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  Jerome Bettis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bettis was picked in the first round (10th overall) of the 1993 draft by the Los Angeles Rams.
Bettis was traded to Pittsburgh that summer with a third round draft pick in exchange for a second round pick in 1996 and a fourth round draft pick in 1997.
Bettis won the NFL Comeback Player of the Year award in 1996, and in 2002 he was the recipient of the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award.
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 Bettis, Jerome - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Jerome was diagnosed with asthma at age 14 after passing out and being rushed to the hospital during his high school football practice in Detroit.
Jerome has faced his asthma head-on, and worked with his doctors to map out a game plan to help him control his asthma on and off the field.
Jerome is the fifth all-time leading rusher, and in 2004 advanced to the AFC championship game, where the Steelers came up short against the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots.
www.webmd.com /content/Biography/8/106810.htm   (496 words)

  
 Jerome Bettis | Pittsburgh Steelers Kicker
Jerome Abram Bettis (born February 16, 1972 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American football running back for the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers.
Bettis is one of the most productive running backs of his era and is currently in fifth place on the National Football League's all-time rushing list.
Bettis was picked in the first round (10th overall) of the 1993 draft by the St. Louis Rams.
www.herodecks.com /football/pittsburgh/jerome-bettis.php   (588 words)

  
 Bettis looking for more yardage - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Bettis gained 100 yards in the first three games of the season, including a season-low 24 against the Cleveland Browns when he was benched in the fourth quarter — the first performance-based demotion of his seven-year Steelers career.
Bettis can expect the same workload Sunday in Cincinnati, where the Bengals are ranked 25th in the league against the run.
Bettis said he suffered an injury to a muscle in his glute a month ago against the Oakland Raiders that he initially said was no big deal.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/sports/s_96199.html   (659 words)

  
 JEROME BETTIS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Jerome Abram Bettis, known to all football fans as "THE BUS", was born on February 16, 1972 in Detroit, Michigan.
Jerome was then taken as the 10th pick in the 1993 NFL Draft by the St. Louis Rams.
Jerome has his own custom bus which drives from Pittsburgh to all of the away games and also all around the country promoting the Jerome Bettis Foundation.
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 Jerome Bettis wants to retire as a Steeler - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Barring further injury, Bettis, who is playing with a sore shoulder, will lead the team in rushing for the seventh time in his eight-year Steelers career.
Bettis wants to retire in Pittsburgh where he has become one of the most popular athletes ever to play in the city and a respected member of the community.
Bettis is smart enough to know that he could fall in that category, but he doesn't believe his career will end Dec. 28 when the Steelers close out the season in Baltimore.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/sports/s_168164.html   (774 words)

  
 ESPN.com - NFL/PLAYOFFS05 - Bettis returns to city where it all started
The old Bettis home is vacant now, left behind by the man who bought it in 1993 when first-round NFL draft pick Jerome moved his parents to a safer neighborhood.
Jerome attended classes at Detroit's Henry Ford High for one semester, and John remembers the day the younger Bettis realized the home of the defending Michigan state football champions wasn't for him.
While Jerome Bettis refuses to admit Super Bowl XL is likely his last game as a professional football player, his family isn't choosing its words quite as carefully.
sports.espn.go.com /nfl/playoffs05/news/story?id=2310876   (1845 words)

  
 NBC 17 - NBC17 - Jerome Bettis' Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Former NFL running back Jerome Bettis will be on the Demonstration Stage of the NBC17 Health and Fitness Festival at 1 p.m.
In 1993, he was picked in the first round draft by the Los Angeles Rams, where he ended his rookie year with several honors: NFL Co-Rookie of the Year, Rams Rookie of the Year and The Sporting News Rookie of the Year.
Bettis will speak about asthma control and his affiliation with asthmacontrol.com on the Demonstration Stage for a half hour.
www.nbc17.com /station/9152705/detail.html   (357 words)

  
 Bettis: Family and friends share spotlight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Bowling is safe." She wouldn't let Bettis play football until he was in ninth grade and then only after the urging of her brother, Leroy Bougard, a high school coach, who saw something in the big boy with the remarkably nimble feet.
Bettis taped three television commercials in the past two weeks, including one for GlaxoSmithKline -- he's their spokesman for asthma awareness -- that's a creative takeoff on Mean Joe Greene's famous Coke and a Smile commercial.
Gladys Bettis is going to be a hit nationally -- maybe the family should call her "Really Big Time" -- by the time they get done showing her in the Ford Field stands and in the commercial she taped last week with her son.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/06034/649086.stm   (2961 words)

