Randy Moss' FIRST Game! (Buccaneers vs. Vikings, 1998)
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"Looking back, Randy Moss was the best player in the game from the first day he arrived. We just didn't want to go overboard at the time incase it did not pan out" - John Madden
And that showed in Madden 99, where they gave Moss a 65 catch rating.
Factual
@@jdb2002 he is on NFL gameday 99 for the PlayStation but I think on there he has a higher rating.
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I was stupid lost the login password. I would appreciate any assistance you can offer me!
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Randy Moss killed us his rookie year. What a Hall of Famer.
Coolest Vikings player ever.
Having both CC and Moss is probably the one of the best WR duos in NFL history.
Has to be 2nd best after Rice and TO. Can't think of any other that's better.
Even CC and Anthony Carter or CC and Jake Reed -- Vikings had *already* had top receiving tandem for several years IMHO (before adding the greatest NFL talent of all time.)
And yet here we are still unscathed by the Super Bowl bug. Sometimes it's tough looking back on my 48 years as a fan and seeing the greatest defense, the greatest receivers, the greatest running back and yet nada. Such is life. Sammy White was my guy as a kid. Man, him and Rashad. It's been fun when it hasn't been soul crushing...
Lynn Swann and John Stallworth.
Monk, Sanders, Clark...."fight on fight on till you have won son's of Washington, RA RA RA!!!"
NOW THAT WAS A RECEIVING CORPS
Those clowns in tx with the star on helmet geographically situated incorrectly had a nasty groups of receivers, also........ Harper and Irving.
Miami had Duper and clayton.
But yes, Carter and Moss.....gotta admit, this redskins/commanders fan would have like to have seen that duo get a ring.
I'm not even a Vikings fan, but seeing that '98 team still feels like a punch to the gut (especially when Anderson MAKES his first field goal of the season)
The moment you realize that both quarterbacks actually won Super Bowls.
Geez..life isn't fair, lol
@E. Love funny how these are 2 of the best defenses of all time
@@guileweaver1574 ikr! 😔😕
@@goddammitnappa1617 well, the Bucs wouldn't get that title until '02/'03, but they had a stacked one in '98/'99 indeed.
E. Love
2000 Ravens had the number one defense in the league
Rod Woodson Cornerback
Ray Lewis Linebacker DPOY/SB35 MVP
Tony Siragusa Defensive Line
Chris McAllister Cornerback
Kim Herring Safety
Peter Boulware Linebacker
Sam Adams Defensive Line
Mike McCray Defensive Line
Adalius Thomas Linebacker
2002 Buccaneers 🏴☠️ had the number one defense in the league
Derrick Brooks DPOY
Dexter Jackson SB37 MVP
John Lynch Safety
Ronde Barber Cornerback
Brian Kelly Cornerback
Warren Sapp Defensive Tackle (99 DPOY)
Simeon Rice DE
"We've got a star on our hands in the NFL, Randy Moss!"
What a disgusting act by randy moss
Not even counting Moss/Carter, this game had a ton of stars. From 1997-2000, RB Robert Smith was an absolute beast. Crazy, this game had Smith, Dunn, Alstott and Neal all in the backfield. Running Randall Cunningham started season as a Backup for Johnson (before leading them to 15-1 record). Tampa's Defense had Derrick Brooks, Lynch, Barber, Sapp. Nickerson. Minn had Robert Griffith, and John Randall the one man Sack Machine. Two SB winning QB's as well in Dilfer/Johnson. Awesome seeing this old footage!
The Vikes had a great backfield with Hoard and Palmer backing up Smith too and their receiver core was deep with Jake Reed and Matthew Hatchette behind Moss and Carter. The O-line was great too, one of the best rosters ever and they failed to win a Super Bowl. The Bucs great roster won a few years later and the only loss in the 15-1 season was to this Bucs team.
Mitch Berger was a great punter when he had the odd chance to show his stuff too!
Covid 1984 and boy could he kick the ball past the endzone. And this was well before they moved the kickoff up.
skooly nugenator right? That’s another way the new rules pussified the game. Most don’t even think about that.
Mike the superstar Morris long snapper is an underrated from those teams too. He had a talk show!
The first TD catch by Moss was on the Madden 2000 intro!
As a Vikings’ fan, no player infuriated me as much as Mike Alstott did in those years. ‘Can’t anybody bring him down!?!?’ No. No they cannot.
