Randy Moss made a disparaging, expletive-laced tirade about a buffet spread inside the Minnesota Vikings' locker room last Friday, the man hired by the team to cater the event said.

Gus Tinucci, the proprietor of Tinucci's Restaurant and Catering, told the St. Paul Pioneer Press that Moss reacted furiously to the food he catered at a lunch spread for the team.

Said Tunucci:

"We had the whole buffet set up, and we had a nice spread — chicken, ribs, round of beef with a carving station, the whole deal. (Moss) he comes in, and I'm helping one of the guys and didn't look up, and all of a sudden I heard, 'What the (expletive) is this? I wouldn't feed this (expletive expletive) to my (expletive) dog!' And he's screaming it at the top of his lungs.

"He never even came through the line. He walked up towards it, looked at it, made the big stink and walked away. He didn't eat."

The explosion by Moss, whom the Vikings announced they would waive on Monday, was reported first by Yahoo Sports. An unnamed member of the Vikings told the site about the tirade.

Tinucci told the Pioneer Press that one player confronted Moss about his tirade, and said QB Brett Favre looked furious at his teammate's outburst.

"If (Brett) Favre would have had a ball, he would have beaned him right in the head," Tinucci said. "Favre looked at him like, 'Are you kidding me?' "

A member of the Vikings' staff apologized to Tinucci. "He said, 'Don't worry about it, Gus, he's an (expletive),'" Tinucci told the paper. "He's done this every time we've had food."

The Vikings announced their intention to cut Moss on Monday, less than a month after acquiring him in a trade with the Patriots in exchange for a third-round pick. Moss had lashed out at coach Brad Childress in a bizarre news conference following a 28-18 loss in New England on Sunday.

Tinucci said he expected the Vikings would hire him back for another catering event.

Players, he said, "were coming up and thanking me, and I don't know if that was because of what happened prior, but they did. It was quite an interesting afternoon, to say the least."

-- Sean Leahy