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  • 7/16/2024
Jerry Rice got so ticked off at a pair of reporters on a golf course on Thursday ... he actually threatened to rough them up -- and the heated altercation was all caught on video, obtained by TMZ Sports.
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00:00Welcome back to TMZ Sports, Mike and Mojo.
00:07Mojo, Jerry Rice, according to many, many football fans,
00:11is the greatest football player to ever step foot on a field.
00:15The NFL legend had a tense interaction
00:19with some media members at a charity golf tournament, Mojo,
00:24last week, late last week.
00:25Of course, we've talked a lot about this American Century
00:30Golf Championship going down in Lake Tahoe.
00:32This tournament gets all of the biggest stars,
00:35from Travis Kelsey to the aforementioned Jerry Rice.
00:40Mojo, this interaction was caught on camera.
00:44You're going to see here, and we're
00:46going to show it to you in just a second,
00:48Jerry Rice walking on the golf course
00:51when two guys who are media members, they approach Jerry
00:55and they ask him, which seems like a pretty harmless
00:59question, not so much, according to Jerry.
01:02Watch this.
01:03Oh my god.
01:06I'm going to take it right now, OK?
01:10No, no, no.
01:11I don't want to ask.
01:12No.
01:14If you want some, come get some.
01:16No.
01:20It's the craziest thing that's ever happened in my life.
01:23Well, what did you ask him?
01:24I asked him if the Chief's Receiving Corps was good enough
01:26to win another Super Bowl.
01:29The Chief's Receiving Corps was good enough
01:31to win another Super Bowl.
01:33Is that what he said?
01:34He said, I don't know if that's right, man.
01:38He didn't look at anybody else.
01:40He was going, nope, that's it.
01:44Maybe the sun doesn't help.
01:46He was clearly had a drink.
01:49He was very slurry.
01:51Mojo, I talked to Jerry Rice.
01:54Friday afternoon.
01:55And I asked him, hey, what happened?
01:58Guess what Jerry Rice said.
01:59Jerry Rice said, Mojo, they asked him if the Chief's wide receivers
02:02were good enough to win another Super Bowl next year.
02:05And Jerry then, and this is one of the quotes that he gave me,
02:08I'm going to defend the San Francisco 49ers.
02:11This is my history.
02:13Jerry then went on to say that he thought that the 49ers fans
02:16would love the reaction.
02:17Might be the case.
02:19I don't know.
02:20I haven't seen many 49ers fans weighing in on the reaction here.
02:24A lot of people talking about the video.
02:26Maybe they love it.
02:27Maybe they don't.
02:28I am shocked, though, Mojo, that Jerry Rice seemed to be,
02:31I don't know, be that set off by an innocuous, in my mind,
02:35at least, an innocuous question.
02:37Babcock, can we take one more look at him walking up to this
02:41interviewer?
02:42I got to analyze this walk.
02:44I mean, are we looking upset here?
02:47You think he's ticked off from something earlier because I was
02:50wondering.
02:51It's a charity golf tournament.
02:53Maybe he's playing like crap.
02:54Maybe he feels like he let down the charity with his play and he
02:58just was in a really bad mood prior to this because I don't
03:03understand how that question could be the one thing that makes
03:09Jerry Rice, of all people, lose his cool.
03:12I mean, we are talking about a guy who,
03:15as far as I'm aware, never gets into trouble,
03:19that had no issues whatsoever.
03:23That is the epitome of cool, calm,
03:26and collected.
03:27I mean, that's certainly how he played on the football for all
03:30those years, putting up those numbers and breaking all those
03:33records.
03:34So, something is absolutely not adding up.
03:38Right.
03:39And they obviously lost to the Chiefs.
03:41So, I understand there might be a little sensitivity there,
03:43Mojo.
03:44But yeah, I mean, Jerry, he even literally said to me,
03:46Mojo, he said, wouldn't you be upset like this if somebody
03:49questioned your football team?
03:51Not really.
03:52Not really.
03:53Did you tell him no?
03:55I did.
03:56I made a joke.
03:57But yeah.
03:58Essentially, yeah, that's what I said.
04:01I wouldn't have this reaction.
04:03You know, I mean, it's football.
04:06I mean, it's a game at the end of the day.
04:09I don't know, Mojo.
04:10I guess the one silver lining here is that Jerry walked away
04:13and thankfully there was this guy here to keep the peace and
04:17Jerry went amongst, you know, went in one direction.
04:21The guys stayed where they were and there was nothing physical
04:23that came from this.
04:24I will also say, Mojo, that it seemed like this didn't ruin
04:27Jerry's day.
04:28He actually went out later that night and there is Jerry Rice
04:32dancing only a few hours after this incident happened at one of
04:36the local clubs.
04:37So, he was having a good time.
04:39Mojo, Jerry looks forward to this.
04:41And I know that for a fact because we have seen him at the
04:44American Century Championship going back years,
04:48almost a decade ago.
04:50And this is one of my favorite videos that we've ever had here
04:52at TMC Sports.
04:53There is Jerry Rice who was like,
04:55you know, 51, 52 at the time, taking off his shirt,
04:58still in tremendous shape by the way,
05:00and dancing with a lady on stage at the same tournament.
05:05So, he loves this.
05:06He has fun.
05:07And then he almost got into a fight on the golf course,
05:10Mojo.
05:11So, I don't know how he tops next year's tournament.
05:14We'll see.
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