Everybody called him Rocket all the time. I met him in Calgary Canada when I was 13 at the height of stardom, he was basically the biggest name in sports for a couple years, highest paid player in all of sports in the CFL
Flintsvariety Watch his Highlights at Notre Dame, when he was in college. He is considered one of the greatest College Football player's of all time. He was absolutely incredible. Allegedly ran a 4.18 in the 40 yard dash. I think he was more like a 4.2-4.3 personally. But who cares, he was fast!
+Santana Hubbard-Mendez Dude I don't know where you got your information from. I would fire my whole information team if they gave me false statistics like that. He did win states in 1988 with a time of 10.63. www.rodfrisco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/PIAA-BOYS-TRACK-REX-ALL-TIME1.pdf It's under MEYERS, E.L. [WILKES-BARRE]. At ND He ran a 10.61 at the Penn Relays in 1991. ND's 100m dash record is 10.2 by Bill Hurd set in 1969. grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/nd/sports/c-track/auto_pdf/2014-15/misc_non_event/14-15-track-media-supplement.pdf I'd like to see the 10.32 verification.
This video should be titled " Rocket Ishmael's NFL highlights. People forget that the owners of the Toronto Argonauts ( Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky, and John Candy) signed him to a 18 million dollar ( 26 million with incentives) contract. He took the Argos to a Grey Cup championship. He was an amazing athlete.
The 🚀 !!!! First Raiders ☠️⚔️☠️ game I ever Attended was in 1995 and the #86 Rocket Hauled in 2TD From #11 Vince Evans as the Raiders defeated the Jim Harbaugh led colts 31-17 Raiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiders!☠️⚔️🚀☠️
@@Texas_Cruiser Exactly but anytime your the #2 ranked Sprinter as a Prep you have the potential to be a World Class Sprinter...The #1 Prep sprinter that year William Jackson was the only person to beat him twice
@@Texas_Cruiser nobody was faster than The Rocket in the 55-60m as far as NCAA or NFL players. Best acceleration ever. After the 60-70m mark, the Darrell Greens, Ron Brown’s, Sam Grady, Willie Gaults would possibly run him down. The 100 wasn’t The Rockets specialty. If we took all the NFL’s top 15-20 fastest players, more than half were Raiders…… Rocket, Jett, Graddy, Gault, Bo, Cliff Branch, James Trapp, Ron Brown, Alexander Wright, Jacoby Ford, Henry Ruggs, Demarcus Van Dyke, Rod Woodson, Darren McFadden, JJ Nelson, Randy Moss, Darius Hayward Bey. Raiders vs the rest of the NFL Combined in all sprints, 40, 60, 100 and 200. I’m definitely missing others like Fabian Washington, Napoleon Kauffman. Etc.
Raghib"The Rocket"Ismail was great in my book. But I just wish he would have a little bit longer carrier in The NFL. And Raghib Ismail, Jr. Plays at The University of Wyoming. In which I was shocked to find out.
Not as fast as Hill. He wasn't the #1 receiver for the majority of his career. In Oakland Tim Brown was the man. In Carolina he led the team 1 time, but on that team was Rae Carruth, Wesly Walls, Mark carrier and Mushin Muhammed. At Dallas he led twice. Was hurt another year, and had Joey Galloway.
His PB is a 10.20 he ran during his senior year in HS at Wilkes Barre, how in the world can a guy run only 10.61 if he consistently ran in the 6.1 in 55 meters? He barely trained outdoors due to his full time commitment in football.
Where is this 10.20 information? Never mind, I see it, May 20, 1988 in Wilkes Barre, PA. It was hand timed so it's not legal. web.stanford.edu/~clint/100m_nfl.htm His best official documented 100m was here in Philadelphia at the Penn Relays 10.61. articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-04-28/sports/1991118156_1_penn-relays-tony-barton-ismail. There was areported 10.34, but that also was not confirmed because no one knows how it was timed. BTW outdoor track for colleges runs from April to end of June. it doesn't interfere with football.
His brother was just as effective. Quadry 353- 5137- 33 TD. ROCKET 363- 5295 - 28TD. That’s about as even as you can get. Quadry played 1993-2002 and Rocket 1993-2001. Rocket did have a rushing advantage of 423yards and 2 TD’s to 25 and 0 for the Missle. In the playoffs Missle 18-287-0 and Rocket 9-187-0. They were BOTH good. Rocket HALL OF FAME NCAA player though.
At 4.28 40-time he was one of the fastest football players EVER. Should have beaten Detmer for the Heisman. Would have been the #1 NFL draft if he didn't pick the CFL instead. Not only was he almost the fastest, but also the highest paid football player in history (at the time) as "his yearly salary was then the largest in Canadian or American football history", according to his wiki page. His salary was higher than the cap of some ENTIRE TEAMS in the CFL. Holy crap!