Man we should have won that season. Most incredible football team I’ve ever seen and they played their worst game of the year when it counted...still a ton of fond memories.
Robert smith was so underrated as a running back
I thought he was the singer of The Cure.
The NFC Central in the late 90s has two of the best running backs that both ended their careers to early. Dorsey Levens (Green Bay) and Robert Smith. It’s a bummer Smith decided to retire early and Levens had a bad knee tear.
@@tempest20000 Barry Sanders retired prematurely too.
Dion R wow. How did I forget Barry?
And over rated as an analyst and play by play guy
Imagine any of the greats paired with Moss(other than Brady). Montana. Marino. Moon. Sheesh! Records that might never be broken.
Man he underthrew moss so many times lol. Moss was just so great at tracking the ball.
Yeah a lot of air on those balls too. Elway he ain't.
there will never be another randy moss one of a kind player and so cool he moon packer fan in playoff game randy moss have fun all the time throw ball up like rainbow it land in his hand he was the best
Greatest receiver ever
Ur damn right it is best to ever do it 🐐
@@B-Tom He was called THE SCARIEST DEEP THREAT TO ENTER THE NFL SINCE BOB HAYES!!!!!!!!!!
@@dwightlove3704 y’all sound dumb The guy had one route a go route lol not a complete receiver scary yes complete no !!!! Jerry Rice was better !!! Shit I hate Terrell Owens but he’s got just the same if not better numbers than him.
But I can see most of y’all are Minnesota fans so your opinion doesn’t matter cause your bias
@@tonymullin6934 But it was that ONE ROUTE that put the ABSOLUTE FEAR OF GOD into DBs&Defensive Co-Ordinators on Sunday afternoon or Monday Night.I hope your not a fan of GREEN BAY if you are I can see why your critical of the man called by pro scouts the scariest deep threat to enter the NFL since BOB HAYES who also earned a living using the VERY SAME ROUTE in the '60s and nobody in Dallas complained anymore than ppl in Minnesota or New England complained about Moss.
This was back when opponents didn't realize single coverage was like leaving Moss wide open.
2nd TD both safeties were playing deep..not just deep enough😂
playing a single-high safety is leaving him open.
Triple coverage too 😅
You are watching greatness. History at its finest. 2 hall of famers in one game and more!!!
Certified/late nite muzik there are definitely more than 2 hall of gamers in that game my friend
I was gonna make a highlight of this game for my channel, but my footage was pretty bad. Glad to see the cleaner, much better looking version from the official NFL archives! Don't hesitate to revisit the '98 Vikings again soon!
Revisit the choking. As a 49ers fan I certainly don’t know how it feels to choke,
@@jakesmith44 Kyle Williams
Gary Anderson,
Brett Favre in 2009.
4 superbowl losses in the 70s,
Started off 6-0 in 2003 and missed the playoffs.
This was before Randy Moss had a connection with Dante Culpepper in the old Metrodome. A Great Connection
Randle Cunningham came before Culpepper
Sometimes a QB like Marino makes average receivers look like stars. Moss made average QB's look like stars.
And this was versus an elite defense lol. The most talented reciever ever!
I was loving this throwback until I saw Gary Anderson trot out, which reminded me of how this season ended. Ugh. Still a gut punch two decades later.
So true.
Still feel the pain. This team against the Broncos could have been a classic Superbowl.
I wanna see Gary vs morten, now...1v1 winner keeps his leg and the name
I am a Raiders fan and I still feel that Comes team should have been in the Superbowl.
Enough Ripping on Anderson already. Moss and Denny Green and our Average Defense that Failed are bigger reasons as to why the Vikings Lost. Anderson made Over 100 Kicks in a Row!!! He Barely missed by about 8-10 Inches due to our guy Not Blocking Properly and him SLIGHTLY Over Compensating. Give that man a Break already!!! HOF'er If you ask me. Moss Dropped a Touchdown in the endzone and our Coach decided to Kneel!
Mike Alstott was a bulldozer back then💪
This game was when everyone realized Alstot was passed his prime.
Yea and he missed a couple key blocks
Yeah they had Alstott and Dunn in the backfield. Something even crazier, the backup fullback for Tampa Bay was Lorenzo Neal who would go on to have 4 Pro Bowls in his prime. BTW this was deff not when people thought Alstott had passed his prime (IDK if you were joking). It was only his 3rd season out of 11 in the NFL. Also, He arguably had his best year in 1998, and went to 5 straight Pro Bowls during, and after this season. Including two straight 1,000 all purpose yard seasons for a fullback, in 98 and 99 which is insane.
