Jerry Rice

He is currently participating in the second series of the ABC reality television show Dancing with the Stars and is paired with ballroom dancer Anna Trebunskaya. Anthony Field is a registered breeder of Miniature Fox Terriers. He is considering stepping into the broadcasting booth. However, there has never been a legitimate article stating this as fact. May 16, 1996). There is an occasional Internet urban legend that Anthony Field is a very distant cousin of New York father-and-son TV weathercasters Frank Field and Storm Field. July 27, 1991), and Jada Symone (b. It can be argued that the Wiggles are among the first cultural influences on the yet-unnamed generation that follows the Millenials, that is, the children of Generation Z.

(b. In the United States, these series are broadcast on the Disney Channel. June 7, 1987), Jerry Jr. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has produced several series of Wiggles television programs. Rice currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, with his wife Jackie and their children, Jaqui Bonet (b. What are The Wiggles' middle names?:. In 1999, while Rice was still very much in the prime of his career, The Sporting News ranked him #2 on their list of the 100 Greatest Football Players, making him their highest-ranked active player and their highest-ranked receiver. Are The Wiggles married and do they have any children?:.

His offseason workout regimen is renowned throughout the NFL, and often exceeded the abilities of those that tried to train with him, most notably Barry Sanders. How Tall are The Wiggles:. Rice's work ethic kept him in a state of sustained physical fitness unattainable for players with less discipline. The Wiggles' Birthdays:. Some speculate that Rice was reluctant to retire because of the threat that receivers such as Randy Moss, Terrell Owens, and Marvin Harrison posed to his many NFL records. The Wiggles recently appeared in the telemovie special Da Kath & Kim Code as guest stars. He was also selected for the Pro Bowl 13 times. A mention is also made in the popular TV series Scrubs in which Doctor Cox makes a reference to "Jeff that Wiggle that sleeps too darn much" while speaking to another cast member.

He finished second in voting to Brett Favre in 1995 for AP's Most Valuable Player. A measure of the Wiggles' growing fame in America is the fact that Captain Feathersword was mentioned in an episode of the acclaimed political TV drama The West Wing. Rice won the NFL Most Valuable Player Award in 1987 by Pro Football Writers of America and was Super Bowl MVP in Super Bowl XXIII. By guest-starring on their show, the Wiggles have also introduced non-Australian audiences to performers such as Jimmy Little, Kamahl, and Christine Anu (though many will recognize her by face if not by name). Rice, his role diminished beyond his hopes and interests, opted for retirement, which he officially announced on September 5, 2005. They have also recorded with numerous Australian and international music stars including John Fogerty, Tim Finn and Ross Wilson. Darius Watts won the third receiver spot from Rice and receiver Charlie Adams appeared to have the fourth spot. [1] The group is currently franchising its concept to non-English speaking countries, with the idea already successfully sold in Taiwan, which now has its own Taiwanese Wiggles.

However, Rice had a mediocre preseason with the Broncos, perhaps due to a foot injury. In 2001 The Wiggles were reported to have earned more than A$14 million, a sum which had grown to A$45 million by 2004. On May 26, 2005, Rice agreed to a one-year, $765,000 deal with the Denver Broncos. All the members play a musical instrument, which has become an important educational aspect of their shows. 49ers' head coach Mike Nolan offered to bring Rice onto the Niners' roster for one day, allowing Rice to retire where he spent most of his prodigious career, but Nolan was against using Rice on the active roster for the season. The Wiggles' music and performances were given an additional strength by the members' interest and experience in live pop music, skills which they incorporate into their CDs, videos and live shows. During the ensuing offseason, Seattle released Rice at his own request. Informed by their studies and teaching expertise, they brought a fresh approach to the genre which, at its worst, could be simplistic, old-fashioned and sometimes downright patronising in both style and content.

