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Straight Moss, homie: highlights

Published Aug. 16, 2013 1:00 a.m. ET

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We welcome Randy Moss to the FOX Sports fold. You can catch him as part of the FOX Football Daily crew. The show debuts on Monday at 6 p.m. ET on FOX Sports 1 (which, you may have heard, went live today).

Over the course of his 14-year career, Moss had a knack for the big play — and big controversy. We’ll just skim the surface a little bit here.

In his first game in 1998, Moss announced his arrival with his first NFL touchdown catch, performing a little juggling act as he crossed the goal line for the Minnesota Vikings against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And is that Jerry Glanville helping make the call?

Then there was the time, when Moss was with the New England Patriots, he was matched up with the New York Jets’ supposed shutdown corner, Darrelle Revis. It was 2010, and Moss was toward the tail end of his career — in fact, this was his next-to-last game with the Patriots — but Moss was still very much a human highlight machine. Yes, Phil Simms, maybe Revis was expecting safety help, but Moss beat him badly and hauled in Tom Brady’s throw with just one hand.

Three years before, Moss and Brady combined for a record-setting season, culminating with Moss’ 23rd touchdown catch of the season, surpassing Jerry Rice’s league mark. It was also Brady’s 50th TD toss of the year, breaking Peyton Manning’s NFL record.

But we can’t leave out the controversy. In 2004, Moss punctuated a TD against the Green Bay Packers by saluting the Lambeau Field fans with a bit of pantomime. It wasn’t exactly Marcel Marceau.

Joe Buck wasn’t such a fan of the move. And, as it turned out, neither was the NFL. That meant a $10,000 fine for Moss, which he brushed off as if it were nothing but a cornerback. You surely remember how he was going to pay it.

As catch phrases go, “Straight cash, homie” is right up there. And that’s why it ended up on a T-shirt.

Well, the NFL can’t fine Moss anymore. And that means you want to be watching FOX Football Daily, because you never know when the next T-shirt-worthy phrase is coming.