Not long ago, I heard for the first time that the two Jim Moras who have each coached two NFL teams have reputations for having hot tempers.
I was surprised, given that they’ve rarely shown such tendencies when folks are watching.
Sure, they’re both colorful, with Jim Mora the elder having several memorable postgame press conferences, including “diddly poo” and “playoffs?” and other assorted amusement.
But here’s something that suggests that, when coaching, Jim Mora Sr. had a very hot temper — and a very foul mouth.
Enjoy, after ushering any children or nuns out of the room.
What is today Florio classic video night?
Hasn’t Coors Light done enough to this guy…
Major Breaking News in the NFL: Coaches use foul language.
Dude, really?
Looks like Florio is on one of those Youtube adventures where something in the “related videos” keeps catching your eye.
we needed to be reminded that jim mora is an ass?
ps: they like to be referred to as Jim E. Mora and Jim L. Mora instead of sr. and jr, respectively.
Relish this guy.
At least he isn’t a dead corpse like we had had jammed down our throats here in Buffalo.
JM senior, please coach our team..
LMAO, I applaud the reporter for staying cool.
That was a classic……The reporter is Ron Swoboda who played for the Mets!!! Playoffs???
People in atl know about moras temper…he did once kick Dave archer, a falcons radio guy, off the team bus after a playoff eliminating loss in Tampa on 06 because archer asked a question about time outs or something…so Jimmy has a rep…at least in atl.
this is a stunning revelation………………….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
You never heard such language?
Wow. And from when he coached the Saints in the 80s.
I guess Queen Victoria’s phony morals are still alive today!
This is how I imagine Tom Cable interacts with people on a regular basis.
did anyone notice that camera mans weasel laugh at the end of the video (around 2:03)?
At last a coach telling a reporter the truth instead of all the drivial b.s.
Who cares…Jim Mora, SR is old news
Hey I remember that! It’s a shame that there is no video to be found of the woulda, coulda, shouda tirade too.
I would call any game that has no playoff implications useless lol
Jim Mora, master of soundbytes. Stay Classy, Jim.
That’s hilarious!!
yea that’s what I was wondering Kige
A little trivia for ya- Ron Swaboda (METS) is the reporter.
classic stuff!
You have got some big ones Florio my friend. I bet NBC loves seeing this stuff on your site! Thats good stuff!
“Very foul mouth”? I’ve heard way worse than that. Hell I say worse than that on a daily basis. I think what Mora needed was more use of the word ‘useless’.
Holy Heart Attack! That was some good stuff!
Sorry if this is old hat, just discovered this rag last year. Does anyone know if Florio still has a law license? He sounds like one of the Nancy (Ironpants) Pelosi’s PR people.
That’s going to make a great Coors Light commercial.
I’d like to see THOSE clips edited into a Miller Lite commercial!
hahaha! Classic. Another one on the board for Mora.
Daddy Mora being an a-hole is not shocking. He got his dander up plenty in little debates with Marshall Faulk and the crew of NFLN. Not shocking at all to see him tripping like that. Entertaining as hell. Just not shocking.
His kid also has a healthy streak of douchebag in him. One time that comes to mind is when he, as the HEAD COACH, incessantly hammered the kicker for going 4 for 6 on field goals. Real classy those Moras.
Pretty funny stuff….
Daddy Mora being an a-hole is not shocking. He got his dander up plenty in little debates with Marshall Faulk and the crew of NFLN. Not shocking at all to see him tripping like that. Entertaining as hell. Just not shocking.
His kid also has a healthy streak of douchebag in him. One time that comes to mind is when he, as the HEAD COACH, incessantly hammered the kicker for going 4 for 6 on field goals. Real classy those Moras.
what’s the point of posting this….?
That’s not JUST a reporter. It’s Ron Swoboda.
Mora hated him. He refused to do the Jim Mora Show on WVUE in New Orleans until Ron was removed as host.
i do not blame him one bit….my kid fell of a bicycle a year ago and it was a local news guy that happend to bump him as he was falling. driving his car the guy had no way of avoiding it. i was standing 20 feet away…..half hour later every snot nosed reporter from our local rag and tv stations showed up expecting me to rip the guy apart. funny how they showed none of my video on tv….assholes.
