? Art and Dan Rooney have called a press conference for 2pm today as per Twitter

[Black & Gold Bleeder]

I know it sounds crazy.. but makes you wonder if they will eventually approve the use of Letters.. or symbols or something.. ,, I know stupid..

 

[OhioSteel]

Great news and well deserved. He along with Noll changed the attitude of the Steelers.
I could see Mel Blount or Lambert being next.


SN should honor Mean Joe Bradshaw.

 

[bermudasteel]

Mean Joe is on the Mount Rushmore to me for Pittsburgh sports.

Him, Mario Lemieux and Roberto Clemente.

There just aren't better players on/off the field then them. I normally wait to place admiration on professional athletes. I honestly don't trust much of the off-field profiles I see on ESPN and others. I wait a LONG time to make sure players are real.

But there is no doubt Green, Lemieux and Clemente were the real deals. And all arguably in the top-20 ever to play in their sports.

We've been pretty blessed to been able to watch all three and say they are only ours.

Congratulations Joe Green!

Hines Ward will probably be the next on the list...

Great news, though!!!

 

[bermudasteel]

TAS is gonna be bummed.

Cheers to the freakin' weekend!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Some teams give out these retired numbers like they figure eventually they can start handing out numbers in the three digits. It actually MEANS something when a team like Pittsburgh or Buffalo gives you that honor.

I know it sounds crazy.. but makes you wonder if they will eventually approve the use of Letters.. or symbols or something.. ,, I know stupid..

It is true that if they retired the number of every Steeler who was very good to great, they might not have enough numbers left to field a team.

 

[black and gold apex]

Congrats, well deserved, great player classy man.

 

[cpollock]

I do think that there is a list of number that are not retired but are typically not handed out --

 

[antdrewjosh]

Congrats to Mean Joe. His "I'm not going to take this anymore" attitide helped change a franchise.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

I do think that there is a list of number that are not retired but are typically not handed out --

It's unofficial but I believe in addition to 75, that 12, 32, 52, 58, and 59 have not been given out for use in the regular season in a LOOOONG time. There could be a few I'm missing.

 

[Steel G]

Awesome, that's all that needs to be said.

 

[Punxsutawney]

Mean Joe is on the Mount Rushmore to me for Pittsburgh sports.

Him, Mario Lemieux and Roberto Clemente.

There just aren't better players on/off the field then them. I normally wait to place admiration on professional athletes. I honestly don't trust much of the off-field profiles I see on ESPN and others. I wait a LONG time to make sure players are real.

But there is no doubt Green, Lemieux and Clemente were the real deals. And all arguably in the top-20 ever to play in their sports.

We've been pretty blessed to been able to watch all three and say they are only ours.

Congratulations Joe Green!

You have to include Honus Wagner.

 

[TAS]

They are firing Tomlin, TAS get the champagne on ice

Now what the hell do I do with all this champagne?

 

[Punxsutawney]

Now what the hell do I do with all this champagne?

Drink your sorrow away, man.

 

[Drink IRON City]

I do think that there is a list of number that are not retired but are typically not handed out --

Absolutely!!!!!


Also, in the voice of the kid in the commercial "thanks mean joe"



Salute the nation

 

[Black & Gold Bleeder]

It's unofficial but I believe in addition to 75, that 12, 32, 52, 58, and 59 have not been given out for use in the regular season in a LOOOONG time. There could be a few I'm missing.

Havent seen 63 either.. but I could be wrong

 

[Penguins&Steelers]

It's unofficial but I believe in addition to 75, that 12, 32, 52, 58, and 59 have not been given out for use in the regular season in a LOOOONG time. There could be a few I'm missing.

1,12,32,36,52,58,59,63,86

 

[Vincent]

1,12,32,36,52,58,59,63,86

Steeler list of jersey numbers