NFL legend Jerry Rice tells reporters 'I will f**k you up' at celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe

Three-time Super Bowl champion Jerry Rice was caught telling disconnected a brace of reporters astatine a personage play tourney successful Lake Tahoe, arsenic he threatened to usage unit connected nan some of them.

Rice, 61, was astatine nan believe information of nan American Century Championship pinch an array of high-profile athletes, including Jason and Travis Kelce, Blake Griffin and Aaron Rodgers, erstwhile 2 Kansas City-based media members asked him astir nan Chiefs' 2024 wide receiving options connected Friday. 

The reporters claimed that each they wanted to cognize was whether Patrick Mahomes' wideouts this twelvemonth were 'good capable to triumph different Super Bowl.'

At first, Rice turned his backmost connected nan duo aft concisely talking to them, but viral footage posted by TMZ on societal media shows nan erstwhile 49ers prima complaint backmost astatine nan men seconds later and getting into their faces. 

At 1 point, Rice - a Pro Football Hall of Famer - tin beryllium heard yelling to 1 of nan guys: 'I will f*** you up!' 

He past advised some reporters that, 'If you want some, travel get some!' earlier disengaging from nan squabble.

Baffled, nan 2 media members told different attendees astatine nan kindness tourney that what had happened was 'the craziest point that's ever happened successful my life.' 

But, according to TMZ, Rice was convinced that some reporters were retired to get him pinch their questions astatine nan play outing. 

The former, two-time NFL Offensive Player of nan Year told nan outlet that he took nan queries arsenic a excavation connected his erstwhile Niners squad and insisted that nan men smirked astatine him while afloat knowing really Rice, who played 16 seasons successful San Francisco, would react.

What's much is that nan 49ers narrowly mislaid to nan Chiefs (25-22) successful Super Bowl LVIII successful February. 

'I'm going to take sides nan San Francisco 49ers,' he said. 'This is my history.' 

Rice ended up tied successful 22nd spot astatine nan American Century Championship connected Friday on pinch Lakers star, Austin Reaves. 

In April, Rice's son, Brenden, who besides plays wide receiver for illustration his father, was drafted by nan LA Chargers pinch nan 225th prime successful nan 7th information of nan 2024 NFL Draft.

Rice's oldest son, Jerry Rice Jr., was besides concisely successful nan NFL successful 2014, erstwhile he signed a statement pinch nan Washington Commanders. However, nan wide receiver suffered a torn labrum successful training campy that twelvemonth and was waived successful May 2015.