Rickey Jackson HoF Speech

[Deus Vult]

Did anyone else here especially enjoy Rickey Jackson's induction speech at the Hall of Fame cemerony?

As bad as his speech was, it was better than Jerry Rice's speech! And am I the only one who thought Emmitt Smith's was surprisingly good?Edited by: Deus Vult

 

[snow]

All I got from Rickey's speech was that his hometown apparently has a bunch of different vegetables....fishing too, and that is about it. Oh yeah and that he stayed out of trouble because he apparently wants to be on the sign that is up when you enter the city. He kept talking about that sign. He didn't make much sense and most of it you couldn't understand.

"I started off with my hometown. So I goes like this. My elementary year
coming up. My coach started me playing football when I was six years
old. I mean, I was in the sixth grade"

"What enticed me to really try to play football was you come to Pahokee,
they have on the sign, Welcome to the home of Mel Tillis. He was a
country singer. We had things around my hometown that you could do wrong
if you choose to do wrong. I wanted my name on that sign. I tell you
what, I wasn't going to do nothing to try to mess my career up to keep
my name off of that sign. "

"So a lot of my friends, they went the wrong way. Man, I wave my hand to
them because I was trying to get my name on that sign. "

That is from the transcript.

His name still isn't on that sign, but apparently he has asked for it to read "Pahokee, Rickey Jackson's home and a place with a lot of different
vegetables."

 

[rajuncajun]

The vegetable comment at the end was WAY funny! I attended the Saints practice last Saturday while visiting NOLA and they had 2 good looking, fast white WR's in camp, but they let one go already this week, while keeping Montez Billings, an UFA, from Florida State, who totally SUCKED! Also, tomorrow, the Saints visit the White House to visit Chauncey Gardner (see the movie Being There from the 70's and you will understand......).

 

[Colonel_Reb]

I don't care to watch an all black induction.

Edited by: Colonel_Reb

 

[Jack Lambert]

I don't care to watch an all black induction. 

I liked Dick LeBeau's and Russ Grimm's speeches. But I get your point.

 

[bigunreal]

It is just sickening to watch undeserving blacks like Jackson and Floyd Little be inducted into the HOF, while tons of great white players are ignored year after year. Jerry Smith, Mick Tingelhoff, Kevin Greene, Bill Bergey, Dan Hampton, Chris Hanburger, Len Hauss, Joe Jacoby, Jimbo Covert, Gary Collins- the list is endless.

I'm firmly convinced that there is the same "black quarterback" system for the HOF now, with only 20% or so of the inductees allowed to be white.

Of course I didn't watch it- I'm going to take a wild guess that LeBeau didn't mention the absence of white cornerbacks in the league.

 

[icsept]

Of course I didn't watch it- I'm going to take a wild guess that LeBeau didn't mention the absence of white cornerbacks in the league.

I didn't watch it either. I did notice that during the game telecast Collinsworth referred to LeBeau as a "defensive back". You wouldn't want to say cornerback on national t.v. and have a dwf think "What, a white cornerback?". Then he might google "white cornerback" to learn about the extinct species - and end up finding caste football.

 

[Thrashen]

Of course I didn't watch it- I'm going to take a wild guess that LeBeau didn't mention the absence of white cornerbacks in the league.

I didn't watch it either. I did notice that during the game telecast Collinsworth referred to LeBeau as a "defensive back". You wouldn't want to say cornerback on national t.v. and have a dwf think "What, a white cornerback?". Then he might google "white cornerback" to learn about the extinct species - and end up finding caste football.

Every member of LeBeau's affirmative action Pittsburg defense was in the crowd wearing his #44 jersey. How gay. Despite being a great cornerback, LeBeau sure does seem to loathe white defenders as a coach.

 

[guest301]

It was nice to see Emmitt give a very emotional thank you to his fullback the "moose" Daryl Johnston for all the sacrifices he made to make Emmitt look so good. Johnston was a pretty good rusher coming out of Syracuse who completely sacrificed that part of his game in the NFL to arguably become the best blocking fullback ever in the NFL.

 

[Kaptain]

It is just sickening to watch undeserving blacks like Jackson and Floyd Little be inducted into the HOF, while tons of great white players are ignored year after year. Jerry Smith, Mick Tingelhoff, Kevin Greene, Bill Bergey, Dan Hampton, Chris Hanburger, Len Hauss, Joe Jacoby, Jimbo Covert, Gary Collins- the list is endless.

I'm firmly convinced that there is the same "black quarterback" system for the HOF now, with only 20% or so of the inductees allowed to be white.

Of course I didn't watch it- I'm going to take a wild guess that LeBeau didn't mention the absence of white cornerbacks in the league.

You got that right. How is Joe Jacoby not in the Hall of Fame? Ricky Jackson's tackling totals are paltry for a linebacker. He had a decent sack total, but not Hall of Fame worthy. I've never been a fan of saying "such and such" linebacker is great because of their sacks. When a linebacker sacks a quarterback it's basically a blitz (a gimmick play) - the sack is due to the scheme more than anything. I compared Scott Studwell's numbers to Jackson's - that's over 1,900 tackles to just over 1,100. I know who I'd rather have on my team and yet Studwell (awesome name) would never be brought up as Hall of Fame material.

 

[Guest]

Jackson looks brain damaged, not trying to demean him but it just looks like his mind is going blank.