Diggs’ “Goodbye Minny/Let’s Get It Buffalo” Article further Proof He’s Just the Worst
Joe Johnson
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- Note: You may want to read my open letter to Diggs titled ‘What Exactly Did you have to be Mad About, Diggs?’ before reading this. It might explain the tone (although I doubt many of you sympathize with Diggs, but then again, this is the internet).
You’re a Vikings fan, so you’ve probably come across the news of Stefon Diggs’ article for the Players Tribune. Most other resources focused on his comments about Kirk Cousins, fairly, as there’s a large enough contingent of Vikings fans that think that it’s Cousins’ fault that Diggs forced his way out of Minnesota. That may still be true, despite Diggs’ comments in his article (as we’ll discuss), because it’s pretty safe from the opening stanza of Diggs’ piece that he is essentially doing more of, how did the Vikings put it? Oh yeah…
Diggs being Diggs.
That’s a kind way of saying that this is just more of Diggs being selfish, egotistical and, as this article shows, adding historical (and behavioral) revisionism to his amazing quiver of personality traits and actions.
I really don’t even need to explain what I mean, I’ll just copy and paste how he started this article:
“It’s tough to describe the moment when you find out you just got traded.
When my agent called and said, “You’re going to be a Buffalo Bill,” honestly, it took a second to digest. I know that the NFL is a business first and foremost. But you’re never really ready for that kind of news, you know? Your mind definitely goes in 100 different directions.”
Sure, he followed this up by saying:
“The first thing I felt was pure excitement”
But he then said that excitement was about Buffalo wings (I’m not joking), not the fact that he finally got what he wanted. He got out of Minnesota. So, excuse me if I don’t believe that Diggs was surprised, or as he said “The NFL is a business first and foremost”.
That implies that Diggs was just some commodity that was traded for money, or draft picks. No, Diggs was traded because he gave the Vikings zero other options based on his increasing (in terms of amount and intensity) egotistical nonsense on social media.
He then goes into the game from 2018 in which Josh Allen somehow destroyed the Vikings as a rookie, and how he has “moxie”. Somehow I can’t imagine Diggs using that word seriously.
“I remember being on the sidelines thinking, O.K. … this guy’s got some moxie. He just had a ton of energy and played with so much passion. And anybody who knows me knows that I’m a passionate guy. I wear my heart on my sleeve and I give everything I got every time I step onto the field.
I could tell right away that Josh Allen was the same type of player.”
I’m surprised his actual reaction at the time wasn’t starting his helmet on fire while Instagramming himself doing Aaron Rodgers’ Discount Double Check maneuver. You know, because of all of his moxie?
The rest of the article, which you can read by clicking HERE, is just more of the same.
I said I’d talk about the Cousins stuff, and I will.
Of Cousins, Diggs said:
“Kirk was one of the first guys to text me. He was super appreciative of the time we spent together over the last couple of years, and he was just as encouraging, wishing me the best of luck in Buffalo. And it’s like … what do I even say about Kirk? This is a man who has invited me into his home. Introduced me to his family. Put in the extra hours with us. He’s a guy who, through all the ups and downs over the last couple of years, I’ve developed a tremendous amount of appreciation and respect for. I’m definitely going to miss playing with and learning from him.”
Sure.
How can you trust a guy who somehow tried to paint the trade he wanted and forced as the NFL being a soulless business? I know those that think this trade was somehow Cousins’ fault won’t take Diggs’ words at face value, and they shouldn’t, but not for the right reason (again, the reason is that Diggs wanted to be THE guy. Cousins “only” gave Diggs 102 grabs in 2018, and < 1,100 yards in 2019).
He then said three whole lines about Thielen. Even less about Kyle Rudolph and that was it. Nothing about people on defense, nothing about the people that drafted or coached him, or paid him a deal that would’ve netted him $14.5million a year over the next THREE seasons despite his, you know, inability to even make the pointless Pro Bowl.
He then talked about the SKOL chant (it’s like he Googled “What do Vikings fans care about the most + how to exploit human emotion + save face + Antonio Brown social media company”). Yawn. Turkey drives in the community, oh wow, it’s amazing he had time to work in his CHARITY WORK here (as to make anything else he does above criticism). Again, these are the attempted manipulations of a teen who just maxed out her parents’ credit card at Hot Topic (“BUT MOOOOM, I HELPED YOU AT THANKSGIVING!”).
Also, seriously. I just realized also how he must’ve used the same Google search for Buffalo! We in Minnesota like our SKOL chants just like they like WINGS in Buffalo! It’s so surface level that it just screams that Diggs is unable to think about anything, anyone or anywhere that doesn’t directly involve him receiving praise.
So, it’s no surprise that before moving onto the great people of Buffalo he finished by saying the most asinine and infuriating thing I’ve heard from a Viking perhaps ever:
“People in Minnesota will always remember me for the Minneapolis Miracle. And I’m proud of that. I mean, to be at the center of one of the most iconic plays for a franchise with a history as rich as the Vikings’? I wear that as a badge of honor. And no matter what, Minnesota, we’ll always have that. My only regret is that we didn’t finish the job.”
Whose fault is that? You could’ve stayed, earned your > $40 million, and tried to help us get there?
He is literally doing this not even to improve his image in Minnesota or to thank the fans, but rather to try to paint himself as some good guy who isn’t a risk for potential sponsors. That’s it. It’s obvious and it’s gross. I am so glad that he is gone because he is the worst type of professional athletes and I mean that.
This article… It’s just him hiding behind platitudes and surface-level knowledge of the cities/states that have paid him to feign appreciation and attempt to wash his hands of the nightmare he created and left in the city he claims to love so much.
Barf.
The NFL is a business and it has treated its players poorly, but the Vikings aren’t the NFL. They’re a good organization that did everything RIGHT by Diggs, and he wasn’t happy because he didn’t think he was famous enough nationally. What did Diggs do? Did he start a charity like the players he mentioned above? And these are by no means the limits of what they’ve done.
The Thielen Foundation?
Kyle Rudolph’s work in the community?
Oh, wait. He gave away 750 turkeys. Literally. But that’s not all! He did it three years in a row. So, step aside Bill Gates. Diggs can add his Nobel Peace Prize to his mantle where his Pro Bowl MVP trophy was supposed to go.
He doesn’t NEED to start a charity. But he can’t act like he was some pillar of the community as he leaves as fast as possible. And, it’s just too perfect that the biggest actual contribution that he did give was THROUGH Kyle Rudolph’s End Zone program.
I look forward to a similar letter in a season, two tops, in which he thanks Buffalo for all their great wings and discusses his fond memories of putting a handful of change in the Ronald McDonald House slot in their McDonald’s drive thrus.
Let’s get it, indeed. Go get it. Man. Go far, far away, enjoy Allen’s moxie until you find something else to get mad about, bounce around the league after that and then return to Minnesota to start a “Minnesota Miracle” car dealership. By then hopefully, people will have forgiven you for how you treated the team and its fans. Outside of the 750 families that got turkeys you didn’t even pay for.
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