Up for auction the “San Francisco 49ers” Jerry Rice Hand Signed 4X6 Color Photo. 

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 Jerry Lee Rice (born October 13,

1962) is an American former professional football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL)

for 20 seasons. Known primarily as a member of the San Francisco 49ers,

winning three championships, he then had two shorter stints at the end of

career with the Oakland Raiders and Seattle Seahawks. Nicknamed "World" because

of his superb catching ability, his accomplishments and numerous records, led

him to be widely regarded as the greatest wide receiver in NFL history, and one

of the greatest players of all time. His biography on the official Pro Football Hall of Fame website

names him: "the most prolific wide receiver in NFL history with staggering

career totals". In 1999, The Sporting News listed Rice second behind Jim Brown on its list of "Football's 100 Greatest

Players". In 2010, he was chosen by NFL Network's NFL Films production The Top 100:

NFL's Greatest Players as the greatest player in NFL

history. Rice played college football for four seasons with the Mississippi

Valley State Delta Devils, setting several NCAA and

team receiving records, including becoming the all-time leader in NCAA

receiving touchdowns. He joined the 49ers in 1985 after being drafted with the

16th overall pick. After a lackluster rookie season, Rice emerged in the

following season as one of the best receivers in the league, leading the NFL in

receiving yards and touchdowns: a feat he achieved four times. In 1987, Rice

set the record for most receiving touchdowns in a season, with 22, in a

twelve-game strike-shortened season. He won back-to-back championships in 1988 and 1989, and was the MVP of the former championship. Rice

developed connections with quarterbacks Joe Montana and Steve Young that are viewed as among the best in NFL

history, helping him lead the league in both receiving yards and touchdowns six

times, and in receptions twice. Going into the 1990s, Rice won a third Super

Bowl in 1994, and a second

Offensive Player of The Year Award. After recovering from a knee injury and his

play regressing, San Francisco traded him to the Raiders in 2001. Rice

continued to start for the team, and helped lead them to an appearance in Super Bowl XXXVII, where they were defeated by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,

affecting Rice's previously unblemished Super Bowl record. Midway through 2004,

the Raiders traded him to the Seahawks, where he spent his final season. He briefly signed with the Broncos, retiring

shortly before the start of the 2005 season. Rice is the career leader in most

major statistical categories for wide receivers, including receptions,

receiving touchdowns, receiving yards, scrimmage

yards, and total touchdowns, holding the postseason records for these

statistics, and once held the single season records for yards and touchdowns.

He scored more points than any other non-kicker in NFL history with 1,256. Rice was selected to the Pro Bowl 13 times (1986–1996, 1998, 2002) and named

All-Pro twelve times in his 20 NFL seasons, including ten First-team All-Pros,

tied for the most by any player. Rice was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in

2010 and the College Football Hall of Fame in

2006. Rice was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in

2007, and in the same year was inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame.

The NFL honored him as a member of the NFL 1980s

All-Decade Team and the NFL 1990s

All-Decade Team, as well as both the NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team and NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team.