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“Rod Smith: Catching Greatness” details how Rod Smith grew a young boy from the projects of Texarkana, Arkansas with dreams of playing professional baseball to became the greatest wide receiver in Denver Broncos history. Through firsthand accounts from the people who most believed in him, this production documents Smith’s perseverance and pathway to become one of the most beloved and admired Broncos of all time.
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  • @uss_cushing
    @uss_cushing Жыл бұрын

    Rod Smith needs to be in the NFL hall of fame now!!!!

  • @matthewlong2667

    @matthewlong2667

    Жыл бұрын

    no kidding. it's perplexing how he isn't. broncos get screwed from mecklenburg to rod smith. wtf...

  • @BP.COOPER

    @BP.COOPER

    9 ай бұрын

    He will be. Sometimes they take way way WAY too long to let people in, this is one of those times!

  • @MeLoNHeAd00

    @MeLoNHeAd00

    7 ай бұрын

    If he goes Sterling Sharpe must ad well

  • @BP.COOPER

    @BP.COOPER

    7 ай бұрын

    @@MeLoNHeAd00 100% agree! i’m still mad at the world dude got hurt at peak of his powers. but yea he has HOF stats and impact for sure

  • @codyclark8533

    @codyclark8533

    6 ай бұрын

    has more yards than any undrafted player ever!! HOF!!! bring Atwater with him!!!

  • @anthonylucero6458
    @anthonylucero6458 Жыл бұрын

    Rod was the ultimate teammate. A future HOF Bronco.

  • @rambowbizz
    @rambowbizz Жыл бұрын

    Love Rod. Such a great role model.

  • @diamondrattler7453
    @diamondrattler7453 Жыл бұрын

    MILE HIGH SALUTE!

  • @tjbriggs303
    @tjbriggs303 Жыл бұрын

    Rod Smith Pro Bowl Bound!

  • @binkyfaith
    @binkyfaith Жыл бұрын

    These memories… we had a dynasty💕

  • @ljs7712
    @ljs7712 Жыл бұрын

    Best WR in Broncos history...DENVER LEGEND

  • @wozclothing2610
    @wozclothing2610 Жыл бұрын

    Still have a poster of him in my old bedroom at my parents house! Such a Legend

  • @tombosley3048
    @tombosley3048 Жыл бұрын

    Rod Smith is a Hall of Famer no question!!!

  • @14erfinisher52
    @14erfinisher52 Жыл бұрын

    Rod Smith. The best Broncos Wide Receiver of all time until someone can top his STATS he will be the G.O.A.T. for the Orange & Blue!!

  • @samuelcurry6789
    @samuelcurry6789 Жыл бұрын

    Rod Smith Hall of Fame NOW!

  • @danaohlson3316
    @danaohlson3316 Жыл бұрын

    Mad respect for Rod. Class act all the way.

  • @jeffrichardjr
    @jeffrichardjr2 ай бұрын

    This man was the reason I watch football

  • @insightdesignusa
    @insightdesignusa Жыл бұрын

    Mr. Smith! Thank You Sir!

  • @420ishtoker
    @420ishtoker Жыл бұрын

    lightning rod smith! greatest ever! I'm so glad I got to see this guy play. Hall of famer for sure!

  • @markwilliams8601
    @markwilliams8601 Жыл бұрын

    If it's anybody that deserves a Hall of Fame award, it's this man (Mr. Rod Smith). I know him personally he's very hardworking, he rarely takes any breaks, VERY HUMBLE, he's the only retired football player I am a big fan of, on top of that, WHEN HE HAS TIME, He takes time out to write his fans back..... The brother is real, full of love, very funny intelligent brother. So please give him his props... cuz he earned EVERY LAST BIT OF IT

  • @abundant_AF
    @abundant_AF7 ай бұрын

    Love you, Rod! Such a humble champion.

  • @seanwilliams2926
    @seanwilliams2926 Жыл бұрын

    Boy do we need a Rod Smith right now! Rod was an all pro!

  • @356z

    @356z

    Жыл бұрын

    Rod at QB and we'd be contenders

  • @kyungsoopenguin17
    @kyungsoopenguin174 ай бұрын

    Best duo receiver Broncos ever had : Rod Smith and Ed McCaffrey

  • @IrvinVanderbilt
    @IrvinVanderbilt Жыл бұрын

    GO BRONCOS 🏈🐎

  • @PrezPoet
    @PrezPoet Жыл бұрын

    Ultimate team player.

  • @dnvrdonkeys6380
    @dnvrdonkeys6380 Жыл бұрын

    First time I saw Rod Smith was in 2001. I was 9 Just got into football. He made so many memories for me in such a short time. I still remember the Black Jack Pizza Commericals hahaha. Thank you 80!! For all the memories.