The good old days. Bucs need an offensive line now
"You're in safe hands with alstott"
I wanna see a player wear the single bar helmet like Gary Anderson in today's game
This is that magical era that saw the sunset of the greatest QBs from my childhood ride out in to the sunset...but not before appointing a "Sherif" to keep the peace in the AFC East.
Peyton was the sheriff
in the rain in GB with Randall Cunningham throwing RM TD's on a string. Oct 98
that's when I said HS this guys a beast.
And of course Cris caught 2 TD's as well, all that man did was catch Touchdowns!
Best dollar the Vikings ever spent was on Carter.
Guile YES SIR! and the tip toes.
TD's and First Downs... CC was co good!
Moss is the reason I became a Vikings fan. Love from Jamaica 🇯🇲 💪🏾
Miss Jerry Glanville calling games cause his commentary would always crack me up 😂
Glanville was kind of a jerk, but yer right, he could crack a good line.
I still love watching #47 bring the hammer. Man could Lynch blow up a play!
Jerry Glanville was such a goofy announcer but I think the NFL could use a little of that silliness these days. Too many color guys take it way too serious. Anywho, Randy Moss burst onto the scene like a bullet!
The greatest thing he did that immediately comes to mind is he called this QB "Mississippi" the entire time he played on the Falcons. I wonder what happened to this "Mississippi"?
“Throw it up above their head... they can’t jump with me golly!”
Best player on the field in your very first game -- that is really saying something
Great video. And an added bonus was to see Korey Stringer so many times. He was an amazing young man....
Randy Moss
1998/1999 Rookie Of The Year 🏆
17 reception touchdowns
(Rookie season record)
3:45 this touchdown marked the birth of one of the top 3 best WR’s of all time.
The Bucs had BOTH Mike Allstott and Lorenzo Neal in 1998, blocking for Warrick Dunn! That and their great D is why they could afford to have Dilfer as QB
They missed the playoffs this season
Dilfer has as many rings than any other QB from both teams combined.
Warrick Dunn looked like a third-down back, and he could catch. He ran outside like a tailback, and inside like a 225 lb. power back. I don't think he gets enough credit.
When you realize both Dilfer and Johnson together have more rings than Brees, Fouts, Rivers, Marino, Moon and Kelly combined
Yeah but they were carried by 2 #1 defense Dilfer carried by the 2000 Ravens and Johnson the 2002 Tampa Bay Bucs they were mediocre QB that needed a defense to make em look like good Superbowl QB while Dilfer is still the worst starting QB in Superbowl History while Johnson had a decent Superbowl game still it showed once Dilfer was Cut and went to Cleveland, Seattle and 49ers and never won a starting job goes to show his mediocrity while Johnson went to Vikings again and Cowboys and finish his career 3-24 after the Bucs release him
Chris Santiago that was the point......
@@user-co1gi7yd2r that doesn't change the fact that the NFL is a quarterback driven league. Even when Dilfer and Johnson won, it was a quarterback driven league.
Brees won the super bowl wtf you smoking on?
@@thenewjord50 Well, Brees did win with Bountygate, if that means anything.
I love how he jumps into the crowd after that first TD. He's telling all them "I got this for a few years, yall..no worries."
I love the NFL
Me too
I used to
@Hector Rodriguez the energy in Tennessee this year was much needed. I personally enjoyed it
I always wanted to see the full highlights of this game thx NFL throwback
No problem!
Brad Johnson tearin' up his future Superbowl winning team like a boss.
And shoutouts to 3:40 , the genesis of the phrase "You Got Mossed".
it utterly amazes me how Minnesota didn't (at bare minimum) make one Super Bowl APPEARANCE with those offensive skill players. utterly amazing.
Do first games for tb12 ( from his unofficial debut on the thanksgiving game against the lions in 2000, the 2001 jets game where bledsoe hit started his legacy or his full starting gaming the week after the jets game), obj, adrian peterson, ray lewis, eli manning, rob gronk, kurt warner, nick foles, shannon sharpe, tony gonzales, emmett smith, bo jackson, barry sanders, von miller, jerry rice, drew brees, larry fitzgerald, terrell owens, chad ochocinco johnson, big ben, LT(ladamian tomlinson), steve smith, joe montana, dan marino, warren moon, john elway, joe flacco, sean taylor and lawrence taylor the original LT
NFL Throwback could you guys post Calvin Johnson’s first game? (2007 Lions @ Raiders)
What bout Randy Moss Thanksgiving game against the Cowboys 👌
They already have the full game
I miss those uniforms. I have one. I love the yellow trimmings outside the numbers. And that purple. Unforgettable season.
