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
last referee stop
I'm a champion. I think the Bus' last stop is here in Detroit. It's official, like the referee whistle.
cold quit realized three turkey
I had to quit cold turkey three years ago. I was up all night, all day. I just realized that, hey, I've got to do some other things with my time. It can be an addiction, man.
guy looks remembered running
I'm the only guy who looks like me. I just want to be remembered as a running back who was abnormal.
bitter chance happy
I'm happy for them, ... They got a chance to get one, that's the goal. I'm not bitter or anything like that.
sign
Not 40. That's too many. That's usually a sign of being behind.
great hand situation
It was a great play by the linebacker. He put his hand on the football, and that is one thing that you can never let happen, especially in a situation like this.
ball fun good healthy people plus pound sideline stay toward
It's working that way, and, hopefully, if I can stay healthy toward the end of the year, it's a big plus for us, ... That's the fun part, to be able to go out there and still contribute. To be on the sideline all those weeks, it was frustrating, so it was good to go back out there and pound the ball and show people it was still there.
tells
It's been done before, so that tells you something -- it can happen. Hopefully, there'll be another one this year.
amazing champions happiest truly
It's amazing, truly an amazing feeling. I'm the happiest person on this field. I'm the happiest person in the world. We're champions of the world, and they can't take that away from us. It's an unbelievable moment.
bit care drag gone last process year
It's disappointing in a sense that the organization said last year they're going to take care of him, and it wasn't resolved. I think they could have gone through this process a little bit earlier. They didn't have to drag it this far.
everybody team
It's disappointing for us. We know we're a better team than that. But everybody is 0-0 now. We did everything we had to do to get in. Now we're in, and let's see what happens.
It's better than I ever thought it would be.
bowl diminish great last opportunity super thinking until wait
That's a great question. I'm going to look at it. The last thing I want to do is diminish anything by even thinking about that. This is a great opportunity we have. I'm going to wait until after the Super Bowl and think about it.
diamonds five ring symbolic
Exactly. The ring is symbolic of each championship, so you get five diamonds because we have five championships as an organization. So, it's going to be a pretty big ring.