{"id":285563,"date":"2026-09-14T06:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285563\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T06:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:56:32","slug":"aaron-rodgers-awards-mike-mccarthy-game-ball-after-pittsburghs-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285563\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers awards Mike McCarthy game ball after Pittsburgh&#8217;s win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Steelers\u2019 20-13 victory over the Falcons, Aaron Rodgers awarded Mike McCarthy the game ball. It was the Pittsburgh native\u2019s debut.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/49933990\/mccarthy-gets-game-ball-rodgers-steelers-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mike\u2019s had a lot of wins<\/a>, but it\u2019s always special when it\u2019s the first one at a place, and extra special when it\u2019s the team you grew up cheering for and you grew up just on the other side of the river from the facility,\u201d Rodgers, who spent 13 seasons with McCarthy in Green Bay, said, via Brooke Pryor of ESPN. &#8220;[His] parents are still living in town, so super <br \/>special to be able to do that. I was really honestly looking forward to that today as much as anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy\u2019s voice cracked with emotion, per Pryor, when asked about the gesture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst team ball, first win,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cSo it\u2019s obviously a special moment. I really appreciate the guys. Appreciate Aaron and the kind words, and it\u2019s time to move on to get team victories from here on. I\u2019m not one for attention. So, the homecoming\u2019s been great. I\u2019m just glad to get this one under our belt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was McCarthy\u2019s 175th career victory. He is 175-112-2 with the Packers, Cowboys and now Steelers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the Steelers\u2019 20-13 victory over the Falcons, Aaron Rodgers awarded Mike McCarthy the game ball. It was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-285563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285563","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=285563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}