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BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCE!!!!!
Sorry, just had to do it
Shoulda retired it while he was still playing...s/...kinda
Bruce Smith is a rarity in so many ways...I remember finally getting the nerve up to talk to him when I saw him at a bar off the beaten path near the VB oceanfront years ago. I knew he was a savvy real estate investor, and I chatted with him a bit about that - Central America, in particular - he was very informed.
As for his amazing football career, I had to just refresh my memory, and did some wiki-looks:
"As Smith spent most of his career in a 3–4 defensive scheme, a defensive scheme not geared toward creating sack opportunities for defensive ends, many consider the record particularly impressive.[2] Indeed, Smith's peers elected him to the Pro Bowl every season from 1987 to 1998 (with the exception of his injury-laden 1991 season). In 1987, he was named the Pro Bowl MVP. Smith was twice named the AP's NFL Defensive Player of the Year (1990, 1996), twice named the NEA Defensive Player of the Year (1990, 1993) and four times named UPI's AFC Defensive Player of the Year (1987, 1988, 1990, 1996)."
The man brought the A game for a loonng, long, time, and never missed a beat.
Amen! Bruce still holds the NFL career sack record......impressive and amazing indeed!
and based off the trending of NFL rule changes, he most likely will have that record for a very long time.
Yeah, I'm pretty excited about it.
Awesome, great for Bruce. I met him in VB about 15 years ago as an awestruck
middle schooler. Passed by him post game outside lane north last season, fairly inebriated. I turned back and yelled, "Bruuuuce!" And he turned around and gave me a fist bump, love that guy, GOAT.
Wow my dyslexic brain read this while accidently omitting one key part. As a result it read like this...
Bruce is awesome!
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy, and as a great player, he deserves it.
Bruce Smith is really an ideal representative of Virginia Tech athletics. The last time I saw him he went out of his way to talk to some Hokies before one of the games last season.
I literally bumped into Bruce at a bar in VB once. The dude still felt like I had bumped into a brick wall and I had to shudder at the thought of him in his prime laying his shoulder into a QB with a full head of steam.
Obligatory:
Well deserved, congrats to Bruce and his family!
Shall we start the thread of other really awesome Bruces that aren't as awesome as Bruce Smith?
Am I the only one that just assumed his number was already retired??
Corey Moore's inspiration right there
Those eyes... I know I've seen them elsewhere.
I'm not gonna lie, I'm actually surprised it wasn't already retired. You'd think that would have been done shortly after he retired, as he was truly that great a player for them.
A quick perusal of footballdb.com, and it doesn't look like anyone has worn 78 for the Bills since Bruce Smith left in 1999. So, it's been unofficially retired for a while.