Steelers legend Kordell Stewart changes narrative on his NFL career in new HBO documentary

For NFL fans of a certain age, Kordell Stewart is remembered as an exciting player who starred as "Slash" before becoming a Pro Bowl quarterback, leading the Pittsburgh Steelers to two AFC Championship game appearances in the late '90s and early '00s. That's how Stewart wants to be remembered.

He doesn't, however, want his career to be defined by a rumor that nearly derailed his career and now takes center stage in HBO's new documentary, "Kordell Stewart/Slash & Burn."

"I just wanted people to appreciate my experience of being a Steeler in Pittsburgh," Stewart recently told CBS Sports. "Not appreciate it from the standpoint of liking, disliking, but just identify it for what it really was. I thought that, truth be told, it was arguably one of the best runs that I can think of where I was able to do so much on the football field that was different than most.

"I had my ups, you know. I had my downs. I never complained. I never blamed. All I did was just work. … I would like to say I had a lot of success in Pittsburgh, and we had some failures. You know, I'm a glass half full…

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