@QuantumForce - (a) Adams didn't say anything negative about them (b) I didn't realise Adams needed your approval to proceed (c) you are right, it would be far more amusing to describe then as mincing mattress munchers. Which rather amusingly makes it through the naughty word filter without a hitch.
Remember that he's supposed to like gray, so he's supposed to be a football analyst (anarchist) that loves gray and string cheese. Is it possible for a football team to have gray as one of their primary colors AND be located in a place famous for cheese?