  
 Dapper Dan Sportman of the Year: Jerome Bettis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It is that marvelous 13-year career, 10 of them in Pittsburgh, and the joyful ending that brought Jerome Bettis his only Super Bowl ring and the Steelers their first Lombardi Trophy in 26 years that the Dapper Dan will celebrate next Sunday when they present the Bus as Sportsman of the Year.
Bettis, the NFL's fifth-leading career rusher, takes his place among Pittsburgh's long list of pro sports icons, from Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell to Mario Lemieux and a slew of Super Steelers before him.
Bettis nearly missed the spectacular ending to his career because he considered bowing out one year earlier after the Steelers went 15-1 and lost to New England in the AFC championship to close their 2004 season.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/06113/684414-139.stm   (887 words)

  
 Jerome Bettis Sports Autographs
Even though Jerome Bettis has accepted a reduced contract over the weekend, he hasn't ruled out retiring, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette reported Thursday.
Bettis told KDKA-TV Wednesday that he agreed to take a pay cut to give the Steelers salary cap relief, but that he still may retire and his decision likely won't come until June 1.
Bettis was to have made $4,484,000 next season, but will play for about $1.5 million -- or about $500,000 more than his base salary last season.
autographedfootballs-sportsautographs.com /jeromebettis.html   (264 words)

  
 Commentary: Career finale memorable for Bettis - Super Bowl - MSNBC.com
Jerome Bettis of the Steelers, who formally announced his retirement after the Super Bowl on Sunday, leaps over Michael Boulware of the Seahawks in the third quarter.
Bettis wasn’t the same back who punished defenders in the NFL for 13 years, but he didn’t need to be on this team.
Assuming it is official, Bettis leaves after rushing for the fifth-most yards in the history of the NFL.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11194861   (922 words)

  
 SI.com - Writers - Michael Silver: Seven others who deserve to receive Bettis treatment - Friday February 3, 2006 ...
Jerome Bettis has been the toast of the town in Detroit this week.
At the aptly named Icon in downtown Detroit on Monday night, Jerome Bettis -- with Ben Roethlisberger, Hines Ward and other Steelers teammates clad in the Bus' green No. 6 Notre Dame throwback jersey trailing close behind -- was the undeniable Prince of Motown, immediately lifting the spirits of everyone in the house.
Bettis going home to play in his first Super Bowl, in the final game of his admirable 13-year career -- in his hometown -- dwarfs anything that any player has experienced preceding the other XXXIX Super Bowls.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2006/writers/michael_silver/02/03/open.mike   (630 words)

  
 ABC News: Super Bowl Last Stop on the Bus for Jerome Bettis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It was also the "last stop" for running back Jerome "the Bus" Bettis who played his final game in his hometown of Detroit.
Bettis, 33, had considered retiring at the end of last season, but his teammates persuaded him to come back.
Bettis said he was not sure what he was going to do next.
www.abcnews.go.com /GMA/SuperBowl2006/story?id=1584620   (360 words)

  
 Features - NFL pro football articles and coverage from Pro Football Weekly
Jerome Bettis could be entering the final game of what certainly would be a Hall of Fame career.
Bettis: The best part is being able to showcase the hometown.
Bettis: It’s hard not to, especially in your first couple of years in the NFL.
profootballweekly.com /PFW/Features/Super+Bowl/2005/bettis013106.htm   (665 words)

  
 Jerome Bettis Hand-Signed NFL Football - Wal-Mart
Running back extraordinaire and surefire future NFL Hall of Famer Jerome Bettis had spent his 13-year-long career in pursuit of one elusive thing: a ring, a Super Bowl ring.
During the post-game festivities, with his mission accomplished and as his family, teammates, fans and millions of television viewers worldwide looked on, Bettis announced that he was officially retired.
Jerome Bettis has hand signed this official NFL football, which comes complete with a Steiner Sports Certificate of Authenticity.
www.walmart.com /catalog/product.gsp?product_id=4964886   (668 words)

