It was the first day of Vikings training camp in 1998, and Robert Smith, the team's veteran running back, was on the phone talking to his agent during lunch. Coming off a breakout season, you'd think the topic of conversation was Smith's contract or his health or how the opening workout went. But no. The agent wanted to know what everyone else wanted to know about the Vikings that year.
"Well," Smith recalls him asking, "what do you think of this Moss kid?'"
Smith's answer was simple. "I don't know about him off the field," he told him.