Jerry Rice UNSTOPPABLE 23 TDs in 12 Games! | 1987 Season Highlights! 

it's funny when people make the Moss 07 argument for most dominant season but don't even acknowledge that Jerry did this in ONLY 12 GAMES!

there's only one non kicker in the top 50 point scorers of all time and it's Jerry Rice. you can't make this stuff up because people wouldn't believe you. video game numbers. unwavering commitment to improvement. absolute legend. easily one of the greatest football players of all time. hands down the greatest wr of all time.

Watching him and Montana was such a joy growing up. Rice was just unreal.

Put this in context on how great/dominate Jerry Rice was.. he made the pro bowl in his 20's 30's and 40's..

Reggie White had 21 sacks in 12 games in 1987 as well. If the minister of defense had the opportunity to play a full season in '87, he would of set the single season sack so high his record would've been as impossible to beat as many of Rice's receiving marks.

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He should have been the MVP that year.

Quite simply, the greatest football player that ever lived. Full stop. No one was as dominant, for as long, in a position that usually has diminishing returns with advancing age, as Jerry Rice. You could split his career in half and have two Hall of Fame careers. You could make him your #1 receiver at 23 or at 40. No one else has remotely SNIFFED his production, longevity, durability, or completeness as a wide receiver. And it didn't matter who the QB was. Yeah, he had Montana, Young, and later Gannon, but he also had Kemp, Moroski, Bono, Grbac, and Mirer and still produced. 22 touchdowns receiving in 12 games in 1987 is so absurd...it's like a hitter hitting .425 in today's game or an NHL wing scoring 95 goals. He would've legitimately had 27 or 28 receiving touchdowns in a full season.

Fun fact: John Elway won MVP this year and had 19 PASSING TDs. It really should have gone to Rice.

The 🐐. Just the catches he could make while taking those hits over the middle for yac or going deep double covered and still beating them is just unreal. When the GOAT corner Deion Sanders hated going against you the most, yeah, you the 🐐

The best to ever play the game 💯

Wow, that season was insane, most TD recepcions and total touchdowns in a single season, and in the 80s, defintley the best wide reciver in NFL history

Greatest football player oat. Argue with a wall

What a treat. Thanks for spotlighting Jerry Rice's incredible 1987 season. In 2007 when Randy Moss "broke" the TD record, a large contingent of folks just seemed to gloss over the fact that Rice had the record in 12 games. Actually he had 23 total TDs as a receiver in 12 games compared to Moss' 22 in 16 games. As a 49ers fan that kind of irked me a bit at the time, but now it's whatever. Jerry Rice's season stands on it's own accord as being remarkable regardless.

He definitely would of had 30 or more in a full 16 game schedule

Goat

The closest any WR ever came to winning league MVP by the way 🐐

Rice really should have won MVP this season. All you need to say is 22tds in 12 games. If he played a full season he was on pace for 86 receptions 1400 yards and 29tds

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It was an absurd that they gave Elway the MVP award. Rice's 1987 was insane, he's the greatest 49er

Goat for a reason at the receiver position!

This is the most impressive WR season ever. I don’t think this will be replicated or surpassed

Game speed, not combine speed. Clutch regimen and game mindset. Almost 20 years in the game, catching a SB TD in 2002, having started in playing in 1985! There have been more impressive specimens, Moss, Megatron, etc, but Rice is the true GOAT.

I’ve been waiting on someone to upload all of his touchdowns from ‘87 into one video. Thanks so much. Rice is the GOAT.

Unbelievable he is the goat at that position. Can you imagine what he would do in a 17 game season? Unbelievable.

Over 1/3 of his catches that year ended in a touchdown... That's hard to do in Madden on easy mode

I was born and raised in Berkeley. Jerry Rice shook my hand as a little kid and I watch him and Bo Jackson run every single man down to account. Rice had and still has the best hands in football. The absolute best position player in the NFL of all time. Growin up there and seeing these two play as a kid gave my all I ever needed to know.

Greatest football player of all time. Period

Truly one of the greatest Wide receivers of All Time , thank u NFL throwback !!!

Arguably the greatest receiver in NFL history. There’s nothing I can say about that

GOAT reciever did it all without gloves too

The NFL officially looks at the 87 season as 15 games. Rice played in 12 games because he didn’t cross the picket line and play in the scab games. This was the strike year’s.

Jerry the GOAT!

Maybe the greatest to ever touch a football

im impressed by how accurate montana is.

Remember when "Washed up Jerry Rice" went to Oakland for his age 39 and 40 seasons and mopped the floor with guys half his age?🙂

Rice Rice Baby

I noticed he ain't wearing the gloves that Nike makes the ball stick to your hands. GOAT

1:24 That is just pure anticipation, Montana lets go of the ball before Rice enters his break let alone exits it.... perfect throw.. rice knows exactly where to be and it's 6'' ahead of his hands... I hope Dak can get some of that in the WCO

The crazy thing is Jerry did this in 12 games. Imagine what he could've done in 16.

Why does 1987 feel like 20-25 years ago and not THIRTY SIX years ago? Maybe that’s just how it is as you get older.

0:56 Jerry Rice avoided that big bone crushing hit

im a Broncos fan and love me some Elway, but how did he win league MVP that year over Rice? This was the GOAT receiver season IMO (better than Randy in 2007, Megatron in 2012, and Kupp in 2021)

Jerry rice was really a different species

Imagine if he played today!

