Many fans and media types have either wondered why Rice never won MVP or were surprised to find out he didn't. Of course, it's been 30 years now, but everyone over 40 remembers the year Rice caught 22 touchdown passes in 12 games. Although he was a different kind of player, Rice's ability to score made him Randy Moss-like early in his career. Rice lost out on the award in '87 to Elway, despite the fact that the receiver scored 23 times (he had one TD rushing, for good measure) in the strike-abbreviated campaign. So when Moss broke the record for most touchdown catches in a season with 23 in 2007, he had four extra games in which to accomplish the feat.