Randy Moss has played 14 seasons in the NFL, but he's never had a quarterback throw the ball so hard that it dislocates his finger. During the San Francisco 49ers Monday night game against the Chicago Bears, signal caller Colin Kaepernick, who made his first NFL start that night, threw a pass that popped Moss's finger out of place. "Man, he dislocated my finger," Moss said to Matt Maiocco of CSNBayArea.com on Wednesday. "Really, the play was designed for the ball to be thrown in the first hole," Moss said of the pass that he could only deflect. "And I think I got to the second hole -- or we call them windows as a wide receiver -- and when he found me in the second hole it was kind of too late to throw it, but he threw it anyway. So he had to put one them Randy Johnson fastballs on me. When it hit my finger, I felt my finger pop -- dislocated it. So I had to come back to the sideline and the doctor had to pop it back in." Moss said his finger ...
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