ESPN’s Randy Moss Talks ‘Chasing 10’ Fishing Show & More with Rich

Randy Moss called in from a boat. He was somewhere in Minnesota, on the kind of small lake that does not have a name worth sharing on television, hunting smallmouth bass. The interview was, by Rich's count, the show's first ever conducted with a guest sitting on the water.

The boat is the show. Moss has launched Chasing 10, a YouTube fishing series where he travels the country trying to catch a ten-pound bass, with rotating celebrity guests in the second seat.

"If you're not talking about 10-plus, it's really not a really a conversation," Moss explained, framing the threshold the way bass fishermen always have. The show takes its name from that benchmark.

The lineup so far is loaded. The Kelce brothers, Travis and Jason. Two of the league's most prominent pass rushers, one of whom recently signed for $150 million over three years and one of whom Moss called "the best player, not just pass rusher, the best player in all of football, including quarterbacks." Plus Moss's own former Vikings teammates as the inaugural episode group, with the show kicking off under a Rookie of the Year theme that nods to Moss's 1998 season.

The deeper reason for the show is harder. Moss battled cancer over the past year. The boat itself is donated by a Tennessee company called ICON. The plan is to have every guest sign it. At the end of the season, the entire boat goes to auction. The proceeds benefit the Children's Cancer Research Fund out of Minnesota.

"I told my wife and told the man above, hey, when you bless me, give me my health back, Lord, I'm just going to get out here and enjoy myself," Moss said.

Rich, who grew up in Eden Prairie and watched the 1998 Vikings live the way only kids from that state can, used the rest of the segment to fact-check a recently published oral history of Moss's rookie year. The wisdom-teeth story that explained his Combine absence was true. Jerry Jones telling Moss in a pre-draft meeting that he was going to be a Dallas Cowboy, then sending him to Deion Sanders's house instead of running standard processes, was true. The story that Moss avoided getting taped to a goalpost during training-camp hazing by hiding behind a couch in the players' lounge was almost true. He had actually hidden on the ninth floor of the dorm at Minnesota State Mankato. They never found him.

The Cris Carter story about Moss missing the pre-game meal before his NFL debut to play video games, and eating a can of Coke and a box of Hot Tamales when Carter tracked him down, was half true. Moss confirmed the Hot Tamales. He denied the Coke.

He scored two touchdowns that night.

Rich closed by sharing news Moss had not heard yet. Minneapolis officially has the 2028 NFL Draft. Last week of April. Moss did the math out loud.

"It gives me a reason in 2028 to be in the state of Minnesota," he said. "Hopefully the state puts on a great show."

After he signed off, the room reminisced about training-camp hazing rituals from the dorm era. Daunte Culpepper, the cast recalled, took the opposite approach to Moss. When the rookies came for him, Culpepper fought through the entire tape job. Moss simply outsmarted everyone in the building.

Chasing 10 is on YouTube and at chasing10.com. The next guests, Moss promised, are worth tuning in for.