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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I am dale ally here with Craig Wolfley

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Speaker 1: and Bob Laberge, only here at the Steelers Hall of

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Speaker 1: Honor induction ceremony, here at Akersher Stadium, and we'll please

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Speaker 1: be joined now by j T. Thomas H. Of course,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. It's the great JA. I was gonna say,

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Speaker 1: one of the great cornerbacks, one of the great players

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Speaker 1: of the Steelers seventies teams. And JT, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I've been the best me. I can bet that sounds

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Speaker 1: like the j T. I know, the guy who once

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Speaker 1: told me that the reason you sit in the back

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Speaker 1: of a plane is because well I never heard of

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Speaker 1: a plane back into a mountain. True. Hey, you know

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Speaker 1: that's wisdom right there. Fellas. Oh, it's good to see

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Speaker 1: your brother. You're looking great. It was great. Good to

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Speaker 1: be here, absolutely, j T. As you enter into you know,

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Speaker 1: coming in here and you got the Hall of Honor

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Speaker 1: and everyone, just a couple of thoughts about what it

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Speaker 1: meant to you when you were brought in and you were,

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Speaker 1: you know, inducted into the Hall of Honor and all

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Speaker 1: the all the guys that are in there with you.

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Speaker 1: I'm not inductor yet, I blew that I'm sorry. I

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Speaker 1: totally blew that. I thought. I apologize. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: I'll give you the hand of friendship. But what you

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Speaker 1: know what that that that shows negligence on someone's call, right,

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Speaker 1: the fact that you thought I was there, well, and

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Speaker 1: that one thought I was there, It just goes to

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Speaker 1: show you how many guys are out there that well,

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Speaker 1: it's almost impossible to get everybody in this you know

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Speaker 1: this thing we were talking about it if we went

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Speaker 1: four guys from the seventies, we'd still be rolling through

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Speaker 1: over and over. So I apologize, Saw, but I love

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Speaker 1: you anyhow, bro, even though a bunch of that. But

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Speaker 1: here's the thing about it. You got a lot of

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Speaker 1: guys you played with. This is an arrow that is

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Speaker 1: unlike any other era in sports. Well, you know, you

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Speaker 1: think about you know, Super Bowl ten. You know you

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Speaker 1: got to live in all pros on defense. Now, come on,

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Speaker 1: you back then we didn't have media, so so you

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Speaker 1: have to pick one to three or four. You can't

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Speaker 1: promote all those guys. Uh, And I think that's the

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Speaker 1: disadvantage that a lot of prints we have the guys

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Speaker 1: they should be in the Hall of Fame, you know,

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Speaker 1: off that team should be like that or not because

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Speaker 1: you can't put them all. You could, but they won't

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Speaker 1: put them all. In answer, Yeah, it's really difficult when

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Speaker 1: you have that many good players on That's why you

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Speaker 1: win four super Bowls and six years that kind of

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Speaker 1: talor what do you what's that story that you always

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Speaker 1: tell before the Super Bowl with Minnesota when you guys

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Speaker 1: were standing in the tunnel is well, yeah, we actually

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Speaker 1: won the game in the tunnel. Otherwise we had been um,

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Speaker 1: you know, rookies and pre one in pre game one

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Speaker 1: and you know the Minnesota Vikings, you know, about ten

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Speaker 1: we would look over. We were scared as crap. Can

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Speaker 1: you imagine these guys were high school and college heroes.

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Speaker 1: Now we're in the tunnel of these guys and it

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Speaker 1: was so quiet, and there you can hear a cockbos

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Speaker 1: piston matter of fact, excuse me, I mean I can't happen.

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Speaker 1: But but what happened is that we were intimidated by them. Man,

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Speaker 1: we had a twelfth person, the tone fear. So what

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Speaker 1: and Glenn was standing between the lines in the back

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Speaker 1: So in his quiet tunnel, all of a sudden, Glenn

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Speaker 1: bellow out Morris. He asked the question. He answered the question,

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Speaker 1: f A. Well at that time, what happened. We broke

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Speaker 1: right then and there. Yeah, it was over. Unbelievable. We're

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Speaker 1: also please be joined out by of course Art Rooney,

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Speaker 1: the second Steelers President and Art. Every year, these things

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Speaker 1: just uh, I mean, the the guys that come in here,

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Speaker 1: every year. Well, it's it's a great weekend. And and

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Speaker 1: Art and to recognized guys like the group that's going

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Speaker 1: great to see so many of their teammates showing up

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Speaker 1: to support them. Uh, you know, a lot a lot

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Speaker 1: it's it's a great weekend, great great time it is. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: I understand the opening weekend for the museum did very well.