"You need one yard I'll getcha three. You need five yards I'll getcha three." - Leroy Hoard
I remember watching the Vikings draft Moss, they already had two monster WRs....
Carter and a forgotten player Jake Reed
@@ericsigersmith2831 Reed's BBC was heated
Im sitting here watching the game - oooh'ing & awww'ing- like i dont know the outcome.. That tipped Moss TD always gets me, i see it so much, its on nearly EVERY highlight montage on espn or nfl network. We got our revenge, but still.
Still my favorite of all time straight fuckin beast
"There are gonna be nighmares from corners in the league "..no truer words have been said
Many current NFL fans in this generation forget or don't realize just how powerful and untackable Mike Alstott really was. When in takes almost half of an opposing defense's Front 7 to bring him down sometimes even on short yardage plays, that's a sign of a very powerful player. It was like grown men trying to tackle or reign in a huge black bull insane with hunger.
John lynch had some Dawkins type hits
Lynch is overrated in my opinion. Why does everyone think he’s so great? He wasn’t the best Saftey in the NFL in the 90s. I’d say both LeRoy Butler and Steve Atwater we’re both better safetys. Butler was a ball hawk and Atwater was a tank and both have better stats than Lynch. Butler had more INTs and Sacks and Atwater had more tackles and Super Bowl rings. I just don’t understand why everyone thinks Lynch is so great.
@@tempest20000 Butler, Atwater, and Carnell Lake were all better. That said Lynch was good, but he's better remembered because he's stayed in the public eye, whereas the others have retired and been pretty quiet since.
James Sullivan true. But that’s why I think they’re better. They don’t pump their own chests and make unnecessary noise. They were true competitors and great men.
Yea...back when you could hit...we are now headed into 2 hand touch now that your body weight cant come down on QBs..miss the old days.
@@tempest20000 😂😂😂all the man said was he had some big hits you must really hate Lynch huh
Came here for Randy! Automatic like
Randy Moss’ career is born
Best WR of all times period…….
I have been to less than a dozen Vikings games in my life. This was my first. That bobbling catch was so close to me. It's branded into my memory like no other play.
Jerry Rice threat-level not even comparable to Moss, not even close, like, not the same zip code, how TF can anyone claim so with the a straight face? Moss zoomed through & soared over secondaries to levels never seen before or after.
Jerry wasnt fast, but he ran insane routes and was almost always open. that's about the same threat level, just not a deep threat
@@rileymcmonigle9614 From an economics perspective, Moss's impact far bigger than Jerry Rice. 1 non-qb player isn't supposed to dictate the defense that much nor is he supposed to be so automatic chunk play/TD if they isolate them. It's like comparing a queen to a knight in chess. The knight is effective but at the end of the day, it sure af isn't the queen.
@@patrickreusch6914 that's very true, honestly havent watched enough of Randy Moss' games to be certain. I seem to remember he had a few bad years before he became a patriot, a decline like Jerry Rice never really experienced.
Rice played hard every Sunday, Moss did not.
@@feddyvonwigglestein3481
If Moss had the same work ethic, people would acknowledge him as a top 3 of all time like they do with Rice.
God I miss that team!
The Bucs gave the Vikings their only loss that year in the regular season when they played in Tampa.
Yep and they just loaded it on this channel
Cool
Miss that era
Alstot, Moss
Great Bucs defense
27-24 in week 9
@@michaelleroy9281 Yes
"Miss this field goal Gary, or your family dies"
only explanation for his miss against Atlanta. Dude was automatic. He would walk away immediately after kicks. I'm still butt hurt about the loss. I remember this was the first year I watched the Vikings. I was 12 years old and just got into football. Best and worst year all at the beginning. Can't even fathom how it wasn't just a blow-out all year. Man. Imagine the cred the Vikings would have, had they won it all.
Those were the days true Minnesota Vikings fan here… from MN
Trent Dilfer: Buccaneers quarterback later wins Super Bowl XXXV with the Ravens
Brad Johnson: Vikings quarterback later wins Super Bowl XXXVII with the Buccaneers
2 Super Bowl winning QBs. lol
Dilfer was less than average at best. He had yet another great defense to carry him..brad would've won atleast 2 rings with TB.
