Jerry Rice
Jerry Rice (* 13. October 1962 in Starkville , Mississippi ) is a former American American football poker players on the position of wide receiver . He played u. a. for the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders in the National Football League (NFL).
Career
Not only because of his long career (20 seasons) and his 38 league records, he is considered one of the best NFL players of all time.
With 16 seasons he spent most of his career with the San Francisco 49ers , which he in 1985 as the 16th player drafted was. He then played another three years for the Oakland Raiders and one season for the Seattle Seahawks . He moved to the Denver Broncos before the 2005 season , but could not conquer any of the first three wide receiver places in the training camp and then resigned from professional sport.
He played college football at Mississippi Valley State University , where he scored 51 touchdowns and caught an average of ten passes per game in 1984 . The university later named their football stadium after Rice and his then quarterback , Willie Totten , Rice-Totten Stadium .
Rice has scored the most touchdowns in NFL history and holds nearly every major wide receiver record. In his first season he started poorly, but was able to improve and was voted Rookie of the Year . In his second season, he caught passes for the most yards (1,570) in the league and the most touchdowns (15). In his third season he set the new NFL record with 22 touchdown passes caught and that in a season in which only twelve games took place due to a player strike . Randy Moss of the New England Patriots broke that record in the 2007 season with 23 touchdowns.
Along with Hall of Fame quarterbacks Joe Montana and Steve Young , Rice won three Super Bowls . For his performance in Super Bowl XXIII against the Cincinnati Bengals , Rice was named Super Bowl MVP . He was elected to the Pro Bowl 13 times . In 1987 he received the Bert Bell Award , and in 1994 he became a member of the National Football League 75th Anniversary All-Time Team and is a member of the National Football League 1990s All-Decade Team . In order to classify the sporting achievements of Jerry Rice, his training ethic, which is widely acclaimed in the USA, serves. In twenty years of American football, he missed only ten regular season games. The total of 303 games he played is by far the most that an NFL wide receiver has ever played. In a television interview, he commented on his training ethic with the words "twenty years and not a day of vacation". In 2010, Jerry Rice was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame . During the halftime show on September 20, 2010, the number 80 that Rice wore in San Francisco was withdrawn and is no longer awarded by the 49ers.
In recent years he has appeared in various television series, most recently in the series Rules of Engagement , Hawaii Five-O and One Tree Hill .
Private
Jerry Rice grew up in Crawford , Mississippi as one of eight children of a bricklayer . He and his brothers helped their father from a young age by throwing and catching bricks to transport them to the scaffolding. Rice later said that not only did it make him a good passport catcher, but most importantly, it taught him what hard work was.
Web links
- Jerry Rice at NFL.com
- Homepage
- 49ers what was Rice what . ESPN Classic (English)
- Jerry Rice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ NFL.com Rice, Smith highlight seven member class of 2010 (in English). Accessed February 8, 2010.
- ↑ 49ers retire Jerry Rice's number at half. espn.com, September 21, 2010, accessed February 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Jerry Rice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ One Tree Hill - 4:30 AM (Apparently They Were Traveling Abroad). Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rice, Jerry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Starkville , Mississippi , United States |