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Not Wanting To Disappoint Is What Pushed Me To Be Successful.

I Could Barely Speak After I Was Drafted By The San Francisco 49ers. I Was Going To Play For The Defending Super Bowl Champions.... I Immediately Thought Of All The Great Players On The Team. I Was In Awe, As I Had Watched These Soon-to-be Legends Play On Television. They Epitomized For Me What Football Was All About: The Love Of The Game, The Professional Approach, And The Desire To Win.

Coming From The South, I Just Felt You Had To Work Just A Little Bit Harder. It Was Not Going To Be Handed To You. I’d Get The Letters From All The Major Schools But No One Came Out To Talk To Me Face To Face Until This Small, Dominant Black School, Mississippi State Valley University Sent A Coach Out To Me. I Had A Chance To Talk To Him And He Said, ‘hey Jerry, We’re Going To Be Doing Some Great Things At Mississippi Valley State University And We Would Love To Have You There.’

I Just Want The Same Thing Joe Montana Got When He Was Mvp. He Got Respect. He Got Commercials. He Got Everything

I Think With My Hands, It Was Catching A Lot Of Footballs And Working With My Father During The Summer Because He Would Always Make Me. My Father Was A Bricklayer So I Was A Helper. My Job Was To Make Sure That He Had Bricks To Lay.