stillers4me
10-27-2013, 10:45 AM
This is an excerpt from Gary M. Pomerantz’s (http://www.garympomerantz.com/) “Their Life’s Work: The Brotherhood of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers, Then and Now,” which will be published this week by Simon & Schuster. The Post-Gazette will also publish excerpts Monday and Tuesday.
Today’s excerpt opens in the moments after the Steelers’ first Super Bowl win, on Jan. 12, 1975, in New Orleans.
Hot dog wrappers blew in the wind at Tulane Stadium as Coach Chuck Noll was lifted onto the shoulders of Franco Harris, voted the game's most valuable player, and Mean Joe Greene. It made for a fitting image, the coach sitting atop the offensive and defensive pillars on which this Super Bowl IX victory rested. Cameramen encircled them. Flashbulbs exploded.
The writer Roy Blount Jr. had sneaked onto the Steelers' sideline near game's end, tossed all objectivity aside, and celebrated with Steelers players, hugging them and happily slapping their shoulder pads. Blount noticed Noll's broad smile as he rode off on his players' shoulders. "I had never seen Noll's mouth so wide open," Blount wrote later. "It was as though the Dragon Lady had gone all soft around the eyes and said, 'Oh, baby.' ".............
Read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2013/10/27/brotherhood-of-the-1970-Pittsburgh-Steelers/stories/201310270090
Today’s excerpt opens in the moments after the Steelers’ first Super Bowl win, on Jan. 12, 1975, in New Orleans.
Hot dog wrappers blew in the wind at Tulane Stadium as Coach Chuck Noll was lifted onto the shoulders of Franco Harris, voted the game's most valuable player, and Mean Joe Greene. It made for a fitting image, the coach sitting atop the offensive and defensive pillars on which this Super Bowl IX victory rested. Cameramen encircled them. Flashbulbs exploded.
The writer Roy Blount Jr. had sneaked onto the Steelers' sideline near game's end, tossed all objectivity aside, and celebrated with Steelers players, hugging them and happily slapping their shoulder pads. Blount noticed Noll's broad smile as he rode off on his players' shoulders. "I had never seen Noll's mouth so wide open," Blount wrote later. "It was as though the Dragon Lady had gone all soft around the eyes and said, 'Oh, baby.' ".............
Read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2013/10/27/brotherhood-of-the-1970-Pittsburgh-Steelers/stories/201310270090