Misty Moss Makes Mark On Mail

Man, oh, man, that's a lot of M's in that headline. I think that's called onomatopoeia.

Anyway, Randy Moss got all choked up Friday when the U.S. Postal Service made him the third West Virginia athlete to be honored with his own envelope.

Jerry West and Mary Lou Retton were the other two. Those three would make an interesting dinner party, wouldn't they?

At the event, the kid-friendly Moss said, "I'm not going to (stop) continuing what I set out to do, and that is to better (things) for people here. Not for my good, but for their good to see that there is happiness, that there are better things out there."

Can he be a dink? Yeah. Has he been at the center of too many sophomoric and petulant acts in his lifetime? Probably (although we'd all probably look that way if our own episodes of petulance and stupidity were newsworthy). But things like this honor - and Moss' humble reaction to it - indicate there's greater depth to him than all the people who want to put him in a neat little box will ever admit.

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While you're at it, you can read how Appalachian natives are embracing their inner hilbilly.