Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The University of North Texas, Greene's alma mater, unveiled a statue of him outside of Apogee Stadium in 2018. 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]
The name "Mean Green" was adopted by fans and media in 1966 for a North Texas football defensive squad that finished the season second in the nation against the rush. [2] That school year, Joe Greene, [citation needed] then a sophomore at North Texas, played left defensive tackle on the football team and competed in track and field .
The North Texas Mean Green football program is the intercollegiate team ... His second to last recruiting class in 1965 included future NFL Hall of Famer Joe Greene, ...
"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 ...
The North Texas athletic department, media, and fans loved the novelty of the national use of its nickname, and its association with Joe Greene's surname and university's official school color. By 1968, "Mean Green" was branded on the backs of shirts, buttons, bumper stickers, and the cover of the North Texas football brochure.
This category is for American football players at the University of North Texas, formerly North Texas State University. The team's official name is the Eagles, but it is most frequently known as Mean Green. Individual players are often known as Eagles, however.
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 ...
This is a list of North Texas Mean Green football players in the NFL draft. Key. B ... Joe Greene: Pittsburgh Steelers: DT 7 4 160 Chuck Beatty: Pittsburgh Steelers ...