Let’s take a trip down memory lane for a second.

It was October 2010 and I was an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Minnesota. I remember sitting in my dorm room at Sanford Hall when news started to break that superstar receiver Randy Moss had been traded back to the Vikings. I couldn’t believe it.

I idolized Moss as a little kid growing up in the suburbs of Chicago and now I was going to get to witness his return as a college student living in the heart of the Twin Cities. I immediately called my mom and asked her to mail my No. 84 jersey. It arrived in time for me to rock it proudly when the Vikings played the New York Jets on Monday Night Football.

The euphoria lasted less than a month.

As excited as everybody was in the immediate aftermath, Moss quickly wore out his welcome

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