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Franco Harris On Wearing 32 For Jim Brown (Who Threatened To Unretire As Harris Approached His Rushing Record)

Nobody has worn the number 32 in Pittsburgh for the Steelers since Franco Harris left the team in 1984. Hubie Brown was the last player to wear it before him, but nobody has been assigned that number in the nearly four decades that have passed.

Just like in Cleveland, where nobody has worn that number that once belonged to the great Jim Brown. In fact, Brown is the reason Harris chose to wear the number 32, a story that he recently told during an appearance on SiriusXM Radio recently.

“Football was something that I never really dreamed about and all that sort of thing.