Jerry Rice wants to play... https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/t521 Runboard| Jerry Rice wants to play... en-us Fri, 29 Mar 2024 01:27:20 +0000 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 01:27:20 +0000 https://www.runboard.com/ rssfeeds_managingeditor@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds managing editor) rssfeeds_webmaster@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds webmaster) akBBS 60 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4184,from=rss#post4184https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4184,from=rss#post4184Hey Heather, I see Jerry went on to be a dancer  :mhm: nondisclosed_email@example.com (Pooder)Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:15:30 +0000 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4183,from=rss#post4183https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4183,from=rss#post4183Hello Heather.. Jerry Rice just wants to dance :spsps: nondisclosed_email@example.com (Pooder)Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:27:17 +0000 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4182,from=rss#post4182https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4182,from=rss#post4182Yeah... that makes a lot of sense looking at it that way. And like I said, if he is on the Bronco team... Im going to be the biggest Rice fan anyones ever seen.nondisclosed_email@example.com (onleeheather)Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:19:38 +0000 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4181,from=rss#post4181https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4181,from=rss#post4181Rice should sign with the broncos. The broncos have a lot of young players.. if he signs they will have an older more expierienced player. Even though rice will probable only play for one year it will give the Broncos the boost theyve been needing since elways retirement.nondisclosed_email@example.com (PlayLikeDWade3)Thu, 09 Jun 2005 06:50:26 +0000 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4180,from=rss#post4180https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4180,from=rss#post4180Well I dont see it anytime soon ............so get a hold & hang on tight, you can climb on the Steelers bandwagon... It's gonna ba an exicting year!!!!  Got my mail........Thanks Heather!!! :spsps: nondisclosed_email@example.com (Pooder)Tue, 31 May 2005 16:22:13 +0000 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4179,from=rss#post4179https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4179,from=rss#post4179hey they been to the superbowl more than once lol. Check your email.nondisclosed_email@example.com (onleeheather)Tue, 31 May 2005 14:42:37 +0000 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4178,from=rss#post4178https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4178,from=rss#post4178He'll turn that team into winners for once in their history....... :oyoy: Hope you are fine............. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Pooder)Mon, 30 May 2005 00:23:04 +0000 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4177,from=rss#post4177https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4177,from=rss#post4177damn honey, I really didnt want you to place it... to know that they are considering it is bad enough lol, i dont want to read it. but as i said, if they take him, hell go to being one of the best players ever in my eyes lol. but ill let him have yall.nondisclosed_email@example.com (onleeheather)Sun, 29 May 2005 23:49:31 +0000 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4176,from=rss#post4176https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4176,from=rss#post4176Here is your new favorite player........... http://www.denverbroncos.com/page.php?id=498&contentID=4377 Is that good enough????? nondisclosed_email@example.com (Pooder)Sun, 29 May 2005 12:18:40 +0000 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4175,from=rss#post4175https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4175,from=rss#post4175  What????????????? Place the link?????? You dont believe Pooder??????????? WTF???????????????? Ok. I'll get itnondisclosed_email@example.com (Pooder)Sun, 29 May 2005 12:15:43 +0000 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4174,from=rss#post4174https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4174,from=rss#post4174You do know though, if he ends up playing for Denver, that Im going to turn into the BIGGEST RICE fan ever lol.nondisclosed_email@example.com (onleeheather)Sun, 29 May 2005 11:36:46 +0000 Re: I am seriuoshttps://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4173,from=rss#post4173https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4173,from=rss#post4173lol place the link, then Ill buy it. They (Broncos) do that?? Im not going to die, must maybe cry. :bngfn: nondisclosed_email@example.com (onleeheather)Sun, 29 May 2005 11:34:57 +0000 I am seriuoshttps://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4172,from=rss#post4172https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4172,from=rss#post4172Getting their GOAT   After more than a week of discussions, Jerry Rice agreed to a one-year contract with Denver. Some view Rice as the greatest player in NFL history, and he did work under Broncos coach Mike Shanahan when both were with the San Francisco 49ers from 1992-94, but Rice understands he will have to compete for a roster spot. "He knows that at this point in his career he can't fight the politics of age," Rice's agent Jim Steiner said. Rice's 21st season in the NFL will be his last, according to Steiner. Rice, 42, has dozens of NFL records, including career marks in recpetions (1,549), receiving yards (22,895), touchdowns receiving (197) and total touchdowns (207).   Heather? Please dont die........ :lrlr: nondisclosed_email@example.com (Pooder)Sun, 29 May 2005 09:51:48 +0000 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4171,from=rss#post4171https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4171,from=rss#post4171lolnondisclosed_email@example.com (onleeheather)Sun, 29 May 2005 00:43:37 +0000 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4170,from=rss#post4170https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4170,from=rss#post4170I am very serious, I did read that!! :oyoy: nondisclosed_email@example.com (Pooder)Sun, 29 May 2005 00:19:56 +0000 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4169,from=rss#post4169https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4169,from=rss#post4169how serious are ya lol Hi Lynn lol, you gonna be okay?nondisclosed_email@example.com (onleeheather)Sat, 28 May 2005 23:21:25 +0000 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4168,from=rss#post4168https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4168,from=rss#post4168 :dgfasd: nondisclosed_email@example.com (Xiao Lynn)Sat, 28 May 2005 21:34:24 +0000 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4167,from=rss#post4167https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4167,from=rss#post4167I am SERIUOS!!! :nthej: nondisclosed_email@example.com (Pooder)Sat, 28 May 2005 00:12:02 +0000 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4166,from=rss#post4166https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4166,from=rss#post4166Well the Broncos dont want him... so you can have him. Ill even give you flowers for doing it... :spsps: (id die if Denver or Pitt signed him lol)nondisclosed_email@example.com (onleeheather)Fri, 27 May 2005 23:30:17 +0000 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4165,from=rss#post4165https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4165,from=rss#post4165No , I dont think so, I am serious.... Pittsburg dont need him! :reh: nondisclosed_email@example.com (Pooder)Fri, 27 May 2005 23:22:52 +0000 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4164,from=rss#post4164https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4164,from=rss#post4164I heard that Pittsburgh already had him... and Denver thru a HUGE party at Mile High mmhmmmmmnondisclosed_email@example.com (onleeheather)Fri, 27 May 2005 23:10:05 +0000 Re: Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4163,from=rss#post4163https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4163,from=rss#post4163I think Rice is signing with the Broncos this yearnondisclosed_email@example.com (Pooder)Fri, 27 May 2005 22:27:59 +0000 Jerry Rice wants to play...https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4162,from=rss#post4162https://benigmaforums.runboard.com/p4162,from=rss#post4162The following one-page fax sent to the 32 National Football League teams by SFX Football and noted agent Jim Steiner came across my desk the other day: To: All NFL Clubs From: Jim Steiner Subject: The GOAT (Greatest of All-Time), Jerry Rice Jerry would like to make 2005 his last year in the NFL. Any takers?? Please call if you think there might be a fit!'' The fax left me conflicted. On one hand, it seemed like the ultimate hat-in-hand begging job -- the same kind of fax an agent might send to teams to get a look-see for an undrafted free agent from Saginaw Valley State. On the other hand, I'm very much in favor of someone playing as long as he wants and as long as there's a team out there willing to give him a uniform. I don't like it when the media gets into the business of telling a guy he should retire because he's either too old or he's embarrassing himself. Let the player determine when he wants to quit. So I called Steiner last night to get the state of the 42-year-old Rice, and to see if he's had any luck with his fishing expedition-by-fax. "Jerry didn't ask me to do it,'' Steiner said from his home in St. Louis. "I'd never think about doing it, except in this case, where I know Jerry would like to play. I did it to put the clubs on notice that, under the right circumstances, Jerry would like to play this year. I did it to create awareness, for now and in the near future, that he's still thinking about playing. "Emotionally and physically, he wants to play this year. He feels good. It's that time of year to get ready to play and he's working hard. His reservation right now is that he'd have to put on a different uniform, which he is a bit twisted about. But his desire to play may drown that reservation.'' Steiner has had discussions with two teams this offseason. (Three, if you count the fairly ugly pas-de-tout with the 49ers, in which San Francisco basically said it had no interest in Rice as a player or front-office man right now.) Steiner said he has broken off talks with the first, a team that would have allowed Rice to come in and earn the third or fourth receiver's job and catch 40 or 50 balls if everything went right. It didn't feel like the right fit. Steiner said he is early in talks with the other team, which he said wants Rice for his leadership and work-ethic lessons, as well as for whatever he could contribute on the field. He wouldn't name either of the teams. "We'll investigate this other option,'' said Steiner, "and see if there's anything there.'' Last week, Steiner golfed with Rice. He told him: "You're never going to want to retire. You're always going to want to play.'' Rice, Steiner said, just listened. But that's obviously the case. Jerry Rice does not want a soul telling him to leave football. There's an old saying in the NFL when it comes to free agents: It only takes one team. As in if one team offers you a contract, that's enough to get you back in the league. And I'd say it's 50-50 that Rice will find that team, either the one Steiner is talking to right now or another. Then he's going to have to decide if he wants to keep playing. To me, it's a slam-dunk answer: If he gets an offer that isn't a slap in the face, he'll return for his 21st season. I'll say this about Rice: Even though he caught only 25 passes for Seattle last fall (along with five catches with Oakland), he had his highest yards-per-catch average (14.3 yards) since 1995. So his legs haven't fallen off. The three teams I think he'd be a good fit on -- if he could make it out of training camp healthy -- are Atlanta, Baltimore and the New York Giants. He could help steer Mike Vick right, be a good mentor-type for young Ravens wideouts or show Plaxico Burress how to work while giving the Giants the kind of trusty backup receiver they're searching for. I asked Steiner how Rice sees himself as a player right now.   "He thinks if he was 31, he'd be in the league and have a good job,'' Steiner said. "But because he's 42, he feels like, 'Nobody wants me.' It's an age thing.'' nondisclosed_email@example.com (onleeheather)Mon, 16 May 2005 15:18:10 +0000