broncos are preparing for the Superbowl, they are turning their fans into the police for making tasteless jokes,” Moss said. “Then they made a cruiser come out instead of just driving over there. They asked a city that is under an emergency manager and is short staffed in their police department to send out a cruiser.
“Like it was so urgent that I was on my way to the training facility with a meat cleaver to come after an 89-year-old man.”
Apparently, Moss was offended that the Lions hired Jim Caldwell and wanted to express his feelings thusly via a tweet. For what it's worth, Moss' tweets aren't even offensive compared to the response he wrote on his blog in regards to the police report. From referring to the franchise as a "third-trimester abortion" to calling Wywrot a whore, I'd rate his comments at a 9 on a scale of 1 to Dan Sileo.
The whole thing is ludicrous (which is really saying something for a franchise that employed Matt Millen for so long). That's probably not the worst thing anyone has said about Ford, and for the team to wait 11 days to do anything about it basically proves no one took it seriously until some overly paranoid staff member decided to call the cops and make a statement to a blogger who is a thorn in their side.
I mean, if you want to talk to the cops about crimes involving Photoshop, concern yourselves with before and after pictures of a Kardashian. Much more serious.
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