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tube517
09-29-2013, 01:52 PM
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sports/steelers/former-steeler-lc-greenwood-dies-at-67-705428/

Count Steeler
09-29-2013, 01:55 PM
RIP 68. Wear those yellow shoes proud in Heaven.

st33lersguy
09-29-2013, 02:00 PM
RIP. I pray for his family

steel9guy
09-29-2013, 02:07 PM
RIP LC Greenwood.

fansince'76
09-29-2013, 02:11 PM
RIP, Mr. Greenwood. :rip:

Dwinsgames
09-29-2013, 02:20 PM
RIP to a HOF player who never got the call ....

86WARD
09-29-2013, 02:49 PM
Prayers are with. RIP LC. Hall of Famer.

steelerdude15
09-29-2013, 03:11 PM
Rest in peace L.C. Thanks for all of the great memories.

Shoes
09-29-2013, 03:13 PM
RIP, LC.

dislocatedday
09-29-2013, 03:14 PM
One of my earliest Steelers memories from my childhood was seeing LC Greenwood on the field with those yellow cleats........thanks for the great memories! RIP.

SteelerFanInStl
09-29-2013, 03:17 PM
Very sad news. RIP LC. :(

katmandu
09-29-2013, 04:16 PM
Very sad..... L.C. was one of my all time favorite Steelers.

Couldn't come at a worse time for the team hearing this news.

stillers4me
09-29-2013, 05:16 PM
God's defense just got an upgrade. :rip:

Texasteel
09-29-2013, 05:22 PM
One of my all time favorite players. The man was a gentleman off the field and one of the best on it. Thanks for the LC, thanks for the memories, when football was still football.

touchdownward
09-29-2013, 06:02 PM
One of my childhood heroes. From yellow shoes to angel wings, RIP LC.

steelerdiva
09-29-2013, 06:46 PM
RIP to a HOF player who never got the call ....

And it's a frikken shame this man did not get his due while he was still here. Joe is the only one of the original Steel Curtain left.

zulater
09-30-2013, 12:10 AM
Sad news. It's a shame he didn't make the Hall of Fame. He routinely dominated a couple of offensive tackles that are in there.

RIP

Texasteel
09-30-2013, 02:27 AM
Sad news. It's a shame he didn't make the Hall of Fame. He routinely dominated a couple of offensive tackles that are in there.

RIP

I think you may see him make it now. The only reason he isn't in already is that the cowboys would whimper like a 4 year old child each time another Steeler was inducted.

NJarhead
09-30-2013, 06:31 AM
Rest in peace, L.C.

:salute:

Devilsdancefloor
09-30-2013, 07:18 AM
RIP LC it is almost like a childhood friend past away may the NFL realize you should be in the HOF now from golden shoes to golden wings i am sure! thanks for the memories

zulater
09-30-2013, 09:22 AM
Watch SB IX, X, and XIII. L.C. pretty much had his way with Ron Yary and Rayfield Wright all three of those games. They're enshrined in Canton. He's not. Go figure?

tube517
09-30-2013, 12:08 PM
I think you may see him make it now. The only reason he isn't in already is that the cowboys would whimper like a 4 year old child each time another Steeler was inducted.

As Chuck Noll said, you could hear Landry crying about it all game

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Moose
09-30-2013, 05:28 PM
RIP Mr. Greenwood. And prayer's and sympathy to his family. It was such a thrill to watch Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Holmes, Mr. White and Mr. Green bring the curtain and teach football on Sunday's, when ( as was said earlier), football was football. Thanks for the memories. :)

pepsyman1
09-30-2013, 08:35 PM
One of my earliest Steelers memories from my childhood was seeing LC Greenwood on the field with those yellow cleats........thanks for the great memories! RIP.

Me too. rip LC

zulater
09-30-2013, 09:12 PM
They weren't yellow, they were Golden high tops!

Shoes
09-30-2013, 09:19 PM
:chuckle:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezZTZsGlVPE

tihmtahm
10-02-2013, 02:29 AM
L.C. was a classy guy. I was honored to meet him. RIP!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200231222662842&set=a.1430979994098.48470.1820820235&type=1&theater (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200231222662842&set=a.1430979994098.48470.1820820235&type=1&theater)

zulater
10-07-2013, 05:15 AM
Greenwood's death leaves only Joe Greene

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Wall Street Journal
Mean Joe Greene was watching the Steelers play the Minnesota Vikings last week in London when he got a call from Mel Blount, one Hall of Famer to another. Their old teammate L.C. Greenwood had just died from kidney failure two weeks after back surgery.
Greene went silent. Images flashed through his mind: Three months ago, seeing L.C., so jovial in his Santa Claus hat at Franco Harris's 40th anniversary celebration of the Immaculate Reception. Then, talking with L.C. by phone, just before his surgery, his old teammate describing his acute pain, saying that he had been getting around with a metal walker.
Suddenly, Greene felt alone.

In the 1970s, when the Steelers built a football empire, Greene and Greenwood teamed with Dwight White and Ernie Holmes to form the original Steel Curtain front four. They were masters of mayhem with interlocking skill sets and the colorful nicknames of Mean Joe, Hollywood Bags, Mad Dog and Fats. They helped limit the Vikings to 17 yards rushing in Super Bowl IX, an average of 2.4 feet per carry.
They made the cover of Time magazine. They did commercials, Greenwood for Miller Lite ("Dear Quarterback, I apologize for the way I treated you ... ") and Mean Joe in the 1979 Coca-Cola spot in which he tossed his jersey to a boy.
Greene played with rage, Holmes radiated danger, White never stopped yakking and Greenwood remained calm, cool. White yowled about his opponent, "He's gonna have a bad day!" And Holmes screamed across the line of scrimmage, "I'm comin' right over your [butt]! Yo' mama gonna see you!"
Once asked who hit harder, Greene or Holmes, Steelers running back Reggie Harrison said, "It all depends on what you prefer: Excedrin or Motrin. If you can find the rest of your body after they hit you, that's good."
The Steel Curtain front four became the point of the Steelers' sword, the first dominant all-black starting four in league history. Southerners all, and raised on the burrs of segregation, they were like Tuskegee Airmen in cleats.
And now Greene is the only one left.


Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sports/steelers/behind-the-steel-curtain-greenwoods-death-leaves-only-greene-706560/#ixzz2h1uuc2UZ