Follow Troy on Facebook The Polamalu's Charitable Work: See the Nonprofits Polamalu, who was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday in his first year of eligibility, said that has been by design, not out of any spike he feels about how his career ended. MIAMI — Since abruptly announcing his retirement following the 2014 season, Troy Polamalu hasn’t made himself a regular at Steelers events. “It evolved over time,” Polamalu said. “It’s hard to really talk about individual players, especially coming from the team that I’ve been a part of, thank God, for the 12 years that I played with the Steelers.“There’s definitely more than a handful of players that I know that I’ve played with that are more deserving of this award. In fact, he hasn’t been around at all.“One thing that I always felt the need to do because this game has a tendency to take players and players truly become dependent on the NFL, one of the things that was important to me that I didn’t want to identify myself as a football player,” Polamalu told me Saturday night. Share. I landed in Pittsburgh at like 11:30 at night and went to the hotel and it was just, you know, that freezing rain. “I’ve got two boys that are nine and 11 so I’ve just really been trying to be the best father and best husband that I can be and living out their dreams in sports and school and music and all that fun stuff. So, for the current team to continue to put themselves in this position where they can make it to the playoffs, to me, it’ll just show how dangerous they can really be if they do make that.”With Polamalu playing his entire NFL career with the Steelers in Pittsburgh he was asked Tuesday to comment on what it meant for him to be a Steeler and what that represented to him. In fact, he hasn’t been around at all.
Troy Polamalu’s icy relationship with the ... but tonight’s banquet will his first publicly-known involvement with the Steelers since his retirement. MIAMI — Since abruptly announcing his retirement following the Steelers’ 2014 season, Troy Polamalu hasn’t made himself a regular at team events.
Troy Polamalu Talks Retirement Life, What It Meant To Be A Steeler, 2019 Team And More. Email. Because one thing that we had always kind of pulled each other internally is they never want to see us in the playoffs.First, Polamalu was asked to comment on how his life is now that he’s been retired for several years.“Honestly, I’ve kind of been really indifferent towards receiving any type of award or recognition because for a sport like football, it’s such a team-oriented sport,” Polamalu said.