I wish I had a great story to tell you about where I was and what I thought the moment the Steelers selected Terry Bradshaw number one overall in the 1970 NFL Draft.
Unfortunately, I was negative-two-and-a-half years old at the time and have no memory of it.
I do remember the hoopla that surrounded Bradshaw’s official retirement in the summer of 1984. I can recall the press conference that Bradshaw and the Steelers had with the local media. I can still hear the fits of laughter that broke out among the reporters when Rocky Bleier, who was a few years into retirement at the time and working as a Steelers analyst for Channel 11, raised his hand and deadpanned: “Rocky Bleier, WPXI.