Hines Ward

What grabs me about Hines Ward is the through-line from being born in Seoul to becoming a Super Bowl MVP wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers. I came up admiring him at Georgia and through that 1998 third-round draft pick that paid off for years. What I respect most is how he leaned into his Korean roots later in his career, turning a personal story into something bigger than football. Seeing him move into coaching, including the wide receivers role at Arizona State, makes sense to me; he always read the game like a teacher. He feels like a player whose second act earns as much attention as his first.

Name (English)

Hines Ward

Name (Japanese)

ハインズ・ウォード

Reading

はいんず・うぉーど

Born

March 8, 1976 (age 50)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Height

6 cm

Occupation

American football player / restaurateur / sports executive / baseball player

High school

Mount Zion High School

University

University of Georgia

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.hinesward.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/mvp86hinesward
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89

Tags

• American football player
• restaurateur
• sports executive

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.