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'm hoping nobody picks him up because I really think he has an opportunity to really be special. I want to watch him grow and grow. In a couple years, you're going to be talking about him.
Stepping up and making that play, that was kind of Lynn Swann-like, I guess. You watch all the highlight tapes and ESPN Classic and you see him making spectacular catches. That's what I tried to do yesterday - just make every catch I could get my hands on.
It was all for Jerome. We were going to fight for him. I'm just so happy for him. The way he ended his career, to win a Super Bowl in his own town, is a fairy tale come true.
Only in football, as I say, you can get (from) that all-time high to that all-time low back to that all-time high.
Last year, everything was new to Ben. Tonight, he was pretty crisp. The intangibles that he brings, I like a lot.
I've never had a game where you had an all-time high to an all-time low and then have a guy who rarely misses a field goal miss one and go back to an all-time high again. We don't want to have to go through this many feelings again.
Hearing it from Jerome, I really didn't worry about the dropped pass.
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's a big kid at heart. When the pressure is there, when times are tough and you need to make a big play, he might make a comment where he loosens everyone up and get things going. He's done a great job of handling everything. This year, he's been in every scenario possible - coming from behind, doing the two-minute drill, he was in a shootout. He's experienced all that and he's going to continue to grow.
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.