{"id":26423,"date":"2025-11-06T07:06:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26423\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T07:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:06:26","slug":"former-steelers-players-tackle-future-of-sports-tech-during-discussion-in-pittsburgh-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26423\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Steelers players tackle future of sports, tech during discussion in Pittsburgh \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Three former Steelers players teamed up on Monday to talk sports and technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Jerome Bettis, Joey Porter and Charlie Batch took part in \u201cBeyond the Goal Line: Life, Legacy and Tech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The \u201cfireside-style\u201d discussion was meant to explore how technology continues to reshape the landscape of sports, from recruitment to coaching.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re asking technology to do for everyone, to become more efficient,\u201d said former Steelers running back Jerome Bettis. \u201cNot to replace anything but to become more efficient<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The event was held at Cafe Momentum Pittsburgh and was designed to inspire future generations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Three former Steelers players teamed up on Monday to talk sports and technology. Jerome Bettis, Joey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17214,17217,14645,17209,10280,17212,17215,17216,73,75,74,17213,17210,17211,503],"class_list":["post-26423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-cafe-momentum","tag-charlie-batch","tag-discussion","tag-formers-steelers","tag-future","tag-innovation","tag-jerome-bettis","tag-joey-porter","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-sports-technology","tag-steelers-players","tag-steelers-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26423","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=26423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}