In an interview with ESPN on the history of gloves in the NFL, Jerry Rice, the 49ers wide receiver and three time Super Bowl champion who retired in 2006, admitted rather lightly to having used the substance "stickum" on his gloves to aid with catches.

"I know this might be a little illegal, guys, but you put a little spray, a little stickum on [gloves], to make sure that texture is a little sticky," he says at around 1:10 in the above video. The substance was banned by the NFL in 1981, which was four years before Rice was drafted by the 49ers.

Perhaps hypocritically, Rice added in a recent interview with ESPN that, if the Patriots were to win the Super Bowl, the achievement ought to be asterisked due to the alleged cheating scandal known as "deflategate."

“This goes back to 2007 — Spygate,” Rice said to ESPN affiliate 95.7 The Game, “We already know that in 2011, Tom Brady said he liked his ball under-inflated. He felt like he could grip the ball better and also, the ball came out of his hands with a lot more velocity and stuff like that."

Rice clarified that he found the incident more annoying than troubling, saying "It's just one of those things —how you want to be remembered, your legacy? It's just unfortunate that something like this has occurred because we should be talking about the Super Bowl. Instead, we're talking about cheating.” Well, looks like we're talking about cheating again, sorry Jerry.