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Training Camp Tales: The Time A Teeth-Rattling Hit Left Chuck Noll Speechless

The Pittsburgh Steelers report to Saint Vincent College in Latrobe tomorrow. Here is one of our final series to bridge the gap between the end of offseason practices and the start of training camp. This is the last of five parts.

This has been fun to write, so let’s finished how it started: with a practice story from the late, great Tunch Ilkin. It is not about Jack Lambert, like the first post, but it involves a hit that would have made Lambert proud.

A hit so literally teeth rattling that Tunch remembered after it as the only time he saw Chuck Noll speechless.