NFL Network's Pelissero recalls ex-Vikings WR calling him 'douchebag'

Why was Simpson upset with him?

"Was not the most productive time of his career," Pelissero said, then delivering joke by saying, "One would argue it was when he had 50 pounds of weed mailed to his house. That was fairly productive."

In 2011, while Simpson played for the Bengals, 2.5 pounds of marijuana was mailed to Simpson's home in Kentucky, according to charges. Authorities also discovered an additional six pounds of marijuana in his home along with "packaging materials, scales and smoking devices," according to ESPN. 

"I had been writing very honestly about how the receiver group was struggling and he decided to take it out on me after the Week 17 Vikings-Packers game where Christian Ponder played the second half with a messed up elbow," Pelissero said, noting that he found out that Simpson called him a "douchebag" on camera in the locker room. 

"Then after practice the next day, he comes up and goes, "Douchebag. You." In front of everyone," Pelissero continued. "Leslie Frazier called me that afternoon to apologize. This is during a playoff week. The next day, has Jerome, brings him over and makes Jerome apologize to me. Leslie is one of the greatest humans of all time. And then they played with Joe Webb and got murdered at Lambeau Field."

"It was just a very uncomfortable, weird type of thing," Pelissero concluded.