Randy Moss isn’t happy with ESPN for their handling of the Rand University documentary. He opened up to Yahoo about the situation:
“The ’30 for 30′ was full of lies,” he says. “I felt ’30 for 30′ was 70 percent true and 30 percent lies. I told ESPN I didn’t want to do it. They bugged me about it. I told ESPN, ‘You come into my community, where my people live every day, it’s best for you to tell the truth.’ ESPN came in telling lies, OK? I told them not to release it because it was full of lies. Know the truth, get the truth, before letting it out. Well, ESPN flew in during the day, left during the night. People in my community live there. Their children play together, grandchildren. There was a lot of animosity in my community for that ’30 for 30,’ that ESPN caused it, and they didn’t want to do anything about it. All they cared about was ratings and selling something.”
He also talked specifically about the questions about his work ethic:
“The things people said about me, the negative things? I’m second all time on the list. So then what do they think about the guys under me? What about their work ethic?”
He has a good point. Sure he does have a lot of natural gifts, but it takes more than natural gifts to get in the NFL. Like Jalen Rose always says, there are skill and will players. Players that made it to the top because of their skill-route running, catching, speed, and players that made it because of their will- work ethic, heart, character.
Both of those have to be present for an athlete to make it to the level Randy Moss did, but they won’t always be equal.