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{ Thursday, June 23, 2005 }

Fun Flickr Find

One of Pittsburgh's own! Someone went and scanned in this fabulous book from the 70s from Rosie Grier, ~~one of the Steelers that won that record number of Superbowls~~.

*coff* Don't ask me about football. *coff* Rob writes me to correct me:

Rosie Grier was an all-pro for the LA Rams, and never played for the Steelers. He's best known for cradling RFK's head after the assassination in Los Angeles, just after tackling Sirhan Sirhan. Rosie is also famous for the song "It's alright to cry."

Good facts! Thanks, Rob. And more stuff from Leo:

Rosie Grier was famous for being a member of the Fearsome Foursome (w/Deacon Jones, Merlin Olsen and Lamar Lundy), the defensive front four of the Los Angeles Rams in the 1960s. I don't think he ever played for the Steelers, and certainly was not a starter in the Steel Curtain defensive line (LC Greenwood, Mean Joe Greene, Ernie Holmes, Dwight White) of the 1970s Steelers.

Thanks fellows. I'm an ignoramus of the pigskin. Now back to the rest of the post about Grier's embroidery.

As the poster of the photos, Extreme Craft, notes, at 6'5" and 300 lbs., Grier didn't really worry about people who thought he was a wuss. Check out the whole photoset and the rest of his photostream for more manly crafts, and some crafts by Charles Manson.

LINK | 6:02 PM | TB

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