A fun offseason memory for you guys this Wednesday. At the time, this probably wasn’t as fun for Alan Faneca but years later, and with a gold jacket in his closet, even he seemed to get a kick out of this flashback.
While putting together my Terance Mathis article a few days ago, I stumbled across this clip of Alan Faneca bleeding profusely from his forehead earlier in the same game. Blood down his face and onto his jersey. But as the NFL Primetime crew of Chris Berman and Tom Jackson noted, Faneca got stitched and wrapped up, didn’t miss time, and came back into the game to pull and throw a key block on this Jerome Bettis’ touchdown.