{"id":7497,"date":"2012-02-29T23:29:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T04:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=7497"},"modified":"2012-02-29T23:29:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T04:29:24","slug":"steelers-to-release-hines-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=7497","title":{"rendered":"STEELERS TO RELEASE HINES WARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IT&#8217;S A VERY SAD DAY IN STEELERS LAND!\u00a0 HINES WARD HAS BEEN A FACE OF THE STEELERS FOR THE PASS 14 YEARS.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ART ROONEY II, STEELERS PRESIDENT RELEASED THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT: &#8220;WE HAD A CONVERSATION TODAY WITH HINES WARD AND INFORMED HIM THAT WE PLAN TO RELEASE HIM OF HIS CONTRACT PRIOR TO THE 2012 NFL CALENDAR YEAR.\u00a0 &#8220;HINES HAS BEEN AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR SUCCESS.&#8221; &#8220;HINES&#8217; ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE NUMEROUS AND HE WILL ALWAYS BE THOUGHT OF AS ONE OF THE ALL-TIME GREAT STEELERS. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HINES WAS DRAFTED IN 1998 IN THE 3RD ROUND OUT OF GEORGIA.\u00a0 HINES HAS THE STEELERS ALL-TIME LEADER\u00a0 WITH 1000 RECEPTIONS, 12,083 RECEIVING YARDS, 85 RECEIVING TOUCHDOWNS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HINES ACHIEVEMENTS IN HIS 14 YEARS AS A PITTSBURGH STEELER ARE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SUPER BOWL MVP (XL)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>2 TIME SUPER BOWL CHAMPION &#8211; XL, XLIII<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>3 TIMES AFC CHAMPION<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>3 TIMES STEELERS MVP<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>4 TIMES PRO BOWL SELECTION<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>3 TIMES 2ND TEAM ALL-PRO SELECTION<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>HINES\u00a0 (#86) YOU WILL\u00a0DEFINITELY BE MISSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/strong>!!!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT&#8217;S A VERY SAD DAY IN STEELERS LAND!\u00a0 HINES WARD HAS BEEN A FACE OF THE STEELERS FOR THE PASS 14 YEARS.\u00a0 ART ROONEY II, STEELERS PRESIDENT RELEASED THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT: &#8220;WE HAD A CONVERSATION TODAY WITH HINES WARD AND INFORMED HIM THAT WE PLAN TO RELEASE HIM OF HIS CONTRACT PRIOR TO THE 2012 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,7,9],"tags":[438,175],"class_list":["post-7497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","category-sports","category-us","tag-hines-ward","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}