If you’re wondering what Jerry Rice has been up to other than ill-advised Popeye’s Chicken commercials, just attend a Bay area wedding. There’s a chance you could run into the Hall of Fame receiver.
Rice now spends his weekends crashing weddings.
“For some reason, it always turns out that they are so excited,” Rice said. “They want to take pictures, and I’m just happy to take pictures with them. It always turns out to be bigger than that.”
The NFL’s all-time leader in receptions loves, well…receptions.
“Then the guy at the door comes a third time and says, ‘You’ve got to come out again,’ and I’m saying, ‘Really?’ So I walked out with him and Jerry Rice is standing there saying, ‘Hey, I’m Jerry,’” Matt said.
Rice took about 20 minutes of photos before heading to the dance floor, where he performed a perfect knees-bent, swaying-side-to-side dance to “Blow the Whistle” by Too $hort. “It was surreal,” Matt said. “You’re thinking, ‘No one is going to believe this.’”
At Jennifer Restrani’s and Chris Johnson’s golf course wedding in San Ramon, California, Rice stole the show once more even getting a kiss from Johnson’s mother!
Who knew Rice would go from NFL receptions to wedding receptions?