Jerry Rice

Jerry Rice is a Wide Receiver who played in the National Football League for 3 different teams. Rice was born on October 13, 1962 in Crawford, Mississippi to Joe Nathan Rice and Eddie Rice. The son of a brick mason, Rice used to work for his father catching bricks and attributes this experience to helping him develop his work ethic. He played in the NFL for a total of 20 years, from his rookie year in 1985 to his last in 2004.http://www.49ersparadise.com/biographies/rice.shtml Rice was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on August 7, 2010. In his induction speech, Rice thanked his fellow teammates, coaches and his family for supporting him during his 20-year career.http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/07/SPOF1EQUPP.DTL

Rice has won several awards including Offensive Rookie of the Year in 1985, Offensive Player of the Year in 1987 and 1993, and Super Bowl MVP in 1988, as well as being named to the NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time team in 1994. He is widely regarded by NFL experts to be the greatest to ever play the Wide Receiver position, and by many as arguably the greatest player ever regardless of position. When Rice retired on August 19, 2006 with the San Francisco 49ers, he owned practically every single major receiving record in the league, and quite a few non-receiving records as well.http://www.nfl.com/players/jerryrice/profile?id=RIC128880

He is broadly remembered for his glory years on the 49ers during the 1980s and 1990s, however towards the end of his career he also played for the crosstown Oakland Raiders and northerly neighbors the Seattle Seahawks. Rice isn't only known for his statistical achievements, he is equally known for his unmatched work ethic and training regimen on and off the field.http://www.49ersparadise.com/biographies/rice.shtml

He attended Mississippi Valley State University on a football scholarship, a historically Black NCAA Division I-AA school located in Itta Bena, Mississippi. There he caught a total of 51 touchdown passes, and in 1984 he averaged 10 catches per game. He would be named to the AP All-American Team that year, and despite playing for a tiny college with little to no coverage, still finished 9th in Heisman Trophy voting.http://www.49ersparadise.com/biographies/rice.shtml

NCAA Records

• Division 1-AA record for receiving yards in a year: 1,845
• Division 1-AA record for receptions in a year: 112
• Receiving touchdowns in a year: 27

NFL postseason records

• Postseason Games played (28)
• Touchdowns (22)
• Receptions (151)
• Yards receiving (2,245)
• Touchdown receptions in a single game (3, three times; 10 others have had 3 in a game once)
• Games with at least 100 receiving yards (8)
• Consecutive games with at least one reception (28)

All-time NFL regular season records

• Regular Season Receptions (1,549)
• Receiving yards (22,895)
• Touchdown receptions(198)
• All-purpose yards (23,540)
• Touchdowns (208)
• Receiving yards gained in a single season (1,848)
• Touchdown receptions in a single season (22)
• Seasons with at least 50 receptions (17)
• Seasons with at least 1,000 receiving yards (14)
• Games with at least 100 receiving yards (76)
• Consecutive games with at least one reception (274)
• Consecutive games with at least one touchdown reception (13)

Super Bowl Records

• Receptions (33)
• Yards receiving (589)
• All-purpose yards (604)
• Touchdown receptions (8)
• Points scored (48)
• Receptions in a single game (11)
• Yards receiving in a single game (215)
• Touchdown receptions in a single game (3, twice)
• Points scored in a single game (18, twice)http://www.jerryricefootball.com/ssp/bio