By Mark Craig • Star Tribune
Randy Moss stabs at the fancy desserts he’s ordered while sitting in ESPN’s production trailer just outside Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium earlier this NFL season.
“I’m stuck for words when I look around at my life,” the former Viking says between live shots as ESPN’s infectiously energetic Monday Night Football analyst. “A poor country boy from little Rand, W.Va. Growing up some nights, no electricity, wondering, ‘What am I going to eat?’”
The youngest of three children raised by a single mother, Moss now oozes fame and fortune amid a backdrop of awestruck fans that have been screaming his name since 1998, when his unique combination of size, speed and ball skills began their ascent toward rare NFL greatness and possible first-ballot entry into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday.