February 2011 and filmed training courses for SOTL that focused on his position as a running back. Bettis is currently the host of The Jerome Bettis Show on WPXI-TV, filmed at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, airing Saturdays at 7:00 PM and 1:00 AM. He was a commentator for the NFL Network and a former NBC studio analyst for Football Night in America. Now he is an NFL analyst for different ESPN programs, such as SportsCenter. The Jerome Bettis Bus Stops Here Foundation and other agencies sponsor the Jerome Bettis Asthma and Sports Camp annually for children with asthma. Bettis has also delivered over 1000 pairs of cleats to children in the Detroit school system. After falling short as a finalist in 2013, on January 31, 2015, Bettis was voted into The Pro Football Hall of Fame. Bettis returned to NBC to help Bob Costas preside over the Vince Lombardi Trophy presentation at the end of Super Bowl XLIX on February 1, 2015. Bettis starred in a Geico commercial in 2019, playing a running back in flag football that dominates the competition (49-0). Bettis portrays himself in the episode "Welcome to the Ex-Files" in Season 4 of the CBS comedy series The Neighborhood, where he visits the home of principal characters Calvin and Tina Butler for dinner after running into them at a restaurant. In the course of the evening, characters learn that Bettis & Tina had a "summer fling" when they were teenagers, triggering jealousy in Calvin that gets resolved by the end of the episode. Bettis returned on campus at the University of Notre Dame in 2021-2022 to finish his bachelor's degree, something he started nearly 30 years ago. He graduated in May 2022 with a bachelor's degree in business. Personal life Bettis had made political donations to both Democratic and Republican candidates; specifically the Congressional campaign of Democratic U.S. Representative Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, and the 2004 campaign of Republican President George W. Bush. On March 29, 2008, Bettis accompanied Barack Obama on a campaign visit to the US Steel plant in Braddock, Pennsylvania. References External links The Jerome Bettis Show on WPXI The Bus Stops Here Foundation 1972 births Living people American Conference Pro Bowl players American drug traffickers American football running backs American ten-pin bowling players Bowling broadcasters Los Angeles Rams players Mackenzie High School (Michigan) alumni National Conference Pro Bowl players National Football League announcers National