Pittsburgh Steelers Star Hines Ward Discusses His Cameo In THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

well hey, who doesn't love to score :P

I hate him.

What has Hines Ward not done.

2 time Super Bowl Champ, Super Bowl XL MVP, yes he is the best blocking receiver in the NFL, oh and he won Dancing with the Stars. Now he is in a Batman movie

Oh and he has done this with cartilage missing in one of his knees

(No I am not a Steelers fan just stating facts)

It is NOT a Burt Ward reference

@tea did i ever tell you my nick name is easter egg?

@tea, that golf gif is pretty funny!

teaba@ - Ha! Bond would not only throw out the one liners, but carry around a tablet computer to display appropriate gifs at opportune times. Talk about making the character relevant for today!

That football scene was great. I can't wait to see Bane wreak havok on Gotham.

Dang it, there goes the LOL I was saving for tomorrow, too.

i dropped his ass from my fantasy team a while ago.

Ben and Polamalu are probably the only other more recognizable names on the Steelers and they don't have the build to look and play the role of a kickoff returner. Convenient that Hine's last name is Ward? Perhaps, but I wouldn't have given it a second thought. He's a Steeler player with the last name Ward. The Steeler players were used to shoot the scene. One of their owners is executive producer of the film. If someone wants to read into it as a Robin reference...all the power to you. Don't know how that is going to make the film and storyline any different, but enjoy.

Best article I've seen all day!

Thanks @TEA!

Let's Go, Jacksonville Jaguars!

People are trying way to hard to find a Robin reference that doesn't exist.

Hines, you better start focusing on how the Steeler's are gonna beat new England in the play-offs dude!

Fuggettabout your cameo.

@EverythingBurns I didn't "try hard" to find a "reference" for anything. The first time I saw the trailer and noticed the "R" logo in the stands and the letters "Ward" at the end, I just thought of Robin and Burt Ward. I don't see why this upsets so many people.

What I don't want to see as we enter perhaps the greatest CBM year EVER are real-life versions of COMIC BOOK GUY, whose fascist ideas on how fans MUST relate to their comic book heroes are a long-running joke on the Simpsons. That's why I DON'T CARE WHAT ANYBODY on ANY FILM tells me about THE FILM their making. We live in a media culture where people tweet every thought in their head, and verse flows like air thru the sky. While this can be a great thing, it can also make viewers of ART lazy in thinking for themselves about what they see. Ed Norton didn't do a lot of press for TIH (for reasons we all know by now), but that's been his approach to his craft for years. On the Charlie Rose show, he once said he doesen't like to see actors and other artists give numerous interviews talking about their work because it takes away somewhat from the mystery of their final product, and he is right to a certain extent. Back to my Warhol analogy, he was once asked what he thought about one of his pieces, to which he famously replied (I paraphrase) "I don't know. Why don't YOU tell ME what YOU SEE and I'll repeat what YOU say." It's a brilliant commentary to keep the artist from being pigeonholed into a category. It's not the artists job to tell you what to think or what to look for in their work. Their only job is make what they make and for us to look at it subjectively.

So when TDKR comes out on Blu-Ray with the Nolan Commentary, I'm sure he'll say "I meant no references to Robin in the movie." or maybe he'll say "I meant to have a few references to Robin in the movie." Either way, I don't care. He can't tell me how to see his art anyway.

I hate Hines Ward. He's overrated and extremely dirty. Seriously the dude is a piece of crap. It doesn't take much to shut him up though. Just send Ray Lewis or Ed Reed across them middle to lay one on this loser.

I can't believe people thought that was a Burt Ward reference. Look outside the box people, jeez!