Boom!!! In 3AM Saturday Morning Tweet Jerry Rice Falls on His Sword

Jerry Rice was a great receiver, but when he speaks i want to shoot myself. The guy is an idiot

Jerry Rice

1549 Rec*

22,845 Yds*

197 TD*

*Don't count because the player used glue on his hands and gloves.

If atmospheric conditions lowering a few footballs a tick beneath regulation qualifies as the Pats cheating, a WR applying glue to his gloves most certainly does x 100

PATS16N0 said:

If atmospheric conditions lowering a few footballs a tick beneath regulation is the Pats cheating, a WR applying glue to his gloves most certainly does x 100

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It is also x100 when compared to having a legal camera in an illegal location.

shmessy said:

Don't worry, the tireless folks who run ESPN are busy making sure the Rice story never gets a mention.

A full 50 hours after the Rice tweet, ESPN still treats it like Pravda treated Brezhnev's wife.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/02/09/rice-admits-cheating-espn-and-nfl-ignore-it/

February 9, 2015 10:53am

".....ESPN, which started the fire by extracting the quotes from Rice and publishing them in an ESPN feature, has no mention of the admission anywhere on ESPN.com......"

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Got to say, while Florio is a true troll, I gained some respect for him for writing that article.

jerrys new nickname: sticky rice

PATS16N0 said:

If atmospheric conditions lowering a few footballs a tick beneath regulation is the Pats cheating, a WR applying glue to his gloves most certainly does x 100

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And not just "a" wide receiver. THE wide receiver.

PATS16N0 said:

If atmospheric conditions lowering a few footballs a tick beneath regulation is the Pats cheating, a WR applying glue to his gloves most certainly does x 100

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Maybe the atmospheric conditions made his fingers sticky?

Deus Irae said:

The writer of that Huffington Post piece is an idiot.

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Change the word "that" to the word "any" and you'll be even more correct.

Todd Bradley said:

Got to say, while Florio is a true troll, I gained some respect for him for writing that article.

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... did that little weasel say something nice about the Pats(i refuse to click the link)?!? He really did?!?!

Ohh, Dear God the end is near ....

shmessy said:

Don't worry, the tireless folks who run ESPN are busy making sure the Rice story never gets a mention.

A full 50 hours after the Rice tweet, ESPN still treats it like Pravda treated Brezhnev's wife.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/02/09/rice-admits-cheating-espn-and-nfl-ignore-it/

February 9, 2015 10:53am

".....ESPN, which started the fire by extracting the quotes from Rice and publishing them in an ESPN feature, has no mention of the admission anywhere on ESPN.com......"

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It was finally brought up and discussed on Mike and Mike this morning. Actually, the gist of the discussion was that Rice's use of stickum and the use by QBs of slightly deflated footballs are similar, and minor, indiscretions comparable to throwing a doctored baseball. Golic, in particular, ripped Rice for being a hypocrite saying that those in glass houses should avoid throwing stones. I was surprised they even broached the subject.

Even King got in his jab in his MMQB article, saying maybe Rice would like to inform us all which type of cheating is actually no big deal, since he so familiar with it.

Maybe someone should ask King why,the Pro Football Writers of America allow a plagiarist to represent the New England region if he is so concerned about ethical consistency.

Jackson 2 said:

Rice's use of stickum and the use by QBs of slightly deflated footballs are similar, and minor, indiscretions comparable to throwing a doctored baseball. .

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Minor or not (which is not the point) I was not aware that nature could somehow get stuckum on a players gloves. The things you learn here...

I also like how some of these guys are going with the inflation thing is a "minor" infraction to look like they are diminishing it when in fact they are very slyly confirming it happened.

If it never happened, it cant even be "minor"

Logical Fallacy

Tom E. Curran ‏@tomecurran 4m4 minutes ago
But yes on bounties. http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7907610/cris-carter-formerly-minnesota-vikings-admits-authorizing-bounties… RT "@ProFootballTalk Everyone used stickum; Cris Carter says, "Not me." http://wp.me/p14QSB-9HMO"

SVN said:

Tom E. Curran ‏@tomecurran 4m4 minutes ago
But yes on bounties. http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7907610/cris-carter-formerly-minnesota-vikings-admits-authorizing-bounties… RT "@ProFootballTalk Everyone used stickum; Cris Carter says, "Not me." http://wp.me/p14QSB-9HMO"

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Hey!!! My favorite topic about my favorite stupid, hypocrite is being talked about again!!!!!

Chris "bounty" Cater makes Jerry Rice seem like Ryan Fitzpatrick. Bounties on players is the absolute worst thing in pro sports history. Its essentially assault and a criminal offense.

It doesn't take much research to find other players and teams regarding Stickum or other substances- as recently as 2012 if the allegations against the Chargers were true

What the larger question may still be is this: Wouldn't footballs handled by WRs become easier to grip for the QBs? (albeit not in the same quantities used back in the day prior to its supposed banishment in 1981 - though I have to think some refinements may have been made to the substance since then too)

Wouldn't that implicate Montana for getting an unfair advantage?

Or how about the Chargers QB at the time?

If the NFL wants to go down the rabbit hole of how players used substance to gain grip - or become more elusive in the case of Romanowski as noted below

None of this is "new" news - it's just because some other teams seem to be looking to gain an unfair advantage over Brady and the Patriots by making false allegations that it's coming to light again


http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2012/10/21/chargers-glazer-stickum-use/1647413/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...f17442-1f02-11e2-ba31-3083ca97c314_story.html

JoeSixPat said:

It doesn't take much research to find other players and teams regarding Stickum or other substances- as recently as 2012 if the allegations against the Chargers were true

What the larger question may still be is this: Wouldn't footballs handled by WRs become easier to grip for the QBs?

Wouldn't that implicate Montana for getting an unfair advantage?

Or how about the Chargers QB at the time?

If the NFL wants to go down the rabbit hole of how players used substance to gain grip - or become more elusive in the case of Romanowski as noted below

None of this is "new" news - it's just because some other teams seem to be looking to gain an unfair advantage over Brady and the Patriots by making false allegations that it's coming to light again


http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2012/10/21/chargers-glazer-stickum-use/1647413/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...f17442-1f02-11e2-ba31-3083ca97c314_story.html

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The Chargers were using the same adhesive towels that a lot of other teams were using. They'd not been banned by the league.

Eventually it was determined that the substance in question was actually an adhesive golf towel and the whole thing seemed even more ridiculous. Well, today the NFL finally released a statement on the matter and it appears that the matter has been settled.

"Following a review of the San Diego Chargers use of towels that included an adhesive substance in an October 15 game against the Denver Broncos, the NFL has
determined that the club did not violate a competitive rule by use of the towels," the statement read.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2012/11/07/nfl-chargers-towels-ruling/1690081/

Those towels are no longer allowed in the NFL, but that change happened after the incident.

So, Chris Carter was a cheater too!

Damn

I'm thinking this has kind of become Six Degrees of Slimegate.

The accomplishments of anyone who comes into contact with anyone who was ever in contact with anyone who used stickum or steroids, or bounties or fields that weren't kept right, or piped in noise, or elevated heating systems, or inaccurate injury reports, out stashed players, or improperly placed cameras, or salary cap violations.......

You get the picture


Is a cheater



Everyone in the history of the NFL is a cheater.




# Just sayin'.....