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These star players from the Pittsburgh Steelers must be thinking they play for a team who has won the most Super Bowls. But, when they stepped onto the court to play a game of Pickleball. they were whooped by a 64-year-old lady. Yes, a grandmother who didn’t know she was challenging the Steelers players. Not only this, but she also gave them a hard day while playing the game.

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A woman who was identified as Meg Burkardt, a lawyer from Lawrenceville, had messaged her daughter that she played a game of Pickleball with three boys, and suddenly everyone around wanted a picture of them. Meg wrote in the message, “Last game, the guy in the green shirt and I whooped the other two. Then everyone else there wanted to take our photo….”

The screenshot of the message was shared by Meg’s daughter on her Twitter handle with a caption, “My mom whooped some Steelers in pickleball today.” In the screenshot, there is a picture of three Steelers players T.J. Watt, Minkah Fitzpatrick, and Alex Highsmith posing with the lawyer Meg Burkardt.

Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker T.J Watt confirmed Meg Burkardt troubled them on the pickleball court the whole day

T.J. Watt, on his Twitter handle, shared the post and wrote, “Meg was serving the HEAT. We had trouble all day.” It was confirmed by T.J. Watt, that they played with Burkardt, and she gave them a hard time while playing the game. 

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Burkardt is a 64-year lady who has five children and one grandson. She had gone to practice a game of pickleball at North Park Courts, and she met these 3-boys who she did not know were NFL players. She saw one of them sitting on the bench and figured out that he didn’t have a paddle. Burkardt had an extra one, and that is how they got to play the game with her.

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Burkardt, in an interview with Post-Gazette told, that this NFL season she will be paying more attention to the Steelers. While mentioning the game, she also said now she has a reason to watch the game. The lawyer also said that if those players need some more guidance in their pickleball game, she is ready to help them out.

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