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Speaker 1: It's gone well, yeah, great, great reviews and uh it's uh,

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Speaker 1: some tweaks to make, but uh, it's going well and

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Speaker 1: people are people are enjoying it. You know what's amazing

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Speaker 1: And I mean it says something about the event, about

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Speaker 1: there's so many memories. That's that's the great thing about

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Speaker 1: guess it was stupen Ville to watch the immaculate reception.

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Speaker 1: You can tell me all about it. Good good stuff. Yeah, absolutely. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and the players, and how everybody is uh, has kind

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Speaker 1: You know, I gotta ask one one question. What do

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Speaker 1: he would enjoy it. You know, we tried. It was

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Speaker 1: But it really turned out Greig, it's a it's an

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Speaker 1: Bob La Briola. Have to call his name out. He

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Speaker 1: So I take my bride and their faith sits down,

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Speaker 1: a play goes, she rips it off, and then she

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Speaker 1: turns and goes, what's so hard about that? Are you

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Speaker 1: worried about? But it's fantastic. It's something for everyone. It

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Speaker 1: it just just so much to see. And here Franco,

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Speaker 1: through it a couple of times already. He was kind

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Speaker 1: thing I said to him when I saw him Wednesday night. Franco,

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Speaker 1: Well all that's that's all. That's all right, we know

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Speaker 1: appreciate you stopping by, and UH, congratulations on this event.

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Speaker 1: It just continues to grow and grow and museum as well.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's fantastic. If you haven't gotten the

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Speaker 1: see that as soon as possible, because history is being

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Speaker 1: Our guest was Art Roney. Appreciate that and with further

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Speaker 1: architects and some of those great plays and some of

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Speaker 1: the the the history of the Steelers. Uh. Franco Harris

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Speaker 1: joining us here. Uh from the Hall of Honor dinner

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Speaker 1: here at Actress or Stadium. Franco um your speech at

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Speaker 1: the UH at the the unveiling the other night, I

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Speaker 1: thought really hit home with some of that that If

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Speaker 1: you're a Steelers fan, UH, you're gonna love that that

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Speaker 1: you know, he's great catching, had the all time stealer

427
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Speaker 1: record and catching. But you watched that dude block and

428
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,320
Speaker 1: I went against him in the troph so I know

429
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 1: how hard he is to go against. Uh, you know.

430
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,560
Speaker 1: So that's what makes him a special tight end. And

431
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,200
Speaker 1: what makes our group special is we all really worked

432
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,399
Speaker 1: at each other to get each other better and really

433
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,359
Speaker 1: went at each other in practice. You know, there was

434
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:35,639
Speaker 1: a real competitive spirit in our practices to get better

435
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 1: and to hold each other accountable. So it was awesome

436
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,919
Speaker 1: and awesome time. And I'm just you know, I pinched

437
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:46,159
Speaker 1: myself still to day, you know, you think about it.

438
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 1: You had one of the greatest front ends in the

439
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,439
Speaker 1: front in the history of the defenses in the NFL.

440
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,920
Speaker 1: I mean, we had to steal curtain, and you guys

441
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 1: were your own three or four version of the steel curtain,

442
00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:59,640
Speaker 1: you and Aaron and Casey, I mean, and you you

443
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 1: wrote was from being basically you were a pencil neck

444
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 1: when you got here and then you turned into a beast, right, yeah,

445
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,479
Speaker 1: but you know that was the Steeler way. Yes, As

446
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 1: Kevin Colberg goes buying tugs, on that beer, Kevin. But yeah,

447
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 1: but how wonderful you know, and you you you came

448
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:22,160
Speaker 1: along and with the other well, we took a lot

449
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,160
Speaker 1: of pride in you know. Coach Mitchell was my coach.

