Is new Titan Randy Moss the biggest sports star ever picked up by a Nashville team?

Moss has not won a Championship yet, unfortunately.

If he chooses not to report to the Titans, does it still qualify? Or would that be more like the Preds taking Mike Richter in the expansion draft?

Popularity:

• In the USA, Moss is a bigger name now than Forsberg was at the time.
• If you’re talking world wide though, Foppa was a much more widely known figure when he joined the Preds than Moss is now

If you’re asking which is/was the better player – that’s a tougher and much more subjective question. My vote would probably go to Moss, but they are very close. Both are well past their primes in the time period under consideration, though both can still contribute.

Forsberg wins the “biggest-star-acquired-by-a-pro-Nashville-team” contest by default because of what he was able to do when he was here. Moss hasn’t even dressed for a practice yet.

The Preds went for broke that year, and then Leipold dismantled the team before selling. If the Preds had gone deeper, and the team still had the Johnson family fortune behind it (I don’t really know that Mrs. Leipold or her parents were really involved with financing the team), would Foppa have retired a Pred? Possibly. What sours us on the Foppa trade is that a) we gave up current and future talent to acquire him, b) we were bounced in the first round, only to be followed by c) a nasty and visible fight between the citizens of Nashville, the Predators fan base, Jim Balsillie, Canada, and 29 other hockey cities, and any other number of interests and parties who joined the fray at various times for various purposes. If you take all that away, Forsberg was, at the end of the day, a rental player – a damn good one – who couldn’t carry the team on his back amid a vicious rash of injuries in the playoffs. I don’t fault him for that.

I just don’t think we can really judge Moss until we see what he’s made of…how much gas is left in the tank, what sort of impact he has on the team and the season, the postseason, and whether or not he has anything left to come back next fall. It’s also worth noting that the Titans aren’t really coughing anything up for Moss.

But I can guarantee 1 thing.

Don’t expect to see a Preds article in The Tennessean for the next week.

Too much election coverage.. anyway if Moss does well here, it will be bigger. If he’s a bust, then no. But ego/personality issues aside, he’s got that ability. I’ve dumped the Vikings now, I can’t stand the ineptitude of that coach and the dark cloud that hangs over what will be soon the L.A. Vikings.

Go Titans, Go Moss. But, more importantly – go Preds tonight!

The Titans now face a major challenge – they have to custom make a helmet that’s big enough to accommodate Randy Moss’ head. That having been said it’s a great move by the Titans and Coach Fisher will be able to get the most out of Moss.

Who Cares—-Thats NFL last I looked this was a forum for the Nashville Predators=NHL