SHIANCOE SENDING MIXED MESSAGES ABOUT MINI-VISANTHE SIGHTING

In an item we mentioned earlier today from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Vikings tight end Visanthe Shiancoe cracked jokes about his junk being broadcast throughout the nation on Sunday after the Vikings’ 20-16 win over the Lions. According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, however, Shiancoe’s agent now says that the player is “embarrassed” by the incident. “He’s embarrassed by all of this,” Tony Agnone told Sean Jensen of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. “He’s sorry it got on TV. When you’re in the locker room, you’re not paying attention to cameras, and you think they’re going to keep them up, above the waist. “He hopes people understand that it wasn’t intentional on his part. His greatest concern are the young fans, that they understand it’s a locker room situation.” Um, as opposed to what? Thinking that he was streaking through the parking lot at Ford Field? In our view, it’s a classic case of the disconnect that exists between a player and his agent. Agent says player is embarrassed because that’s the prudent reaction. But player feels slightly differently about the situation, as evidenced by his decision to ask a female reporter who saw a clip of the incident on YouTube, “How’d it look?” Frankly, we think the whole thing is hilarious, and we could do without the whole “what about the kids?” nonsense, given that Shiancoe has already seen fit to yuck it up, regardless of the message that his remarks might send to the “young fans” who don’t quite understand what he means when he says that he “didn’t just get out of the pool.”