Steelers OT Hills wants to get promotion

The Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle Tony Hills has been with the team for two years but he has yet played in a single team since being drafted as a fourth-round pick by the Steelers. Entering his third NFL season, Hills hopes that he could get enough recognition and get a promotion during the training camp.

"Patience," Hills said. "That's been the biggest thing. I haven't had a lot of that growing up."

Well, Hills first need patience to wait until July 30 for the beginning of the training camp. At age 25, he feels it urgent to play some important role before he is getting too old to impress anyone. With a team winning Super Bowls for six times, Hills is facing a fierce competition for any visible role. But now his chance just comes as starter Willie Colon happened to rupture his right Achilles tendon in June and is expected to miss the season. Hills just immediately realized that it was time to stop hanging around in his favorite Favre jersey and do something to increase his own value.

While it’s unlikely for Hills to get the starting job, he could be eligible for a backup role. At the moment, he just hopes the camp to come soon so that he can carry out his plan of impressing the coaches.

Steelers CB Taylor is ready to leave after contract expires

The Pittsburgh Steelers Ike Taylor is already in his final year of his current contract with team but he still receives no confirmation from team officials that whether he will receive a contract extension during this new season. The 30-year-old veteran is really expecting a new contract but he is ready for receiving none.

"Deep down in my heart, I want to retire as a Steeler," Taylor told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "I’ve been here seven years. I’m a Steeler all the way. But it’s on them if we can agree—be on the same page. If not, I’ve gotta move on."

It seems that Taylor may take the final contractual season as his last NFL season and he may do his best to achieve as much as possible with the determination to retire as an honored Steeler. The Steelers have a tradition to let free agent ago one contract expires no matter how greatly they are achieved. So Taylor does not think he has big chance to be the exception. But at his age, Taylor can still play for several more years. Being asked what team he would like to join if he has to choose, Taylor pointed to the Michael Irvin jersey he was wearing and said that the Dallas Cowboys are a top choice.

Terry Bradshaw was seen with Roethlisberger

When the Pittsburgh Steelers starting quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was getting involved in a rape lawsuit, former Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw used to make very harsh comments on what Roethlisberger did and was hated by many of Ben’s fans. However, what’s heard might not be truth, and Bradshaw is probably getting along very well with Big Ben in person.

Someone surprisingly encountered Bradshaw the other day and hardly believed what he saw was true when he recognized that Bradshaw’s partner was Roethlisberger himself. Both of them were wearing No.12 Terry Bradshaw jerseys and on their way to a sports club. Apparently, they were having a happy talk with each other and Roethlisberger respected Bradshaw so much that he kept being on step behind the former quarterback.

However, the witness was not allowed into the club so he had no idea what Bradshaw and Roethlisberger were going to do inside. Of course, it was impossible to be a duel game to decide which one was a better quarterback than the other. I guess there could a third person waiting for them to settle the disputes between the two.

Terry Bradshaw is a Saints fan

During his whole NFL career, Terry Bradshaw only played for one team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. But it seemed he was not happy for playing for the Steelers and was even absent from the Steelers’ celebration parade in 2006. Three years later, he did not feel anything sad for Steelers’ failure to make playoffs, but wished he would have been with the New Orleans Saints to win the Super Bowl XLIV game.

As it was already too late to add a Saints style of Terry Bradshaw jersey into the champion team’s locker room, Bradshaw said he would like to show his respect in another way, which is to hand the George Halas Trophy to the champion team’s captain, Drew Brees. Well, it was still impossible for Bradshaw to have right to do such things, he just said it, and saying is always an easy thing for a TV show host to achieve. However, many people doubted if Bradshaw meant it when he said it, as we never heard of good words from him on the Saints before they managed to reach playoffs.

As a result of the comments, Bradshaw now have more haters from the Minnesota as the comments were made before the Vikings played against the Saints for the NFC champion. Bradshaw seemed disliking the Vikings and their starting quarterback Brett Favre and had previously said something bad of Favre. Well, he himself never expects love from Vikings fans, or any team’s fans, as what he wants most is simply attention, the more people to discuss what was said by him, the better.

Terry Bradshaw might be right in Roethlisberger trade

Remember what former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw said of current starting quarterback Ben Roethlisberger a few days ago when he heard of the troubles Roethlisberger was involved? He might be right in predicting Big Ben’s career future as the Steelers do receive offers from other teams about trading for Roethlisberger.

Roethlisberger was investigated and not charged with allegedly sexually assaulting a 20-year-old Georgia woman, a second legal issue he was involved into since last year’s lawsuit filed by a Las Vegas hotel worker. Shortly after knowing about the lawsuit, the former Steelers starting quarterback wearing No. 12 Terry Bradshaw jersey made his attitude clearly to be critical. He said Roethlisberger was ruining his career and the Steelers had good reasons to release him or start trade talking with other teams. Bradshaw also offered some advices that he said would help embattled Roethlisberger rebuild his image in public.

Well, Bradshaw might show his talent in analyzing things happening in football by saying that. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Steelers received quite a few calls from other teams asking about possible trade for Roethlisberger. What makes it more intriguing is that the team has not ruled out the possibility of make the trade happen in real sense. Everything could happen and it is not necessary to be for Roethlisberger’s good, just thinking about what happened to troubled wide receiver Santonio Homes, who was traded by the Steelers to the New York Jets and was said to be cut if trade turned out to be impossible.