49ers Retire Quarterback Steve Young’s Jersey
06/10/2008 01:33
SAN FRANCISCO - As Steve Young listened to the Candlestick Park crowd roar at his jersey retirement ceremony, he looked at Jerry Rice and wished he was in his old No. 8 uniform instead of a suit.
"Honestly I feel like I want to play," Young said after the ceremony. "My life is sublime now and great and wonderful in many ways but you can't replace it."
Young was honored at halftime of the San Francisco 49ers game on Sunday against the New England Patriots. He was introduced to the adoring crowd by his close friend and former teammate Brent Jones, who called Young a "brilliant field general" who "could destroy you with his left arm and then could turn around and destroy you as well with his legs."
Several members of the 49ers glory teams from the late 1980s and '90s were on stage with Young for the ceremony, including Rice, Jones, Harris Barton and Jesse Sapolu.
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SWIVEL HIPS SAYS:
While Young was a great quarterback, in my humble opinion Joe Montana was the best the 49ers ever had. His four Super Bowl titles, and three Super Bowl MVP awards with the 49ers, will attest to that.