Re-living ‘99: A week-to-week look back on one of the greatest seasons in NFL history.
The year 1999 brought quite the paradigm shift to Torry Holt’s view of football. It’s not as though Holt was unfamiliar, immune, or uninterested in success, but when you’re the sixth overall pick in a draft, you rarely expect the team that drafted you to be in an immediate position to win the Super Bowl.
After a four-year career at NC State in which Holt experienced plenty more losses than wins, it would have been fair to assume more of the same.