Anybody watch besides me? I enjoyed it quite a bit. Jerry Rice, Emmitt Smith, Ricky Jackson, that was a serious class. Ricky Jackson is lucky he was such a physical specimen, he's not real bright. He gave an unprepared folksy talk, not to long, I'm glad for him and the Saints, he was introduced by Tom Benson, who Ricky made sound like a saint for not moving the Saints after Katrina. Jerry Rice gave an interesting talk. His dad was a brick layer and Jerry and his brothers worked with him. They would relay the bricks up to his dad, and Jerry was on a scaffold and they would toss bricks up to him, and if he dropped one and it broke his dad was out the money. I guess that's good for one's concentration. Jerry said he always had big hands for his size, so big he kept them hidden in his pockets a lot while growing up. He played hooky one day, got caught, and his principal was the football coach and he knew Jerry was fast, so he talked Jerry into going out for football. Jerry said he was always motivated by the FEAR OF FAILURE. So, he worked very hard at his craft. They said he was a perfectionist, his dad told him his goal was to be perfect, and nobody was perfect, but if that's what he tried for, when he failed he'd still be very good. Emmitt Smith gave a long and great speech. He seems like a truly nice person. Very driven. His focus was on goal setting, write them down, then produce a PLAN to achieve the goals and work on it every day. He's close with Irvin and Aikman, but got most emotional when he recognized Darry Johnson, he said Darryl gave up his body for Emmitt to get the headlines, and he knew Darryl cared for him, and he cared for Darryl; that was quite a moment. Russ Grimm said a line I'll remember for a while. Grimm went to college as a LB, and they got thin on the line and Jackie Sherrill switched him to center. Grimm did not like it but Sherrill told him it was not optional. In the pros, he said his o-line coach told him that playing o-line he had to master the art of "moving a man from point A to point B, against his will" which would be a huge accomplishment. Russ Grimm played college ball with and graduated the same year as Ricky Jackson, that must have been cool to go into the HOF the same class.
