{"id":162376,"date":"2018-08-05T07:34:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T14:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilcomprd.wpengine.com\/?p=162376"},"modified":"2023-06-12T14:30:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T21:30:47","slug":"randy-moss-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/randy-moss-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Randy Moss The Basketball Player"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you know me personally then you have probably heard this story a million times but I love telling it.<\/p>\n

When I was a freshman at FSU in 1995, I met a red-shirt freshman football player named Peter Warrick. One day after class, he invites me to play in a pick-up game with his roommate, also a red-shirt freshman. I agreed and ended up showing late to the run at the campus gym. While walking up the stairs to get to the basketball courts at the Leach Center, I hear people screaming like that scene in Blue Chips<\/strong> when Nick Nolte discovers Shaq. It was Peter's 6-4 roommate that had everyone going crazy. And that high-flying roommate was Randy Moss. I left that court thinking two things: I had no business being on it and Moss was the most insane athlete I've ever seen...and this is before I saw him play football.<\/p>\n

Moss' time in Tallahassee was short. After getting busted for marijuana while on probation, FSU Coach\/GOD Bobby Bowden -- who once told SI, Moss was the only player he ever saw who had the same athletic gifts as Deion Sanders -- let him go. Moss returned to his home state of West Virginia and became a star at Marshall University. He then went on to become arguably the greatest wide receiver in NFL history. And on Saturday night, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n