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Jerry Rice officially retired from the NFL in 2006 and since then he's been keeping busy by getting his groove on in front of the world on 'Dancing With the Stars,' 'Don't Forget the Lyrics' and 'Pros vs. Joes.'
He was also coaching folks on 'The Biggest Loser' and licked his acting chops in the CW's 'One Tree Hill' and the 2009 film 'Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling.'
Apparently, though, all these post-football gigs aren't enough for Rice, because now he's looking to go pro in the golf world. He's been playing golf since his days as a San Francisco 49er and is making his professional debut at the Nationwide Tour this week.
"I got addicted to the game. I have so much passion for it," Rice told the Associated Press. "This is an opportunity of a lifetime here. You know I'm a competitor. I don't want to go out there and have those players who are playing on the Nationwide Tour think this is a publicity stunt for attention. It's not. ... I have the opportunity to go out and prove to everybody I can play golf."
The Nationwide Tour operates under the PGA Tour umbrella, and those who compete in it have a chance to move up to the major tournaments. Rice, who believes he can do some damage in the tournament, can move up in the PGA world, too. This could be a totally new career path for the NFL Hall of Famer.
"I can't look down the road that far," Rice said. "I love the game of golf and that would be a dream come true. I'm just getting my feet wet right now. Hopefully it can build into that. I love the game. I've never had something that challenges me so much."
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By: ooozzzzz on 4/15/2010 10:36AM
Jerry, you mastered pro football, mastered the dance and you will shine at the game of golf.
Keep it positive, good luck and do well.
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By: blackbear72 on 4/16/2010 4:59PM
Hey ooozzz, how shiny is an 83, if he shots 59 tomorrow maybe he will only miss the cut by 3. It shows that the average person has no idea how good even a 4th level pro is. There are guys on the smallest 4th rate mini-tour that he could never beat. He is a great golfer for a retired sports star, but that is it. He might not break 95 if he played in the open.
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By: meanvee on 4/15/2010 4:06PM
Good luck Jerry Rice, I hope you are successful in your new venture. I'll be waiting for the Jerry Rice Golf video game:)
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By: oooozzzzz on 4/16/2010 7:57PM
blackbear72, how would you even know what inside the motivation of Jerry Rice?
You want to believe and stress the fact that people who participate in the game of golf can't transfer their previously well coached & conditioned skills; can't focus, work hard & improve their skills on the golf course?. Come on bb72.
Jerry Rice is an all pro, conditioned competitor; all-world disciplined athlete (not some guy off the street) and the game of golf for someone like him cannot be that taxing, mind numbing, stressful & demanding based on his 20 years (only a handful of player have ever done it for so long) playing pro football while dominating the league as the argubly the best to ever play the game.
For him, it' just another field of play.
I am, along with others blogging here, are just congraulating the Hall Of Fame, multiple Super Bowl champion, ex-pro football athlete for venturing into something that he has found exciting, fun, is passionate about and wants to perform well in and all you can do is hate; you want to kill the man with some previous golf stats before he even get's started.
Man, you are a sho'nuff buzz kill.
I guess Jerry Rice's venture into the game of golf, someone who you would consider as just another "outside interest" who continues to screw over the game that you love so passionately and desperately want to shield for youself and your brethern in order to retain the "purity" of the game.
I guess as long as Jerry Rice plays in all the invitation only celebrity golf tourmnents all across the country he ok but don't turn professioanal. Oh no, you're not good enough and can't possibly get any better.
What is wrong with you? You sound just like the decades ago yesteryear, racist, bigoted segregrated American that this nation used to find pride & agression in while oppressing others (based on the laws and rules in place) and up to this very day, as I blog, with all the laws & rules erased but continues to do in the usual "pull in, pull back" fashion, today.
And do not get me wrong. I am not calling you a racist or anything of that sort so don't trip.
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By: blackbear72 on 4/19/2010 2:17AM
oooozzzz, again you read way too much into my post. When did I question his motivation? I simply said the average person has no idea how hard it is to become a tour level golfer. I never said the game was too taxing or, the other things you mention for him, I simply said he is a great golfer for a retired sports star but still no where near the level if a 4th level tour player.
