Jerome Bettis
Jerome Bettis
Jerome Abram Bettis Sr., nicknamed The Bus is a former American football halfback who played for the Los Angeles Rams/St. Louis Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. Bettis is sixth on the list of NFL rushing yards leaders. He retired in 2006 after the Steelers won Super Bowl XL in his native Detroit, Michigan, beating the Seattle Seahawks, and he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2015...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth16 February 1972
CityDetroit, MI
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But that's nothing new. We're going to be a running team whether it's Ben or Tommy or Charlie at quarterback. And we'll still throw the football, too.
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I?m a realist in a sense that I do understand there is a good chance it is my last game.
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If they play well, we win. If they don't play well, we're not going to have much success. They are definitely our backbone.
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Here we go, Pittsburgh! We set out a long time ago to bring this back home to Pittsburgh. You all believed in us, believed we could get it done. This is ours, but this is also yours. Every one of you.
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He understands what you have to have to win and he doesn't deviate from his game plan. That's why we're consistent, year in and year out.
I feel great, I feel fresh. And officially, I am back.
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I feel so bad for him. He knew this was coming, but you hate to see it happen during Super Bowl week. He's not even going to get to enjoy it.
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I can't imagine anything better. I'm going home.
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I'd be lying to you if I said it was complete. Having an opportunity to play in this game takes me one step closer to it being complete.
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We knew coming in that if we wanted to control this division, this was the game.
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To hear the ovation from the crowd, and to hear people I grew up with cheering for me in the Super Bowl, it was incredible. It's better than I ever thought it would be.
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You have to look at where he came from, undrafted, unlooked at, nobody really knew who he was. That's a very humbling experience, but I think he appreciates the opportunities he has because he didn't have them in college.
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We understand it is going to be deafening and we aren't going to be able to hear. But it helps having played there earlier this season.
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We've been on the doorstep a couple times. Once we got to the play-offs, we knew it was a realistic possibility.