The Pittsburgh Steelers, prior to yesterday, had only retired two jersey numbers in franchise history, and the second one only came very recently, for the single most iconic and most important player to ever war the black and gold, Joe Greene.
Many thought that they might stop there, but on Tuesday, announced that they would be retiring the number 32 jersey of Hall of Fame running back Franco Harris, who certainly left his own indelible mark on the history of the franchise.
While he will be forever identified as being synonymous with the Immaculate Reception, Harris, a first-round pick out of Penn State in 1972, had a remarkable career that spanned a dozen seasons in Pittsburgh, after which we don’t need to talk about what happened.