Sports Notes - Steelers Win Super Bowl - Ya Gotta Have Seoul - February 2006

NFL Super Bowl MVP Hines Ward

James Loving - National Radio Text Service - Monday February 6, 2006

SUPER BOWL - Steelers Defeat Seattle Seahawks 21-10 - Hines Ward Game MVP - Coach Cowher Wins 1st Super Bowl Game - The Trick Play - Super Bowl Trivia - Did You Know??? - NR Top 10 According To Google - FIFA Top 10

The Pittsburgh Steelers Defeat the Seattle Seahawks 21-10 in the 40th (XL) edition of the Super Bowl.

I'm often asked, what do you write about. My reply usually is, your heart, your guts, and your soul.

Well the Pittsburgh Steelers had all of that in defeating the Seattle Seahawks 21-10 in the 40th (XL) edition of the Super Bowl.

They had HEART by coming from behind to take a 7-3 lead with less than 2 minutes left in the first half. They scored on their second possession in the first minute of the second half for a 14-3 lead.

They had GUTS by toughing it out and holding on to 14-10 lead after a Seattle score by trying a trick pass play on a reverse by wide receiver from Antwaan Randle El threw a 43 yd touchdown (TD) pass for the deciding Steelers 21-10 lead with 8:56 remaining in the game. Randle El formerly was a quarterback at Indiana University before entering the pros.

The Steelers had Seoul (SOUL) in receiver Hines Ward who caught the trick pass play from El. Why Seoul and not soul???

It should make Asia proud…. Ward was born in Seoul, Korea. Ward caught five passes in the game for 123 yards, 24.6 average per catch and the TD that earned him the games MVP award. He has to be the first Asian/Eurasian (your choice) to win the Super Bowl MVP award. Ward's mother is Korean.

Jerome (The Bus) Bettis got his reward after 13 years of faithful service in sacrificing his body in the NFL by being a member of a Super Bowl winning team. He ran for a total of 43 yards in the game.

The bonus plus is that he did it in his hometown of Detroit and just before his 34th birthday on February 16. What a birthday present.

Bettis said after the game about winning the Super Bowl, "It feels incredible."

With his body battered over the years but not beaten the talk has been that the Super Bowl would be his last NFL game and that he would retire.

"It's been an incredible ride,' Jerome The BUS said. "There's a time when you have to call it quits. I THINK the last stop was here in Detroit."

As the Bus rides off into the sunset of retirement he will be remembered by this reporter as being one of the nicest people that I have ever interviewed in the NFL.

It was a storybook ending of a great career by a great person. But... remember... the key word in his statement was THINK.

NOTES

The win was the Steelers fifth Super Bowl win. The victory ties them for the most Super Bowl wins by a team with the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers.

DID YOU KNOW?

In early December Pittsburgh has a 7-5 record and had to win their remaining four regular season games to make the playoffs. That earned them a playoff spot as the LOWEST SEEDED TEAM meaning they would have to play all of their playoff games ON THE ROAD.

*** For winning the games MVP award Hines Ward also won a 2007 Cadillac Escalade SUV. It is one of the first 100 to roll off the assembly line.

*** Pittsburgh running back Willie Parker's 75 yard run in the first minute of the second half set a Super Bowl record for a run and also a touchdown run.

*** Parker's feat broke the record held by Marcus Allen of the then Los Angeles Raiders (now Oakland) in a 38-9 win over the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XVIII. Allen was selected the games MVP. Up to that time the score was the most lopsided score in Super Bowl history. The game took place January 22, 1983 at Tampa Stadium in Tampa Bay, Florida before a crowd of 72,920.

*** This was Pittsburgh coach Bill Cowher's second time coaching the Steelers in a Super Bowl. In his first experience Pittsburgh lost to the Dallas Cowboys 27-17 in Super Bowl XXX at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona on January 28, 1996 before a crowd of 76,347. *** Pittsburgh's Kelly Herndon's 76-yard pass interception set a new Super Bowl record.

*** NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue played basketball on the Georgetown University team.

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