Shocking: Former Pittsburgh Steelers standout said………
The Pittsburgh Steelers are one of the most legendary teams in the NFL, with a long history of championship success.
They now have six Super Bowl titles and were on the verge of a seventh when they were defeated by the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XLV
A lot of things influence whether or not a football game is won or lost. Rashard Mendenhall, a former Steelers running back who was drafted with the 23rd overall choice in the first round of the NFL Draft in 2008, feels a fourth-quarter fumble in a crucial time of the game changed the trajectory of his entire life.
The former Pittsburgh Steelers running back has been emphatic that the play was not a fumble, despite the fact that it is categorized as one by NFL rules and how stats are maintained
The blunder in question occurred almost a decade ago. Mendenhall was jolted loose on the first play of the fourth quarter by a combination hit by Clay Matthews and Ryan Pickett. At the moment, the Steelers had scored 14 straight points to bring the score 21-17, and they were in Green Bay territory, threatening to take the lead. The turnover, however, shifted the tide, and the Packers went on to win 31-25.
Mendenhall was an up-and-coming Pittsburgh Steelers running back at the time, having just posted two straight seasons of 1,000 yards rushing, including a top-10 season for a Steelers running back with 1,273 yards in 2010. The year after the fumble, he had a good 928 running yards and nine touchdowns. Mendenhall, however, only lasted one more season with the Steelers before retiring from the NFL in 2014 at the age of 26
Mendenhall joined former teammate Ryan Clark and former Jaguars running back Fred Taylor on the Pivot Podcast to explain the reasoning for his recent string of inflammatory tweets aimed at white guys.
Mendenhall feels he is the most vilified NFL player in modern history, all because of a fumble he lost 12 years ago.
“It’s like it never stops,” the former Pittsburgh Steelers player explained.
“I don’t know if there’s a more attacked player in the modern era than me,” Mendenhall added
Due to a single play in a single game. We talk about race and everything, and I’m constantly reminded of my skin tone. I wake up, kiss my Lebanese wife, open my phone to check my emails, and am reminded of a certain occasion. That s*** feels like Chinese water torture, with a little pinging repeated till I want to curl up in a ball and die. It arouses something else.
I’m not sure I believe it when people say football is what you do, not who you are. I feel that who and what was produced inside that helmet, what we created, that animal, that monster, it stays with you. For me, it had to be a Samurai; that’s the only explanation
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