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The scene in the Pittsburgh Steelers locker room sounds like nothing I have ever heard about or witnessed in professional sports. At 3:30 pm on Tuesday, the final deadline passed and it became official that he would not be joining his teammates for the entirety of 2018. A lot of people thought he’d crack, but Bell held out, saving his body in this most brutal of sports for the possibility of a better payday. This was truly—agree or disagree with his actions—unprecedented in the sport—an act of player power in an industry that tends to treat these workers like expendable pieces of equipment. Bell held strong even after his teammates—specifically his offensive linemen—in the first week of the season blasted him for holding out (their aspersions broke a sacred NFL rule of not commenting on other players’ contracts or holdouts). Then 3:30 pm hit on Wednesday, about 24 hours after Bell walked away from this last opportunity to rejoin the team. After that, the deluge. They took his equipment and sneakers. They grabbed everything down to some CD mixes at the bottom of a stack of goods. Seeing the way the Steelers tore apart a teammate who gave them several years of all-pro production does not augur well for the future.

In honor of Mother's Day, we invited famous people Anna Faris, Ike Barinholtz, Jack McBrayer, Adam Scott, Kristen Bell, Tony Hale, Patton Oswalt, Will Forte, YG, and Anthony Anderson to read real text messages from their Moms. People Apologize to…