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For those who could not attend the game, here is a picture of the print that was handed out at the game.
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Roger Goodell announced that starting this year the NFL will present the Deacon Jones Award to the player who registers the most sacks in the NFL during the season. A great honor and a wonderful way to forever memorialize the greatest defensive end ever.-06-22-2013, 03:08 PM -
Rams to retire Deacon Jones' number
Associated Press
11:18 AM CDT, June 22, 2009
ST. LOUIS - Deacon Jones, the Hall-of-Famer who coined the phrase "quarterback sack," will have his number 75 retired this season by the St. Louis Rams.
A Rams spokesman said Monday that a specific date for the ceremony honoring Jones will be announced later.
Jones played for the Los Angeles Rams from 1961 through 1971 and was part of the "Fearsome Foursome" with Merlin Olsen, Lamar Lundy and Rosey Grier.
Jones had 159.5 sacks as a Ram and 173.5 overall. He reached double digits in sacks seven times and had 20 or more three times. He was NFL defensive player of the year in 1967 and 1960, was voted to nine Pro Bowls, and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1980.-06-22-2009, 10:40 AM -
I'm not much into horse racing, but damn if I didn't want to see Smarty Jones win the triple crown.
I thought he had it coming down the stretch.
So close!!
:disappoin-06-06-2004, 10:32 PM -
Khalil Garriott
NFLPLAYERS.COM
03/15/2007
Deacon Jones - 'Secretary Of Defense' Making A Difference
David "Deacon" Jones is a living legend in every sense of the term.
Having already become a gridiron great on the football field, Jones has shifted his focus to giving back to young people. He is president and CEO of the Deacon Jones Foundation (http://www.deaconjones.com/), which "is committed to developing young, educated, talented, intelligent, accomplished people who understand their commitment to the inner-city communities from which they come, and have the tools and the desire to return," according to the foundation's Web site.
Jones was truly a pioneer during his time, using his speed and toughness to harass quarterbacks from his defensive end position. He revolutionized that position, so much so that he's credited with the term "sack" that today defines the success of defensive linemen. His personal accolades and honors are seemingly never-ending, but perhaps it's his absence in only five games over a 14-year NFL career that best represents how Jones played the game.
"I've had a heck of a life," Jones said, laughing.
While he could easily sit back and rest on the laurels he achieved as one of the best defensive ends of all-time, Jones has done the opposite since retiring from football. By using his personal story as a man who overcame hardships while living in a low-income area to become a Pro Football Hall of Famer, Jones is an inspiration to those less fortunate.
"Coming from a poor, inner-city neighborhood myself, I have an intimate knowledge of all of the problems people face there," Jones said on his Web site. "When kids from the ghetto enter college and the workplace, they don't know a thing about what they hear. And they are never told exactly what their commitment to their own neighborhoods must be."
Now approaching age 69, Jones has retired—in a sense. He, of course, doesn't put on the pads and helmet anymore, but hasn't shown many signs of slowing down with his foundation and work in the community.
"I retired two years ago from a lot of active stuff but I'm running my foundation and doing a lot of charity work," he said. "I have the Deacon Jones Foundation which is the inner-city scholarship program I run. I have different events all year, so I work those, then I help a lot of the other guys in the league who have programs. I still do some public appearances, but not too many anymore," he continued.
Jones, an outspoken and incomparable leader for the Los Angeles Rams, San Diego Chargers and Washington Redskins, had about as distinguished a career as a player can have. During his best years with the Rams, he garnered a couple nicknames that still stick to this day. Known as the "Secretary...-03-16-2007, 05:06 AM -
Well he is not my neighbor but he owns the condo right next to me...
Funny story......My neighbor is upset about Deacons renters up above
them because there to loud. So Deacons wife and him want to come over
to have a glass of wine and dinner to see how loud there renters are..
If and when they come im getting some S^$T signed..-06-12-2008, 10:01 AM
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