Post by mafi97 on Dec 7, 2018 20:30:19 GMT
I know that there is a post about Jerome's passing on another thread.
I am not in the habit of opening threads - but, I do feel that he well merits the acknowledgment of his overall contribution to Kerry football denoted by having a dedicated thread in his honour.
In an era when corner-backs were the antithesis of glamour and flamboyance, Jerome epitomised these very qualities. Blessed with a graceful athletic build topped by Hollywoodesque looks, the gods decided to go the whole hog and annointed him with football skills of the most sublime quality charaterised by his ability to soar effortlessly from a standing position to field high over friend and foe.
It is true to say that Jerome's impact created the widely accepted feeling that while left-corner backs were usually no-nonsence exponents of the dark arts of defending, being picked as the right corner-back was an acknowledgment of possessing some degree of class, tenuous though the evidence may have been.
I have often thought that Jerome's position as the glamour boy of Gaelic football would have been copperfastened outside the confines of the aficionadas only for the emergence just a few years behind him of a young promising player with a compelling aura all of his own, called Mick O'Connell. How spoilt were we?.
The gods decided that football would be just one of his skills and blessings and he went on to ensure that even when he had hung up the boots, we could still take vicarious pride in his many contributions across the various platforms on which he performed.
In the truest sense of the term, this was a class act. RIP Jerome.
I am not in the habit of opening threads - but, I do feel that he well merits the acknowledgment of his overall contribution to Kerry football denoted by having a dedicated thread in his honour.
In an era when corner-backs were the antithesis of glamour and flamboyance, Jerome epitomised these very qualities. Blessed with a graceful athletic build topped by Hollywoodesque looks, the gods decided to go the whole hog and annointed him with football skills of the most sublime quality charaterised by his ability to soar effortlessly from a standing position to field high over friend and foe.
It is true to say that Jerome's impact created the widely accepted feeling that while left-corner backs were usually no-nonsence exponents of the dark arts of defending, being picked as the right corner-back was an acknowledgment of possessing some degree of class, tenuous though the evidence may have been.
I have often thought that Jerome's position as the glamour boy of Gaelic football would have been copperfastened outside the confines of the aficionadas only for the emergence just a few years behind him of a young promising player with a compelling aura all of his own, called Mick O'Connell. How spoilt were we?.
The gods decided that football would be just one of his skills and blessings and he went on to ensure that even when he had hung up the boots, we could still take vicarious pride in his many contributions across the various platforms on which he performed.
In the truest sense of the term, this was a class act. RIP Jerome.
