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
I dropped the first touchdown - I was too worried about my feet staying in bounds. I took my eyes off the ball.
It felt good. It's still only my third day of practicing and getting a chance to get out here and participate in a live game. It's good to be back.
He needs to be mentioned among the great quarterbacks in the NFL today. In my opinion, he's a star.
I never went into the game saying I wanted to be the Super Bowl MVP. I just went out and played. And everything worked its way out.
He's the catalyst to our offense. The offense has to go out there with confidence and he leads with that.
It has been a heck of a ride. We get the opportunity to go down in history among some of the greatest players. This is what the Super Bowl is all about.
I wanted to be here to support the guys.
I didn't want to make it a media circus. It's something that's part of football, it happens. It was a road I had to come across and I tried to handle as best and as professionally as I could.
Of course, all wide receivers want to catch all the balls, ... But the game plan that day was for us to go out and run the ball. I only had two attempts, so I made the most of it.
Jerome sort of acted as the mediator. One thing he mentioned during the holdout - and he's been through them - was not to make it personal because eventually it was going to get done and you have to come back and play for the team. You hold your ground but understand that it's a business.
The guy is just special. He's touched lives of everybody in the city of Pittsburgh in some way, somehow, some form.
Making the Super Bowl, you are going to have more media requests. For him, it can be overwhelming. It's even overwhelming for me to look at all (the media) here wanting to ask me questions.
Everyone thinks he's tough. He is, but he's a players' coach.
It was a big touchdown for us. It really sealed the thing for us.