Countdown to Kickoff: 2025

Present day (Robert Woods)

 

It's a good thing you got Robert Woods photo in a Steelers uniform before cut down day next week.

 

I looked it up, and that has been used since the 1890s. Unless that sight is lying.
Well what did You call it then???

 

Charlie Batch needs to secure that ball, it looks like he's going to be stripped.

 

Today (Ben Skowronek)


Interesting facts about John "Blood" McNally (top picture):

• Played multiple positions: tailback, wide receiver, quarterback, punter, and defense
• Was en route to a semi-pro tryout with a friend and wanted a pseudonym in order to preserve his amateur status in case Notre Dame (who had previously kicked him out) asked him to return. Passed a theater where the movie Blood and Sand was playing and told the friend, "I'll be Blood, you be Sand."
• Was given the nickname "The Vagabond Tailback" for his ability to play multiple positions with multiple teams, and for once riding the metal girder between train cars to a game in order to avoid paying for a ticket.
• Once played an entire game with a collapsed kidney
• Curly Lambeau offered him a contract to play for Green Bay on a salary of $100 per week, $110 if he didn't drink after Wednesdays.
• Was a player and coach of the Pittsburgh Pirates under Art Rooney
• Part of the inaugural class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, in 1963
• Enlisted in the Air Force after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, eventually becoming a cryptographer

 

Ed Brown was a pretty good QB back in the early 60's for the Steelers, he was the teams punter too.

 

Quite a duel threat with Ed Brown and Bobby Layne at QB. Lou Michaels was a pretty decent place kicker too. My Sister's best friend started a fan club for Michaels and my Sister did for good old Bob Friend of the Pirates. Big thrill when Friend came to our house to drop off signed photos for his Fan Club members. Back when life was simple and egos were in check.