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As the Steelers moved toward their locker room door to start Super Bowl 40, the most voluble linebacker Joey Porter said, "Let's bring the boys out after Jerome."
Meaning let Jerome Bettis go on stage first.
His hometown, Detroit.
The last game, most likely, of a most unlikely career.
They call him The Bus because he's a wide-body who carries people along, sometimes even when they'd rather not be carried.
He's 5-11 and closer to 300 pounds than the 255 he admits. The only players who ever have run for more yards than Bettis are the NFL's sleek Porsches--Emmitt Smith, Walter Payton, Barry Sanders, Curtis Martin.
And here came The Bus dancing from the darkness...
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