Should Jerry Rice retire?
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I would be very upset if he did!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am a huge Broncos fan, we cut 19 guys on sat to fit the roster....and jerry fell behind into 5th spot.
We let Quentin Griffith, Sykes, and a couple other i am sure we would not have cut if we had room.
But i am pretty sure Shanahan talk to him before the cuts and he wont retire untill the end of the year, i like him on are team he is a great threat evertime he is out there, he may have lost a step or 2 but he is still ahead of some guys in the NFL.
I am a huge Broncos fan, we cut 19 guys on sat to fit the roster....and jerry fell behind into 5th spot.
We let Quentin Griffith, Sykes, and a couple other i am sure we would not have cut if we had room.
But i am pretty sure Shanahan talk to him before the cuts and he wont retire untill the end of the year, i like him on are team he is a great threat evertime he is out there, he may have lost a step or 2 but he is still ahead of some guys in the NFL.
jerry rice
I to am a 49ers fan and I believe its time to go as sad as that sounds to me. I would like to see him sign a 1 day contract with san fran and retire where he made his great legacy. Its gonna be weird having a football season without hearing the name jerry rice anymore.
I to am a 49ers fan and I believe its time to go as sad as that sounds to me. I would like to see him sign a 1 day contract with san fran and retire where he made his great legacy. Its gonna be weird having a football season without hearing the name jerry rice anymore.
Why not? Didn't Tim Brown just retire? Jerry Rice will not go away. He played against Steve Largent, Al Toon, and Art Monk. That's how old he is.
I thought that it was time to retire 3 years ago... but I would love to see him have a great season
For the love of God...
YES!
When SF cut him lose, it was because they thought he was done. I was very glad to see him come back with the Radiers and put together an excellent season (83 catches, 1139 yards). And when he proved it was no fluke the next season with 92 catches and 1200+ yards, that was the icing on the cake. He had shown SF that he wasn't washed up. He had been back to the Super Bowl (something SF hasn't done and isn't close). He had put his records even further out of reach. Why still play?
So - if the answer to that question was "To prove I still got it", the next season should have been his last. 63 catches and 869 yards. Pretty much what he was doing in SF before they let him go. He hadn't yet embarassed himself, but clearly he wasn't the same player or evn close. Why force Oakland to cut you?
Look, if the Seattle Seahawks.... a team that need WR help desperately.... doesn't think they need you...isn't THAT a clear message?
Jerry should have retired at the end of 2003. Instead of going out on top with the knowledge he had proved SF wrong, he instead will be remembered along side Muhummad Ali as the greatest of all time in his sport - who tarnished that legacy by not letting go.
YES!
When SF cut him lose, it was because they thought he was done. I was very glad to see him come back with the Radiers and put together an excellent season (83 catches, 1139 yards). And when he proved it was no fluke the next season with 92 catches and 1200+ yards, that was the icing on the cake. He had shown SF that he wasn't washed up. He had been back to the Super Bowl (something SF hasn't done and isn't close). He had put his records even further out of reach. Why still play?
So - if the answer to that question was "To prove I still got it", the next season should have been his last. 63 catches and 869 yards. Pretty much what he was doing in SF before they let him go. He hadn't yet embarassed himself, but clearly he wasn't the same player or evn close. Why force Oakland to cut you?
Look, if the Seattle Seahawks.... a team that need WR help desperately.... doesn't think they need you...isn't THAT a clear message?
Jerry should have retired at the end of 2003. Instead of going out on top with the knowledge he had proved SF wrong, he instead will be remembered along side Muhummad Ali as the greatest of all time in his sport - who tarnished that legacy by not letting go.
Well....
...if Jerry Rice needs more money, that is a tragedy. I believe he has already gone on the record that this is not about the money.
Right now he is playing for the NFL minimum if I am not mistaken.
he has already had his "couple of lackluster seasons"...his last in Oakland (which ws so lackluster they released him) and that disgrace in Seattle last year.
He needs to quit. Really.
hammertm said:
...if Jerry Rice needs more money, that is a tragedy. I believe he has already gone on the record that this is not about the money.
Right now he is playing for the NFL minimum if I am not mistaken.
he has already had his "couple of lackluster seasons"...his last in Oakland (which ws so lackluster they released him) and that disgrace in Seattle last year.
He needs to quit. Really.
After 20 seasons, the Nfl's all-time leading receiver Jerry Rice announces his retirement!
Simply the Best!
Thanks for the memories Jerry!
Simply the Best!
Thanks for the memories Jerry!
I had once thought that Rice was the epitome of the professional who had the smarts to recognize when it was time to call it a career.... I understand that being the perfectionist that he is, it might be difficult to accept his limitations. But getting let go by the Raiders and Seahawks should have given him some pretty big hints...Chairman of the Board said:
Now waiting until the rosters were finalized to announce his retirement
...essentially quitting because he was the 3rd or 4th receiver in Denver just makes him look like a silly old man who just wants to hang onto the glory days..
The hardest thing is sports is having the sense to know when to pack it in. Among the greats, it is harder still because of the egos involved and the memory of past glories. Rice stuck around way too long, but he is hardly alone in that. Of those who did, Ali stands out in my mind as the saddest.slowandeasy said:
Many pro athletes have hung on, and I've read that retired pros will tell current players to hang on for as long as they can..It's not just the cash, but the lifestyle, the glory, fame and adulation. Once you pack it in, it's all gone. Many have a lot of difficulty with retired life, they lose the cash and have trouble adapting to being a relative nobody. All your life people treated you special, you had the world at your feet , then it's gone. You go from being a hero to "didn't you used to be..." It isn't easy.
Whenever the topic of whether an athlete should retire or suffer embarrassment comes up, I am reminded of the sad sight of Willie Mays falling down while playing centerfield for the NY Mets in the '73 World Series. I think Rice probably still has some skills and conceivably could help some teams, but I think he did the right thing by retiring.
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So many of them..
...most of the greats in sports hang around too long...from Gretzky, Messier and Howe in hockey, to Unitas in football,...the list is endless...staying too long should't take a way totally form the greatmess...Jerry Rice was the best ever at WR....and staying an extra couple of yrs is not gonna tarnish that for him..
N2G
...most of the greats in sports hang around too long...from Gretzky, Messier and Howe in hockey, to Unitas in football,...the list is endless...staying too long should't take a way totally form the greatmess...Jerry Rice was the best ever at WR....and staying an extra couple of yrs is not gonna tarnish that for him..
N2G
Coach said:
This is very true, except I would take out the word pro... Most of the guys that I played football with had an extremely hard time of letting go, and I did not even play at a US college level. Whenever I see the guys, it always seems that we do the same thing.... go to the same bars that we used to, get really drunk (some of them are into pretty heavy drugs now), and relive the glory days...
Overall, it's pretty sad, so I can understand why many pro athletes would hang on as long as they can...
