Written by ESPN News Team at ESPN.com (Click here for original story)
JuJu Smith-Schuster will soon be reunited with his stolen bicycle.
Smith-Schuster, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 20-year-old rookie receiver, posted Tuesday on social media that the bicycle he rides to practice had been stolen, asking “Why people got to be like that?”
A man, however, turned the bike over to Mount Oliver, Pennsylvania, police after purchasing it earlier in the day and then realizing it was the stolen bike belonging to Smith-Schuster, according to KDKA.
Steelers teammate Antonio Brown offered to help find the bicycle, offering two tickets to a home game to whoever returned it.
Smith-Schuster, who is in the NFL concussion protocol after reporting concussion-like symptoms following Sunday’s game against Cincinnati, uses the bike to get to practice. He lives about a mile away from the team facility and doesn’t have a driver’s license, but he plans to get one before the weather gets too cold.
Last night I caught wind of this story, and I’m happy that Juju (on that beat) found his bike, while also stiff arming attention whore Mia Khalifa into oblivion. This brings a bigger issue to hand though. How can you be a professional athlete and ride your bike to work? Like you’re literally making millions of dollars and you choose to ride a bike to practice? It came out this week that Mack Hollins rode his bike to the Monday night game against the Washington Redskins. This was before he caught a 64-yard TD pass :
That’s Mack Hollins riding his bike to the game, lol. pic.twitter.com/wX7GmqIzDY
— Jimmy Kempski (@JimmyKempski) October 23, 2017
We know that you have enough money to Uber or Lyft or taxi to work. But you willingly chose to ride a bike to work. I guess some people like the breeze on their face on their way to work, but it gets dumber when you realize that Juju was walking to practice when he didn’t have his bike. That’s some Freshman football shit, that you do when your mom and dad have to work late, and you put your pads on before you leave your house, so if you’re late, the coach might not make you run laps. But of course, you’ll have to run laps because you’re a fat little offensive lineman and you’ve already been called the Lardass of the team many many times. I digress though, Juju it’s just a bad look. Hire a driver, or better yet, learn to drive and become a productive member of society.
