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
carry hard last walk
Yeah, who knows? It would have been hard to walk away from a last carry like that.
guys running
Those guys (other running backs) are Ferraris; I'm an F-150.
circumstance game latter playoff point ready turned understanding
We had different circumstances. At 7-5, understanding that every game at that point is going to be a playoff game got us battle-tested, ready for the playoffs, a lot earlier, because we turned it on in the latter part of the season. We were in playoff mode.
city thankful
I'm so thankful for everything this city has done for me.
care supposed upset
I'm supposed to take care of the football. I was upset that it happened.
believed disrespect football knew people played portrayed sixth team
We never played the disrespect angle. We knew what it was. It wasn't disrespect. It was us being the sixth seed, so it wasn't disrespect. No one believed we could do it but us. We didn't feel disrespected, we just knew we were a better football team than people portrayed us to be.
bid decided incredible mission win
It is an ending. It's been an incredible ride. I decided to come back and win a championship. Mission accomplished. With that I have to bid a farewell.
Just get me to Detroit. Just get me to Detroit.
playing
We're playing to win. We're not playing not to lose.
believed bring home time
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.
good home problem
The alternative to all this is that I could be at home watching, and for a lot of years I have been watching. So this is a good problem to have.
bigger capable dealt everybody issues playing quality tough
That will be a tough situation, ... But it's not like we haven't dealt with bigger issues than that. That's why we have quality backups, because everybody is capable of playing well. That's what we need right now.
definitely health
That was definitely satisfying, ... But at the end of the year, you don't look at that. You look at your health and say, 'Man, I don't know if I can do this again.'
everybody football loved people player respected saw tried
That's the one thing I want people to remember. That when you saw (number) 36, you saw a real football player who loved the game, tried to show it every day and respected everybody around the game.