Johnson's first deep throw to Moss down the right sideline...he threw it a full two seconds late. Fact is, after Johnson's shoulder injury, his arm wasn't strong enough to overthrow Moss. Even on the TD pass down the left side, Moss had to stop and wait for the ball to catch up. That's what 4.23 seconds in the 40 looks like. We'll probably never see that combo of speed, size, vertical and talent again at wide receiver. Moss didn't pile up as many yards as some, but he was the ultimate CB's nightmare.
Got him in fantasy this year. Won me the whole season.
I took Carter in rd 1 and Moss in rd 2 later i took Brad Johnson every manager in the league mocked me lol i went undefeated even won on the Vikes bye week lol it was a 2 player hold league as well so i kept Moss and Carter for 2 more years.
Great games back then 8n the Metrodome . Moss, Carter, Reed, Smith, Cunningham. McDaniel, Steussie, Christy, Dixon and Stringer atleat 700 lbs of beef. David Palmer awesome returner, Randle, Ed Mcdaniel, Edwards, Rudd super fast crew. And a hard hard hitter secondary. Great team.
If my Patriot's had drafted Moss & then Brady a few years later,we would have won like 10 SB. GREATEST WR of all time and no disrespect to JR because he had a ridiculous loaded offense. Moss was a star the minute he entered the league PERIOD
9:43 Mike Allstott in the eye with Lorenzo Neal at Fullback...how can you not love that
Talk about full circle as a bucs fan brad Johnson got us over the hump and helped us get our first championship
Best channel on CZcams 👌
Only Jersey I own! The Freak! 😎
Brad Johnson was throwing lots of dots back to back
Moss making an impact IMMEDIATELY. Lol
Retitle this to "Best NFL Wide Receiver In History vs. Buccaneers"
Jerry rice says hello
@Owen Raefield Respect. You have a good point. But Randy Moss was not human, and neither was Jerry
@@905kar5 Rice threat-level not even comparable to Moss, not even close, like, not the same zip code
@Owen Raefield Rice threat-level not even comparable to Moss, not even close, like, not the same zip code
@@nbt2310 mmmk buddy
Watching this both teams were dam good
Wow that was almost an amazing catch by Moss @1:30
It was a catch.
Moss fucking balled in his first game opener..
What is Weird is BOTH QB's in this game would go on to win Super Bowls for different teams just a few years later, Trent Dilfer 2 years later for the 2000 Ravens, and Brad Johnson 5 years later for the 2002 Tampa Bay Bucs. 1998 Minnesota Vikings one of the ALL time great teams fails to win a Super bowl, yet in this game there were 2 SB winning QB's on the same field. SMDH
My gawd! This mans seemed polished his first game in the league!
Good ole' fashion ass kicking.
This was a great game I was there
I miss these day's 😔
Brad Johnson throwing dimes out here!!!!
Greatest to ever do it
Please do Patriots vs ravens 2007, include when the announcers say "Is tonight the night" after the ravens first touchdown
I'm still upset they didn't get to the superbowl!
Im so early this only has 23 views
Great vid this was the glory days of football...now football is only good for fantasy football leagues
11:28-11:32 that’s late hit or unnecessary roughness in today’s league smh, I miss these days
The Dome was absolutely LIT!
I remember running outside after watching the greats and trying too copy everything they did from vick, to college drew brees, Eric crouch, jake the snake, steve mcnair I'm sure all my football junkies do the same! That what lead me here! To the greatest wideout of all-time
Was born in 97 and a huge Bucs fan, why couldn’t I get to experience a good Bucs team...😭
Damn Bucs kicker curse even goes back till 1998 lol
Zyptic Vikings got it worse 🙄 best team in 98 lost on a kick, Two years ago was even worse. Shit happens couple times every decade
At around 10:00 Mike Alstott meets Robert Griffith head on. Funny the roof didn't collapse at the Metrodome haha.
When you realize dilfer abs Lorenzo Neal we’re teammates at Fresno state college
*and
Moss da boss
Imagine being those fans at the 3:53 mark for Moss’ first career TD!!
2 super bowl QBs going at it makes me proud. Lol
I was in my early years of being a Tampa Bay fan, 11 years old and after this game every time tampa would be playing the vikings i would be nervous all week praying tampa wouldn't give up 50+ points and lose by less than 2 tds