Rice did not catch a pass in the game, the first time he failed to do so in his record 29 game post-season career. The quality of content was another crucial factor in The Wiggles' success. Louis Rams, becoming the first team to lose a playoff game to an 8–8 team. Increasing reliability, falling cost and simplicity of operation saw many children in this age group learning how to operate CD players and VCRs themselves. Seattle concluded the season with a playoff loss to the St. Crucially for the Wiggles, both the VCR and the CD player were ideally suited to repeat playing, and like TV before them, both technologies were almost immediately harnessed to entertain the preschool children of the late Baby Boomer generation (most of whom had grown up with TV as a constant childhood companion and babysitter). The Seahawks temporarily unretired Largent's 80 for Rice with Largent's approval. By the early 1990s, the introduction of the new compact disc technology saw CD players emulating the near-universal market penetration of TVs and VCRs.

He wore #80 throughout his career, even though the Seahawks had retired that number in honor of Steve Largent, the Hall of Fame wide receiver who once held many of the receiving records that Rice later broke. Just as they did with television in the 1960s, Australians took up the domestic video cassette recorder in the 1980s with extraordinary speed, with the result that, by the end of the 1980s there was both a TV and a VCR in more than 90% of Australian households. He requested a trade to a team that would give him a more significant playing role; on October 18, 2004, Rice was traded to the Seattle Seahawks for a conditional seventh-round draft pick. By the time the Wiggles became established, two important changes had taken place in the Australian household. Rice only caught five passes for 67 yards without a touchdown in the first six games of the season, and his streak of consecutive games with a catch ended on September 19, 2004, against the Buffalo Bills. But they are very good dancers, and help out when they want to. By 2004, Rice's role with the Raiders had diminished as the team became focused on developing their younger receivers. They don't speak at all, and they are very mischievous and cheeky.

Rice played in his fourth Super Bowl in January 2003, though the Raiders lost badly in a blowout to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Wagglets are Wags the Dog's 'children' as such, in which he takes care of them in his house. He and Tim Brown formed a fearsome (if aged) tandem, eventually occupying the top two spots on the NFL's career receiving yardage list. The Wiggles have a rather unusual house, mainly because it's alive! The house can be very moody and stubborn, and in the movie didn't even recognise the wiggles! When the password 'sillypants' is stated, the house opens up like a lolly wrapper, much to the house's dislike, as he says he thinks he's falling apart. Even at the age of 39, Rice continued to excel, having his 13th and 14th 1,000-yard receiving seasons and scoring his 200th touchdown in 2002. She was only featured in the video/DVD appropriately named 'Wiggle Bay'. He was quickly picked up by the Oakland Raiders. She helped the wiggles find their adrift rowing boat when they visited the bay.

In 2001, the 49ers released Rice because of salary cap problems. Magdelena is a mermaid who lives in the ocean near Wiggle Bay. Rice returned to Pro Bowl form in 1998, but then endured two modest years in 1999 and 2000, the 49ers' only losing seasons during Rice's tenure, as teammate Terrell Owens emerged as the team's top receiver. In The Wiggles Movie: Magical Adventure, Officer Beaples had a speaking role. Following 11 consecutive Pro Bowl, 1,000-yard receiving seasons, Rice missed virtually the entire 1997 NFL season after he sustained a torn ACL in the 49ers' opening game. The part is typically mimed; she usually communicates through her whistle, and has many young police officers to teach (As seen on the Wiggles Live Video). Those tandems led the 49ers to three championships in Super Bowls XXIII, XXIV and XXIX. Dressed resembling a British bobby, Officer Beaples is played by a woman in drag.

By the late 1980s, Rice had become one of the biggest receiving threats in the NFL, teaming with quarterback Joe Montana and later his successor Steve Young. He longs to be like his grandfather Waldo the Great, and finally realized his dream after winning a magic competition in the Wiggles Movie. The next season, he set the NFL record for touchdown receptions with 22, a feat even more astonishing considering the season was shortened due to a players' strike. Wally is a children's magician who, despite his regular tries, fails at being a great magician. Rice struggled early in his rookie season with the 49ers as he learned their innovative West Coast system, but in the 1986 season, he caught 86 passes and led the league in receiving yards (1,570) and receiving touchdowns (15). Vanessa taught Dorothy how to dance, but was only featured in one video. Despite Rice having attended an NCAA Division I-AA school, 49ers head coach and general manager Bill Walsh noticed his potential and extreme work ethic and drafted him as the 16th pick in the first round of the 1985 NFL draft, dismissing scouting reports that his prospect was too slow to play the pro game. (A special note is that the video 'Toot Toot Chugga Chugga' Video had a special note at the end acknowledging John's death).

