Q&A with Rocky Bleier

Thanks for posting. Very timely. Rocky is and always has been 100% class. Here's a bit of trivia: Of those 70s players, Rocky Bleier has appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated three times, more than Greene and Lambert. In fact, only harris and Bradshaw have been on the cover more.

I really wish a Hollywood studio would get behind a big-budget production of Fighting Back. That 1980 TV movie was simply terrible. It needs to be re-made. There's a precedent for it, too: a made-for-TV version of the 1980 olympic hockey team had already been made (called Miracle on Ice, and it too was really bad) and was remade, in Miracle.

 

I was a Drill Instructor at Parris Island late 1978 to sometime in 1981. Rocky caught that 7 yard TD pass in that game. One of my recruits got a letter from Rocky Bleier, earlier than game day
Kid was from Appleton wisconsin, that's what made me believe him. I ask him if that was the Steeler RB. Kid answered SIR YES SIR, Rocky Bleier is the privates God Father. Anyway I let him read the sports section to the Platoon the day after the 79 SB. Since I wasn't the SR DI at the time and did not have duty the recruits couldn't watch it. The next year I was a SR Drill Instructor and was on duty the day of the Superbowl. I requested a TV from Training audio visual department and had em hook it up in my squadbay. Told everyone I was showing training classes so had to have the cable hooked up. When the super bowl came on I told the PRIVs, pull them footlockers up and enjoy the game, by the way, is there anyone who is NOT a Steeler fan? If there is, you can sweep the parade deck till the game is over. I heard a great big GO STEELERS!!! No one put their hand up to say they were not. I even gave them a smoke break at halftime.

 

Blast, well I was going to watch it anyhow. May as well let the boyz watch too

 

LOL at Bleier saying " I always have a special place in my heart for Cleveland, they let me have the longest run of my career"!!!
Also, the comments about QBs having an advantage as broadcasters, because they were protected by the lines in front of them, and not hit during practices...
Funny stuff...
Aside from the funny stuff. Very cool that he is honored in that parade, and he makes some good points about the differences vets from the Vietnam War had upon returning home, compared to today`s vets.

A loud and heartfelt THANK YOU to all who have served, and are serving, past and present!
Those who have returned, those who will, and those who never will!

 

Thanks Bleedsteel...Bleier-what a classy guy!