RANDY MOSS HAS ALWAYS BEEN UNBELIEVABLY AWESOME
Straight cash, homey: Randy Moss, if you’ll recall, pulled off the unique feat of getting kicked out of Florida State. We will always maintain that the only way this can really happen to someone is if they pull out an RPG and shoot a nun in the face in broad daylight in the middle of campus.
This may have happened with Randy Moss. We can’t prove it, but trust us: it’s a matter of scientific fact that this is precisely how it went down, because that’s the only way someone that talented got booted out of Bowden’s 1990s football Camelot. (Warsaw rules, boy!) No matter what actually happened (weed, allegedly) Moss then went to Marshall, where pulled his socks up way, way high so you could watch him waste those foolish enough to try and defend him.
Moss demonstrated the true form he would follow for the remainder of his career: 96 catches, 1820 yards, and 26 TDs on the year, all while being quoted by SI saying that the 1970 Marshall plane crash killing the entire team “was a tragedy, but it really wasn’t nothing big.” Tactful? No. A decent person? Who the fuck knows. Not us. All we know is that he ran a 4.25 at FSU, meaning we’d suspect him of being a 4.45 guy in real life if he hadn’t already demonstrated the ability to blow by 4.4 corners in the NFL.
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#33–Tough to say ‘who was throwing the ball was irrelevant’ when Rice spent almost his entire career catching balls from Joe Montana and Steve Young, unless you mean ‘he played well with either of the two HOF QBs throwing to him’.
Comment by ND1 — January 27, 2008 @ 7:03 pm
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papaloubsu is correct. I have never understood why NFL teams can’t seem to do what Miami did to Moss that day. He caught a long TD on the first or second play of the game, I believe, against about a 5′9” corner. After that, Miami put the corner in bump and run coverage and smacked Moss in the chest/facemask within the five yard limit…hard…on every single play. I don’t believe he caught another ball the rest of the day.
Dude don’t like to get hit. If you “respect his speed,” he’ll kill you. Smack him in the grill every play and he disappears.
Comment by trumpetdaddy — January 23, 2008 @ 11:18 pm
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41 - I agree that Moss is more physically gifted than Rice was. So is Terrell Owens. That doesn’t make either of them more talented. Rice was not a “jump ball” kind of receiver, so if you are basing talent just on that, I would choose Moss too.
There is more to talent as a receiver than being 6′4″ and running fast. Same is true of running backs. Just take a look at Barry Sanders. Lots of RB’s were more physically gifted than him, but few have been more talented.
Rice is to the receiver position what Barry Sanders was to running. He turned nothing plays into long gains. He ran every route perfectly, and his yards after catch were unsurpassed because he could see the field as good as any running back.
#36, you’re dreaming if you think Moss will break Rice’s records. He’s nowhere close. Even the single season TD record he broke, Rice set his in a strike shortened season.
Comment by Brian O'Blivion — January 23, 2008 @ 10:53 am
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PW,
You’re right that he got off to a bad start before the injury, but it is interesting to note that Moss’ worst year in Minnesota coincided with Culpepper’s best.
Comment by Biggus Rickus — January 23, 2008 @ 8:57 am
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Randy Moss reminds me a scarecrow on crack, his nickname on the street during the breakdancing craze would be Crazy Leggs……They didnt call him the Super Freak for nuthin………Just think if he would have played on teams like the Patriots or Green Bay earlier in his career with a really good team around him….he would have sick numbers…No wonder Brett Farve threw a hissy fit this past offseason when they didnt get him…..
Comment by Mr Pelican Pants — January 23, 2008 @ 2:00 am
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The only thing I can think of that is remotely comparable to getting kicked out of FSU would be Dickie Betts getting kicked out of the Allman Brothers for excessive drinking. How big of a lush to you have to be before Gregg Allman thinks you need to cut back?
Comment by Chris — January 23, 2008 @ 1:58 am
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Biggus, I’m calling BS on Culpepper’s bum knee excuse.
I forget which year it was, but the first year after Moss left, the Vikings started off 0-7 with Culpepper, then he blew his knee out. After that, Brad Johnson came in with the same team and reeled off 7 straight wins.
Needless to say, I was overjoyed when the Jags elected not to sign him after he left Miami.
Comment by PW — January 23, 2008 @ 1:11 am
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No doubt, Rice is the greastest ever…But I’d have to say that there no arguing that Moss has greater physical abilities
Comment by haybeav — January 22, 2008 @ 11:57 pm