He woulda won the award had they not given the award before all the regular season games were decided. Detmer had a poor game in Hawaii and BYU lost right after he won the award.
Yeah I agree with you big time I mean he it sucks because he was way better than what he got credit for he is the symbolism of what the plans are today.
Screwed of a back-to-back National Championship screwed on a punt return that was clearly no clip screwed out of a Heisman in a ship bum quarterback in the pros
@@arthurrobinson4644 Word man. A real tragedy in sports. I was DEVASTATED by that clip call, never to recover. Haven't been into college football since because I saw it was rigged bullshit back then. Not much has changed I see...
@@nooch5lover Nah man, if rocket was on the field and you're looking for him there's 3 plays: Screen, post and bomb. Him being on the field was an INSTANT threat of a touchdown which would open up EVERYTHING else on the field. Imagine him in today's NFL! Those organizations and coaches were TRASH!!!
sydboski shoot Rocket was pretty fast but I think Sanders would've pulled on him. Interesting as competitive as Sanders was he never did the fastest man competition. Early 90s Darrell Green (won several times) and him would've been interesting.
Jsn Walker He was alot faster in the 55-60 meter dashes and had WORLD #1 for a time in '91 and was faster in the 100 also he ran 10.32 as a FR and Deion ran 10.26 as a JR... Deion was the better 200 meter runner though
Santana Hubbard-Mendez When and where did Ismail run 10.32? I haven't seen any reports of that. I do know Ismail ran 10.61 here in Philadelphia at the Penn Relays.
Santana Hubbard-Mendez Ismail never ran a legit 10.32. His best timed 100m ever was 10.61. Sanders regularly ran the 100m in the 10.3 range and was once officially clocked in 10.26. Ismail was fast, but Deion was faster.
The reason rocket ran a 10.61 at the penn relays is becouse he shut down at the 50-55 mark and coasted the rest of the way...he said it was the lack of training
I remember that play but the ball was badly underthrown by Hostetler as were all the throws in the video by him... Vince Evans was only guy who could bomb it to him consistently and Beuerlein to an extent... He had about 3 yds on him as he did with everybody he even ran by Darrell Green twice
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the fact the berman is doing all the highlights makes this one of the best highlight videos out there
Dis dude was so explosive!🔥🔥🔥🏈💯
Love how Berman and Jackson just called him "The Rocket" all the time.
His brother was called The Missile
Everybody called him Rocket all the time. I met him in Calgary Canada when I was 13 at the height of stardom, he was basically the biggest name in sports for a couple years, highest paid player in all of sports in the CFL
My favorite Football player of all time
Omg!! This GUY WAS SUPER FAST!!! Never seen someone that fast in the NFL!!
Flintsvariety Watch his Highlights at Notre Dame, when he was in college. He is considered one of the greatest College Football player's of all time. He was absolutely incredible. Allegedly ran a 4.18 in the 40 yard dash. I think he was more like a 4.2-4.3 personally. But who cares, he was fast!
he ran and official world leading 6.07 55 meter dash in college and a 10.20 in HS he was a world class sprinter.
+therealist His 10,20 was hand timed. His official F.A.T. 100m time is 10.61
sydboski He won states in 10.57 and ran 10.34 at ND in the only Outdoor 100 he ran still fully automatic school record!
+Santana Hubbard-Mendez Dude I don't know where you got your information from. I would fire my whole information team if they gave me false statistics like that.
He did win states in 1988 with a time of 10.63.
www.rodfrisco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/PIAA-BOYS-TRACK-REX-ALL-TIME1.pdf
It's under MEYERS, E.L. [WILKES-BARRE].
At ND He ran a 10.61 at the Penn Relays in 1991. ND's 100m dash record is 10.2 by Bill Hurd set in 1969.
grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/nd/sports/c-track/auto_pdf/2014-15/misc_non_event/14-15-track-media-supplement.pdf
I'd like to see the 10.32 verification.
Note Dam finest !! the rocket #25
You know you have speed when you have to slow down every time and wait for the ball
Yea literally almost every time except with Quincy Carter, he made Champ Bailey look slow
This video should be titled " Rocket Ishmael's NFL highlights. People forget that the owners of the Toronto Argonauts ( Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky, and John Candy) signed him to a 18 million dollar ( 26 million with incentives) contract. He took the Argos to a Grey Cup championship. He was an amazing athlete.
Yeah, I didn't blame him for going to Canada, even though I wanted to see him in the NFL.
