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Randy Moss is going home again.
Twelve years after the Minnesota Vikings drafted him with the 21st overall pick in 1998, Moss is back where he started -- with a desperate team hoping he answers their Hail Mary. It's a testament to how well the mercurial wide receiver performed in New England that the same player who was traded for a fourth-round draft pick leaves New England four years later for a third-round pick.
Especially considering Moss is 33 years old. Wide receivers don't age as quickly as running backs, but the list of receivers, like Moss, who rely so much upon their athleticism and dominate after the age of 33 is short.
It's the ultimate gamble for the Minnesota Vikings, a team with preseason Super Bowl aspirations that, at 1-2, can't quite shake the lingering effects of their NFC Championship Game loss to the Saints. Now that the Moss trade is complete, there are only questions: can uniting Brett Favre and the receiver he's openly pined for over the years produce a Super Bowl? Anything less than that and this union will be considered a failure. For fans in Minneapolis who still curse Gary Anderson's missed 1999 field goal each night before they go to bed, the question is simpler: Do Favre and Moss, gunslinger and blazer, have one last run together?
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