Hi All

In an era of pampered over paid professional sports figures.
Yesterday one of the true greats retired. Jerry Rice was a class act on and off the gridiron. His work ethic was unsurpassed. He holds just about ever offivense record.TD, yards, pass rec. games played etc.
One of the great things about Rice, when he did something spectular for his team their was no dancing in the end zone and chest bumping or spinking of the football. He was a pleasure to watch.
Was he the best of all time? In my humble opionion, Yes.

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Rice was a class act among the few class acts in prof. sports. When I showed up in Northern Cal. in the early 90s, it didn't take long to transfer my allegiance from the Seahawks to the Niners. At last I had a solid team to root for. Damn, the guy was smooth.

Here's to you Jerry.

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197 TD's. Not bad for a slow guy. Man he's 6 years my senior. What will I be doing in 6 years?

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he was pretty great to watch.. Marvin Harrison may take some of those records away though.. just as good of a guy..

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He was told that he was "too slow for the NFL".

He sure showed them!! Great athelete and hero.

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Best receiver ever, although others have had more talent.

Some people are talking about him being the greatest football player ever, which I find hard to argue for, even though he was my favorite athlete to watch and root for.

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Howdy All,
OK he is good. And that is from a So. Cal. person :-)

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Football is such a team sport that it would be hard to say the greatest player ever.

Wide receiver, no doubt. The gap between him and #2(Cris Carter) is appox someone like Mark Claytons or Irving Fryars career. Maybe not but you get the idea.

I think I saw it was like 400 plus catches 30-40TD and 600 yards.

He dominated his position in his sport, better and longer than the equivalent in any other sport.

MArvin Harrison would have to play another 8 years or so to have a chance to catch up to him.

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Catches
1 Jerry Rice 1,549
2 Cris Carter 1,101
3 Tim Brown 1,094
4 Andre Reed 951
5 Art Monk 940
6 Irving Fryar 851
7 Marvin Harrison 845
8 Larry Centers 827
9 Steve Largent 819
10 Shannon Sharpe 815
YARDAGE
RK PLAYER AMT
1 Jerry Rice 22,895
2 Tim Brown 14,934
3 James Lofton 14,004
4 Cris Carter 13,899
5 Henry Ellard 13,777
6 Andre Reed 13,198
7 Steve Largent 13,089
8 Irving Fryar 12,785
9 Art Monk 12,721
10 Charlie Joiner 12,146
TOUCHDOWNS
RK PLAYER AMT
1 Jerry Rice 197
2 Cris Carter 130
3 Tim Brown 100
Steve Largent 100
5 Don Hutson 99
6 Marvin Harrison 97
7 Terrell Owens 95
8 Randy Moss 90
9 Don Maynard 88
10 Andre Reed 87
Active Players are bold


HArrison would have to play another 10 years averaging 80 catches to catch him

Highly unlikely. The other stats are gonna be hard to catch as well.

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