{"id":136954,"date":"2026-03-13T02:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136954\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T02:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:06:07","slug":"mike-tomlin-reflects-on-time-as-steelers-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136954\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tomlin Reflects on Time as Steelers Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"categories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/steelers-news\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"788\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/NFL-Super-Bowl-LVIII-NFL-Honors-Red-Carpet-22476362-scaled-e1768589218566.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"Pittsburgh Steelers Mike Tomlin Kiya Tomlin\" decoding=\"sync\" loading=\"eager\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Kirby Lee-Imagn Images\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>PITTSBURGH \u2014 Speaking publicly for the first time since stepping down as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/mike-tomlin\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Tomlin<\/a> called serving the team and the city an honor in remarks made on Thursday at <a href=\"https:\/\/irelandfunds.org\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Ireland Funds<\/a> Pittsburgh Dinner Gala.<\/p>\n<p>Tomlin and his wife Kiya were honored as the recipients of the Patricia Rooney Community Impact Award during the 50th anniversary celebration of The Ireland Funds, and he acknowledged his recent departure from the Steelers. Tomlin stepped down on Jan. 13 after 19 seasons as the team\u2019s head coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s often said that we\u2019re not here for a long time, we\u2019re here for a good time \u2014 like you have to choose,\u201d Tomlin said. \u201cI think our experience here in Pittsburgh, with the great Steelers organization, exemplifies that. We\u2019ve been here for a long and really good time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been an honor to serve the greatest organization in sport. It\u2019s been an honor to be a part of this great community, to call it home, and for our kids to call it home. We\u2019re in somewhat of a nomadic business, and so we don\u2019t take that for granted that our kids get an opportunity to call Pittsburgh home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been an honor to serve the community in which we live, it\u2019s values that we hold, and it will continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate the recognition, but as my wife said, we certainly don\u2019t do it for that. We\u2019ve been extremely blessed and we\u2019d just like to share those blessings. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tomlin declined to speak with reporters or take questions before his appearance.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Tomlins, The Ireland Funds also recognized actor and Pittsburgh-area native Michael Keaton on Thursday with the Daniel M. Rooney Ambassador\u2019s Award. The Ireland Funds are a global philanthropic network co-founded by Dan Rooney in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMentioned In This Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/ireland-finds\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland Finds<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/ireland-funds\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland Funds<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/mike-tomlin\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Tomlin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-steelers\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/steelers\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steelers News Kirby Lee-Imagn Images PITTSBURGH \u2014 Speaking publicly for the first time since stepping down as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[63044,63045,7405,73,75,74,1833,1829],"class_list":["post-136954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-ireland-finds","tag-ireland-funds","tag-mike-tomlin","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}