The Pittsburgh Steelers have a rich history of quarterbacks. Ben Roethlisberger, Terry Bradshaw, and no one should forget about Bobby Layne, who finished his career in Pittsburgh after making his name in Detroit. But the team’s list of “almost-quarterbacks” is arguably even more impressive. Sid Luckman, Len Dawson, and Johnny Unitas were all briefly Steelers before becoming Hall of Famers elsewhere.
Wednesday evening, Steelers’ historian Steel City Star shared this video of Art Rooney Jr. recalling the team cutting Unitas, a Pittsburgh native buried on the team’s depth chart and not given the chance to show he could be ‘Johnny U.