Andre Rison
Andre Rison was born in Flint, Michigan, United States on March 18th, 1967 and is the Football Player. At the age of 57, Andre Rison biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Andre "Bad Moon" Rison (born March 18, 1967) is a former American football wide receiver who competed for the Indianapolis Colts, Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, Green Bay Packers, Kansas City Chiefs, and the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts.
Rison has been selected to the Pro Bowl five times, from 1990 to 1993, then again in 1997. In 1996, Rison defeated the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl championship, scoring the first points of the game on a 54-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Brett Favre.
In 2004, he also won a Grey Cup title with the Toronto Argonauts.
He is one of the few players to win national football championships in both the United States of America and Canada.
During the 2005 CFL season, the Argonauts released him.
With seven teams, he has a franchise record for scoring a touchdown. He was a key player at Flint Northwestern High School and at Michigan State University in college.
Rison, a senior at Michigan State, had 30 receptions for 709 yards and 5 touchdowns; he was a vital contributor to the 1988 Michigan State team, which captured the Rose Bowl for the first time.
Life after football
Rison served as an assistant coach at Beecher High School in Flint, Michigan, from 2006-2008. Courtney Hawkins, Rison's former colleague at Michigan State, was the head coach.
Rison became the new head coach for Flint Northwestern High School's football team in March 2010.
Rison and Flint Northwestern met Courtney Hawkins and Flint Beecher in the first week of the 2010 and 2011 high school football seasons. Not only did these games feature two former NFL players coaching at their alma maters, but the schools are so close geographically that it made for an exciting and tense rivalry. Both games attracted large audiences, with several games returning to Flint's 11,000 seat Atwood Stadium, rather than Flint Beecher's Russ Reynolds Field or Flint Northwestern's Guy V. Houston Stadium. Beecher triumphed in the 2010 opener, 28–18, spoiling Rison's first attempt at head coaching. The 2011 opener was a hysteria, with Northwestern winning by 46-44 double overtime. Rison's coaching staff saw dramatic growth in their second season, nearly doubled their offensive output, and losing four of their games by a total of only nine points in two years at Flint Northwestern. Rison announced in May 2012 that he was leaving Flint Northwestern to complete his education and join the football team as an assistant coach.
Andre Rison served as the offensive coordinator at Skyline High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he set a 0–9 record. Hunter Rison, a boy who transferred to Michigan State on April 1, 2016, was also coached by him.
Rison also coaches wide receivers at Andre Rison Football Academy, and he coached in the 2008 Hawaii All-Star Classic. Rison appeared on an episode of MTV's Made in America. He helped a student become a varsity quarterback for a high school. Rison appeared on the second season of Spike TV's reality show Pros vs. Joes, as well as in an episode of TNA Impact (now called Impact Wrestling). He was in the middle of the hexagonal ring, then Abyss came out and Black Hole slammed Rison.
In the 2012 ESPN 30-30 documentary Broke about former professional athletes who squander their money, Rison appears prominently. Billy Corben of Rakontur's scripted and written film, "Volume II") of ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary film series was shown at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival as part of the TFF/ESPN Sports Festival and is included in the second season (styled as "Volume II) of the film.
Rison was one of eight new inductees into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in Detroit on May 30, 2017. On September 15, 2017, the induction ceremony took place.
Personal life
Rison dated Lisa Lopes of TLC from 1993 to 2001. Their marriage was tense, with domestic violence allegations. Lopes lit his shoes on fire in the bathtub during one altercation in 1994, resulting in his house catching fire and her being charged with first-degree arson.
Hunter Rison, Andre's uncle, played as a true freshman wide receiver for Michigan State University in 2017 before moving to Kansas State University in 2018. However, while at Kansas State, he was charged with the battery of a young woman in June 2019, which barred him from ever playing for the team. He pled guilty to attend a junior college team at Fullerton College in 2020 shortly after pledging to attend a junior college team. Hunter enrolled and played at Grand Valley State University in 2021 after suffering through part of the COVID-19 pandemic in Arizona with his mother Racquel Banks.
