On flight to Atlanta in route to Scotland. Ending the week in Dublin for the game. This gentleman caught my eye as looking similar to the Bus. Then I saw the Notre Dame hat. Then he smiled and I thought for sure this has to be Jerome Bettis. He’s sitting first class.

Is this Jerome Bettis?
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  1. I partied with the bus in Las Vegas one time, I was out of my mind and he was extremely chill, his people were super nice too.

  2. Confirmed. Have met.him twice. Few people have a chest like that plus he reps ND and Detroit hats all the time.

  3. Yeah. It looks like he is wearing a notre dame hat too which is where he played during his college years.

  4. Fun and really odd fact. I’ve been on the same airplane as the bus five different times, including on the way to his wedding in Jamaica.

  5. I flew with Ryan Shazier from fort Lauderdale to Pittsburgh recently but it was just a Southwest econ flight so he wasnt first class. He had pre boarding and sat in the first non handicap row of seats though. He was surprisingly able to keep a low profile and not be bothered. I thought it was Josh Dobbs at first until I boarded and got a closer look at his face. 

  6. That’s him. If I only had a second for one interaction, I’d have asked what was up with the window over the urinals at Grille 36.

  7. He is totally making the face he made when describing the fumble in America’s Game.
    I can still hear my dad.

    “Yeah punch it in! oh God…Bettis you dummy!..Sonovafuckin…Ben! Ben got ‘im!”

  8. Update: I caught up to him right off the plane and worked up the courage to ask him. It was Bettis! I had to tell him the story that when I was a scrawny elementary school girl, my parents put me in a 36 jersey for Halloween. They gave me a helmet and wrote “mini bus” on it. Of course at the time I had absolutely no idea what they dressed me as. Huge fan now.

  9. “lol that’s Kenneth Gainwell’s replacement not minds take it how you want to I am back.” – Kaleb Johnson

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