Randy Gene Moss

Randy Gene Moss was born February 13, 1977. He is an American footballer. He was an American footballer who played 14 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) which included the Minnesota Vikings and Oakland Raiders and the New England Patriots and Tennessee Titans. Together with Jerry Rice, he is often regarded as the best wide receiver of all time. 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 second on the NFL all time regular season touchdown receptions list , with 156. Moss was famous for his prowess in securing contestable catches, and the term "mossed" has become part of the football's lexicon. His career began as a studio analyst with ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown and Tuesday Night Countdown shows. Moss was a Rand, West Virginia native. He was a student at DuPont High School, one of two schools later consolidated into Riverside High School, where Moss excelled at football, basketball and baseball as well as track. Randy was also a member of the school's debate team. Moss was a DuPont Panthers' football player that led them to back-to-back states championships in 1992 and 1993. His most prominent position was wide receiver. But Moss also played free safety as well as punted kickoffs and was the team's punter as well as kicker. He won the Kennedy Award for West Virginia Football Player of the Year in the year 1994. Parade magazine named him to their annual All-American high school football team in 1995 and in 2009 named him as one of the 50 most influential football players from high school of all time.