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COPYRIGHT 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinal
Byline: Ethan Skolnick
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Raider Nation prides itself on roughness, not romance. Yet two weeks after Valentine's Day, it experienced a genuine Hallmark moment. A new relationship had left Randy Moss feeling warm and fuzzy.
``I'm in love right now,'' Moss said upon his March introduction, after the Minnesota Vikings traded him for starting linebacker Napoleon Harris and a first-round pick.
How couldn't he be?
Gene Rayburn never met such a match.
Chuck Woolery never made one.
The renegade receiver playing for the renegade owner.
The avid fisherman becoming Al Davis' latest big fish.
The practitioner of the ``faux moon'' relocating to the dark side of the NFL.
The ultimate deep threat joining a vertically obsessed organization.
The pure-gold talent slipping into Silver and Black.
``I saw him a number of times before he went back out there,'' said fellow Boca Raton, Fla., resident Cris Carter, Moss' former teammate and receiving mentor in Minnesota, and a strong proponent of the play-calling of Raiders coach Norv Turner. ``And he's ready. He's going to have an unbelievable year.''
Moss, who is a Miami Heat season-ticket holder and runs Randy Moss Explosive Speed School in Fort Lauderdale, has had unbelievable years already. He averaged 1,396 yards during his first six seasons before slipping to 767 during an injury-marred 2004. Now, he has his health, plus the strong-armed Kerry Collins at quarterback and the skilled Jerry...
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