WR Santonio Holmes (Super Bowl XLIII MVP)

[OSU_Buckguy]

Thank you Mr. Holmes........

we were saying the same thing 363 days ago.

 

[Alex Boone fan]

Sports pics are really difficult to capture and require extremely expensive equipment. You have to pay a lot just to get entry level equipment (check the graphic forum, I think there's a camera thread in there).

Most of the photos I post are saved from sites like ESPN, CNNSI, CBS that have big national photo galleries. The buckeye archives rarely have my own photos.

OK I will. Thanks! I know what you mean. I have tried to photo sports events with my old Nikon 2020 which still works great but sports is very difficult. My Cavs basketball shots are so so. The best I've done is baseball but unless they are running the bases or running in the outfield its a lot easier than football and basketball.

 

[Alex Boone fan]

Nice rookie year by Santonio. Glad to see him sent the Bengals home for the season. I guess the Bungles have overtaken the Stillers as my most hated team.

The Steelers single handly stopped them from the playoffs . If the BUNGLES would of won Denver had to loose which they did and KC had to win which they did. They must be ILL today and finally Chad Johnson can just SHUT UP.

 

[Alex Boone fan]

Not sure if this was ever posted but its a clip from Santonio on Ohio State beating the Scum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncpIT63mK1c

 

[WaitingforKickoff]

Can you believe all those NFL Draft "experts" who had Chad Jackson rated higher than Holmes? I remember Jaws being the only one who stood up for him. In fact, he was adiment(sp?) about Holmes being better than Jackson and Moss.

It's funny how draft "experts" questioned Holmes' speed. Speed was never a question with this kid.

 

[ScarletBlood31]

What an awesome play by Santonio. Great to see a Buckeye have a great end to a good season.

 

[fanaticbuckeye]

Final Stats for 2006
Receiving - 49 Receptions 824 Yds & 2 TD's

Rushing - 1 Att. 13 Yds.

PR - 26 Ret. 264 Yds & 1 TD

KR - 18 Ret. 436 Yds

Not to shabby, over 1500 all purpose yards and 3 TD's.

Nice to see the "O-H" after the Cincinnati GW -TD.

 

[milkman21]

Not sure if this was ever posted but its a clip from Santonio on Ohio State beating the Scum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncpIT63mK1c

What ever happened to his fancy, custom-tailored 3-piece suits? I loved how he was always overdressed for every occasion... but now he just looks kinda thugged out.

 

[OregonBuckeye]

What ever happened to his fancy, custom-tailored 3-piece suits? I loved how he was always overdressed for every occasion... but now he just looks kinda thugged out.

Well, it's Cold Pizza. I don't know if that show is even worth wearing a wifebeater for.

 

[milkman21]

Well, it's Cold Pizza. I don't know if that show is even worth wearing a wifebeater for.

Haha. I've enjoyed watching that show from time to time... after watching Sportscenter 3x through... and NFL Live for the 2nd time... and after deciding that General Hospital isn't as good as it used to be...

 

[PlanetFrnd]

Muck City - Chasing Rabbits

The Chase (ESPN)

Very cool column from ESPN on the Lake Okeechobee (Glades Central) area.

Drive out there. Get off the interstate, put Palm Beach, Orlando or Miami in your rearview and keep going until the road ends at the horizon and the telephone poles sag like old cypress trees. Roll down the windows. Listen to the eerie silence of the Everglades, a seemingly endless run of fields landmarked only by the railroad tracks, the dike along Lake Okeechobee and the state penitentiary. Race past sugarcane field after sugarcane field until it feels like you're not moving at all. Then stop at the gas station with no gas by the convenience store with no name. Don't worry, you can't miss it -- there at the crossroads of the place they call Muck City...

...This is where Fred Taylor and Santonio Holmes started their run to the NFL, and from where 28 graduates have gone on to pro football careers in the past 29 years...

 

[osugrad21]

Scout $

Great read about Santonio's growth as a player and person.

 

[Buckskin86]

After cracking the starting lineup late in his rookie season, Steelers WR Santonio Holmes will be poised to break out this fall.
David Bergman/SI

SANTONIO HOLMES, WR, PITTSBURGH
After stepping into the starting lineup late in the season, Holmes displayed the big-play ability that made him a first-round selection. In four starts, he averaged 20 yards a catch and proved to be a nice complement to receiver Hines Ward. After an offseason spent polishing his route-running, Holmes could become the vertical threat the Steelers have lacked since Plaxico Burress left via free agency.

SI.com - Writers - Players ready to break out (cont.) - Wednesday June 13, 2007 11:48AM

 

[Buckskin86]

Steelers Notebook: Holmes aching to get back to practice
Friday, July 27, 2007

By Gerry Dulac, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Hines Ward knows all about missing portions of training camp with an injury. It happened to him last year when he injured his hamstring during camp and didn't play in any of the preseason games.

After a slow start to the regular season in which he caught 18 passes in the first five games, Ward said it wasn't until Week 6 in Atlanta that he started feeling fully healthy and ready to play at his four-time Pro Bowl level again.,


Matt Freed, Post-Gazette
Steelers coach Mike Tomlin talks to children involved in the Steelers Kids Club before the start of practice yesterday.
Click photo for larger image.

That's why he's hoping wide receiver Santonio Holmes, last year's No. 1 pick, out with an undisclosed injury, doesn't miss too much of training camp.

"It was difficult for me, the time I missed," Ward said. "This is where all the timing is developed, the regimen we're going through with two-a-days to get your body in shape. Last year, when I missed all of camp, my body never got going till right before the Atlanta game."

Holmes has not practiced since the start of camp because he is recovering from an undisclosed procedure that is non-football related. Yesterday, he stood in one spot of the practice field and caught one-handed passes with each hand from one of the conditioning coaches.

Afterward, he said he has "no idea" when he will return to practice, only that he has to "listen to the doctors, and if they say take time off, I have to take time off."

Holmes added, "It's very frustrating, knowing I have to sit out and can't help the team right now."

Big things are expected of Holmes this season after the way he finished 2006. In his final four games, he caught 16 passes for 320 yards, including a 67-yard touchdown pass in the season finale in Cincinnati. He also returned a punt 67 yards for a score against Carolina. By the end of the season, Holmes was splitting time with the team's starting split end, Cedrick Wilson.

"I'm more excited about getting more opportunities to help the team this year," Holmes said

Asked if the injury is a setback, he said, "I don't think so. I don't think having to sit out a couple days, a week, however many days it is, will set me back."

Steelers Notebook: Holmes aching to get back to practice

 

[Buckskin86]

STEELERS NOTES: Santonio Holmes was removed from the physically unable to perform list, and he practiced with the team for the first time on Saturday afternoon. Said Tomlin, "He's going to go and do everything tomorrow, so he can catch up. All of those guys who are coming back (from injury), we'll bring them back bit by bit.

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