Andre Rison
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| Born | March 18, 1967 | ||
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| Year(s) | 1989–2000 | ||
| NFL Draft | 1989 / Round: 1 / Pick: 22 | ||
| College | Michigan State | ||
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| Receptions | 743 | ||
| Receiving Yards | 10,205 | ||
| Receiving TDs | 84 | ||
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Andre Previn "Bad Moon" Rison (born March 18, 1967 in Flint, Michigan) is a retired American football wide receiver who played professionally for the National Football League's Indianapolis Colts, Atlanta Falcons, Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas City Chiefs, Oakland Raiders, and the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts. Rison was selected to the Pro Bowl five times, from 1990–1993 and once again in 1997.
Rison won a Super Bowl championship with the Green Bay Packers in 1996, scoring the first points of the game on a 54-yard touchdown catch. He also won a Grey Cup championship with the Toronto Argonauts in 2004. He is one of the few players to win professional football championships in both the United States of America and Canada. He was released by the Argonauts during the 2005 CFL season. He holds an NFL record for scoring a touchdown with 7 different teams.
He was a star player at Flint Northwestern High School and in college at Michigan State University. As a Senior at Michigan State, Rison had 30 receptions for 709 yards and 5 TDs.
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[edit] Early career
Rison began his NFL career in 1989 as a first round draft pick with the Indianapolis Colts, catching 52 passes for 820 yards with 4 touchdown receptions and showing great promise. However, he was traded to the Falcons as part of the infamous Jeff George block-buster deal. His next season marked the first of five very productive campaigns with the Atlanta Falcons. During these years, Rison finished near the top of most receiving categories, and led all NFL players with 15 receiving touchdowns in 1993.
After the 1994 season, Rison signed a lucrative free agent contract with Cleveland, where he was expected to bring his flashy playing style and become the featured receiving threat for the Browns, who had made the playoffs the year before. But Rison's one year stay with the Browns (the team he grew up rooting for) was a tremendous disappointment, full of frustration.[1] The receiver, who had been named to the Pro Bowl in four of his previous six seasons, had career lows in receptions (47), yards (701), touchdowns (3), receptions per game (2.9), and yards per game (43.8). Rison also developed a feud with the Cleveland fans, who were angered over the announcement that the team would be relocating to Baltimore and tired of his incredibly disappointing play. After an especially disappointing home loss to the Packers, Rison, who had been booed by the fans throughout the game, lashed out, stating, "We didn't make the f***ing move. So, for all the booers, f*** you too. I'll be glad when we get to Baltimore, if that's the case. We don't have any home-field advantage. I've never been booed at home. Baltimore's our home. Baltimore, here we come."[2]
[edit] Later career
Rison later won a Super Bowl ring with the Packers and had a solid year with KC before finally retiring several years later. His final NFL season, with the Raiders in 2000, saw Rison catch 41 passes for 606 yards and 6 touchdowns.
Rison finished his NFL career with 743 receptions for 10,205 yards and 84 touchdowns, along with 8 kickoff returns for 150 yards and 9 carries for 23 yards.
He signed with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League in August 2004, who went on to win the 92nd Grey Cup championship that year. He was released by the team in August 2005.[3][4]
[edit] "Bad Moon" Rison
He is also remembered for his life off the football field, which garnered him the nickname "Bad Moon" Rison from ESPN sportscaster Chris Berman, alluding to the song "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival. In 1994, Rison's Atlanta mansion was burned down by his then-girlfriend, the late Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of the R&B group TLC, resulting in the loss of all his possessions.
He has also been arrested several times for failing to pay child support to Raycoa Handley, the mother of his two sons. This ultimately led to Rison getting sentenced to jail by an Atlanta court on December 8, 2004 for neglecting to pay the $127,000 in child support Handley claimed he owed her. On January 3, 2005, Rison was released from DeKalb County Jail after making a $10,000 payment.[5] He was arrested and cited for public intoxication in San Antonio after a disturbance at the Crowne Plaza on the River Walk on December 29, 2008.[6]
Rison was a featured Pro on the second season of the physical reality game show Pros vs. Joes on Spike TV.
Rison is now traveling in the Football University training camp with old teammate Lorenzo White. This led to him appearing on an episode of the MTV reality show Made.[7] He worked to help a kid become a high school varsity quarterback. [8]
[edit] References
- ^ Cabot, Mary Kay (1995-12-17). "Affair To Remember Emotional Browns Pound The Bengals". Plain Dealer. http://www.cleveland.com/brownshistory/plaindealer/index.ssf?/browns/more/history/19951217BROWNS.html. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
- ^ Cabot, Mary Kay (1995-11-19). "BROWNS CAN'T SNEAK WIN PACKERS HALT TESTAVERDE RALLY, 31-20". Plain Dealer. http://www.cleveland.com/brownshistory/plaindealer/index.ssf?/browns/more/history/19951119BROWNS.html. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
- ^ "Argonauts sign veteran Andre Rison". 2004-08-21. TSN.ca. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=95733. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
- ^ "Argos release Rison". TSN.ca. 2005-08-26. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=134601&hubname=cfl. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
- ^ "Rison buys way out of jail". Metronews.ca. 2005-01-04. Archived from the original on 2005-10-28. http://web.archive.org/web/20051028020928/http://metronews.ca/sports_news_fullstory.asp?id=5477. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
- ^ Zielinski, Graeme (2008-12-30). "Former NFL standout arrested at S.A. hotel". San Antonio Express-News. http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/Former_Pro_Bowler_arrested_at_SA_hotel.html. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP6-LkFgS0k
- ^ Armstrong, Kevin (2008-05-09). "Going undercover as an aspiring college quarterback prospect". Sports Illustrated. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/the_bonus/05/07/allamerican.0507/index.html. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
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