  • @lilniggainflight
    @lilniggainflight Жыл бұрын

    He needs to be in the hall of Fame

  • @clintonreisig
    @clintonreisig Жыл бұрын

    Rod Smith is one of my all time favorite Broncos players

  • @JeremySeanA
    @JeremySeanA Жыл бұрын

    On the football field, In Rod We Trust.

  • @shannonburns2525
    @shannonburns2525 Жыл бұрын

    rod smith should be in the hall of fame no dought

  • @sherboyboy6287
    @sherboyboy62877 ай бұрын

    Rod should be in the hall of fame but seeing Steve Atwater in that gold jacket made my day

  • @NickCookCreates
    @NickCookCreates9 ай бұрын

    I remember meeting him at a basketball charity event when I was 5 or 6. Humble giant.

  • @herdbull365
    @herdbull365 Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely love Rods story and his work ethic!!! Greatest Bronco wide receiver ever 👊🏻

  • @22mgiauque
    @22mgiauque Жыл бұрын

    Rod exemplifies everything most of today's athletes aren't. First and foremost, he's a humble human being! Secondly, he is willing to do the dirty work & make others around him better. Whether he gets into the HOF or not, he's in my HOF & Broncos country's HOF!!!

  • @troystory4227
    @troystory4227 Жыл бұрын

    Super Bowl XXXIII MVP imo In Rod we trust 🧡💙

  • @nickemond8842
    @nickemond8842 Жыл бұрын

    I was at the Washington game when I was 12. South stands, eighth row, right in front of me. The crowd reaction was one of the best I have ever experienced in all the games I've ever been to

  • @Randall1815
    @Randall1815 Жыл бұрын

    Rod is a great player and person to look up to and dream to be and his journey is motivating he’s a hall of famer

  • @BP.COOPER
    @BP.COOPER9 ай бұрын

    Rod Smith finally starts = Broncos finally win a Super Bowl. Do the math! Legend.

  • @terryjefferson940
    @terryjefferson940 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome highlight of a equally awesome person. Congrats to Rod on his career and future business goals!

  • @eddiedelgado60
    @eddiedelgado60 Жыл бұрын

    I love Broncos. we have had some sleepers that no one wanted like Smith, Sharpe, Davis, Plummer, etc. We can make it work. Broncos Country Lets Ride!!

  • @vgoten1
    @vgoten1 Жыл бұрын

    He should be in the Hall of Fame right now! So frustrating to see deserving Broncos snubbed by the HoF committee.

  • @perryanderson5642
    @perryanderson56422 ай бұрын

    Rod Smith, Thank You for everything you did with Elway and the Denver Broncos. The 43 Yard Touchdown September 17th, 1995 to Win over the Skins nearly got me $27,000,000.00 . Thank You for being Fun to Watch too- Perry C Anderson, Lake Granbury, Tx

  • @no79way
    @no79way8 ай бұрын

    My favorite football player ever. I had his Tshirt. Greet memories from my students days in Colorado. I am back home in Saudi now and this video made me feel nostalgic

  • @EnemyOfYourStat
    @EnemyOfYourStat Жыл бұрын

    Wow, you guys did amazing in this documentary! Quality was amazing and I'm so happy you honored Rod this way. He is what defines a Bronco and has made Denver proud and blessed for many years. Happy he is getting the credit he deserves. A gold jacket is worthy IMO if you really look and all that he contributed to the game. Not just receiver stats but blocking, returning, leading ect. Loved this!

  • @ThePipemiker
    @ThePipemiker3 күн бұрын

    Rod made one of the best catches I've ever seen, but I've yet to see it in one of his highlights reels. It was in a throw away game in Kansas City. Elway was stinking it up for most of the game: the temperature was in the single digits, and Elway was struggling in the cold weather. Anyway, the Broncos were getting beat badly, and Elway did his patented desperation plays where he scrambles around and then chucks it as far as he can. Elway put the ball on Smith's wrong shoulder, but he still managed to spin around and somehow spear the ball with one hand. He didn't score with it, and it was otherwise forgettable game that everyone else had checked out of, but that was the play that made me realize that Rod never quit. Hall of Famer for sure.

  • @evansavaloja3396
    @evansavaloja3396 Жыл бұрын

    He is that guy.

  • @insightdesignusa
    @insightdesignusa Жыл бұрын

    Rod helped Terrell Davis be MVP then the next year he helped John Elway be MVP!

  • @superzero4250
    @superzero42502 ай бұрын

    Rod Smith’s career and character are enough to merit being in the Hall of Fame alone. The supporting factors should include that he is in the Broncos Ring of Fame, which acknowledges the best players of that franchise, an elite category it’s self. Also, the fact that he is the most successful undrafted free agent at his position to have accomplished what he has in the NFL is incredibly inspiring… Kurt Warner is in the HoF, and Rod Smith’s story and achievements are just as remarkable… 🤔

  • @akaairt
    @akaairt Жыл бұрын

    Rod!!!!!

