Steelers WR Ward wants to retire as a Steeler

At age 34, the Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward has been playing with the team for 12 seasons and is ready to entering his 13th season. During a recent interview, he made it clear that he would play with the Steelers for as long as he could. If he retires, he would only like to retire as a Steeler.


Ward is now working hard to prepare for his 13th NFL season. He is on a strict diet and workout program, which includes time spent in a hyperbaric chamber. By so far, he is feeling good with his conditioning and is confident that the Steelers will have a much better season this year, although the team will have to start the new season with a less experienced starting quarterback than Ben Roethlisberger, who is suspended for the first six games of 2010 NFL season because of inappropriate off field behaviors.

Ward’s favorite player, however, is a former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver, and he was often seen in a No. 88 Michael Irvin jersey when not with the Steelers. Ward used to say that he admires Irvin for the Hall of Famer’s greatness in football and life-long loyalty to his former team, and Ward would like to follow Irvin’s example to stay with the Steelers till the least second of his NFL career.

Terry Bradshaw plans to forestall Favre with earlier private signing

After knowing that the Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre will have a private signing in July, former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw also announced that he would also offer autographs to Steelers fans and he will make it happen one week earlier than Favre.


Bradshaw used to criticize Favre for running people around by changing his minds from time to time. And he recently said that he hated the way Favre squeezes money from his faithful fans by asking for hundreds of dollars to sign his name on the Favre-related items from fans. In order to prove that he could much more for fans than Favre, Bradshaw announced that he would offer his autograph for free on from July 7th and accepted anything related to his former team the Steelers and set the number limit twice as Favre’s to 200 items. What’s more attractive, the former NFL star quarterback said he would send a free Bradshaw jersey in return to the owner of the first item he receives.

However, I’m afraid Bradshaw will not receive more than 100 items from fans even though he does not ask for money. He has been no longer a popular star NFL player for long and his offer will not be taken seriously as he did not release any details on how his private signing will run and where the items should be sent.