Randy Gene Moss

Randy Gene Moss, born 13 February 1977, is a former American football player. He was a former American footballer who played for 14 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), including with the Minnesota Vikings and Oakland Raiders and the New England Patriots and Tennessee Titans. Along with Jerry Rice, he is generally regarded as the most outstanding wide receiver in history. Moss holds the NFL single year touchdown record (23 in 2007) and the rookie NFL single season touchdown record (17 in 1998). He is as the second highest on the NFL all time regular season touchdown list with 156. Moss was well known for his skills in securing contestable catches, and the term "mossed" has been incorporated into football's lexicon. He began his career as a studio analyst with ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown and Tuesday Night Countdown shows. Moss was an Rand, West Virginia native. He was a student at DuPont High School, one of two schools later amalgamated into Riverside High School, where the student excelled in football basketball and baseball as well as track. Randy was also a part of the school's debating club. Moss was a DuPont Panthers' football player who helped them win back-to-back state championshipsin 1992 and 1993. His most prominent position was wide receiver. But Moss also played safety for free in punted kickoffs, as well as was the team’s punter and kicker. In 1994, he was honored with the Kennedy Award as the West Virginia Football Player of the Year. Parade magazine named him to their All-American high-school football teams in 1995. In 2009 they named him as one of the 50 greatest high-school football players of all-time.