  • @BrianMarshak
    @BrianMarshak Жыл бұрын

    Rod is a winner and all heart. Opposite of Jeudy and his potential

  • @seanwilliams2926
    @seanwilliams292615 күн бұрын

    Top notch 👌 Great job Rod! 👏

  • @robertemerson9970
    @robertemerson9970 Жыл бұрын

    11,000 plus yards receiving, great BLOCKER, 2 time super bowl champion and an undrafted free agent!!!! What's the hold up on the HOF Canton!!!!!!

  • @rkid727
    @rkid7279 ай бұрын

    Can you imagine if the majority of players in the nfl were like Rod Smith? We’d have a much better product to watch.

  • @broncobilly4029
    @broncobilly40296 ай бұрын

    Great show. I have one issue. Rod kept claiming that he's slow. He is not slow. I watched him run by world class athletes every week for a decade. There is nothing slow about that. He wasn't slow. Pull my other leg it plays jingle bells.

  • @lishamontoya5013
    @lishamontoya5013 Жыл бұрын

    Should be a H.O.F one day .

  • @jle4433
    @jle443311 ай бұрын

    I think he'd be a great coach.

  • @johnniepiko
    @johnniepiko Жыл бұрын

    Some of the current wrs need to learn from Rod about being a football player and learn some run blocking

  • @jonathanpeterson1
    @jonathanpeterson1 Жыл бұрын

    HoF worthy player. Raw stats are the only thing keeping him out, imo. But it shouldn’t.

  • @user-kt2vd6gr7x
    @user-kt2vd6gr7x6 ай бұрын

    🐐

  • @Scott-tv4pb
    @Scott-tv4pb Жыл бұрын

    Yall see Jerry Jeudy making this commitment? Doing whatever to takes to be better as a team.

  • @stevenmartinez6733
    @stevenmartinez6733 Жыл бұрын

    Should be in HOF

  • @rambowbizz
    @rambowbizz Жыл бұрын

    Hof!!!

  • @alessandrorhymes3973

    @alessandrorhymes3973

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow your profile pic is of the late Darrent Williams #27 may he Rest in Peace. 🙏he was well loved, I remember watching some highlights of his from College, and he was over there picking up the opposing player, after he made the tackle. Always ready to help somebody sadly that's how he passed.😥 "All ready" D-block.

  • @rambowbizz

    @rambowbizz

    Жыл бұрын

    @@alessandrorhymes3973 funky town Texas legend.

  • @LordClenz
    @LordClenz Жыл бұрын

    ROD

  • @777biscuits
    @777biscuits Жыл бұрын

    That’s gonna be Tim Patrick

  • @jordanmoore9318
    @jordanmoore9318 Жыл бұрын

    Jerry Jeudy and Courtland Sutton can learn a lot from this man.

  • @superzero4250
    @superzero42502 ай бұрын

    Just imagine the Broncos almost killed him after his first touchdown pass ever… Definitely a Hall of Fame career… 😳

  • @356z
    @356z Жыл бұрын

    You just know Michelle was on the athletes back in her day

  • @Bunt.Pipser
    @Bunt.Pipser Жыл бұрын

    HOF. HOF. HOF.

  • @justinadams159
    @justinadams159 Жыл бұрын

    Hopefully they give him a chance on the seniors committee he was the epitome of a steady producer and consistent professional. Great hands, blocker with physicality and a stout route runner who could take it in the back of the endzone or take one across the middle in traffic. Undoubtedly the best undrafted receiver ever. No question in my mind.

  • @dominicbozonier2892
    @dominicbozonier2892 Жыл бұрын

    We need will fuller john ross and kevin king from free agency Hinton and Cleveland aren't doing the job, cut gordon and sign jordan Howard he's a free agent, play jalen virgil

  • @johnwelch615
    @johnwelch6154 күн бұрын

    That team Shanahan put together before Elway retired is one of the best in NFL history. Rod Smith was a huge part of it, he always played with attitude and he was reliable on the biggest plays. Between Smith, Elway, Davis, Sharpe, McCafery, Griffith, Zimmerman Schlereth, Nalen, Romanowski, Neil Smith from the Chiefs, of all places, Trevor Price, Al Wilson, Mobley, Ray Crockett, Tyrone Braxton and the Great Steve Atwater who singlehandedly ended the Nigerian nightmare's NFL running back career... I would pit any combination of those two teams, offensive and defensive, against any other Super Bowl Champions in NFL history. And be confident that with Elway's ability to resurrect his team in the fourth quarter of any game where teams are evenly matched, they'd come out on top every single time. Hats off to Rod Smith... your story and success are truly inspirational and work ethic is something every young man should aspire to. Much love and respect 🙏 ❤️

  • @shanefoster6976
    @shanefoster69769 ай бұрын

    As a lifelong kc chiefs fan, I'm not sure how this was suggested to me. I did enjoy it and I can tell you from a rival team fans pov Rod Smith needs to be in the hof

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