Steelers' Bettis May Retire at the End of the Season

[Penndems]

Associated Press
Wednesday, December 15, 2004; 6:06 PM

PITTSBURGH -- Jerome Bettis is thinking about retiring.

The Pittsburgh Steelers running back said his health -- not whether the Steelers win the Super Bowl -- will determine whether he plays in 2005. Bettis missed significant playing time in 2001 and 2002 with groin and knee injuries, but hasn't missed a game since.

Bettis, the NFL's No. 6 career rusher with 13,037 yards, has flourished as a part-time running back the last two seasons.

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"I'm not getting any younger," said Bettis, who will be 33 in February. "Every time we win it means a lot more because it could be the last one."

Bettis isn't thinking this might be his last chance to win a Super Bowl. He reached the AFC Championship game during the 1997 and 2001 seasons, but the Steelers lost at home each time.

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Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2688-2004Dec15.html

[zbdent]

1. With a SuperBowl ring

we hope . . .

[Stew225]

2. Oh no! Say it isn't so! Please!

If Bettis retires not only my life but the lives of my wife and children will be most assuredly impacted as well. Well, maybe not as well as my life, but close.

You see, Jerome Bettis has been a role model to a group of pygmies living next door to us in a brick mobile home. They arrived in our country from the African coastal nation where they were raised. Well, raised as much as possible, anyway.

Other family has cultivated an interest in them and have done such things to help them as mow their yard, grab things from the top shelves in their kitchen, and hold them on our shoulders so that they can dunk a basketball.

So where does Jerome Bettis come in, you might ask? You see they have a statue made out of meatloaf in their living room sculptured in the shape of the famous Steeler. After we inquired about why they would do such a thing they meekly replied, "Gooba, durgah, yanna, weewee, glub, blub" which loosely translated means, "Non of your f'ing business". Of course, we didn't press the issue.

Small world, eh? How things affect us from even such a place as Pittsburgh.