An infamous moment from the annals of NFL Draft history was resurfaced by a powerful voice on social media on Saturday.
ESPN NFL reporter Adam Schefter, apparently unprompted, saw fit to mark the 27-year anniversary of the embarrassing on-air tantrum thrown by a former Indianapolis Colts executive.
During the infamous clip, which aired live on ESPN during the '94 Draft and was captured by reporter Chris Mortensen, then-Colts GM Bill Tobin launches into a tirade about ESPN draft guru Mel Kiper Jr.
Tobin was apparently furious to have been contradicted by Kiper, who thought the Colts should have prioritized drafting quarterback Trent Dilfer ahead of linebacker Trev Alberts.
Tobin, venting his spleen, whines that Kiper has "never ever put on a jock strap" and is no more qualified to opine on football prospects than his next-door neighbor, who he claims is a mail carrier.
"Who in the hell is Mel Kiper, anyway?" Tobin said. "Here's a guy who criticizes everybody, whoever they take. He's got the answers to who you should take and shouldn't take. In my knowledge of him, he's never ever put on a jock strap. He's never been a coach, a scout, an administrator. And all of a sudden, he's an expert.
"He's in our papers two days ago, telling us who we have to take. We don't have to take anybody that Mel Kiper says we have to take. Mel Kiper has no more credentials to do what he's doing than my neighbor -- and my neighbor's a postman who doesn't have season tickets to the NFL."
Schefter captioned his post with a shoutout to his "partner," Mortensen.
The clip in Schefter's tweet showed what appeared on the ESPN broadcast, but in fact Tobin later continued his tirade against Kiper during a press conference with reporters, suggesting Kiper, a Baltimore native, held a grudge against the Colts for relocating to Indy.
While neither Dilfer nor Alberts went on to excellence, per se, Dilfer certainly had the more distinguished career, earning one Pro Bowl nod and winning a Super Bowl as starting quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens in 2000. So, in the basest sense, Kiper "won" the debate.
Alberts, now the athletic director at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, which plays in the Summit League, played only three years in the NFL before retiring.
Tobin is still in the league, keeping a decidedly lower profile these days as a personnel executive with the Cincinnati Bengals.
It's said the internet never forgets. Apparently, ESPN reporters don't either.
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