  
 Jerome Bettis | NFL Football at CBS SportsLine.com
Steelers veteran RB Jerome Bettis had 110 carries for 368 yards and nine touchdowns in 2005, adding 40 receiving yards.
Bettis' nine scores made him palatable as a No. 3 Fantasy RB.
Bettis announced his retirement after winning Super Bowl XL.
www.sportsline.com /nfl/players/playerpage/1152   (208 words)

  
 eBay - jerome bettis, Cards, Fan Apparel Souvenirs items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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 KFFL - Jerome Bettis, RB, Retired
Mike Prisuta, of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, reports Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger is stepping up to help fill the leadership role that retired RB Jerome Bettis held in 2005.
Roethlisberger and WR Hines Ward were among the leaders last season and will become more prominent in those roles in the upcoming season.
Alan Robinson, of the Associated Press, reports Pittsburgh Steelers RB Duce Staley did not complain about being snubbed during the 2005 season out of respect for RB Jerome Bettis, who retired after the season.
www.kffl.com /player/1535/nfl   (277 words)

  
 Jerome Bettis Jerseys
Jerome Bettis Pittsburgh Steelers Autographed Authentic Jersey with Super Bowl XL Champs Inscription
Jerome Bettis has hand signed this Steelers Authentic Style Jersey (with sewn on name and numbers) on February 17, 2006, after his perfect finish to a perfect season and career!
Jerome was nice enough to add his "SUPER BOWL XL CHAMPS" Inscription to this jersey.
www.prosportsmemorabilia.com /ProductDetail.aspx?pfId=33-51537   (325 words)

  
 Jerome Bettis Jerseys
Jerome Bettis Pittsburgh Steelers Authentic Home NFL Jersey
The only way you’d get a more authentic jersey is to take one off the back of Jerome Bettis (we do not advise this).
Jerome Bettis Pittsburgh Steelers Authentic NFL Pro-Line Wilson Football Jersey - Unautographed
www.topprospectalert.com /jerome-bettis-jersey.htm   (308 words)

  
 Jerome Bettis Products
A limited run of approximately 100,000 boxes of Bettis World Championship Crunch will be produced honoring the Steeler player fondly known as “The Bus.” The commemorative cereal will be ready to ship in about six weeks and will be available locally in the Pittsburgh region and via the internet at www.plbsports.com.
Bettis World Championship Crunch pays tribute to the outgoing player who announced after the Super Bowl in his hometown of Detroit that it would be the “last stop” for The Bus.
The Bettis World Championship Crunch cereal box also will feature information about The Bus Stops Here Foundation, a charity the football star founded in 1990 to help underprivileged children in America’s inner cities like where he grew up.
www.plbsports.com /ProductPgs/products_bettis.htm   (437 words)

  
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Jerome Bettis autographed 8x10 color photo (Pittsburgh Steelers star) **photo may vary
Official Pittsburgh Steelers football jersey autographed by Jerome Bettis
Jerome Bettis autographed official NFL football (Pittsburgh Steelers star)
www.grandstandsports.com /searchlist.aspx?lastname=Jerome+Bettis   (30 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Jerome Bettis Pittsburgh Steelers Black NFL Replica Jersey: Apparel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Jerome Bettis Jersey - Pittsburgh Steelers NFL Jersey by Reebok
Jerome Bettis Replica Youth Black Pittsburgh Steelers NFL Jersey
Jerome Bettis Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl XL Black NFL Replica Jersey
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 ►► Jerome Bettis Photos
Jerome Bettis Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl XL Champions - Rushing - Framed 8x10 Photograph
After 13 years, Jerome "the Bus" Bettis has made his final stop in Detroit wining the Super Bowl in his hometown.
This image is of Bettis rushing in the Steelers Super Bowl win over the Seahawks.
www.fansedge.com /ProductDetail.aspx?pfId=33-51465   (282 words)

  
 IGN: Jerome Bettis Interview
After splitting their first two games, ending up with a rookie quarterback starting his first game in Week 3, the Steelers wouldn't lose again until the playoffs.
Jerome Bettis, the face of the Steelers for the past decade joins IGN Sports for a review of the 2004 season, his thoughts on steroids, the experience of getting PUNK'd, and kicking the (video game) habit.
IGN Sports: You guys had a great year going 15-1, before succumbing in the playoffs to the Patriots, a team you defeated earlier in the season.
sports.ign.com /articles/601/601767p1.html   (796 words)

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