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Dick Hoak, 5-time champion, 86
It was a Tuesday morning in January 2007, and Steelers history was about to be made.
Dick Hoak was going to announce his retirement after 45 seasons with the franchise, first as a halfback who rushed for 3,965 yards (still 8th on the team's all-time list) and then as a running backs coach who won 5 Super Bowls and helped Franco Harris and Jerome Bettis get elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He freely admitted that as a player he wasn't as good as the guys he coached, and as a coach he never rose above the rank of assistant.
That can describe Dick Hoak's NFL career, but so does this:
