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.
. He is considering stepping into the broadcasting booth. These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Hollaback Girl". May 16, 1996). On August 28, 2005, "Hollaback Girl" won for Best Choreography in a Video at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. July 27, 1991), and Jada Symone (b. It debuted at number twenty-nine on Canada's MuchMusic Countdown, and reached number one two and a half months later, where it stayed for two weeks.

(b. Hollaback Girl also peaked at number one for two non-consecutive weeks on VH1's Top 20 Video Countdown. June 7, 1987), Jerry Jr. "Hollaback Girl" was successful on various video countdowns, including Total Request Live, where it reached the number one position, and was eventually retired from the program fifty days after its first appearance, becoming the first Stefani video to retire. Rice currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, with his wife Jackie and their children, Jaqui Bonet (b. In the middle of the video, Pharrell Williams, one of the song's coproducers, makes a cameo appearance. 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. In it, Stefani covers her mouth and looks around whenever she says the word "shit".

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. "Hollaback Girl" contains a tongue-in-cheek moment which appears frequently throughout the music video. Rice's work ethic kept him in a state of sustained physical fitness unattainable for players with less discipline. The camera zooms in on Stefani, and the video is then complete. 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. At the end, the Harajuku Girls perform a choreographed dance, in which Stefani rises from the ground with her hands in the air. He was also selected for the Pro Bowl 13 times. The Harajuku Girls visualize the song's bridge by spelling out the word "bananas" with blue and white cue cards.

He finished second in voting to Brett Favre in 1995 for AP's Most Valuable Player. The video is intercut with sequences filmed against a black background, of Stefani, the Harajuku Girls, and the cheerleaders dancing along to the marching band. 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. They stir things up by barging in on a football game, and are later seen at a grocery store, marching down the aisles, throwing cereal and other food products. Rice, his role diminished beyond his hopes and interests, opted for retirement, which he officially announced on September 5, 2005. Letting out a laugh, Stefani begins to sing, and the students — augmented by a marching band and Japanese cheerleaders — follow Stefani and her Harajuku Girls in a yellow car (with "Hollaback Girl" written on the hood) to the high school's outdoor campus. Darius Watts won the third receiver spot from Rice and receiver Charlie Adams appeared to have the fourth spot. The teenagers first call out to Stefani as she takes photographs of her entourage of colorfully-dressed Harajuku Girls with her HP Harajuku Lovers camera (a Stefani designer edition digicam).

However, Rice had a mediocre preseason with the Broncos, perhaps due to a foot injury. The music video for "Hollaback Girl" was directed by Paul Hunter and shot in California, United States; it depicts Gwen Stefani spending a day with some students at a local high school. On May 26, 2005, Rice agreed to a one-year, $765,000 deal with the Denver Broncos. The single largely was successful across Europe and Asia, and reached the top five in Germany and China, and the top ten in the Netherlands. 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. Although its UK success was limited, widespread airplay guaranteed that it remained in the top forty for an additional ten weeks. During the ensuing offseason, Seattle released Rice at his own request. "Hollaback Girl" debuted at number eight, and stalled at the same position the following week.

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 song's predecessors, "What You Waiting For?" and "Rich Girl", had both reached number four. Louis Rams, becoming the first team to lose a playoff game to an 8–8 team. However, in the United Kingdom, "Hollaback Girl" did not perform as well as might have been expected from previous releases. Seattle concluded the season with a playoff loss to the St. It was released in Australia on May 23, 2005 and in Europe on June 6, 2005; it debuted at number one in Australia for one week, and also peaked at number one in Iceland for two weeks. The Seahawks temporarily unretired Largent's 80 for Rice with Largent's approval. In the rest of the world, reaction to "Hollaback Girl" was generally positive, but not as overwhelming as it had been in North America.

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. It remained in the top forty of the chart for the following four months. 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. Six weeks after its release, the song reached number one, where it remained for three weeks before descending the chart. 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. The success of "Hollaback Girl" was duplicated in Canada, where the song debuted at number twelve on the Canadian Singles Chart. By 2004, Rice's role with the Raiders had diminished as the team became focused on developing their younger receivers. Due to its downloads, it reached number one on both digital sales charts, the Hot Digital Songs and Hot Digital Tracks, concurrently.

Rice played in his fourth Super Bowl in January 2003, though the Raiders lost badly in a blowout to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. "Hollaback Girl" exceeded one million digital downloads for the week ending October 4, 2005, and was the first single to ever accomplish this; it was certified 5× platinum. He and Tim Brown formed a fearsome (if aged) tandem, eventually occupying the top two spots on the NFL's career receiving yardage list. However, Stefani did not hold the record for long, and in September 2005 it was broken by Kanye West's and Jamie Foxx's "Gold Digger". 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. The record had previously been held by 50 Cent's "Candy Shop", which sold approximately 50,000 downloads. He was quickly picked up by the Oakland Raiders. It was the best-selling digital download for the latter three weeks of May 2005, and broke the record for the most downloads sold in one week, totaling over 60,000.

