PITTSBURGH — Jerome Bettis knew it was time to enter the 1993 NFL draft after his junior year at the University of Notre Dame, but that decision first had to go through his mother.
Gladys Bettis’ resistance was about more than the family’s emphasis on education: Of her three children, she already watched both her older son and daughter drop out of college.
“So, I was thinking: I got this last child. He’s going to finish school,” she recalled.
