Isaac Bruce Retires
Written by playerpress.com, Wednesday June 09 2010
Wide receiver Isaac Bruce, 37, one of the greatest players in Rams history, retired on Wednesday after 16 seasons in which he set virtually every franchise receiving record.
Bruce is second in the NFL in career receiving yards with 15,208, tied for second in yards per catch with 14.9, fifth in catches with 1,024 and ninth in receiving touchdowns with 91.
He also helped the Rams win the Super Bowl in 2000 as a pivotal part of the famed “Greatest Show on Turf," when the Rams went 13-3 and defeated the Tennessee Titans 23-16 in one of the most exciting Super Bowls that went down to the last play of the game. Bruce scored the go-ahead touchdown with less then 2 minutes to go in the game.
"I saw smoke in the air from the halftime show," he recalled. "I just kept my eyes on the football. It was like it was taking forever to get to me. When I caught the football, everything was in slow motion for me, but pretty much everyone around me was running fast."
The Rams will honor Bruce on Oct. 31 during a game against
He was drafted by the
"To me he was a complete receiver," said Mike Martz, the current offensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears and the Rams OC in 1999 and the head coach in 2000-05. Martz is the genius behind the “Greatest Show on Turf.”
"The other part of him, the humility that he played his entire career with, spoke so well about who he is as a man," Martz said from Chicago.
Bruce spent the past two seasons with the 49ers, who have agreed to allow the Rams to sign Bruce to a one day contract on Monday so that he could retire with the organization he played with for 14 seasons.
Bruce said that he does not exactly know what he will do next, but he believes his career is worthy of the Hall of Fame.
"I do believe in the next five years we'll be loading up trucks and we'll be heading to
In his retirement statement, Bruce had a message for the struggling Rams and their players.
"I'd would say, 'Watch your mouth,'" Bruce said. "Watch what you say about the team and the organization. And expect great things to happen."
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Why retire? Bruce is better than any receiver the Rams have...