Randy Moss attends cancer survivors graduation

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Randy Mo s spent the first seven seasons of his Canton-bound career as a generational wide receiver for the .The all-time Viking great also hasn’t forgotten about all of the friendships he forged along the way. One special relationship was with Ka si Spier, a girl Mo s met as a rookie in 1998 at a training camp autograph se sion. The toddler yelled “Randy” and instantly had his heart. She was 2 years old at the time. The two have remained close . Spier has overcome such hardships as battling through her 2000 diagnosis of leukemia, losing her father to a car accident in 2004 and being diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2013. Mo s made a promise long ago to attend Spier’s high school graduation, and on Friday night, he did just that by Spier her diploma during the Pelican Rapids High School’s graduation ceremony in Minnesota.The gesture, however, shouldn’t come as a surprise. Mo s’ relationship with Spier is special and personal, and one that the wide receiver never liked to talk about even though he had a picture of the girl in his locker, a 2004 ESPN The Magazine story . A 2003 A sociated Pre snotes Spier followed Mo s to lunch nearly every day during training camp that summer, with “her tiny hand tucked inside his.””I know how she feels about me, and she knows how I feel about her,” Mo s said in the ESPN story more than a decade ago. “Our relationship is not important to anybody but us.””Randy loves that girl to death,” quarterback Daunte Culpepper , per the St. Paul Pioneer Pre s. “They have that connection, and I think it’s beautiful.”Mike Tice, Mo s’ head coach from 2002 to 2004, : “Randy wants everyone to think he’s a tough guy, but his relationship with this little girl is really something. It’s typical of Randy. He’s great with kids. He Georgii Merkulov Jersey doesn’t trust authority. And he doesn’t trust adults because he thinks they all want something from him. And you know what? He’s not far off.”Tice’s a se sment holds true in hindsight.On Saturday, Mo s to raise more than $20,000 for former teammate Tyrone Carter’s football camp. The funds would be enough to send about 84 kids to Carter’s camp on scholarship. “I remember her,” Carter said of Spier, per The Star Tribune. “She always came to training camp. Randy just loved those kids. That’s what people don’t understand about him.”In addition to his TV duties as a football analyst, at Victory Christian Center School, a small private school in Charlotte that his son, Thaddeus, now attends.For the transcendent player who dealt with his fair share of off-field i sues, Mo s’ gesture Friday night can bebestdescribed in three words: Straight cla s, homey.Follow Manouk Akopyan on Twitter __.

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