In 2001, the 49ers released Rice because of salary cap problems. Digitally, "Hollaback Girl" also broke many records. 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. Both positions were the highest that a non-R&B/hip hop solo artist had attained in the 2000s. 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 song was also a crossover success, and reached number four on the Rhythmic Top 40, and number eight on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. Those tandems led the 49ers to three championships in Super Bowls XXIII, XXIV and XXIX. "Hollaback Girl" was a small success in the dance clubs, and only peaked at number fifteen on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart; it performed better on the Dance Radio Airplay by reaching the top five.

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. It peaked at number one on the Billboard Pop 100 for eight weeks, and topped its component chart, the Billboard Pop 100 Airplay, for four weeks. 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. However, some argue that the song achieved this due to its hip hop–influenced production. 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). "Hollaback Girl" reaching number one on the Hot 100 made it the first non-R&B, non-hip hop, or non-American Idol song to reach number one since Nickelback's "How You Remind Me" in early 2002. 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. It was removed from the Hot 100 for the week ending October 29, 2005.

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 single spent thirty-three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, thirty-one of which were in the top fifty. That season he was named an AP All-American. It maintained the number-one for four weeks. 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. number-one. He acquired the nickname World, because there wasn't a ball in the world he couldn't catch. chart, at number eighty-two, and within six weeks of its release, it had reached the number-one position, making it the fastest-rising single to reach the top in 2005; it also became Stefani's first U.S.

Rice attended Mississippi Valley State University, becoming a standout on the football team. "Hollaback Girl" entered the Billboard Hot 100, the main U.S. 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. The single was officially solicited to radio in North America on April 5, 2005, although the music video had been released two weeks earlier, on March 21. He developed his hands while working for his father by catching bricks that his brothers threw at him. It ranked higher than other number-one singles such as Céline Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" (number three) and the Spice Girls' "Wannabe" (number five). Jerry Rice grew up in Crawford, Mississippi, the son of a brick mason. Nick Sylvester of Pitchfork insulted the track, referring to it as a "Queen pastiche [...] which has about as much club potential as a 13-year old with a milk moustache and his dad's ID."^[10] Maxim was not thrilled with the song either, and in their September 2005 issue, published a list of the 20 Most Annoying Songs Ever; "Hollaback Girl" came in first place.

. And on top of that, The Neptunes' beats are clunky and the production is senselessly bombastic."^[9]. 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). A 35-year-old woman singing about pom-poms and 'talking shit' in high school betrays such a delusional self-image that it's hard not to be taken aback. Rice played in 29 postseason games, amassing 2,245 receiving yards and 22 touchdowns, both NFL records, along with 44 rushing yards. I’d quote the lyrics, but they’re so bad, I almost feel sorry for her. His postseason stats are equally high. On the other hand, Jason Damas, in a review for PopMatters, described the song as sounding "almost exactly like Dizzee Rascal", and added, "lyrically, this is where Gwen sinks the lowest here, especially on a breakdown where she repeats, 'This shit is bananas/ B-A-N-A-N-A-S!' several times".^[8] Eric Greenwood of DrawerB commented: "[The song is] moronic and embarrassingly tuneless.

Rice also gained 645 rushing yards and 10 rushing touchdowns, an extremely large amount for a wide receiver. Baby. album, wrote: "Stefani's gum-snapping sass brings out the beast in her beatmasters, especially the Neptunes in 'Hollaback Girl'."^[6] Blender listed it as the eleventh best song of 2005.^[7]. Rice is the only one of the top 25 scorers in NFL history who did not kick the football. Music. 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). Angel. 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). LAUNCHcast's Jennifer Nine described it as a "stomping, stripped-back track",^[3] while All Music Guide said that it had the "thumping, minimal beats of The Neptunes."^[4] Richard Smirke called it "a trademark Neptunes hip-hop stomp."^[5] Rolling Stone was pleased with the song, and in their review for Stefani's Love.

In the United States, "Hollaback Girl" became the first digital download to exceed sales of one million. Besides being Stefani's first number-one single, "Hollaback Girl" was also the first non hip-hop, non American Idol number one hit since late 2001. Despite receiving a mixed reception from critics, it became an international success, peaking at number one in Australia and Canada, number eight in the United Kingdom, and number one in the United States. Baby. in the spring of 2005.

Music. Angel. "Hollaback Girl" was released as the third single from Love. The central lyrical theme revolves around Stefani's declaration that she "ain't no hollaback girl".

The anthemic, beat-driven track was produced by Williams and Chad Hugo of The Neptunes. Baby (2004). Music. Angel.

"Hollaback Girl" is a pop song written by American singer-songwriter Gwen Stefani and producer Pharrell Williams for Stefani's debut solo album, Love. Retrieved from http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1497721/20050303/story.jhtml on November 23, 2005. "Gwen Stefani Answers No Doubt Fans With 'Attitude Song'". Retrieved from http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hollaback.