Nobody forgets that
The 🚀 !!!! First Raiders ☠️⚔️☠️ game I ever Attended was in 1995 and the #86 Rocket Hauled in 2TD From #11 Vince Evans as the Raiders defeated the Jim Harbaugh led colts 31-17 Raiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiders!☠️⚔️🚀☠️
I've known this dude since I think 3rd grade, weird seeing him be successful like this and I'm here managing a domino's
Free food is a great perk
I watched him play in high school and he was the best high school player I've ever seen in person.
great college player and good second receiver to have on your football team
Hated he had "noodle armed" Hostetler throwing to him in his early-mid 20's...Always 5-6 yards underthrown
Dude look at Hoss' throws to James Jett and he was faster. Beautiful bombs.
@@Texas_Cruiser Rocket beat Jett both times they raced in College, guy ran 10.32 FAT and 10.2h in HS but didn't run much Outdoor track in College
@@GuapoSantana wow would've been interesting to see the times dedicated to track full time.
@@Texas_Cruiser Exactly but anytime your the #2 ranked Sprinter as a Prep you have the potential to be a World Class Sprinter...The #1 Prep sprinter that year William Jackson was the only person to beat him twice
@@Texas_Cruiser nobody was faster than The Rocket in the 55-60m as far as NCAA or NFL players. Best acceleration ever. After the 60-70m mark, the Darrell Greens, Ron Brown’s, Sam Grady, Willie Gaults would possibly run him down. The 100 wasn’t The Rockets specialty. If we took all the NFL’s top 15-20 fastest players, more than half were Raiders…… Rocket, Jett, Graddy, Gault, Bo, Cliff Branch, James Trapp, Ron Brown, Alexander Wright, Jacoby Ford, Henry Ruggs, Demarcus Van Dyke, Rod Woodson, Darren McFadden, JJ Nelson, Randy Moss, Darius Hayward Bey. Raiders vs the rest of the NFL Combined in all sprints, 40, 60, 100 and 200. I’m definitely missing others like Fabian Washington, Napoleon Kauffman. Etc.
This dude was fast damn
Raghib"The Rocket"Ismail was great in my book. But I just wish he would have a little bit longer carrier in The NFL. And Raghib Ismail, Jr. Plays at The University of Wyoming. In which I was shocked to find out.
Lifelong Raiders fan here, living in Wyoming. Rooting for the Real Cowboys and Rocket Jr!!
The Rocket!
once a raider always a raider
He was Tyreek Hill before Tyreek Hill, always felt he was under utilized and did not receive more touches and looks as the no.1 receiver.
Not as fast as Hill. He wasn't the #1 receiver for the majority of his career. In Oakland Tim Brown was the man. In Carolina he led the team 1 time, but on that team was Rae Carruth, Wesly Walls, Mark carrier and Mushin Muhammed. At Dallas he led twice. Was hurt another year, and had Joey Galloway.
sydboski 6.07 55meter dash is world class, he barely trained for track especially outdoors.
His best 100m time was 10.61. Hill's best was 10.19
His PB is a 10.20 he ran during his senior year in HS at Wilkes Barre, how in the world can a guy run only 10.61 if he consistently ran in the 6.1 in 55 meters? He barely trained outdoors due to his full time commitment in football.
Where is this 10.20 information? Never mind, I see it, May 20, 1988 in Wilkes Barre, PA. It was hand timed so it's not legal.
web.stanford.edu/~clint/100m_nfl.htm
His best official documented 100m was here in Philadelphia at the Penn Relays 10.61. articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-04-28/sports/1991118156_1_penn-relays-tony-barton-ismail. There was areported 10.34, but that also was not confirmed because no one knows how it was timed. BTW outdoor track for colleges runs from April to end of June. it doesn't interfere with football.
His brother was great too, The Missile, Qadry Ismail.
I started to combine their highlights............I should have
Ahh no he wasn't
Yes he was good call👍👍
His brother was just as effective. Quadry 353- 5137- 33 TD. ROCKET 363- 5295 - 28TD. That’s about as even as you can get. Quadry played 1993-2002 and Rocket 1993-2001. Rocket did have a rushing advantage of 423yards and 2 TD’s to 25 and 0 for the Missle. In the playoffs Missle 18-287-0 and Rocket 9-187-0. They were BOTH good. Rocket HALL OF FAME NCAA player though.
At 4.28 40-time he was one of the fastest football players EVER.
Should have beaten Detmer for the Heisman. Would have been the #1 NFL draft if he didn't pick the CFL instead.
Not only was he almost the fastest, but also the highest paid football player in history (at the time) as "his yearly salary was then the largest in Canadian or American football history", according to his wiki page. His salary was higher than the cap of some ENTIRE TEAMS in the CFL. Holy crap!
