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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I'm enjoying this. Most people might not like this, but I do.
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I'm living a dream right now. I am enjoying retirement.
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What Stevens said is true; their job is to make sure it's not a big block party after the game. Our job is to make sure everybody gets a ticket.
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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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I've never seen anything like that (reaction) before. It gives you something to reflect on and to think about.
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I've never seen shy about eating. They don't call me 'The Bus' because I pass the plate.
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It would be a defining moment for him as well.
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I've been on the losing side of quite a few of these. That's what's driving me more than anything, not that the Super Bowl is in Detroit. It's an opportunity for us to do something we haven't done. We've been in this situation before and we lost.
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The script right now, if you took it to Hollywood they'd turn it down, saying it couldn't happen.
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Duce is a consummate professional. People can learn a lot from him.
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People say I'm not going to be able to focus because of the distractions but there really aren't any distractions. The possible distraction would be family, but my family comes to every game anyway.
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People on the freeway honking, people at the hotel, it's been great. I'm living a dream right now.
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People count them out every time they play a worthy opponent and they find a way to beat them, and you have to respect that.
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Bowling was my first love. Beating my mother for the first time when I was 13 or 14 was a major accomplishment. I had big glasses. I was a pretty smart kid, maybe nerdy, but I always had a good street sense.