Steelers WR Hines Ward was voted the NFL's dirtiest player in a poll of his peers by Sports Illustrated. The magazine surveyed 296 players, and Ward drew 11.6% of the vote.
Behind him on the list:
* Redskins DT Albert Haynesworth 6%
* Dolphins LB Joey Porter 6%
* Bengals S Roy Williams 5.1%
* Titans C Kevin Mawae 4.6%
April 3 through May 30, 2006, Ward returned to his birthplace of Seoul for the first time since his parents moved to the United States when he was one year old. Ward used his celebrity status to arrange "hope-sharing" meetings with multiracial Korean children and to encourage social and political reform. At one hope-sharing meeting, he told a group of children, "If the country can accept me for who I am and accept me for being a Korean, I'm pretty sure that this country can change and accept you for who you are."[16] On his final day in Korea, he donated $1 million USD to create the Hines Ward Helping Hands Foundation, which the AP called "a foundation to help mixed-race children like himself in South Korea, where they have suffered discrimination."
Hines Ward, working with the Salvation Army Family Caring Center in East Liberty, is taking care of those less fortunate.
In his Facebook post, Ward has bought the families Christmas presents.
The kids were given Nintendo DSI's, and the moms were given clothes, manicures and pedicures. Ward said that he is blessed to be able to help these families out.
Many of the people that reside outside of Steelers Nation, only have bad things to say about Hines Ward. From where I sit, Hines Ward is a class act.