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Pittsburgh Steelers WR scores 1st NFL TD at mom's 1st Steelers game
PITTSBURGH -- Having not seen his mother since July Demarcus Ayers had to call in some help.
He wanted her to see him play. She hadn't since he was in college. It was a couple days before New Year's Eve and flights were filling up so fast that Ayers wasn't sure if he'd be able to get his mom a trip back to Dallas, Texas.
Ayers dialed his friend, who works at Pittsburgh International Airport. The friend found Ayers' mother, Bernice Edwards, a return flight.
The Pittsburgh Steelers rookie wide receiver rewarded them both with a five-catch, 44-yard performance that included an 11-yard score on a crossing that put the Steelers up by a touchdown with 2:20 left in Pittsburgh's 27-24 overtime win over the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.
After the game, Ayers had two priorities. Find the touchdown ball and find his mom. He only had eight hours with her Saturday before he had to check into the team hotel.
As he celebrated the go-ahead score, Ayers pointed to the crowd with his right hand, still holding the ball. Changing hands, Ayers tucked it against his left hip as he jogged up the Steelers sideline, clapped hands with Antonio Brown, made his right hand into the shape of a phone, put it to his right ear and lifted it toward the sky.
Brown, who Ayers replaced in the starting lineup Sunday, calls this his "Call God" celebration. Ayers joked in the post-game locker room that his six points didn't count until Brown got to celebrate them.
Once they had, Ayers tracked down assistant equipment manager Patrick Noone and handed him the ball.
Sitting at his locker before he found the ball or his mother, Ayers hadn't decided what he wanted to do with the ball yet. He was definitely going to sign it, he said, but wasn't sure if it would let it collect dust in a box or place it in what he called his man cave.
There, he has his high school, all-star game and Houston Cougars jerseys with the one he wore in his NFL debut last week. Ayers was only promoted to the 53-man roster three weeks ago. His uniform from Sunday's game was set for the man cave, too.
Ayers himself was headed for a second celebration of his first NFL touchdown - this one with his mother - when he figured out where he might put the ball he scored it with.
In his mother's hands.
"I don't know," he said. "My mom's here. It's her first game, so I might give it to her, let her take it back on the road with her, let her think about it."