There's always a lot of backlash any time certain Steelers players have any kind of fun online.
If Le'Veon Bell raps or posts pictures of his dogs or JuJu Smith-Schuster makes interesting videos or Vince Williams tweets too much, they're met with choruses of "stick to football" or other demands for these guys to spend every waking hour on the field or in the gym.
I get that fans want the most out of these guys and they want the team to succeed, and that some fans have other reasons to be frustrated with Bell lately. But I always just think that it's so wild to attack these guys for having hobbies. All athletes have interests outside of their sport, and it probably wouldn't be healthy to eat, breathe, and live the game 24/7.
Obviously, JuJu and Le'Veon both have teams of producers and aren't personally fiddling around with GarageBand or Premiere or spending exorbitant amount of times creating these things. Why is it that when their hobby is in the public eye they're met with loads of criticism and labels like "pretentious jerks"? Are they only allowed to have lives away from the field after they bring home a championship?
Just something I always think is interesting.
The consensus among Steelers players is that LeBron James is good:
LETS GO CAVS!!!!!!!!!!!! BRONNY BRON BRONNNNN
— Le'Veon Bell (@LeVeonBell) May 28, 2018
Bron the best basketball player to ever touch that orange round thing that goes in the rim
— Le'Veon Bell (@LeVeonBell) May 28, 2018
Bron better than Michael Jordan on Space Jam
— Le'Veon Bell (@LeVeonBell) May 28, 2018
Bron better than Kobe on the Lakers
— Le'Veon Bell (@LeVeonBell) May 28, 2018
— Mike Hilton (@MikeHilton_28) May 28, 2018
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— Terrell Edmunds (@rell_island6) May 28, 2018
I truly appreciate being able to watch king James play!
— 5⃣Roosevelt nix (@Dat_Dude_Nix) May 28, 2018
DONT EVER GO AGAINST BRON!!! I TOLD EVERYBODY HE GON BE IN THE FINALS!!! I BET NOBODY HIT MY PHONE ON THE BS NOW!!! BRON ALL DAY!!!
— Le'Veon Bell (@LeVeonBell) May 28, 2018
Bron for president!!!
— 5⃣Roosevelt nix (@Dat_Dude_Nix) May 28, 2018
Lebron is no losing game 7! No chanceee!
— Josh Dobbs (@josh_dobbs1) May 28, 2018
Alejandro Villanueva shared this moving essay for Memorial Day:
This is what #MemorialDay means to Alejandro Villanueva.
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— Pittsburgh Steelers (@steelers) May 27, 2018
Nick Kingham is all in on Vegas:
This @GoldenKnights intro has me feeling like I’m watching Batman enter the building!! #GoKnightsGo
— Nick Kingham (@NickKingham) May 29, 2018
there’s no better atmosphere than playoff hockey..vegas gets to experience it in their inaugural season! much deserved. #vegasstrong #nocaps
— Nick Kingham (@NickKingham) May 29, 2018
Trevor Williams had to make a tough call:
I’m responding to a few 2nd graders that wrote to me last week. The 5 letters I got from this school were all hand written in cursive. My dilemma — do I respond in cursive or my normal hand writing to prove a point that I never use cursive. My penmanship is v good.
— Trevor Williams (@MeLlamoTrevor) May 22, 2018
Georges Laraque got some people riled up with this one, and not just because he thinks "Pitt" is the correct abbreviation for Pittsburgh:
@rreaves75 congrats on making to the Stanley Cup final bro! And on scoring the clinching goal against the Jets! You can send a pair of tickets to Rutherford to come watch you... hahahahaha p.s if Pitt kept you, they would have beat Washington!
— Georges Laraque (@GeorgesLaraque) May 22, 2018
Jamie Oleksiak, Zach Aston-Reese, Dominik Simon, and Olli Maatta are in Barcelona. Olli's comb got left in Pittsburgh:
Geno took a stroll: