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About Three Bricks Shy of a Load: A highly irregular lowdown on the year the Pittsburgh Steelers were super but missed the bowl
This is a book long considered a classic and one of Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time. The story of the 1973 Pittsburgh Steelers--a team that was super, but missed the bowl.
310 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1974
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Roy Blount Jr.
70 books67 followersRoy Blount Jr. is the author of twenty-three books. The first, About Three Bricks Shy of a Load, was expanded into About Three Bricks Shy . . . and the Load Filled Up. It is often called one of the best sports books of all time. His subsequent works have taken on a range of subjects, from Duck Soup, to Robert E. Lee, to what cats are thinking, to how to savor New Orleans, to what it’s like being married to the first woman president of the United States.
Blount is a panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me!, an ex-president of the Authors Guild, a usage consultant for the American Heritage Dictionary, a New York Public Library Literary Lion, and a member of both the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the band the Rock Bottom Remainders.
In 2009, Blount received the University of North Carolina’s Thomas Wolfe Prize. The university cited “his voracious appetite for the way words sound and for what they really mean.” Time places Blount “in the tradition of the great curmudgeons like H. L. Mencken and W. C. Fields.” Norman Mailer has said, “Page for page, Roy Blount is as funny as anyone I’ve read in a long time.” Garrison Keillor told the Paris Review, “Blount is the best. He can be literate, uncouth, and soulful all in one sentence.”
Blount’s essays, articles, stories, and verses have appeared in over one hundred and fifty publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, Esquire, the Atlantic, Sports Illustrated, the Oxford American, and Garden & Gun. He comes from Decatur, Georgia, and lives in western Massachusetts.
Blount is a panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me!, an ex-president of the Authors Guild, a usage consultant for the American Heritage Dictionary, a New York Public Library Literary Lion, and a member of both the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the band the Rock Bottom Remainders.
In 2009, Blount received the University of North Carolina’s Thomas Wolfe Prize. The university cited “his voracious appetite for the way words sound and for what they really mean.” Time places Blount “in the tradition of the great curmudgeons like H. L. Mencken and W. C. Fields.” Norman Mailer has said, “Page for page, Roy Blount is as funny as anyone I’ve read in a long time.” Garrison Keillor told the Paris Review, “Blount is the best. He can be literate, uncouth, and soulful all in one sentence.”
Blount’s essays, articles, stories, and verses have appeared in over one hundred and fifty publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, Esquire, the Atlantic, Sports Illustrated, the Oxford American, and Garden & Gun. He comes from Decatur, Georgia, and lives in western Massachusetts.
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February 17, 2022
As a Die-Hard Pittsburgh Steelers fan for over 50 years it was painful for me to stretch to even give this book 3 Stars. Poorly written with some inaccuracies and dated, purposeless photos I can't recommend this to anyone but Browns and Ravens fans.
November 22, 2022
read this book several years ago, but I apparently didn't list it on here, which is unlike me. Perhaps I read it in late 08 just before I started using GR. At any rate, Blount - one of the big-dog writers of the golden age of SI and longform sports journalism in general - does an excellent job, capturing the Steelers as a dynasty coming into being. Careful attention is paid to various players, like Ernie Holmes, who perhaps deserve to be in the HOF but aren't. You can see all the cracks, challenges, etc. in the roster composition that have been papered over by later decades of Steelers hagiography...it's a wonderful primary source, as such things go, even if (or perhaps because) it's depicted through Blount's literary lens.
January 11, 2021
Bought this because I'm a Steelers fan, but like all the best sports books you don't even need to like sports to enjoy it. Follows the Steelers throughout their 1973 season, back before the NFL was a billion dollar industry, when players smoked and drank in the locker room, worked second jobs in the off-season, and didn't have publicists curating their images. Insightful and funny. Was also Roy Blount Jr's first published book.
November 14, 2023
Something tangential to the book before I address the book itself…
I’ve read several tongue-in-cheek books written by white men in the 1970s, of which this qualifies as one. America was dealing with the fallout from the 60s; Black people had made leaps and bounds in their rights but counterrevolutionary political forces stymied full growth. As such, the early-to-mid-70s presented a sort of post-transition time when white people were trying to understand an integrated world.
And thus, many of the white male writers I read from this age write in a way I don’t fully understand and can’t really explain. There’s like this wink to the reader from a writer who presumes to be one of the liberals, yet writes about race in a frank — and often line-stepping — manner. Black people are viewed more as curiosities; integration has torn walls down but it’s like seeing someone who lived across you for years: you don’t know how to talk to them even though you speak the same language.
That hovers over About Three Bricks Shy of a Load for better and for worse. These days, a locker room access book wouldn’t have anything as intimate and would keep commentary on racism minimal, if it is addressed at all. I think it’s a good think Blount addresses it and frankly but like I said, tonally, I’m not clear on what he’s going for. But it’s made especially interesting because the Steelers at the time had so many Black stars: White, Harris, Green, Blount (no relation to the author), to say nothing of Joe Gilliam, one of the few Black quarterbacks in the league.
I wish I had a better way of summarizing what I’m trying to say. It’s more of a budding but incomplete thought. Which is probably the tone Roy Blount, Jr. was going for.
Anyway, I guess I found that to be the most fascinating part of the book. The locker room stories and tidbits on franchise building are interesting too, especially since the NFL was a nascent power on the sports scene, nowhere near the colossus it has become. This book frustrated me at times due to its overwritten style (this was my third dance with it) yet I really enjoyed reading large parts of it. I also think it benefitted from the fact that this was a team on the cusp of something great, like writing about the Beatles just before they made it big, their dreams at their fingertips.
I’m not sure it’s one of the best things I’ve read this year but it’s definitely one of the most memorable.
I’ve read several tongue-in-cheek books written by white men in the 1970s, of which this qualifies as one. America was dealing with the fallout from the 60s; Black people had made leaps and bounds in their rights but counterrevolutionary political forces stymied full growth. As such, the early-to-mid-70s presented a sort of post-transition time when white people were trying to understand an integrated world.
And thus, many of the white male writers I read from this age write in a way I don’t fully understand and can’t really explain. There’s like this wink to the reader from a writer who presumes to be one of the liberals, yet writes about race in a frank — and often line-stepping — manner. Black people are viewed more as curiosities; integration has torn walls down but it’s like seeing someone who lived across you for years: you don’t know how to talk to them even though you speak the same language.
That hovers over About Three Bricks Shy of a Load for better and for worse. These days, a locker room access book wouldn’t have anything as intimate and would keep commentary on racism minimal, if it is addressed at all. I think it’s a good think Blount addresses it and frankly but like I said, tonally, I’m not clear on what he’s going for. But it’s made especially interesting because the Steelers at the time had so many Black stars: White, Harris, Green, Blount (no relation to the author), to say nothing of Joe Gilliam, one of the few Black quarterbacks in the league.
I wish I had a better way of summarizing what I’m trying to say. It’s more of a budding but incomplete thought. Which is probably the tone Roy Blount, Jr. was going for.
Anyway, I guess I found that to be the most fascinating part of the book. The locker room stories and tidbits on franchise building are interesting too, especially since the NFL was a nascent power on the sports scene, nowhere near the colossus it has become. This book frustrated me at times due to its overwritten style (this was my third dance with it) yet I really enjoyed reading large parts of it. I also think it benefitted from the fact that this was a team on the cusp of something great, like writing about the Beatles just before they made it big, their dreams at their fingertips.
I’m not sure it’s one of the best things I’ve read this year but it’s definitely one of the most memorable.
February 11, 2024
In the 70's, there were a lot of reporters who would spend a year with sports teams and write a book about it. This book, About Three Bricks Shy of Load was written in 1974 and this writer has added new sections and a new introduction 30 years later, was set after the Immaculate Reception.
The Good: The Pittsburgh Steelers are certainly one of the most iconic sports franchises and this is a dive into their history on the eve of one of the greatest dynasties in sports. There are always some great characters in books like this and there was no shortage of those in this book. Franco Harris, Mel Blount, Joe Greene, Joe Gilliam, Dwight White, Ray Mansfield and Chuck Noll were the primary focuses. Some funny stories.
The Bad: There were a lot of historical inaccuracies and editing errors, even after a 30 year update. There was more boring than funny and a couple of guys that are profiled you don't like after reading this.
If you are a fan of football and/or the Steelers, you might enjoy this book, but I was meh on it.
C
The Good: The Pittsburgh Steelers are certainly one of the most iconic sports franchises and this is a dive into their history on the eve of one of the greatest dynasties in sports. There are always some great characters in books like this and there was no shortage of those in this book. Franco Harris, Mel Blount, Joe Greene, Joe Gilliam, Dwight White, Ray Mansfield and Chuck Noll were the primary focuses. Some funny stories.
The Bad: There were a lot of historical inaccuracies and editing errors, even after a 30 year update. There was more boring than funny and a couple of guys that are profiled you don't like after reading this.
If you are a fan of football and/or the Steelers, you might enjoy this book, but I was meh on it.
C
May 15, 2025
I had heard of this book for years, and so was delighted when my wife Pat found a first edition in a used bookstore. But the delight soon wore off. Blount does an earnest job of trying to enter into the heads of men who play an incredibly brutal sport, and the book shows flashes of wit. For the most part, though, the jokes and commentary—from both Blount and the Steelers—age poorly. About the best you can say is that this is a sports book of its day.
September 5, 2017
Occasionally funny, but generally disjointed without any strong sense of narrative. It reads like an amalgamation of magazine articles - again, it is entertaining at points, but doesn't deserve it's "football classic" status.
This edition of the book also has MANY typos.
This edition of the book also has MANY typos.
December 23, 2017
a brilliant insight behind the steel curtain
This is a great book about a team about to have greatness fulfilled. It was a different time and he shows the dichotomy between pro football and the men who play it.
This is a great book about a team about to have greatness fulfilled. It was a different time and he shows the dichotomy between pro football and the men who play it.
October 29, 2017
Incredibly dated and definitely not pc, nevertheless, the book is an interesting look inside the Steelers locker room just before they began their 70's Super Bowl dynasty.
November 5, 2017
A historical story of a year with the Steelers of the past.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 10, 2018
I grew up hating those Steelers who seemed to always beat my Cowboys so it was a fun trip down memory lane.
May 14, 2018
I expected more football action. There were pages and pages about Pittsburgh, the city, because the author was writing about the Steelers. It got too uninteresting to continue.
January 2, 2014
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About Three Bricks Shy of a Load
Roy Blount Jr.
Many have described football as an encapsulation of America itself (see Sal Paolantonio’s How Football Explains America), and I’m inclined to agree. Of course there’s a time lag, since Europeans arrived on this continent four centuries before the birth of American football.
For historical synchronicity, let’s say the 19th-century invention of the sport parallels the arrival at Plymouth Rock; the 1920 formation of the National Football League (then known as the American Professional Football Association) was the Continental Congress; and the years leading up to and including the early Super Bowls was the Wild West. Since then, football has enjoyed the popularity and profit of post-WWII America.
The bridge between the NFL’s lawless pre-history and current glory days is the 1970s, when the organized mayhem of the sport electrified color televisions across the nation. It was the decade dominated by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
In 1973, author Roy Blount Jr., whom many will know as a regular panelist on National Public Radio’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, spent the season with the Steelers at a crucial moment—months after the Immaculate Reception and a year before their first Super Bowl victory.
The result was the gonzo-style About Three Bricks Shy of a Load, which has been re-released in honor of the book’s fortieth anniversary.
I have a personal interest in this book: I was born in western Pennsylvania in 1972, and you bet your ass I bleed black and gold. Possessing that strain of superstition unique to sports, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Steelers won a grand total of 0 postseason games prior to my birth and since then have been the winningest team in football.
As a youth, I idolized the ’70s Steelers, but didn’t yet have the sophistication (or skepticism) to consider the lives of the men behind the facemasks. It was with great interest, then, that I read About Three Bricks Shy of a Load to learn more about the incubation of a dynasty. What sets this apart from similar books (such as Their Life’s Work and Steel Dynasty) is that it captures the highs and lows of the 1973 season without the sentimentality of age or the foreknowledge of future championships.
However, this isn’t a yearbook. This is an in-the-trenches account of the players and personalities that epitomized professional football of that era—a time before the NFL became PG rated. Blount’s embedded reporting is remarkable, from the openness of alcohol, drugs and sex to the lingering racial and culture divides of the 1960s. I’ve learned more about the team I idolized in this one book than I did growing up an hour from Three Rivers Stadium.
However, this is still a book of general interest. Although its emphasis is on one team, it is a pivotal bit of prehistory to the NFL’s dominance. A raw, unfiltered look at a free-wheeling sports league before it became a tight-lipped, humorless corporation.
Of course, there are shadows that loom over this narrative. Just as nobody in 1973 could have foreseen the success of the Steelers and the NFL, also unknown was the physical toll of steroids and repeated blows to the head. The significance of this book will likely increase with age, especially as the NFL finds itself at a crossroads—its popularity has never been greater, but lawsuits, science and dropping youth enrollment portent a shaky future.
History is always a work in progress, and the definitive narrative of the NFL has yet to be written. But when it is, About Three Bricks Shy of a Load will be a document of a special time in a special place, the story of a team on the cusp of greatness falling just shy of its goal.
About Three Bricks Shy of a Load
Roy Blount Jr.
Many have described football as an encapsulation of America itself (see Sal Paolantonio’s How Football Explains America), and I’m inclined to agree. Of course there’s a time lag, since Europeans arrived on this continent four centuries before the birth of American football.
For historical synchronicity, let’s say the 19th-century invention of the sport parallels the arrival at Plymouth Rock; the 1920 formation of the National Football League (then known as the American Professional Football Association) was the Continental Congress; and the years leading up to and including the early Super Bowls was the Wild West. Since then, football has enjoyed the popularity and profit of post-WWII America.
The bridge between the NFL’s lawless pre-history and current glory days is the 1970s, when the organized mayhem of the sport electrified color televisions across the nation. It was the decade dominated by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
In 1973, author Roy Blount Jr., whom many will know as a regular panelist on National Public Radio’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, spent the season with the Steelers at a crucial moment—months after the Immaculate Reception and a year before their first Super Bowl victory.
The result was the gonzo-style About Three Bricks Shy of a Load, which has been re-released in honor of the book’s fortieth anniversary.
I have a personal interest in this book: I was born in western Pennsylvania in 1972, and you bet your ass I bleed black and gold. Possessing that strain of superstition unique to sports, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Steelers won a grand total of 0 postseason games prior to my birth and since then have been the winningest team in football.
As a youth, I idolized the ’70s Steelers, but didn’t yet have the sophistication (or skepticism) to consider the lives of the men behind the facemasks. It was with great interest, then, that I read About Three Bricks Shy of a Load to learn more about the incubation of a dynasty. What sets this apart from similar books (such as Their Life’s Work and Steel Dynasty) is that it captures the highs and lows of the 1973 season without the sentimentality of age or the foreknowledge of future championships.
However, this isn’t a yearbook. This is an in-the-trenches account of the players and personalities that epitomized professional football of that era—a time before the NFL became PG rated. Blount’s embedded reporting is remarkable, from the openness of alcohol, drugs and sex to the lingering racial and culture divides of the 1960s. I’ve learned more about the team I idolized in this one book than I did growing up an hour from Three Rivers Stadium.
However, this is still a book of general interest. Although its emphasis is on one team, it is a pivotal bit of prehistory to the NFL’s dominance. A raw, unfiltered look at a free-wheeling sports league before it became a tight-lipped, humorless corporation.
Of course, there are shadows that loom over this narrative. Just as nobody in 1973 could have foreseen the success of the Steelers and the NFL, also unknown was the physical toll of steroids and repeated blows to the head. The significance of this book will likely increase with age, especially as the NFL finds itself at a crossroads—its popularity has never been greater, but lawsuits, science and dropping youth enrollment portent a shaky future.
History is always a work in progress, and the definitive narrative of the NFL has yet to be written. But when it is, About Three Bricks Shy of a Load will be a document of a special time in a special place, the story of a team on the cusp of greatness falling just shy of its goal.
October 30, 2016
An incredibly fun read! I'm not much of a football fan, but I remember the days of the Steel Curtain from when I was growing up. Lots of names that sparked memories: Mean Joe Green, Franco Harris, Terry Bradshaw, L. C. Greenwood, Mel Blount, Dwight White, etc. The team even boasted one of the NFL's first starting Black QBs, Joe Gilliam.
What's particularly great about the book is that it isn't a look back. Blount, then employed by Sports Illustrated, was given the assignment of being "embeded" with a team for the duration of season. He wound up choosing the Steelers and the owner, Al Rooney, ok'd it. Apparently Coach Chuck Noll wasn't entirely thrilled but went along with it. They were a great team to go with because they were just on the cusp of going from a formerly losing team to one that would go on to win multiple Superbowls in a row. Blount does a great job of conveying the mores of the time, and the feeling that the nature of the game was changing and the players were getting swept along in something bigger.
Blount's style (the author, not Mel Blount the Steeler cornerback) is reminiscent of the "new journalism" of Hunter S. Thompson, one of my fave writers from back in the day. Blount provides insights into the culture of the game as well as the '73 team and its individual players. That season was probably one of the last in which a guy off the streets could go to a tryout and make it on to a professional team. (In fact, a key player on that roster, Rocky Bleier, was a Vietnam vet).
A friend of mine put it this way: football used to be comprised of tough guys who could be athletic; now, of course, it's big business based on college athletes who can be tough. In fact, without college player development, the NFL draft as it is today couldn't exist. Guys were playing for $22,000 in the early 1970s, (the same buying power as $138,025 today). Today's players make on average just short of $2 mil. There was still a lot of fun in the game; now it's a machine.
There's some part of me that wants to say the game was more innocent back then. That's not the right word, but the book had me feeling nostalgic for a professional sporting environment different than the one that nowadays just seems like spoiled celebrities and wife beaters.
What's particularly great about the book is that it isn't a look back. Blount, then employed by Sports Illustrated, was given the assignment of being "embeded" with a team for the duration of season. He wound up choosing the Steelers and the owner, Al Rooney, ok'd it. Apparently Coach Chuck Noll wasn't entirely thrilled but went along with it. They were a great team to go with because they were just on the cusp of going from a formerly losing team to one that would go on to win multiple Superbowls in a row. Blount does a great job of conveying the mores of the time, and the feeling that the nature of the game was changing and the players were getting swept along in something bigger.
Blount's style (the author, not Mel Blount the Steeler cornerback) is reminiscent of the "new journalism" of Hunter S. Thompson, one of my fave writers from back in the day. Blount provides insights into the culture of the game as well as the '73 team and its individual players. That season was probably one of the last in which a guy off the streets could go to a tryout and make it on to a professional team. (In fact, a key player on that roster, Rocky Bleier, was a Vietnam vet).
A friend of mine put it this way: football used to be comprised of tough guys who could be athletic; now, of course, it's big business based on college athletes who can be tough. In fact, without college player development, the NFL draft as it is today couldn't exist. Guys were playing for $22,000 in the early 1970s, (the same buying power as $138,025 today). Today's players make on average just short of $2 mil. There was still a lot of fun in the game; now it's a machine.
There's some part of me that wants to say the game was more innocent back then. That's not the right word, but the book had me feeling nostalgic for a professional sporting environment different than the one that nowadays just seems like spoiled celebrities and wife beaters.
April 18, 2016
Enjoyable book, exceptionally well-written (bring your dictionary) and a clear example of how the relationship between the media and athletes (especially professional athletes) has drastically changed over the last 40 years. The e-book has some very significant editing issues (two chapters where "Pittsburgh" is missing its "h," for example) but it didn't mask the quality of the writing.
The first half drags a bit, and mostly served to make me want to re-read Dan Jenkins' "Semi Tough." So that's probably coming up next. But the rest of the book was interesting. How cool would it have been if Blount had been imbedded for the '74 season instead of '73. Between the first Super Bowl for the franchise and the addition of several of my childhood favorite players from that draft (Swann, Lambert, Stallworth, and Webster were all in that draft) ... yeah, that would have been amazing.
ETA: I had the e-book of the original book, not the updated version linked here. Because the original version does not exist on GoodReads.
The first half drags a bit, and mostly served to make me want to re-read Dan Jenkins' "Semi Tough." So that's probably coming up next. But the rest of the book was interesting. How cool would it have been if Blount had been imbedded for the '74 season instead of '73. Between the first Super Bowl for the franchise and the addition of several of my childhood favorite players from that draft (Swann, Lambert, Stallworth, and Webster were all in that draft) ... yeah, that would have been amazing.
ETA: I had the e-book of the original book, not the updated version linked here. Because the original version does not exist on GoodReads.
January 24, 2015
Roy Blount Jr.'s book about the Pittsburgh Steelers' 1973 season. A thick description much influenced by the New Journalism. Blount is much more interested in the subculture of the club than in the business of sport. So it's very different from the way major sports get written about in the post-Moneyball era. Blount was in the army during the draft-era, and his eye and ear for how the barracks break down along ethnic, racial and social types is fine-tuned by a faith in the subcultural salience of football as a pleasureable and yet unrelentingly tough job. That analogy, between the draft-era military, and a violent pro-sport like football, is something else that offers this book a historical value to which contemporary sports books might aspire. Blount never lets the compositional frame get so wide as to distort the perspective of men and their wives just foolin' around.
March 12, 2014
Being a Steeler fan, I am a bit disappointed that I haven't read this book much sooner. I am pretty glad that I did and I'm glad it was this version. The season covered in this book is not a Super Bowl season and many of the players featured and discussed were not the typical Steelers' "stars."
However, I think that this is the book's charm. It talks about the people and who they are beyond just athletes; their concerns, their aspirations, their friendships, their families. The additional chapters post the original release of the book add further depth and background.
"You got to be blessed," says Mel Blount to close the book. Indeed. And it has nothing to do with football.
However, I think that this is the book's charm. It talks about the people and who they are beyond just athletes; their concerns, their aspirations, their friendships, their families. The additional chapters post the original release of the book add further depth and background.
"You got to be blessed," says Mel Blount to close the book. Indeed. And it has nothing to do with football.
October 24, 2015
I really liked it.
There are some choices the author made in tone (favoring violence, condoning drunk driving, racial issues) that are products of the time and at least semi-ironic. So this is not a politically correct book.
But I like the author's style and the springs of humanity that NFL players generally keep hidden in today's more media-savvy world. It read funny to me even when it was setting off some warning signals.
There are some choices the author made in tone (favoring violence, condoning drunk driving, racial issues) that are products of the time and at least semi-ironic. So this is not a politically correct book.
But I like the author's style and the springs of humanity that NFL players generally keep hidden in today's more media-savvy world. It read funny to me even when it was setting off some warning signals.
February 18, 2013
Imagine having full access to one of the greatest sports teams of all time; this is exactly what Roy Blount did. Rollicking, amusing, and fascinating to know what went on in locker rooms in the 70's, so vastly different from today's cell phone/twitter/espn fish bowl.
You don't have to be a Steelers fan to like this book, but it helps.
You don't have to be a Steelers fan to like this book, but it helps.
March 4, 2014
Roy Blunt, Jr relates his experience as an outsider getting a (1973) season-long peek behind the Steel Curtain. I expected better. I can't exactly come right out and recommend it, but if you're a Steelers fan, and you read books, what the Hell, right?
March 5, 2016
Not what I was expecting
Got bored rather quickly but kept reading in hope of finding something interesting. Did not find it! Too much filler material, with several chapters that could be totally eliminated. Disappointed and would not recommend this book.
Got bored rather quickly but kept reading in hope of finding something interesting. Did not find it! Too much filler material, with several chapters that could be totally eliminated. Disappointed and would not recommend this book.
December 30, 2007
The NFL in the early 1970s was very, very different.
January 7, 2025
The language is so dated I can barely get through it...
April 22, 2014
A solid volume worth perusing if you are a fan of the genre- kind of surreal to take a trip back to the NFL post merger.
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June 23, 2014Fun if clubby insight to how the mega-league was back in the pre-cable/ESPN days.
November 12, 2014
Interesting companion to @stefanfatsis' book in terms of player access and "professionalism."
December 2, 2021
A true classic!
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August 16, 2018Being a long-time Steelers fan, it was fun to read about the players from an insider's perspective. Most of these guys are in the Football Hall of Fame, which, of course, they weren't at the time Mr. Blount was writing this book. No exposes or complaining - just tells what made these guys tick. The year after this book was written, the Steeler dynasty began, and legends were made. This book describes using anecdotes and stories a group of intense men but fun team. No wonder they had so much success in the 70's and 80's.
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