Sunday, February 21, 2016

Cool story I heard about bricks.

                    So I am a huge sports lover and anyone who loves sports probably knows who Jerry Rice is. Jerry Rice was a NFL wide receiver who played for the San Francisco 49ers. He is widely considered to be the greatest wide receiver in NFL history and among the greatest NFL players overall. He is the all-time leader in most major statistical categories for wide receivers, including receptions, touchdown receptions, and receiving yards. Rice was selected to the Pro bowl 13 times and named All-Pro 12 times in his 20 NFL seasons. He won three Super Bowl rings playing for the San Francisco 49ers. Rice holds over 100 NFL records, the most of any player ever. 
   As a young man and a son to a brick layer, Jerry Rice would often help his dad with his jobs. So the story goes that Jerry would stand two stories up on whatever building they were working on and he would have his brothers through bricks way up to him and he would snatch them out of the air. This is one of the many reasons people think he could catch a football so easily. So are bricks the reason why Jerry Rice had so much success? You could relate him catching all these bricks to the original use for bricks, to build the base and structure of these houses and building. So are bricks also the base and structure to having the best hands to ever play in the NFL? Hey you want to be a good football player?...Then go catch a bunch of bricks.

1 comment:

  1. After reading this story I told it to my little brother who plays football and his response was "let's go throw a brick" haha anyways this was different from a lot of the brick posts and I like that

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