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Greene is regarded as the most famous alum of UNT. [75] In 2015, the Mean Joe Greene Community Football Field was dedicated in Greene's honor in his hometown of Temple, Texas. [76] In 2019, Greene was named to the NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team as one of the greatest players of the NFL's first 100 years. [77]
The Steel Curtain included: No. 75 "Mean" Joe Greene – defensive tackle 1969–1981, 4-time Super Bowl champion (IX, X, XIII, XIV), 10-time Pro Bowl selection (1969–1976, 1978, 1979), 2-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year (1972, 1974), NFL 1970s All-Decade Team, Pro Football Hall of Fame, Pittsburgh Steelers All-Time Team, NFL 100 All-Time Team
The 1969 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the franchise's 37th in the National Football League.It would mark a turning point of the Steelers franchise. 1969 was the first season for Hall of Fame head coach Chuck Noll, the first season for defensive lineman "Mean Joe" Greene and L. C. Greenwood, the first season for longtime Steelers public relations director Joe Gordon, and the team's last ...
"Mean" Joe Greene finally got what was coming to him -- and it wasn't a blindside tackle. Thirty years after appearing in one of television's most iconic ads, the former Pittsburgh Steelers player ...
You just see guys: Mean Joe Greene, Warren Sapp. I'm sitting there like, 'Man, I wish I had Warren Sapp as a D-tackle,' and (thinking about) how much havoc you can cause in the backfield."
3. Hawkey’s favorite parody of the Mean Joe Greene commercial? A decades-old one involving a massive sumo wrestler and Pee-wee Herman. “At the end, the sumo wrestler throws that nasty ...
Name College(s) played for Position Year inducted (link to HOF bio) Bob Babich: Miami (OH) Linebacker: 1994: Everett Bacon: Wesleyan: Quarterback: 1966: Reds Bagnell
In 1967, with the addition of Joe Greene to the defensive line, the Eagles allowed less than two yards per carry on the ground en route to a 7–1–1 record and a Missouri Valley Conference title. The ferocious defense, led by Greene, earned the team the nickname "Mean Green," which soon replaced "Eagles" as the school's official nickname/mascot.