Jerry Rice the greatest wide receiver in NFL history no doubt about it like a tremendously terrific awesome a one of a kind masterpiece of his position not even by a longshot he's one of those players that every NFL teams wish or could dream of having on your roster just to to the super bowl and when you do make sure you see #80 to come through in the clutch just asked Montana and Young they know it that's for sure but either way there will never ever ever ever be another Jerry Rice nobody he's earned my Respect to be real here #80 is a trustworthy number to throw the ball to him and let him do what he does best 👌🏾👍🏾✊🏾

I was just thinking the other day about this, glad you guys posted this

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The '87 season is one of the main things I'd bring up if i'm debating greatest WR of all time. (and it'd be a strong one for greatest player ever as well) To me, Jerry Rice is the standard for every WR ever and it's a high one. If you can have even just the work ethic he had you'll be playing in this league for YEARS.

G.O.A.T.E.D.

I'm fully convinced Jerry Rice could suit up today and be a top 10 WR

Yo Montana out there throwing some dots

Watching that play agianst the Packers was unreal two guys on pace with him at the 50 yard line when he catches the ball, and then two in front not a single one comes even close to tackling him.

22 receiving touchdowns is absolutely insane, if he were to play 4 more games he probably would’ve had at least 24-27. Moss broke or tied the record but in 15-16 games. That is no where near as incredible as it was because of the games played and also bc of how players played back then. Receiver was tougher, back then playing defense was easier and now it’s the opposite with all the rules that favor the offense

Put your team colors down for a moment ...Rice is all time

My Popz is a huge fan of the 49ers and he loves Joe Montana & Jerry Rice. He still argues with me to this day that Joe is better than Brady and Rice is more talented than Moss or MegaTron. Gotta love this good ole sports debates with your old man‼️😂

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This man is the GOAT!

Rice out here cooking dudes

There was alot of amazing feats in this strike shortened 1987 season... Reggie White also had a league best 21 sacks that year... & he missed like 4 games due to the labor dispute 😯

23 touchdown on 23 different routes it looked like. Randy moss highlights are mostly deep balls...Jerry really scored every which way

Jerry is a walking highlight in real life, imagine all the years of him playing! sheesh! Go Niners!

The precision on his routes...

I love Elway, but it's kind of nuts that he won MVP in 1987 and Jerry Rice didn't. We might need to have a wide receiver to catch 22+ touchdowns on a team that has three or more different starting quarterbacks over the course of a season before we ever see a wideout win league MVP.

That’s what I’m talking about, give some respect to the goat

I still can’t believe the 49ers went one and done in the playoffs that year to the 8-7 Vikings no less

Also, another thing about the 1987 MVP race is that while John Elway won MVP, he didn't make 1st-Team All Pro at QB. It went to Joe Montana. I wonder if that's ever happened in another season.

Interesting that in the top 2 WR seasons for touchdowns (Rice and Moss), neither won the SB that year. In fact, both of their teams had the league's best record. The Niners had a bye but lost their first playoff game to a Vikings team that had 5 less wins during the season. This was the season the Redskins stomped Denver with Doug Williams throwing all over them.

I never realized Steve Young filled in for Joe for part of this season - I think it's so cool Jerry set the record and both of his favorite guys got to share in it. Just crazy to think he only caught 65 passes to do that - only 65 chances to score 22 times is unreal. He literally caught a TD once every 3 balls. Nobody else will come close to that - that Randy Moss bullshit was stat padding and took him 16 games, not 12, in an era of soft defense. It should be removed as a record as far as I'm concerned or asterisked. Jerry is the king!

He played barehanded for this season and I believe a lot of his career, So for people to talk about stick em gloves with him is a travesty He grew up catching bricks thrown to him by his father Not to mention his route running, separation, positioning on the field, run after the catch. The best player ever

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To put this year in proper perspective for Jerry Rice. Jerry Rice had more touchdowns than 4 NFL teams.

And Elway was MVP wtf every news and journalist gave MVP to Jerry except AP wow and if it was 16 games he would have LT record let that sink in!!!!!

If you're going to do this then do Emmitt's +20 TD seasons, since he has 2

"Montana to Rice" - it's etched in our heads

UPI NAMED OL'🐐👑JERRY RICE#80 NFL 🏈 MVP FOR THE 1987 SEASON .. HE'S THE BEST PLAYER IN NFL 🏈 HISTORY .. ALONG WITH JIM BROWN#32 .. AND REGGIE WHITE#92 ..

Need more of these! Imagine if there wasn’t a strike during that season possibly 25 TDs which is absurd

In 12 games is Krazy

The Real GOAT not Tom Brady

God bless you guys Always keep God first

And he did it with no gloves 🧤!

It was 22 TDs in 12 game's actually Moss holds the record for 23 TDs in a season

1987: the year of the Cabbage Patch 😆

Yea he did burn so many and yup the QBs were on point as well

I wish we can see video of the routes he ran so we can see how he sets up his catches

Imagine if there was no strike in '87 what would Rice Numbers would have been like!!!!!

The greatest season a WR has ever had

No MVP for this season is mental.

The fact he didn’t win mvp that year was one of the stupidest decisions in nfl history.

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Boy Montana sure could pass.

(Almost) the speed of Moss, strength of Calvin Johnson and the route running of Jason Witten. This is the year it all came together.

Somehow, a qb who didn't even make 1st team all pro won mvp over this fantastic season from the best wide receiver to ever play

Rice didn't necessarily make a lot of SPECTACULAR plays/catches, like a Randy Moss per say, but he was just consistently excellent on basically EVERY play/catch he made. Also, Jerry kept coming back to that cabbage patch whenever he scored 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Rice's records and numbers become even more staggering when you think about how there were so fewer passing plays called back then, even by the 49ers. He wasn't getting 15 targets a game like star receivers today. Not to mention how the DBs could basically tackle him and not get called for pass interference.

Not T.O. not Moss All Jerry All Day

John Elway Won MVP in 1987 Tho

12 games

Alot of you should look up the season of 1987