Gladys Bettis Quotations

We donated it to a church and had it fixed up, but we don't know what happened to it. I didn't even know it caught on fire.

There's nothing I want more for Jerome than to see him win the Super Bowl here in his hometown. It would be the perfect ending for a young man who has given his life to the sport of football.

Personally, I would be happy if this was his last game. I want to see him go out on top.

Oh no. ... He said that? Oh, my God.

What the Rams did to him was wrong. It isn't that they traded him. But they put the word out that he was a bad guy in an attempt to justify the trade. But it took people in Pittsburgh about five minutes to realize it was untrue. But Jerome was miserable over what happened in St. Louis, until he had a chance to get out there and prove the Rams wrong.

When we did that, I said I would never do that again.

He wanted us there, and as parents, it was something we always wanted to do. It took a lot of arranging, a lot of schedule-changing, and a lot of planning to make it all happen, but my husband and I felt like we should be there for Jerome. So we went to his games - all of his games.

My husband would get the hose out to make that rink every year -- it even had nice banks made of snow.

But we kept following him, back and forth across the country, every game, every year. It was hard, but it was a routine we started and stuck with. The years, the miles - nothing separated the family.

We thought that when he was drafted that that was it, that was the top. But this is even better than that. We worked hard right behind him, and this is just icing on the cake.