1975 Topps #300, Franco Harris 🏈
Franco was probably my first favorite Steelers player.
I did not know of him when he came out of college, so I initially heard his name when I listened to Steelers games on the radio, broadcast by the legendary Jack Fleming.
So, for a long time I thought his name was Frank O'Harris.😂

I met Franco at a trade computer game convention in the mid 90’s. He was signing autographs and took pictures with everyone. I knew he was going to be there and came prepared. He saw the rookie card and told me it was in very nice condition and wanted to give me $500 for it! You could tell by the look on his face that he was kidding with me. I laughed and played along by telling him no. He raised it to $700! I told him he probably had a drawer full of this card in his office. He said $1,000!!! I replied “You really don’t know how much your cards are worth do you?!” He laughed and said $1,500! He looked at the Pro Set HOF card and said,”The artist made me look better than I normally look on the field!”

RIP Mr. Harris!

2005 Topps 50th Anniversary, Joe Greene.🏈
I was watching the Army vs North Texas Mean Green game Saturday when one of the TV broadcasters proclaimed that the “Mean Green” got their nickname from their most famous graduate, Mean Joe Greene.
I looked it up and that is not true.
Over the years, the birth of the Mean Green moniker has been mistakenly linked to one of the era's star defensive players, Joe Greene. The fact is the nickname comes from the cheering of a UNT zealot named Sue Graham in 1966. Sue always insisted she was yelling support for the defensive squad and came up with the phrase based on the school's primary color, chanting “Get Mean Green!” when UNT was on defense.