The school later named its football stadium Rice-Totten Stadium in honor of Rice and quarterback Willie Totten who threw Rice his many touchdown passes at Mississippi Valley State. The first Wiggles Chef was John Field Snr., until his death. That season he was named an AP All-American. He was played by former Crowded House drummer Paul Hester until his death in 2005. In college, he had a total of 51 touchdown catches and averaged 10 catches per game in 1984, when Mississippi Valley State averaged over 59 points per game. A friendly cook who taught the wiggles how to cook cold spaghetti, mashed bananas, and hot potatoes. He acquired the nickname World, because there wasn't a ball in the world he couldn't catch.
There are also some minor extra characters featured in some of the videos/DVDs:.

Rice attended Mississippi Valley State University, becoming a standout on the football team. Originally played by Anthony Field and his brother Paul Field, Captain Feathersword is now permanently played by Paul Paddick. Rice later recalled that working for his father also taught him "the meaning of hard work." His speed also helped him excel in football in high school. A running joke with Captain Feathersword is his use of the phrase "Well, blow me down!", which usually results in the characters nearest him obeying his wishes by blowing him to the ground with a gust of breath. He developed his hands while working for his father by catching bricks that his brothers threw at him. His catch-phrase is "Ahoy There, Me Hearties". Jerry Rice grew up in Crawford, Mississippi, the son of a brick mason. Captain Feathersword is a friendly pirate, and is characterised by his pirate coat and hat, eyepatch and eponymous sword made of feathers.

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. He also holds Super Bowl records for most career receptions (33), career receiving yards (589), career touchdown receptions (8), single game receptions (11), single game receiving yards (215), single game touchdown receptions (3, a feat he accomplished twice), career total points (48), single game points (18), and career total yards (604). He is said to have a bubbly personality and loves a good joke. Rice played in 29 postseason games, amassing 2,245 receiving yards and 22 touchdowns, both NFL records, along with 44 rushing yards. Henry lives under the sea and is the leader of the Underwater Big Band. His postseason stats are equally high. Henry likes to wave to all his friends simultaneously, an easily accomplished feat considering his eight tentacles.

Rice also gained 645 rushing yards and 10 rushing touchdowns, an extremely large amount for a wide receiver. He wears tartan clothes, a straw hat and black polished shoes on the end of every tentacle. Rice is the only one of the top 25 scorers in NFL history who did not kick the football. Henry is a fun-loving octopus with purple skin. In most cases, the next most prolific player isn't close; for example, he's 67 receiving touchdowns ahead of second place Cris Carter (who is also retired).
. Rice has scored the most touchdowns in NFL history (207), and holds virtually every significant career record for receivers, including receptions (1,549), yards receiving (22,895), all-purpose yards (23,540), touchdown receptions (197) and consecutive games with at least one catch (274). He believes everyone is his friend and is said to love having a good time.

He is the holder of 38 NFL records, a record in itself. Wags is a skilled Tango dancer. He made the Denver Broncos roster in the summer of 2005, but he hung up his cleats shortly before the season began. Wags cannot talk, but The Wiggles understand him when he barks. He captured three Super Bowl rings as a wideout for the San Francisco 49ers, and also played briefly for the Oakland Raiders and Seattle Seahawks. Wags also enjoys digging in his garden. Jerry Lee Rice (born October 13, 1962 in Starkville, Mississippi) is a former football wide receiver in the NFL, widely regarded as the best receiver to ever play the game, and arguably the greatest football player ever. He enjoys eating, and is said to keep The Wiggles up all night if he gets hungry.

Wags is a tall, brown, furry dog with floppy ears and a happy face. Dorothy has a heart of gold and is a very friendly dinosaur. She loves her birthday as The Wiggles always make it a very special fun day for her. She loves dancing, and is known to do ballet, Irish, Scottish, and line dancing.

