Randy Gene Moss

Randy Gene Moss, born February 13, 1977, is an ex-American football player. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 years with the Minnesota Vikings, Oakland Raiders, New England Patriots, Tennessee Titans, and the San Francisco 49ers. Alongside Jerry Rice, he is widely considered the greatest wide receiver in history. He holds the NFL single-year touchdown reception record (23 in 2007) and also the first NFL single season touchdown record (17 in 1998). He is also 2nd in the NFL all time regular season touchdown list with 156. Moss is famous for his ability to make contested catches. The term "mossed", which has entered the vocabulary of football, became famous because of this. Following his time in football and broadcasting, he began working as a studio announcer at ESPN for their Sunday NFL Countdown program and Monday Night Countdown. Moss was from Rand, West Virginia native. He was a student at DuPont High School, one of two schools that later amalgamated into Riverside High School, where he excelled in football, basketball, baseball, and track. Randy was also a member of the school's debating club. On the field of football, Moss led the DuPont Panthers to state championships in back-to-back years in 1993 and 1992. Moss was an outstanding wide receiver however, he also played free safety returning kickoffs and punts, and was the team's kicker and punter. He was awarded the Kennedy Award in 1994 as West Virginia's Football Player of Year. Parade magazine named him to their All-American high school football team in the year 1995, and in 2009, he was named one of the 50 best football players in high school.

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