450
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:29,440
Speaker 1: Coming in was very tough and uh, the one man

451
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 1: Parris Island. Yeah, but but really knew how coach Kawer

452
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 1: wanted his defense. Ron knew what was expected, knew how

453
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,160
Speaker 1: to get the best out of you and the ones

454
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 1: that couldn't cut it, he knew he probably couldn't, you know,

455
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 1: take that chance. So it was awesome to be with

456
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 1: him and Aaron and hamp and Hoake for as long

457
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,400
Speaker 1: as we were. We were there for ten years together,

458
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 1: you know, which is incredible in today's NFL with the

459
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 1: same coach Mitch, you know, and and we really took

460
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 1: a lot of pride and took a lot of of

461
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: accountability into holding the front. Like Coach Lebow would come

462
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 1: to us every morning and say, it starts with you, guys.

463
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: If you guys break down, everything breaks down. So it's

464
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,959
Speaker 1: about holding the front and playing together and playing stout

465
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 1: and smashing the run. You know what we knew once

466
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,399
Speaker 1: we could smash the run, that we could do some razzle,

467
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 1: and uh that's what we did, you know, And you'd

468
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: make teams one dimensional, and we got to play when

469
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,920
Speaker 1: you could really smack someone in the face. You could.

470
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,920
Speaker 1: You could argue that the rules got changed because they

471
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,959
Speaker 1: totally got changed, and you know, Hines changed them too,

472
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,720
Speaker 1: you know. And so it wasn't just offense, it was

473
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: like our whole team, and so it was an amazing

474
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 1: time to be together. And and the way our team

475
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 1: bonded and and as how close we were, you know,

476
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 1: it was real special as you can see today and

477
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 1: with the older guy too. It's it's it's unique. And

478
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 1: it's hard to explain if you if you haven't been

479
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh or around you know this, but that's how

480
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 1: it is, and that's what makes it so special. A

481
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,919
Speaker 1: lot of the guys, younger guys now cover the team

482
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: don't understand, like the Baltimore Pittsburgh rivalry, how intense those

483
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 1: games were, how physical those games were. I mean, there

484
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,199
Speaker 1: were a lot of a lot of years where you

485
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 1: get YouTube teams. If you weren't one in two in

486
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 1: the league, you weren't much farther down than one in

487
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 1: four or one in you know, the top four teams

488
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: in the league in the same division. They made us better,

489
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,919
Speaker 1: and I think they would say the same. When you

490
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,199
Speaker 1: have that, you know, especially in your division, you know

491
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: you've got you know, you have to take care of

492
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: your division because it's gonna take a run for the title.

493
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,119
Speaker 1: I mean, it's gonna be there. And so it was

494
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,400
Speaker 1: really unique because both teams played the same type of way.

495
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 1: You know, both teams played the same type of defense,

496
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:02,120
Speaker 1: both teams had kind of the same type of crazy characters,

497
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 1: and both teams really played physical and when that game happened,

498
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 1: you were gonna fill it. You were gonna fill it

499
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 1: watching it. You know. It was one of those type

500
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: of games I kept watching from the one time I

501
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 1: touch I go. You know, being down here just makes

502
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:22,120
Speaker 1: me glad I'm retired. It's that type of game, and

503
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 1: you know you really feel it too as a player after.

504
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: But uh, that's what made it specialist because you have

505
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,679
Speaker 1: to buy in like that. You know, those are the

506
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 1: type of games where in the fourth quarter when you're

507
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: worn down and it's battle like that all game long,

508
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: and it's about who's gonna slip up, who's gonna make

509
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: a mistake, who's gonna not believe for one minute or

510
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: one second, or one player one step and and you know,

511
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 1: make the difference. So it made it special. It made

512
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: it special to be able to win that game here

513
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: when Troy picked it off, you know, and go to

514
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: the ants and and when Hind well it was at

515
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: the time hinz Field's first uh you know, major a

516
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 1: FC championship game, and and uh, everyone I talked to

517
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,959
Speaker 1: remembers that game, you know, remembers what it felt like

518
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 1: when he made that play was moving the old building show. Yeah,

519
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: we watched film. Is the first time I've ever watched

520
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: film shaking like crazy because the building was shaking. So

521
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: it's just cool to uh, you know, be able to

522
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 1: fill that and was so special to be able to

523
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 1: go out here on the field and play in front

524
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: of these fans and carry on this great tradition, you know,

525
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: the brotherhood that exists. And I'm just watching right now

526
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: when you you suck up Keith, you know, and I thought, man,

527
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: it's it's just beautiful, you know. I mean, there's there's

528
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: a love. There's a love in the brotherhood, whether in

529
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: it's generationally. As he walks by right now, all these

530
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: kids too, I love them all a right here right now, family,

531
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 1: right right there. Yeah, I love them all, Katie K. Yeah,

532
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: we all know. We put it out over the air

533
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: and you can see they're all like me. They all believe.

