Emmitt Smith

On September 19th, 2005, at halftime of the Cowboys-Redskins game (broadcast on Monday Night Football), Smith was inducted into the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor with his longtime teammates Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin. In 2001, Garnet Hertz produced an art project in which a complete web server was implanted into a dead fly. In August 2005, Smith signed on to serve as a studio analyst on the NFL Network show, NFL Total Access. The 1986 science fiction film The Fly revolves around the accidental merger of a human and a fly. Their son, Emmitt IV, was born on Smith's 33rd birthday. [2]. She is a former Miss Virginia, and the ex-wife of actor/comedian Martin Lawrence. An example is the painting Portrait of a Carthusian by Petrus Christus, showing a fly sitting on a fake frame.

He married Patricia Southall, on April 22, 2000. In art, extremely life-like flies have sometimes been depicted in the trompe l'oeil paintings of the 15th century. Smith is one of only five NFL players who have amassed over 10,000 career-rushing yards and 400 career receptions. The world's rarest known fly family is Eurychoromyidae-Broad-headed Flies [1]. His 1,586 yards rushing is also tops on the NFL postseason chart, and he shares the total playoff touchdown mark of 21 with Thurman Thomas. Entomologists try to distinguish between true flies and other orders by hyphenating the names of true flies (house-fly, horse-fly, crane-fly), but giving the members of other orders unhyphenated names, either with two unconnected words (caddis fly, alder fly) or with a single, concatenated name (dragonfly, stonefly). Smith also accumulated a number of NFL postseason records, including rushing touchdowns (19), consecutive games with a rushing touchdown (nine) and 100-yard rushing games (seven). The word "fly" also refers to insects of various orders other than Diptera.

The sum of his rushing yards, receiving yards(3,224) and fumble return yards(-15) make him one of only four players in NFL history to eclipse the 21,000-combined yards mark. For more information, see Maggot therapy. He leads all running backs with 166 career touchdowns, and is second only to Jerry Rice for the overall record. Through the ages maggots have been used in medicine in order to clean out necrotic wounds.
Smith currently holds the NFL record in career rushing yards with 18,355 and is the only player in NFL history to rush for over 18,000 yards, breaking the previous record held by Walter Payton, on October 27, 2002. Maggots are bred commercially, as a popular bait in angling, and a food for carnivourous pets such as reptiles or birds. He is the only player in the NFL history to do all three in the same season. Some maggots are leaf miners.

In 1993 he did a rare trifecta by leading the league in rushing yards, winning the AP MVP and Super Bowl MVP. Various maggots cause damage in agricultural crop production, including root maggots in rapeseed and midge maggots in wheat. He is also the NFL's all-time leader in rushing attempts with 4,409. By use of this data, plus other signs, the approximate time since death can be estimated by forensic scientists. With 1,021 yards rushing in 2001, Smith became the first player in NFL history to rush for 1,000 yards in 11 consecutive seasons and the first to post 11 1,000-yard rushing seasons in a career. These measure about 2-3 days, 3-4 days, and 4-6 days (for average houseflies or bottleflies) since the eggs were laid. Smith and Jim Brown are the only players with seven straight 10-touchdown seasons to start their career. An instar I is about 2-5 mm long; instar II 6-14 mm; instar III 15-20 mm.

Smith is the first player in NFL history to have five straight seasons with over 1,400 rushing yards. Maggot identification uses a classification called "Instar" stages. On February 3, 2005, at a press conference in Jacksonville, Florida three days before Super Bowl XXXIX, he announced his retirement after fifteen seasons in the NFL. At the height of the summer season, a generation of flies (egg to adult) may be produced in 12-14 days. In 2005, Smith signed a new contract with Dallas for one-day and no money so he could retire as a Cowboy. The size of the house fly maggot is 9.5-19.1mm (3/8 to 3/4 inch). Giants to become the only player in NFL history to eclipse the 18,000 career rushing yard mark. By their stage of development, these maggots can be used to give an indication of the time elapsed since death, as well as the place the organism died.

