Randy Gene Moss

Randy Gene Moss (born February 13th, 1977) is an ex- American football player. He was an American footballer who played 14 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) and was a part of the Minnesota Vikings and Oakland Raiders as well as the New England Patriots and Tennessee Titans. Alongside Jerry Rice, he is widely regarded as being the greatest wide receiver of all time. Moss 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 second on the NFL all-time regular season touchdown receptions list , with 156. Moss was well-known for his ability to secure an elusive catch and the term "mossed" has been incorporated into football's lexicon. After his career in football began, he was hired as a studio announcer at ESPN for the Sunday NFL Countdown program and Monday Night Countdown. Moss was born at Rand, West Virginia. He attended DuPont High School. It was one of two schools that was later amalgamated into Riverside High School. There Moss excelled in football, basketball, baseball track, as well as other sports. Randy was also on the school's debate team. Moss led the DuPont Panthers football team to two consecutive state championships in 1992, 1993. Moss was an outstanding wide receiver, but also played free safety as well as returned punts and kickoffs, and was the team's kicker and punter. In 1994, he was honoured 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 the year 1995. In 2009 they named him as one of the 50 most outstanding high school footballers of all time.