Word: steeler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the Dolphins won the American Conference championship game, strafing Pittsburgh 45-28, Marino's final interview was with former Steeler Quarterback Terry Bradshaw near midfield of the Orange Bowl at dusk. Passing quarterbacks passing in the twilight: a fairly irresistible image. Even when Marino's gums are not packed with tobacco, there is a flash of boy Bradshaw. "Just as nicely unpolished," says Rocky Bleier, another retiree, "the same weight problem, the same quick release, the same compulsion to throw into the coverages." Police dogs were escorting Marino to his white Corvette in the parking lot. "What a ride...
...players with the pleasure of an architect imagining his last house adjoining his first. To Fryar, 21, the thought of just having shared a field with Franco Harris was stupefying. For Harris, these episodes of This Is Your Life do not let up. Lynn Swann, his old Steeler roommate, materialized to unsnap his shoulder pads for him, the way he used...
...changers have made to the offenses, only in attempts has Brown been passed. Going on 13 seasons, Franco Harris has logged 549 more carries, and Walter Payton has counted 370 more in his tenth year. Both are breathing heavily on the yardage record, Franco wheezing slightly. Eternally a Pittsburgh Steeler, he is presently a Seattle Seahawk, having miscalculated the breaking point of the Rooney family's sentimental nature. Since Franco's familiar 32 was spoken for in Seattle, he took 34, his old college number but also...
Before he quit in 1965, former Cleveland Browns Fullback Jim Brown, 47, set the alltime National Football League record for yardage gained with a nine-season total of 12,312 yds. But with Pittsburgh Steeler Franco Harris, 33, beyond the 11,000-yd. mark and closing, Brown is seriously considering dusting off his pads. "I'm not in a grave," steams Brown. "I'm active, alive, and I don't like to be talked about like I'm dead." Brown has set a few conditions, however. He wants to play with the Los Angeles Raiders. Harris...
...twelve years or more. But if cash was all that the players gained, the embarrassing likelihood is that this deal could have been struck weeks ago. In the delicate final week of negotiations, the catalyst-"escape valve," Commissioner Pete Rozelle called him-was Paul Martha, 40, a former Pittsburgh Steeler now a Pittsburgh attorney. Martha is a friend of Steeler President Dan Rooney, who had a large voice in management's negotiations and a much softer voice than Chief Negotiator Jack Donlan's. Martha also has a friendly relationship with Garvey. "Paul went back and forth," Rozelle said...