Dorothy is 5 Dinosaur years old, and is very wise for her age. She wears a floppy white hat and enjoys eating roses. Dorothy is a large green dinosaur with yellow spots. Occasionally touring without The Wiggles as "Dorothy The Dinosaur And Friends", they enable the group to maintain a touring presence even when The Wiggles themselves are off the road.

They were developed in the early 1990s, and were originally played by group members and by Anthony's brother Paul, but are now played by hired actors. Aside from the four Wiggles, there are many secondary characters that appear in their many songs and shows. American audiences responded warmly to the freewheeling Wiggles style and they now regularly sell out major venues around the country. audiences with the same easygoing presentation style that they had used in Australia.

Their early experiences touring in the USA with the 'Barney' shows -- which reportedly featured high production values but lacked spontaneity -- showed The Wiggles that they could break through to U.S. Their stage routines are often augmented by some gentle ironic humour aimed at the adults, although this is never done cynically, or at the expense of the children. They have, notably, made few concessions to the cultural imperatives supposedly prevalent in the American media, and they still display the same relaxed, accessible and good-natured performance style that was evident in their earlier Australian work. Although their live shows have lately become increasingly sophisticated, the Wiggles' basic style has changed little since their earliest days and a Wiggles concert can be enjoyed by parents and children alike.

Aside from their commitment, dedication and sheer hard work, a crucial aspect in The Wiggles' American success has been their on-stage spontaneity, humour and talent for improvisation. They now regularly play to packed houses across the USA, have performed at both Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall, and have appeared on TV shows such as the NBC "Today" show and the Regis Philbin talk show, as well as featuring in several Thanksgiving Parades in New York City. Since it was originally shown from 1997 to 1999, and in 2002 (also entitled Network Wiggles or Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles!) on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Kids, The Wiggles are now seen nationally in the USA on the Disney Channel and as a result their popularity has sky-rocketed. After an initial slow entry into the United States market (touring with the organization that produces the Barney & Friends children's show), the Wiggles secured a breakthrough deal with The Walt Disney Company, and saw their videos and TV series screened to preschool children across America.

that they had their first major international success. Their first overseas tours brought the Wiggles to the United States and Britain in the mid-1990s, but like many other Australian acts, it was in the U.S. They performed literally hundreds of shows each year, their videos and CDs sold in ever increasing numbers and they regularly won every major industry award in their category. After several years of relentless touring around Australia, the group were firmly established as the most successful children's entertainment act Australia had ever seen.

With international exposure, the group became extremely popular in the United States and elsewhere in the 2000s. Their first CD, released in 1991, is the only recording to feature founding member Philip Wilcher, who left the group soon after the CD's release. Their combination of kid-friendly songs, videos and characters were a quick hit in Australia in the early 1990s. The group was able to capitalise on the contacts and goodwill that The Cockroaches had built up during the 1980s -- that band toured regularly and successfully throughout Australia -- and they also built up their performance expertise and public exposure with occasional busking around Sydney, although they would undoubtedly be mobbed if they were to attempt this today.

They developed a hugely successful system where receipts for their shows were split with the centres, who were able to use the popular Wiggles concerts as lucrative fund-raising events. Originally a five-piece group, the Wiggles began their career playing at pre-schools and childcare centres. They have also been able to successfully respond to criticism of the content of their act by pointing out the sound theoretical and educational bases of their work. They have been (unfairly) accused of pandering to allegedly 'trendy' notions of political correctness, but the Wiggles were in that case able to defend themselves by pointing out that the composition of the group -- including the Chinese-Australian Jeff Fatt -- was a matter of pure happenstance which arose out of a simple necessity, rather than being a concept deliberately created to try and exploit a market or imitate an existing act (e.g Hi-5).

Although there is now regular coverage of their ongoing financial success, The Wiggles near-universal popularity has meant that they have only rarely been victims of the so-called "tall poppy syndrome", though they have occasionally come in for some mild criticism. In the process their success has spawned a slew of lesser imitators including The Hooley Dooleys and the 'concept' children's group Hi-5. Thanks to a productive (if occasionally difficult) alliance with the ABC, the Wiggles created a distinctive blend of music, comedy and educational content that saw them rise over the course of the 1990s to become the most popular and successful children's group in Australian entertainment history, and then in turn become one of the most successful Australian entertainment exports of all time. Children's entertainment was up to this time dominated by presence of the long-running ABC-TV children's program Playschool, who marketed much of the most successful children's material, and whose various presenters often performed at children's concerts and similar events.

