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
We're here without him. We never made it to this point with him. So, I don't think that we miss him. That was a big question mark coming into this year: What could we do in the passing game? Well, consequently, our passing game is the reason why we're here in the Super Bowl. So, I can't sit there and say that we miss him.
We're happy to be going to the Super Bowl, but we want to win. We plan to go there and win the whole thing.
The quarterback starts everything off. If the quarterback has confidence, the other 10 guys around in him believe in him. We'll go as far as Ben takes us.
Relieved? Yes, ... I dont wish this on anybody. It was very hard to go out onto the field with peace of mind knowing that youre so close. I can go into the season focused now.
We were desperate. It's a one-game season every week for us. We've got to play like it's the playoffs, because we don't have a lot of room for error.
We pulled it out of our old bag of tricks.
We proved all the prognosticators wrong. This is a big win for us.
We have to stay away from the negative plays. The third-and-longs, those are hard to overcome. We overcame a couple of them last year but last year we were a great team with second-and-short, third-and-short.
We have to run the ball, that's who we are. That's our identity.
We don't feel like we're favored. We're not going to change. We're still playing like a team with desperation.
In some form, Jerome has touched every person on our team. He's kind of like the big brother that everyone goes to talk to. We pleaded with him to come back for another year.
I remember he got in the huddle and a couple offensive linemen couldn't hear the play because he was talking real softly. He was looking down, calling plays off his wristband, and a lot of people couldn't read his lips. So it was a long day.
I'll take Ben over anybody. I like the way he handles the game.
I know he's not putting up a lot of stats like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, but he needs to be mentioned with the great quarterbacks of today. He's been the leader on this team.