Jarryd Hayne

[kruddler]

The Hayne over hype by the Aussie media, particularly in the Northern states, was unjustified.
He was pretty crap, and never really looked up to NFL standard.
So saw the writing on the wall and 'retired' .
The whole situation reminds my of Izzy Falau at GWS.

He was overhyped by the yanks as well.

I think his jersey was amongst the top 50 sold all year.

FYI, there are 32 teams each having 53 players on the roster plus more who get elevated from the practice squad (on which Hayne ended up on) so that is in excess of 2000 players. That's top 2.5% sales wise. Some of that would've been because Aussies were buying his jersey, but not THAT much.

Possibly the best all time Wide receiver to ever play the game, fellow 49'er Jerry Rice was also pumping up Haynes tyres. The aussie media just followed the hype from the US media. Which they are prone to do. How is Tim Tebow going? RG3? Johnny "Mr Football" Manziell? You might need to look them up as they were the 'next best thing' which have all gone to the scrap heap in the past 5 years or so. That's why i trust my own judgement and don't get sucked into the hype that the media creates as they have a knack of getting it wrong.