In Australia it had become a small but profitable "cottage industry" which operated in fairly traditional styles. Up to this time, the mass-market potential of entertainment for preschool children had yet to be tapped to its full extent. Their shows were such a hit with young audiences that they soon found themselves in regular demand and they soon discovered that could earn considerably more working as children's entertainers than as preschool teachers (a profession that is notoriously underpaid in Australia). The original five Wiggles initially teamed up to produce a music performance project for their studies.

Like Field, Cook had experience playing on the booming Sydney live rock scene of that period; he had played bass in a minor Sydney 1980s pop band, Finger Guns, while working as a clerk at the Australian Taxation Office. Page, the youngest of the group, had come into the course straight from high school, but Cook, Field and Wilcher were all mature-age students. Field enrolled in early childhood studies at Macquarie University in Sydney in the late 1980s, and it was here that he met three other students who were also musicians -- classically trained pianist Philip Wilcher, guitarist and singer Murray Cook and vocalist Greg Page. Anthony Field (vocals, guitar) and Jeff Fatt (vocals, keyboards) had been members of The Cockroaches, a popular eighties pub rock band who toured widely and had a number of Top 40 hits in Australia.

The animal characters also enabled them to create a (hugely successful) range of merchandising items that did not have to rely exclusively on the Wiggles own personae. The inclusion of the Dorothy character was one of their most successful innovations, since it enabled them to tap into the massive expansion of interest of dinosaurs among young children. The basic act was later augmented with popular supporting characters -- the parodic pirate Captain Feathersword (Paul Paddick) and the animal characters Dorothy the Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus and Wags the Dog. This simple device also allows the Wiggles to go about in public (at least in Australia) with relative ease, since children rarely recognise them without their trademark colors.

The colour coding is -- Greg, yellow; Murray, red; Anthony, blue; Jeff, purple. Very early on, they adopted differently coloured shirts for each member, which assisted their recognition by very young children, and they invariably wear the Wiggles 'uniform' when appearing as The Wiggles in the media or in public. The Wiggles originally consisted of five people, but for almost all of their career the lineup has consisted of the remaining four founder members. The Wiggles also adapted the Bob Wills tune "Silver Bells That Ring In The Night" with a duck-like "quack quack-quack" in the refrain.

Much of the Wiggles' music was written by John Field, the brother of the blue wiggle - Anthony. Another distinctive feature of the group's songs is easy-to-repeat gestures, such as the "romp bomp a chomp" hand motions in the song "Dorothy the Dinosaur". These costumed characters include Dorothy the Dinosaur (a horticulturalist dinosaur who eats only roses), Captain Feathersword (a harmless pirate), Wags the Dog, Henry the Octopus, and Officer Beaples (a female police officer who communicates through mime). Wiggles songs are often about simple topics that children can relate to: sleeping ("Rock A Bye Bear", "Wake Up Jeff"), eating ("Fruit Salad"), animals ("Do the Monkey", "Rockabye Your Bear", "Ponies") or the cast of characters created for their home videos and TV shows.

. The Wiggles are an Australian band who specialise in creating and performing music for preschool children. Anthony Wiggle Field. Jeff Wiggle Fatt.

Murray Wiggle Cook. Greg Wiggle Page. Jeff - single with no children. Anthony - married with two children.

Greg - married with two children. Murray - married with two children. Jeff: 177 cm (5'10"). Anthony: 182cm (6').

Murray: 192 cm (6'3 1/2"). Greg: 194 cm (6'4 1/2"). Jeff: 21st July. Murray: 30th June.

Anthony: 8th May. Greg: 16th January. Greg wears a yellow shirt, drives the Big Red Car, and often performs magic tricks. Originally, he wore a green shirt but switched to blue because Dorothy is green.

Anthony eats healthy food, especially fruit salad. Murray wears a red shirt and plays a guitar. Jeff wears a purple shirt and falls asleep (children are asked to shout 'Wake Up Jeff!').