I lived in Indy during his Indy coaching career. He had a reputation there for being a real, real turd of a person off-camera towards others, much different from his ‘diddly poo’, ‘PLAYOFFS?!?!?’ persona.
And at the end, it wasn’t a big surprise no one except Manning defended him because he had treated SO many people there poorly. Even Manning’s defense of him at the end was lukewarm at best.
I bet you Peyton misses him.
How can you not love a guy with stones like that?!?!?
He needs to get back in the NFL now. We need a coach that’s actually interesting in the league
Hysterically funny.
But imagine being married to someone who goes off like that over one word.
Top notch reporting, Florio.
Justice………Mora……….Justice
That was Fuc&ing Hilarious!!!!!
Instant Classic!
Have to tell you Mike, being a fan of the Bill Parcells, Bill Belichick School of handling Moronic Interviewers, I have absolutely no problem with Mora going bat$hit on this reporter.
The reporter insulted Mora’s team by referring to a “useless” game, which he never should have done, and I’m sorry, but an insult in the form of a stupid question deserves exactly what Mora gave him.
More coaches should confront stupid reporters like this, and sports reporters wouldn’t do such a crappy job.
Does anybody recall Parcells in his Patriot years berating a reporter for the Pawtucket (RI) Times at a post game press conference by saying “tha’s a DUMB question!” ? Does anyone dount that if parcells was off camera he would have mixed in the same F-bomb that Mora did?
Don’t ask a stupid, insulting, inciting question and you won’t get a tirade like this fat-a$$ reporter got.
I would take that over Lovie Smith’s dumb stare any day !
I love that guy.
I wonder if anyone ever taped Polian and Mora together !!!
To be in the same room or even the building during an argument had to be classic.!!!
That reporter had a huge ass
I do not blame him at all.
Fricken reporters are far too often trying to antagonize the fans, and the team, with their subtle little digs.
There is a big difference between calling it a “Use-Less” game and a game that has “No Playoff Implications.”
Thank God Florio Is An Attorney… Has been in front of a court…. And Understands It Is Not What You Say… “But How You Say It.”
Can you imagine how trashy this site would be if Florio was a regular reporter?
Hardly anything out of the ordinary on the football field at any level above high school football. You should hear Mangenious when he gets upset. LOL
God I love him.
Playoffs?! Did someone say playoffs?!
That was awesome….! I wish more coaches would say what their really thinking, like Mora did here than the PC crap we get day in, day out.
Love to see an R-rated Coors commercial using those sound bites, that’d be great.. hahaha
Fans: How do you tell if your Coors light is cold?
Mora: Thats a Fu***** stupid question
Fan: Is it because the mountains turn blue?
Mora: Thats a Fu***** stupid question.
I think that guy caught in the crossfire was… BUDDY D!!!
I have had well over 200+ press conferences. In my experience, reporters are almost always trying to create a news story and twist the facts to satisfy their needs.
Go Jim !!!!!
Mora is a character, and a welcome respite from the cookie-cutter coaches who talk a lot and say absolutely nothing.
Yes, coaches curse. If the video was of a Sunday school teacher like Jim Zorn, it would be a bit more shocking.
Mora Sr. was, for the most part, a successful NFL coach. See if you can dig up the video of former Chargers (and current Oregon State) head coach Mike Riley on the sidelines during one of his many losses. His cries of “gosh darn,” “dangit,” “shoot,” “shucks,” and “what the heck?” weren’t terribly inspiring.
The NFL needs more characters like Mora, Gruden, Marv Levy, and Jerry Glanville. With the bunch of duds we have right now, I’d even settle for a Dick Vermeil crying fit.
what’s the story behind the game that set off the diddly poo comments, I love that one
Um, Florio, how is any of that surprising?
