{"id":222817,"date":"2020-09-17T00:03:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T21:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/steelers-teammate-surprised-by-al-villanueva-covering\/"},"modified":"2020-09-17T00:04:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T21:04:01","slug":"steelers-teammate-surprised-by-al-villanueva-covering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/steelers-teammate-surprised-by-al-villanueva-covering\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers teammate \u2018stunned\u2019 by Al Villanueva masking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Steelers have an issue on their fingers and it has nothing to do with what occurred on the sphere.<\/p>\n<p>The staff voted to put on the identify of Antwon Rose Jr., \u2014 a black teenager killed by police in Pittsburgh in 2018 \u2014 on the again of their helmets throughout every recreation this season. However in Monday night time\u2019s season-opening win over the Giants, one participant, offensive lineman Al Villanueva, taped over the identify and put instead the identify of Military Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe, a Black soldier who was killed on responsibility in Iraq and was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for heroism.<\/p>\n<p>Villanueva is a former Military Ranger and obtained permission to make the change from head coach Mike Tomlin, however didn&#8217;t focus on it with any of his teammates \u2014 and a few of them didn\u2019t appear happy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to be stunned by what Al did,\u201d defensive lineman Cam Heyward informed reporters Wednesday. \u201cYou\u2019ll have to speak to him sooner or later, however on this nation, we\u2019re given the liberty to do and assist people who imply loads to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ben Roethlisberger added: \u201cI didn&#8217;t find out about Al\u2019s alternative for the again of his helmet. That\u2019s his alternative. That\u2019s the wonderful factor concerning the nation we stay in. Sadly, it&#8217;s what it&#8217;s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tomlin defended Villanueva\u2019s proper to honor a distinct particular person.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Steelers LT Alejandro Villanueva has the identify Alwyn Cashe on the again of his helmet<\/p>\n<p>Cashe was posthumousky awarded the Silver Star for heroism after his dying at 35 whereas on responsibility in Iraqhttps:\/\/t.co\/a4Pbp3UERU had stated ALL gamers&#8217; helmets would have Antwon Rose Jr&#8217;s identify pic.twitter.com\/UMqbxVo6mj<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Adamski (@C_AdamskiTrib) September 14, 2020<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe did focus on that with me,\u201d Tomlin stated Tuesday. \u201cAnd that is according to every little thing we stated about taking part in components of social justice this offseason. As an organization- and myself as a head coach of an organization- we&#8217;re going to assist our gamers in nevertheless they select to take part and specific themselves or to not take part or not specific themselves, so long as they achieve this thoughtfully and with class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rose\u2019s mom, Michelle Kenney, wrote Tuesday on Fb that she was sad with the change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me [be] very very very clear,\u201d Kenney wrote, based on ESPN. \u201cThe Pittsburgh Steelers took a staff vote. Clearly one particular person didn\u2019t just like the outcomes in order that they selected to do one thing completely different. I&#8217;ve nothing in opposition to vets and completely respect every little thing that they&#8217;ve completed and proceed to do for us. However this one particular person confirmed us precisely who he&#8217;s and clearly he didn\u2019t approve of how the vote turned out. For my part; that\u2019s for his coach, staff and group to deal with NOT ME! Whereas he was so busy being unfavorable what it truly did now compelled extra folks to interact on this dialog\u2026 I\u2019m going to make use of this unfavorable press and negativity to inspire me to carry the Pittsburgh Steelers much more accountable!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Villanueva made headlines in 2017 when the Steelers opted to remain within the locker room in the course of the nationwide anthem earlier than a recreation in Chicago after President Trump criticized gamers for not standing for the anthem. Villanueva, who served excursions in Afghanistan, determined to face in entrance of the tunnel within the stadium so he might see the flag.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16306622\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone aligncenter\"><img class=\"size-nypost-large-desktop-uncropped wp-image-16306622 lazyload\" alt=\"Alejandro Villanueva Steelers anthem\" width=\"662\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/villanueva.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/villanueva.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/villanueva.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/villanueva.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=662 662w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/villanueva.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1324 1324w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 662px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Pittsburgh Steelers offensive deal with and former Military Ranger Alejandro Villanueva stands exterior the tunnel alone in the course of the nationwide anthem earlier than a recreation in opposition to the Chicago Bears in 2017.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Villanueva informed Roethlisberger of his plan on the time, however Villanueva later stated he was sorry for placing his staff in an uncomfortable place after footage had been seen of him watching the anthem on his personal.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/16\/steelers-teammate-surprised-by-al-villanueva-covering-antwon-rose-jr-s-name-on-helmet\/\">Supply hyperlink <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Pittsburgh Steelers have an issue on their fingers and it has nothing to do with what occurred on the sphere. The staff voted to put on the identify of Antwon Rose Jr., \u2014 a black teenager killed by police in Pittsburgh in 2018 \u2014 on the again of their helmets throughout every recreation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24460,98268,98269],"class_list":["post-222817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world","tag-football","tag-mike-tomlin","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}