Professional career
The Indianapolis Colts selected Rison in the first round (22nd overall) of the 1989 NFL Draft. In his rookie season, he caught 52 passes for 820 yards with four touchdown receptions.
On April 20, 1990, the Indianapolis Colts traded Rison, Chris Hinton, a fifth round pick in the 1990 NFL Draft, and their first round pick on the 1991 NFL Draft to the Atlanta Falcons for their first overall pick and their fourth round pick in the 1990 NFL Draft. The Indianapolis Colts used the trade to move up to select Jeff George first overall in the 1990 NFL Draft. His next season marked the first of five very productive campaigns with the Falcons. During these years, Rison finished near the top of most receiving categories, and led all NFL players with 15 receiving touchdowns in 1993. Andre Rison was only the 5th Receiver in NFL history to score 60 touchdowns in his first six seasons. Rison led the NFL in most receptions in his first four and first five seasons. Rison was second in the NFL for most receptions in six seasons. During his final season in Atlanta, on June 9, 1994, his girlfriend at the time Lisa Left Eye Lopes from TLC burned Rison's house down.
After the 1994 season, Rison signed a lucrative free agent contract with Cleveland, where he was expected to become the featured receiving threat for the Browns, who had made the playoffs the year before. Rison, who had been named to the Pro Bowl in four of his previous six seasons, had career lows in receptions (47), yards (701), touchdowns (3), receptions per game (2.9), and yards per game (43.8). Rison also developed a feud with the Cleveland fans, who were angered over the announcement that the team would be relocating to Baltimore. After a home loss to the Packers, Rison, who had been booed by the fans throughout the game, lashed out, stating, "We didn't make the fucking move. So, for all the booers, fuck you too. I'll be glad when we get to Baltimore, if that's the case. We don't have any home-field advantage. I've never been booed at home. Baltimore's our home. Baltimore, here we come." Rison, however, did not make the move with the team to Baltimore as he joined the Jacksonville Jaguars in the offseason.
In 1996, Rison would have a somewhat eventful season. He started with the Jacksonville Jaguars, where he spent the first ten games. He caught 34 passes for 458 yards and two touchdowns. Rison had a miscommunication with quarterback Mark Brunell in week 12 that resulted in an interception in a 28-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. This mistake caused tempers to flare between the two and Rison was subsequently released. The Green Bay Packers claimed Rison off of waivers November 20, 1996. He would play five of the remaining games, where he caught 13 passes for 135 yards and one touchdown. For the first time in five years, Rison got to play in a playoff game, with the Packers making a run to the Super Bowl. In three games, he caught seven total passes for 143 yards and two touchdowns.
He signed with the Chiefs prior to the 1997 season. For the second time in his career (1993 being the only other time), Rison started in all 16 games of the season. He caught 72 passes for 1,092 yards and seven touchdowns as the Chiefs went on to become the #1 seed that year. In the Divisional round playoff game, Rison caught eight passes for 110 yards, but the Chiefs would lose 14–10 to division rival and eventual Super Bowl champion in the Denver Broncos. In the following year, he caught 40 passes in 14 total games for 542 yards and five touchdowns in a down season overall for Rison and team. For 1999, he played 15 games and regressed further, catching 21 passes for 218 yards with no touchdowns.
2000 proved to be his last year and he spent it with his seventh team in the Oakland Raiders. He played in all of the games without starting, and he caught 41 passes for 606 yards for six touchdowns. The Raiders made a run in the playoffs, and Rison made small contribution, having caught three combined passes for 44 yards.
Rison finished his NFL career with 743 receptions for 10,205 yards and 84 touchdowns, along with 8 kickoff returns for 150 yards and 9 carries for 23 yards.
He signed with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League in August 2004, who went on to win the 92nd Grey Cup championship that year. He was released by the team in August 2005.