Former Pittsburgh Steelers ILB Andy Russell passed away on Feb. 29 at the age of 82. He won two Super Bowls with the team in the 1970s and made the Pro Bowl seven times. He defined excellence at the position in Pittsburgh before Jack Ham and Jack Lambert came into the NFL.
And, as Clark Judge of the Talk of Fame Network argued in a recent article, Andy Russell deserved better from the Pro Football Hall of Fame. “What he did was so exemplary that he merited more from the game he served than what he received”.