He woulda won the award had they not given the award before all the regular season games were decided. Detmer had a poor game in Hawaii and BYU lost right after he won the award.
Who was faster than him in Canada? You said "almost"
WTF bruh NEVER had a real quarterback I'm just now realizing this. Screwed his whole career he was a LEGEND
Yeah I agree with you big time I mean he it sucks because he was way better than what he got credit for he is the symbolism of what the plans are today.
Screwed of a back-to-back National Championship screwed on a punt return that was clearly no clip screwed out of a Heisman in a ship bum quarterback in the pros
@@arthurrobinson4644 Word man. A real tragedy in sports. I was DEVASTATED by that clip call, never to recover. Haven't been into college football since because I saw it was rigged bullshit back then. Not much has changed I see...
Only problem with Rocket was he didn’t know the playbooks inside and out. Too many different teams, systems etc.
@@nooch5lover Nah man, if rocket was on the field and you're looking for him there's 3 plays:
Screen, post and bomb.
Him being on the field was an INSTANT threat of a touchdown which would open up EVERYTHING else on the field. Imagine him in today's NFL!
Those organizations and coaches were TRASH!!!
Under rated by nfl standards due to late nfl start and height but rocket, terry Glenn is another one once they got to Dallas they were great.
where are the rest of his highlights as a cowboy?
Wondering if Rocket and Primetime ever had a foot race in camp or practice.
Why? Sanders would have smoked him.
sydboski shoot Rocket was pretty fast but I think Sanders would've pulled on him. Interesting as competitive as Sanders was he never did the fastest man competition. Early 90s Darrell Green (won several times) and him would've been interesting.
Rocket's best 100m dash was 10.61. There have been reports of him running 10.34 but it is not confirmed. Sanders ran 10.26. Green ran 10.08.
darrell would have smoked deion easily
@@kennycarlson9654 wrong
Rockets best play was in 1991 CFL Grey Cup when he took a kick off back for a TD and almost got hit with a can of beer
did he ever race Dieone Sanders and do you think that he could have beat him?
he never raced him and........ NO I DON'T THINK HE IS FASTER THAN DEION..............i would love to see that race though
Jsn Walker He was alot faster in the 55-60 meter dashes and had WORLD #1 for a time in '91 and was faster in the 100 also he ran 10.32 as a FR and Deion ran 10.26 as a JR... Deion was the better 200 meter runner though
Santana Hubbard-Mendez When and where did Ismail run 10.32? I haven't seen any reports of that. I do know Ismail ran 10.61 here in Philadelphia at the Penn Relays.
Santana Hubbard-Mendez Ismail never ran a legit 10.32. His best timed 100m ever was 10.61. Sanders regularly ran the 100m in the 10.3 range and was once officially clocked in 10.26. Ismail was fast, but Deion was faster.
The reason rocket ran a 10.61 at the penn relays is becouse he shut down at the 50-55 mark and coasted the rest of the way...he said it was the lack of training
4:33 Jason Garrett 😂😂😂
He was à collège and pro player. Which doesn't always translate for every player that was great in college but he was in exception
A lot of underthrown balls.
talk about speed remember the great cliff branch
Yep. He was faster and better than Ismail.
Fun.Fact The Ishmail Brothers are from Newark NJ
he was one of those hall of fame college players ok nfl players
Better than you
someone should list the 10 fastest raiders ..
I think I need my hearing tested.
This may be the first highlight video of a player I've seen that includes a fumble. How odd.
Separation.
1:59
I hate Berman. Killed it
Wheres the ot touchdown to beat the Redskins in 99???
Always played on bad teams. Him and glen in Dallas was special they just stay injured
i dont recall rocket ever dusting a healthy deion sanders
Because he couldn't Sanders ran 10.26 100m and Ismail ran 10.61
or darrell greene for that matter and champ bailey
oh forgot rod woodson
What many don't realize is you can be fast...the Rocket was quick with his being fast! Arguably the best ever at it!
@@anthonyinman3938 The best at what?
deion schooled rocket
york ryan Rocket had 136 yds receiving and 2 Tds... LOL
not against deion i remember the game in 95 deion was covering him rocket had a step then deion turned on the speed picked it off over his shoulders
I remember that play but the ball was badly underthrown by Hostetler as were all the throws in the video by him... Vince Evans was only guy who could bomb it to him consistently and Beuerlein to an extent... He had about 3 yds on him as he did with everybody he even ran by Darrell Green twice
Deion was pretty fast but I remember him getting outran by Albert Connell and Champ Bailey in a race before the season in July-Aug 2000
thats when he started losinh his speed he was 34