Simeon Rice was announced as the Next member of the Buccaneers Honor RingBut the co -owner of Buccaneers, Bryan Glazer, puts pressure on the rice to obtain even greater recognition.
Glazer called Rice “the missing play to make our defense one of the biggest of all time” and said that the selectors of the Professional Football Temple committed surveillance by not putting rice in Canton.
“From 1996 to 2005, he totaled a record of 101.5 bags during these eight years, more than the renowned temple Michael Strahan and Jason Taylor,” said Glazer. “During this same section, his brand of eight seasons with total bags of two -digit bags is the seventh more in the history of the NFL, and the six men in front of him on this list are members of the temple of the fame of professional football. He is also qualified and deserted the only call at the end of the show. Consecutive seasons that do not have a gold jacket.
Rice said that entering the temple of renown of professional football when his parents were still alive would have meant a lot for him because of what it would have meant for them, but that after the death of his parents, he thought there less.
“That’s all that meant something for me,” said Rice. “The only thing that was for me was to play football. I loved this game, and that’s how I celebrated my mother and father. And they are not with me … I just think of my mother and my father. ”
The cardinals drafted rice out of Illinois with the third overall choice in 1996. After five seasons in Arizona, Rice signed with the Buccaneers in the free agency in 2001 and spent six seasons with the Bucs. He then played briefly with the broncos and the colts before retiring.
