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‘Didn’t Go In With That Same Fire:’ Rashard Mendenhall Thinks Steelers Took Super Bowl XLV ‘For Granted’

Rashard Mendenhall can’t stop talking about Super Bowl XLV. After claiming he didn’t fumble the ball in a crucial moment in the fourth quarter of the game, Mendenhall is now claiming that the rest of the team didn’t take the game seriously enough and were too interested in trying to be stars. During an appearance on the Raw Room podcast, Mendenhall claims the Steelers didn’t treat Super Bowl XLV the same as they did Super Bowl XLIII.

“We was still interested in the Super Bowl, and being stars and guys was driving to go to events.