As a New Orleanian and Saint fan, Ron Swoboda was not timely appreciated for calling Mora out early on in his tenure as Head Coach in New Orleans…
Mora got way too much credit in New Orleans; Jim Finks and Mora’s coaching staff made the turnaround to respectibility in the Big Easy and deserved the credit…
Look at those awesome personnel moves by Mora after Jim Finks passed away…
Former Saint quarterback Bobby “Wounded-Duck” Hebert in a radio broadcast of his show corrected callers about laying too much criticism at former offensive coordinator Karl Smith’s feet and explaining it was Jim Mora that didn’t trust his offense to win a game…
Swoboda was making this point twenty years ago and became such a pain in the @$$ for Mora that he got shoved out of the New Orleans Sporting Media…
Jim Mora is almost as bad for wasting the prime years of Rickey Jackson, Sam Mills, Pat Swilling et al as former owner John Mecom was in wasting Archie Manning’s career…
Jim Mora’s greatest accomplishment in the NFL was the nepotism he practice in getting his idiot son employment when he never paid his dues as other NFL coaches have…
Jim Mora(s) your both fargin idiots…
1:25-1:30 is my favorite part.
So why drag this out now? Sorry but reporters can be over bearing asses and I don’t blame a coach for going off now and than. His job is very stressful and he has people who couldn’t do what he does in a thousand years questioning every move.
Sorry but this is very TMZ like.
I love Mora, more coaches need to rip the media for the asinine questions and angles they try to come up with from time to time. Actually, like every day.
I’d pay money to see someone rip Ed Werder or Sal P from ESPN a new one like that on camera.
Florider says:
January 18, 2010 10:41 PM
Hysterically funny.
But imagine being married to someone who goes off like that over one word.
Just hope to hell you don’t say the F-ing word of the day.
I wasn’t going to mention the fat ass, but since others noticed…How in the blue hell can a former athelete get an ass that big. Oh, wait, he was just a baseball player!
Why is Mora yelling at Jared from Subway? All he cares about is the 5 dollar footlong.
I “tink” Jim Mora was in the Army or Marines & most all guys like that have the potty mouths. It’s expected even. That generation of individuals born during the Great Depression/WWII era also have vices of the glug glug (alcoholism) and puff puff (tobacco smoking) and stroke stroke (infidelity) kind. It was a different time. A different time.
Not much different than today.
Damn. He even cussed Fed Berry out.
That was awesome. As “out of line” as it may be to some, I like the fact he got into the guys face to kind of defend the teams honor. We need may more Moras and Ryans in the league and less Brad Childresses and Eric Manginis, at least as personalities go.
Truth in advertising? I was expecting something… a little more current…
You know…. NEWSworthy.
hope this inspires the PFT televsion network to do some interveiws at the Pro Bowl
What do u expect from a former Marine?
Hilarious!! I love it. Playoffs, Playoffs? You Want to talk playoffs?!
Not a problem, the Saints were so bad back then anybody would cuss at reporters. Ditka got upset, Reeves did, Parcells did.
No big deal – its a sign, THEY CARE.
Yeah, Mora was the best. I still cant believe the dude couldnt win even with Manning, and Edge and Marvin Harrison.?!
I dont think it should be a surprise at all that Jim Mora Sr. has a bad temper Florio.
Slow News Day……
Yeah….like most of you behave any better than Mora. The constant idiotic and nasty posts I read on this board are proof that you don’t. This place is really beneath me.
Roboto has spoken. If you don’t like it, tough luck!
Love hearing the camera guy snickering to himself right before shutting the camera off.
I think Mora had every right to go off on the moron reporter. He’s sticking up for his team, his league and the game itself!!
Florio needs to grow some balls.
To be perfectly honest I like coaches like Mora instead of the endless parade of politically correct, stoic, Spockian head coaches we have today.
That’s some very good stuff, Mora Sr has some of the best soundsbytes!
Reporter: “I’m asking YOU who’s on first.”
Jim: ‘That’s the man’s name!’
Reporter: “Who’s name?”
Jim: ‘Yes!!’
Reporter: “Well go ahead and tell me.”
Jim: ‘That’s it @#$%&?!!!’
Reporter: “That’s who?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW6llgMkwpA
wtf did you stumble upon this during hours of youtube fun?