RIP Steelers owner Dan Rooney
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DaKidFromNoWhere
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I hate the Steelers but he was my favorite owner in all of sports. I always respected how he gave the coaches time to build and execute a plan before just up and firing them. I hope whoever takes over keeps the tradition going. I hate to see Tomlin go over some punk ass sportswriter freaking out.
Godspeed
Godspeed
RIP
while the rooney rule isnt perfect it actually gave blacks more chances
while the rooney rule isnt perfect it actually gave blacks more chances
basketball reasons
All Star
his son's been running the team for over a decade.
feelosofer
#ninergang
Talk about the model of consistency and he ran a classy organization. Always had respect for the Steelers as an organization. Had some of my favorite players as a kid and now as an adult. Father of the Rooney rule that at least gave Black coaches a fighting chance at work in the NFL.
the next guy
Superstar
rip
In the burg he was the pope
Yeah they're reacting like the Pope died
resurrection
By Way of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War
For real man.. Mr. Rooney was part of the fabric of the city of Pittsburgh. For me, meeting him at a rally for Obama in 08 was so dope
I saw this tweet from Peter King this morning:
It made me realize - fukk this. It's the middle of April. The draft isn't for two weeks, there are no games for months. The NFL world can afford to stop spinning for a day and pay tribute to a man who has been so instrumental to the game and made such a positive impact for so many people. He fought for equal opportunity for everyone, he fought for and truly loved his coaches and players. I've never known anyone involved with the Steelers who didn't love the man. From Troy Polamalu, who rarely speaks:
To unknowns like Josh Harris:
And who can forget the special bond and friendship between Mr. Rooney and Ike Taylor?
Ike Taylor Interviews Steelers Chairman Dan Rooney
Truly - there will never be another Dan Rooney. We lost a great one, fellas.
I saw this tweet from Peter King this morning:
It made me realize - fukk this. It's the middle of April. The draft isn't for two weeks, there are no games for months. The NFL world can afford to stop spinning for a day and pay tribute to a man who has been so instrumental to the game and made such a positive impact for so many people. He fought for equal opportunity for everyone, he fought for and truly loved his coaches and players. I've never known anyone involved with the Steelers who didn't love the man. From Troy Polamalu, who rarely speaks:
To unknowns like Josh Harris:
And who can forget the special bond and friendship between Mr. Rooney and Ike Taylor?
Ike Taylor Interviews Steelers Chairman Dan Rooney
Truly - there will never be another Dan Rooney. We lost a great one, fellas.
backbreaker65
All Star
Mr. Rooney, did what no business owner would never do in a million years in the late mid to late 1960's. According to Tony Dungy, he told this story on Mike and Mike this morning.
"Bill Nunn(who was Black) was a beat writer for the local paper in Pittsburgh, he wrote some scathing articles about the Steelers loosing because it didn't have that many black players. Instead of Mr. Rooney getting upset and trying to blackball Bill Nunn, he invited him to lunch and asked him what was his beef with the Steelers. Bill Nunn began to rattle off his position about the lack of diversity, when he was finished, Mr. Rooney asked Bill Nunn to be part of the organization and made him a scout to get black players, Tony Dungy started naming all the players Bill Nunn brought to the Steelers and it was a wow moment."
This guy is just as responsible for the Steelers success as Chuck Noll.
ESPN video link of the Tony Dungy story
Rooney's foresight paved way for Steelers - ESPN Video
The Scouting of a Dynasty: Nunn Art Better than the Pittsburgh Steelers
Just as BLESTO was maturing into a viable mechanism, the Steelers broke a watershed color barrier by hiring the first African-American executive to work in any NFL front office. His name was Bill Nunn and at the time, 1967, he was the editor of the Pittsburgh Courier, a very popular and influential Black newspaper at a time when such media was in its heyday.
Nunn covered and wrote about Black college football all stars and was hot-wired into most of the coaches at historically Black colleges in the South. Nunn was the perfect tonic at the perfect time for a starving franchise that had never won a championship. He knew the ins and outs of the Black South better than anyone, and his relationships with all the coaches would soon pay ripe dividends.
"Bill Nunn(who was Black) was a beat writer for the local paper in Pittsburgh, he wrote some scathing articles about the Steelers loosing because it didn't have that many black players. Instead of Mr. Rooney getting upset and trying to blackball Bill Nunn, he invited him to lunch and asked him what was his beef with the Steelers. Bill Nunn began to rattle off his position about the lack of diversity, when he was finished, Mr. Rooney asked Bill Nunn to be part of the organization and made him a scout to get black players, Tony Dungy started naming all the players Bill Nunn brought to the Steelers and it was a wow moment."
This guy is just as responsible for the Steelers success as Chuck Noll.
ESPN video link of the Tony Dungy story
Rooney's foresight paved way for Steelers - ESPN Video
The Scouting of a Dynasty: Nunn Art Better than the Pittsburgh Steelers
Just as BLESTO was maturing into a viable mechanism, the Steelers broke a watershed color barrier by hiring the first African-American executive to work in any NFL front office. His name was Bill Nunn and at the time, 1967, he was the editor of the Pittsburgh Courier, a very popular and influential Black newspaper at a time when such media was in its heyday.
Nunn covered and wrote about Black college football all stars and was hot-wired into most of the coaches at historically Black colleges in the South. Nunn was the perfect tonic at the perfect time for a starving franchise that had never won a championship. He knew the ins and outs of the Black South better than anyone, and his relationships with all the coaches would soon pay ripe dividends.
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Dog Based Gremlin
Veteran
The funeral on tv brehs @3Rivers @SteelCitySoldier
SteelCitySoldier
TSC Fantasy Football Champion 2016
Just saw a link on Facebook...dont even want to watch it. Only famous people that made me feel a certain way when they passed were this man and Michael Jackson
OneTimeforTheMind
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One of the goats
Godspeed Mŕ. Rooney