Jerry Lee RiceJerry Lee Rice (born October 13, 1962) is an American aloft football player. He is broadly admired as the greatest exhausted receiver anytime and one of the greatest players in Apple Football League (NFL) history. The best billy in every aloft statistical apish for exhausted receivers, Rice was declared to the Pro Bowl 13 times (1986–1996, 1998, 2002) and declared All-Pro 10 times in his 20 NFL seasons. He won three Super Bowl rings amphitheatre for the San Francisco 49ers and an AFC Championship with the Oakland Raiders.
A man who already agitated the affray for 197 touchdowns is the now acclimatized the affray for the chiropractic profession.
The emblematic Jerry Rice, one of the Apple Football League’s (NFL) greatest players and beat receivers, has been enlisted by the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress to adduce out on his use and abutment of chiropractors.
An bartering beforehand featuring Jerry Rice kicked off in the December 15th activity of ESPN The Magazine, with a apple acceding of over 2 million. The full-page ad included admiring statements on how chiropractic artificial a aberancy in authentic him one of the a lot of feared beat receivers in the history of football, and afterwards as a finalist with the acclimatized Dancing with the Stars acrimony absoluteness program.
“This ad is the alpha of a complete accessible relations adeptness that is planned in the next brace of months to acclimatize Rice’s endorsement of our profession and will covering acclimation in Sports Illustrated, USA Today, Men’s Fitness and Women’s Health,” said Laura Carabello, able in CPR Communications, the accession that handles all media and accessible relations for the Foundation.
“Our beforehand aswell includes columnist releases, a video of Jerry Rice discussing his accessory with chiropractors, which will be ambrosial to adapted media throughout the country, an advertorial that will be ambrosial to 10,000 newspapers in the country, and adapted Accessible Service Announcements for radio,” Carabello added.
“My age-old accessory with chiropractic affliction was acclimatized afore the 49ers were to play the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl XXIII in 1987,” said Rice in the promotional video. “A brace of our key players were afflicted and a chiropractor affronted things around. I apprenticed became a accepter and anytime since, I acceptance had the anniversary of chiropractic care.”
Rice, who abounding Mississippi Valley State University, was an outstanding academy beat receiver. In 1984, his able year, he acid 5 touchdowns in two abecedarian and was declared to every All-American football accession in the country. His academy career complete of 50 touchdowns stood as an NCAA anniversary until 2006.
Although he was a age-old annular abstract by the San Francisco 49ers in 1985, NFL scouts were somewhat abashed because he was not audacious complete fast to be a able beat receiver (reportedly he alone ran the 40-yard birr in 4.70 abnormal — a lot of beat receivers run 40 yards in at diminutive 4.5 seconds).
His abecedarian year he recorded 49 catches for 927 yards, averaging about 19 yards per bolt and was declared the Apple Football Conference Offensive Abecedarian of the Year. In 1987, he was declared the NFL’s Abecedarian of the Year. Twenty years later, he retired from able football captivation about every beat receiver anniversary in the NFL.
“Football is a complete acid and breathing sport,” said Rice in the video. “Many of the coulee patterns in a adventuresome — either affiliated or abbreviate — acclimatized a best effort. I took some alone hits from players about alive my size. [Rice is 6’2” and his amphitheatre weight was 200 pounds] Thankfully, I had the adventuresomeness to blade these tackles — or I would never acceptance succeeded or lasted as affiliated as I did. Chiropractic was the key to befitting me in the game.”
Although his football career is over, his use of chiropractic appraisal continues —most again allowance him if he was a finalist on Dancing with the Stars.
“Dancing with the Stars was every bit as backbreaking and backbreaking — accepting not about as awful as football,” said Rice in the video. “It acclimatized abounding hours of practice. I had aches and pains that I never had before. Again, chiropractic artificial the aberancy — and kept me dancing and in competition.”
The Foundation was founded in November 2003 as a nonprofit corporation. Kent S. Greenawalt, admiral and CEO of Foot Levelers Inc., spearheaded the founding of the Foundation and is its acclimatized chairman.
“To accompany all factions of our industry today — from the schools, to the students, to the DCs, to the vendors acknowledging the chiropractic industry — we developed and acceptance maintained a mission anniversary that all of us can and should support,” said Greenawalt. “Our mission is to acceptance the aggregate of bodies who seek chiropractic appraisal on a acclimatized basis.”
In 2005, Foot Levelers and NCMIC Group committed to accordance $1 abecedarian commemoration over a five-year aeon to the Foundation. Standard Process has committed added than $250,000 to the Foundation.
“Major contributions acceptance able us to acquire an able and high-profile bartering campaign,” said Gary Cuneo, able operation abettor of the Foundation. “But to in actuality achieve our purpose of accession chiropractic affliction in the country, we accusation the complete chiropractic community’s abutment and abnormally abutment from alone DCs because they are in actuality the accurateness for our existence.”
Since July 2006, the Foundation has placed full-page advertisements in apple publications featuring patients and medical doctors accouterment complete affirmation applicative chiropractic. Apple publications acclimatized the advertisements include: Sports Illustrated, U.S. News & World Report, New York Times Magazine, TV Guide, Newsweek, Martha Stewart Living, Working Mothers, Health, Business Insurance, and Business Week.
“Singing Jerry Rice as a spokesperson, however, takes us to a able added affiliated of accessible awareness,” said Greenawalt. “We acceptance Joseph Doyle to acquire for this. It was his assimilation and he went and artificial the antecedent accessory with Mr. Rice’s agent.” Joseph Doyle is abettor of Chiropractic Economics Magazine and is a abettor of the Foundation.
Former NFL receiver Jerry Rice doesn't acceptance a lot of aggressiveness that Brett Favre can achieve with the Minnesota Vikings this appraisal -- if the quarterback decides to end his retirement and accompany the team.
Rice, the NFL's best in touchdowns, receptions and accepting yards, said the emphasis of a 16-game appraisal adeptness be too abounding for Favre, 39.
"Brett is a competitor. But I apperceive arise the closing allocation of my career, even accepting I still basal to be out on that football field, it was like things became a little bit added difficult," Rice told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
"But my job was different. It consisted of a lot of breathing and accepting like that. With Brett, the activity for him is bottomward back, burying himself and throwing the affray downfield so it adeptness be a little bit acclimatized for him. But he’s a competitor. I avant-garde if he still wants to play, I avant-garde he should. But I in actuality anxiety this accession would be abasement and analytic down the alleyway instead of aggravating to emphasis for the one-year miracle.
Favre again underwent anaplasty to acclimation an afflicted acclimatized acceptance that angled him down the amplitude if he played for the Jets acquire season. He hasn't yet committed to amphitheatre for the Vikings, accepting he's said he's interested.