534
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: Except for heat. He's the one that's humbles like I

535
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: never did that. So cool because all my kids were

536
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 1: they're all hockey players, but they all wear eighty three.

537
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: All three of my kids were three for that guy

538
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: down there, and you know, just great to be around him,

539
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: great to compete against him. When you do have a

540
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: brotherhood like that, it means so much more to you know,

541
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: it means so much more to you when you take

542
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 1: the field, and so much more to you when you're

543
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: lining up next to each other and and traveling weekend

544
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: and week out and going through the season. You know,

545
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: and you know, all those kids I've got to hold

546
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 1: since they were little, they've all probably trapped their diaper

547
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: like only a mountain man is going to do that

548
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 1: on the radio. All rights, my French just painting a

549
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: picture and you do it so very well. We better

550
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: get over there to take part in the ceremonies. Are

551
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: one of the greatest players operations for you and your career. Brother.

552
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: Good to see you so, yeah, that's uh, of course,

553
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: Brett Keiseil uh Wolf, Yeah, you know. To me, I

554
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: know I was you know, I was alive during the seventies.

555
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: I remember the Steelers, Raiders, like the Cowboys, Super Bowls

556
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: and those kind of things. But those those uh, those

557
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: those games against the Ravens. To me, where the uh

558
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 1: we're just that was Ben that just walked by. That's

559
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: beautiful And and here we go with the other end

560
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: of it. We got Mr Green mean Joe Green, because

561
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: I remember that. Why wouldn't you want to be right

562
00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: here now? There's no other place I'd rather be then

563
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: right here right now. It's a great LEVI once set. Absolutely,

564
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: and it doesn't have anything to do with wearing pads

565
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: or helmet anymore. Franko ahead and ask again here. I mean,

566
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: my goodness, what a just a just a star after star. Absolutely,

567
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: you know what it's like. I always said I wasn't

568
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,719
Speaker 1: a great player, but I know what great players are

569
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: like because I was in the huddle with a lot

570
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: of them, and I was in the locker room that

571
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: was at the end of band their brothers. You ever

572
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: see that He not he didn't use athletes, but he said,

573
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 1: my grandson comes up to me and asked me, Uh, Grandpa,

574
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: were you a hero? He says, no, but I I

575
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: know what it was like. I know what it's amongst

576
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 1: you know, be amongst him, because I was, you know,

577
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: to play with a lot of you, and it's kind

578
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,479
Speaker 1: of the same thing. Not to that. No, no, no,

579
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: because we never compared to about You know. The thing

580
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: about it is you just appreciate the greatness when you

581
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: see it. And uh, you know what, from Bradshaw to

582
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 1: Joe Green to Franco to all these guys, it was

583
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: for a young kid coming from Buffalo, New York. What

584
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: a treat, What what a what a great opportunity to

585
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: experience a lifetime of memories in a short period of time. Well,

586
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you get over there and experience this

587
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: solid fame dinner. Here. We're gonna sign off here from

588
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: the Hall of Honors ceremony here at Ackershuer Stadium, course

589
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: of Steelers play the New Orleans Saints at one o'clock tomorrow.

590
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: Wolf will be on the call with Billy Hill Group.

591
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: You can hear that. But that's going to do as

592
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: do we all. Yes, but my partner, Craig Wolfley for

593
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: Bob Labriola, all of our great guests stopping by here.

594
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: Jacob Brechton site keeping us on the air, Zach Fine

595
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: back in the Zack Fine. I saw, Zack Fine. I

596
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 1: know is Zach Fine. Zach Moore back in the studio,

597
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: keeping us on the air. Uh. We do appreciate you

598
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: listening to this special edition of On stead Well I

599
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: Guess was special edition on Steelers Nation Radio and ESPN

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Speaker 1: nine seventy. You can hear the game here tomorrow as well,