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A Brief Glimpse of the Randy Moss We Don’t Know

June 9, 2015   ·     ·   Jump to comments

We judge people on moments. Sometimes less. Snippets. A tweet. In sports, full conclusions come from three packaged seconds on SportsCenter or maybe one comment. That's how we got to know Randy Moss.
Superstar, self-absorbed, cocky, mooner-of-crowds, disrupter of team chemistry.
We got to know him so well. We got to know everything we needed to know.   
But then two weeks ago, he did something that didn't compute with the conclusions already formed. You might have seen the story: He fulfilled a promise from years ago, showing up at a girl's high school graduation in Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, to give her her diploma. It turned out he had befriended her when she was two years old and yelling out his name. He noticed. And he stuck by her for 17 years, through her serious health issues and the family tragedy when her dad died.
So what does this tell us?
Was Moss really just a great guy all along? Well, he's probably a great guy in some ways. Probably not...

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