Isaac Bruce commanded respect but didn’t crave attention.
As was the case with Torry Holt, his running mate for all those years at wide receiver with the St. Louis Rams, Bruce never felt the need to stomp on the Dallas star, pull a cellphone out of goal-post padding for a TD celebration or propose to a kicking net.
“I just didn’t feel like I had to completely rub your nose in it,” Bruce said. “There was chatter back and forth between defensive backs and myself. But just to completely, like, humiliate someone — that just wasn’t me.