Then in November, he totaled 67 yards and two touchdowns on 19 carries against the N.Y. Some types of maggots found on corpses can be of great use to forensic scientists. On October 24th, Smith broke Payton's record for career 100-yard rushing games when he totaled 106 yards and a touchdown on 26 carries against Seattle. The eggs are laid in decaying flesh, animal dung, or pools of stagnant water - whatever has ample food for the larva. The Saints game also marked his 77th career regular season 100-yard rushing game, tying Payton for the most in NFL history. The fly life cycle is composed of four stages: egg, larva (commonly known as a maggot), pupa, adult. Smith also became the oldest player in NFL history ever to complete his first career touchdown pass, tossing a 21-yard scoring strike to fullback Obafemi Ayanbadejo in a game against New Orleans. .

On October 3rd, he posted his best game as a Cardinal against New Orleans, totaling 127 rushing yards on 21 carries (6.0 avg.), including a 29-yard scoring jaunt (his longest as a Cardinal). In addition to being an essential part of the food chain, some species of flies spread pollen, hasten the decomposition of plants, animals, and dung, and, in the case of about 5000 species of Tachina flies, eat other insects. He also caught 15 passes for 105 yards for Arizona. The horse-fly eats bits of flesh torn off of its prey, mosquitoes feed on blood and nectar, and the housefly eats a semi-digested liquid created by mixing-enzyme rich saliva with its food. His 267 carries marked his highest total since 2000 and his nine touchdowns were his highest total since scoring 11 times in 1999. The diet of flies varies heavily between species. After finishing 2003 as a reserve, Smith began the 2004 season as the Cardinals starting running back and accounted for 937 rushing yards and nine touchdowns on 267 carries. A few, like Ormia ochracea, have very advanced hearing organs.

He signed a two-year deal with the Arizona Cardinals on March 26. Some flies have very accurate 3D vision. On February 27, 2003, Smith volunteered to be released by the Cowboys, rather than put owner Jerry Jones in the awkward position of cutting him to fit under the league's salary cap. The compound eyes of flies are composed of thousands of individual lenses and are very sensitive to movement. (Among running backs selected to the Pro Bowl, he's behind only Barry Sanders, who has 10, and the late Walter Payton, who has 9.). Flies rely heavily on sight for survival. Smith led the NFL in rushing four times, was the league's MVP in 1993, was the MVP of Super Bowl XXVIII, and made eight Pro Bowls. The larva of a fly is commonly called a maggot.

He was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in 1990 and subsequently became an integral part of their three Super Bowl championship teams in four years following the 1992-93 and 1995 seasons. Other flies, such as the horse-fly (Family Tabanidae), can inflict painful bites. He left Florida after his junior year with 3928 rushing yards and 36 touchdowns. The house-fly (Musca domestica) and mosquito are particularly common amongst humans. While at UF he set 58 school records, including the single game rushing record in his very first start. Flies are common amongst humans and some can cause the spread of serious diseases. He starred at the University of Florida, where he joined Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. These typically have one pair of true wings, with the hind wings modified into halteres.

In high school, Smith amassed 8804 rushing yards and scored 106 touchdowns. As defined by entomologists, a fly (plural flies) is any species of insect of the order Diptera. Included in Smith's league record 78 regular season 100-yard rushing games are 18 days with over 150 yards, which is the fourth highest total of 150-yard games in NFL history. alder fly, Dobson fly, and fish fly: Megaloptera. His 45 100-yard games in high school is still the national record, and in NFL annals, Smith's 78 100-yard rushing games makes him the NFL's all-time leader - just ahead of Walter Payton (77) and Barry Sanders (76). scorpionfly and hangingfly: Mecoptera. The century mark became a big number in Smith's career, having rushed for 100 yards in 155-of-326 games dating back to high school (45-of-49 at Escambia High School, 25-of-34 at Florida, 81-of-202 at Dallas, including playoffs, and two-of-25 at Arizona). sawfly: Hymenoptera:Tenthredinidae.

Smith is one of only three players in Cowboys history with three career 100-point seasons, and he is the only non-kicker to accomplish the feat. mayfly: Ephemeroptera. He passed his childhood hero Walter Payton in a game against Seattle in 2002. stonefly: Plecoptera. May 15, 1969 in Pensacola, Florida) is a retired American football player, one of the most prolific running backs to ever play professional football, and is only the seventh player in NFL history to carry the title of all-time rushing leader, and is the current holder of the title. butterfly: Lepidoptera. Emmitt James Smith III (b. dragonfly and damselfly: Odonata.

caddis fly: Trichoptera. firefly: Coleoptera:Lampyridae.