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SassyTexan said:Jerry Rice is just joining the long list of players who don't know when it's time to call it quits!
SassyTexan said:I think many people around Houston would be terribly upset if the Oilers still existed and Earl's #34 was given to a washed up player wanting to spend his final days in his jersey number ... even if it was someone like the super great #34 Walter Payton.
The memories of a player by a team are tarnished by that.
Jerry Rice is just joining the long list of players who don't know when it's time to call it quits!
infantrycak said:You mean like Emmitt Smith that soo many folks said was sad and through? 5 games, 353 yards, 4.2 ypc on pace for over 1100 yds on a cruddy team. Bet Jerry and Bill would rather have him back than Eddie.
JMO, if a player thinks he can keep doing it, wants to keep playing and an NFL team thinks he can contribute, people need to get off these guys backs.
pittbull said:The guy is an ego-maniac! There is no reason in the world why he should be wearing number #80! Of course it was offered to him, but he should have declined. Let their #80, be their number 80. Jerry, for the respect of Largent, wear #88!
Rice said he was not told he would have a diminished role in coach Norv Turner's offense this season, and Rice has reacted bitterly after being held without a catch in three of the team's last five games.
Last week, Rice met with Raiders owner Al Davis to discuss his frustrations, and agreed at that time to accept whatever role the team had for him. Rice also reiterated his desire to be traded to a team on which he could be more productive, telling reporters, "I can't go out this way."
ESPNLargent open to Rice in No. 80
Steve Largent is a Hall of Famer and a Seahawks legend. But he won't stand in the way of newly-acquired Jerry Rice wearing Largent's retired No. 80. Largent, who went on to become a four-term U.S. congressman from Oklahoma, was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1995.
The number was retired by the team in 1995 after Largent's induction in Canton, Ohio, and hasn't been worn by a Seahawks player since he left.
Rice asked Largent for permission to unretire the number in Seattle, which Rice has worn throughout his NFL career, and received his blessing.
"When he said that, it sent chills through my body," Rice said. "It meant the world to me. I know what he did for this team. When you think about the Seattle Seahawks, you think about Steve Largent."
Looked that way yesterday. ...bad karma unretiring #80.....Seattle will be a fleeting thought ...
SassyTexan said:Looked that way yesterday. ...bad karma unretiring #80...