Hines Ward
Hines Ward
Hines Edward Ward, Jr.is a retired American football wide receiver, businessman, and television personality. He is the current NBC studio analyst who played 14 seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. He played college football at the University of Georgia. The Pittsburgh Steelers selected him in the third round of the 1998 NFL Draft, and he became the team's all-time leader in receptions, receiving yardage and touchdown receptions. Ward was voted MVP of Super Bowl XL, and...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth8 March 1976
CitySeoul, South Korea
The Super Bowl tickets, that's the worst headache. I'm glad they gave us the week off. You really need a couple of days. They say you lose family members over the Super Bowl and I can see why because everybody in the family didn't get tickets. They're mad at me now. That's when I realized we were going to the Super Bowl.
The thing about having Willie is that, if we just get people blocked up front, he can run a long, long way. He forces defenses to play us a little bit differently than in the past. Defenses know now that, if they miss a gap and Willie gets into the open, it's all over.
Are you a little envious? Yeah, I can say that. Everywhere I go, those guys are flashing it every time. It's always motivation.
Each and every day, Jerome is always teaching me something, what it takes to be a professional athlete. That's why I want to win it more for him than for myself.
I've never done anything like it before, ... I've never had a hamstring injury before, so I've been asking guys how to handle it.
I wanted to be here to support the guys.
I wanted to be here especially in a game-time situation,
Teams seem to put us in black jerseys whenever we go anywhere that's hot. We're accustomed to playing in that.
To me, it's like you put in all this hard work, and we didn't capitalize on it. When you look at it, we had a great year.
Of course you want to get more opportunities. Today it presented itself to get more opportunities in the passing game. Everybody capitalized on it. Antwaan made some big plays, Cedrick made some big plays. We kept converting and coming up with touchdowns.
They say in situations like this, a coach gets real tight. But we're out there joking and laughing. Maybe that's a different approach.
This is where the championship truly belongs, in the city of Pittsburgh.
This is what the whole thing was all about, to get the opportunity to retire as a Steeler,
You really don't realize you're playing with a Hall of Fame running back until it comes to an end. If this will be his last year, what better way than to finish where it all started?