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Damnit there are like two pages of Moss talk and I can't bother to read them all, but as another person who has watched him since being drafted, he is completely misunderstood on the national scale.
Owens and Moss are not the same player and they are not the same personality. Moss has been misquoted and misrepresented so many times in the national light. Owens simply isn't. You could make the same argument for Owens while he was on San Francisco, but since going to the Eagles everything he has done has been documented by ESPN, which includes long uncut interviews.
Remember last spring when ESPN aired a Barry Bonds interview, full and uncut? It showed a different side of Bonds, one that had only been described to us through the talking heads. Once we actually saw him, I know a few people changed their opinions. With TO, when he came out and started talking he just reassured everything that we were being told.
Moss said "I play when I want to play", and it was taken completely out of context. He has said a lot of things, and a lot of them are things that are true for all players, but only he came out and said it. When it came to big games with big opportunities, Moss always came through and never complained.
The worst part of everything is that the deciding moment came when he pretended to moon the Packers fans after sealing a huge victory in the playoffs. Joe Buck is disgusted, Sports Center overplays it, Woody Paige and Jay Mariotti analyze it, the Vikings get pressure, and they have to trade him. The trade may work out for the Vikings, but as a fan who followed him for years and who has real knowledge of whats behind all of these antics, I wish him the best. Besides one or two incidents he was a good guy in Minnesota and I wish him the best in Oakland.
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