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Classic Sports Card of The Day

24 Jan

Courtesy of www.CheckOutMyCards.com , a 1989 Score football card of one of the great Pittsburgh Steelers from the team’s 1970s Super Bowl era, running back Franco Harris. He played 13 seasons in the NFL and made the Pro Bowl 9 times, and played on all 4 of the Steelers’ Super Bowl-winning teams. Franco, who had his own cheering section – “Franco’s Italian Army” – in Pittsburgh, was involved in one of pro football’s most controversial plays of all time, the “Immaculate Reception”, when he grabbed a tipped pass and ran for an unlikely winning touchdown in a playoff game against the Oakland Raiders. Harris and former Colt player Lydell Mitchell now own SuperBakery, a company founded in 1990 to produce nutrition-oriented foods for school children.

 

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