Hines Ward Retiring? Not So, It Seems

by Chris Pokorny on Jan 9, 2012 11:30 PM EST

Earlier today, reports surfaced on CBS Sports that wide receiver Hines Ward might be retiring after the team's loss to the Denver Broncos. According to Hines Ward's Facebook page though, he has no plans of retiring: he wants to come back and be just as ineffective as he was this year.

I'm also getting lots of questions about retirement so let me set the record straight: I have no plans on retiring right now. I want to win another Superbowl. I don't know where the media is getting this info from but rest assured that when I decide to retire, you'll hear it from ME first. - HINES

If you look at the reaction of Steelers fans, the opinions are mixed. Some fans would welcome him back for a year for the veteran minimum, while others think he should hang it up. Ward was terrible against the Browns this year. In two games against Cleveland, he finished with 6 catches for 30 yards, 1 fumble lost, and 1 dropped pass. It got so bad that his "1,000th career pass" had to be a forced pass behind the line of scrimmage for a loss of yardage, seeing as the guy can't get open or catch a pass anymore.

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Please come back.

by HenryDawg on Jan 9, 2012 11:36 PM EST reply actions

And stay as long as you’d like…or until you break a hip. Whichever comes first.

by Off-the-Chain on Jan 10, 2012 10:06 AM EST via mobile up reply actions

I’m glad he’s not retiring yet. It will make next season’s more enjoyable to see him and the Steelers fail some more.

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by Brownsbacker488 on Jan 10, 2012 12:15 AM EST reply actions

I take this optimism shit seriously.

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by The Licensed Optimist on Jan 10, 2012 12:59 AM EST reply actions

The Steelers can keep all their geezers. It won’t help. They’re done.

by Brownie's Year on Jan 10, 2012 1:03 AM EST reply actions

I hate the guy, but it certainly is annoying when the media just makes shit up out of the blue. We, as Browns fans, are all too familiar with that.

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by Simmsinns on Jan 10, 2012 4:50 AM EST reply actions

Tony Grossi is a criminal.

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by Heavysoviet on Jan 10, 2012 11:02 AM EST via mobile up reply actions 2 recs

We should be so lucky to have the Steelers keep aged, slow, ineffective receivers on their roster.

by ouched on Jan 10, 2012 8:43 AM EST reply actions

If Ward was a horse it would be time to send him to the glue factory by now.

by Off-the-Chain on Jan 10, 2012 10:08 AM EST via mobile reply actions

But seeing as he can’t hang on to a pass anymore he’d probably make pretty shitty glue.

by Off-the-Chain on Jan 10, 2012 10:09 AM EST via mobile up reply actions 2 recs

his parents mustve been browns fans.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

by pwndabear on Jan 10, 2012 10:25 AM EST reply actions

because only a parent who hates their kid would name him “hines”

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

by pwndabear on Jan 10, 2012 10:25 AM EST up reply actions

Whines Hard can stay until he’s 50. I like watching him fail.

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by Heavysoviet on Jan 10, 2012 10:50 AM EST via mobile reply actions

The real question on everyone’s mind is will Ben’s stupid, tiny hat announce its retirement after achieving the pinnacle of hat fame during the Denver post game conference? Or is it determined to come out of the hat box once more, perch itself atop Ben’s fat head, and be the star of yet another lost game’s post game presser? Should it go out on top or risk looking like a has been next season? Big questions for the Steelers this offseason.

by Off-the-Chain on Jan 10, 2012 11:45 AM EST via mobile reply actions 2 recs

its gonna be the Joan Rivers of the hat world.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

by pwndabear on Jan 10, 2012 12:26 PM EST up reply actions

Exactly. They are both made from man-made parts.

by Off-the-Chain on Jan 10, 2012 12:36 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

Personally I bet it gets arrested for sexually assaulting another hat at a bar in Georgia, but the Rooneys keep the hat on their squad. In the meantime a fourth string wideout’s less stupid and slightly bigger hat gets cut for marijuana possession.

by Off-the-Chain on Jan 10, 2012 12:43 PM EST via mobile up reply actions