He should have ventured into the game at the lowest level, not at the highest. A nationwide tour player is nearly on the same level as a PGA tour player, he never had a chance. It would be like a great flag football player tiring to play in the NFL. He wasted his time and took a spot that someone with a chance should have had. He didn't do anything to the purity of the game, but sure didn't help the purity of that event.
He can certainty get better, but he has a HUGE way to go and right now he is not good enough. His best shot might be the senior tour, but that would be a stretch.
How does being realistic about his pro golf chances make me like a decade old racist or bigot? The same would hold true for any ex pro, Mike Schmidt did it awhile ago with the same result, both great at their respective sports, but no where near tour level at golf.
John Brodie did it in the past, his success was mainly on the senior tour, the difference with him was that he was a all American golfer in college. If he hadn't chose football, he could have played the tour instead.
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By: Justifyed on 4/20/2010 1:23AM
Oooozzz if I were Jerry, I would be a little afraid of you...you're "jocking" kind of hard for a blog, don't you think?
Anyway, congratulations to Jerry, I am glad to see that he is still doing well, he is one of a handful of professional athletes that I admire (present and current). He is a class act, and will more than likely succeed in anything that he does.
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By: ooozzzzz on 4/21/2010 9:03AM
bb72, you continue to imply that Jerry Rice does not have enough of a golf skill set at this time (he can get better but not that good) to become a much better golfer who can compete & win on the Nationwide Tour and you are also trying to justify your position by comparing his current/past results & potential to improve his game and get better with current/past results of other retired sports stars who in the past, played the game.
One guy, ex-baseball Phillies star Mike Schmidt was a recreational novice (just like Rice) who played golf as a hobby and ex-football great John Brodie who did the same but had an advantage: college golf.
You're doing two things here. Lumping & boxing people (retired sport stars) together as a monolthic group with mostly low expectations and showing a disdain for retired sports stars with notheing else to do, invading golf, pushing other pure golfers aside and stifling the advancement of others by grabbing choice spots based on their celebrity & fame.
In other words, they get to cut to the front of the line. I call that "DMV" anger.
Everybody is not the same and trying to link former athletes of other sports venturing into golf as netting similiar results (if it is/wasn't your primary focus) is somewhat off base.
That's like saying "oh that guy? He's just another retired football player who thinks that he will dominate but he will crash & burn just like all the other "superstars" who tried and thought that they can come in here and dominate the sport."
Quote by bb72: " I simply said the average person has no idea how hard it is to become a tour level golfer.
Football is hard, basketball is hard, tennis is hard, baseball is hard, track & field is hard. The game of golf is not some "Mount Everest" psychological mental & physical meat grinder (as you try and describe it) of a sport (compared to others) that chews up 99.999% of it's people and spits them out. It is just a game like any other "hard" sport that requires the regular/similiar standards: practice, focus, hard work, time invested, sacrifice, dedication and a willingness to succeed and win.
And the comment you made about "He wasted his time and took a spot that someone with a chance should have had. He didn't do anything to the purity of the game, but sure didn't help the purity of that event"................What? Jerry Rice needs to go to the back of the line? Why? Because you feel that some poor smuck got pissed off and felt that "football superstar" Jerry Rice was handed a celebrity privledge and took that smuck's rightful spot? That is the same attitude that I came across when someone felt that because he got passed over and did not get a higher salary promotion/position over someone else, he blamed the usual politics (affirmative action) and not the fact that the other guy was better; outperformed and was a better worker than him. In other words, the "quota system" failed him based on politics and rewarded an "inferior" person.
Jerry Rice understands the big picture. That right now he needs work, he has a huge way to go and can certainty get better but then again, that's exactly what he had to do and did in pro football.
In the beginning, Jerry Who? Nobody even heard of this guy. Small Div II African American college. He did not even exist, wasn't taken seriously at all and in the end?
The very best, the gold standard (#1 by position, Top 1 or 2 overall) to ever play the game of professional football.
We'll see.
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