Today, February 16th, is Jerome Bettis’ birthday, and the big man turns 51 years young. As I scrolled through Pittsburgh Steelers Twitter today, I couldn’t help but see clip after clip of “The Bus” rumblin’ and stumblin’ through defenses during his time in the black-and-gold.
What I quickly realized was how a large portion of the Steelers fan base likely only remembers Bettis for his Super Bowl XL championship, and the part-time player he was in the back end of his career.
But he was so much more than that, and those who watched him in the 90s know it.