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title	:	Andy Russell : A Steeler Odyssey
author	:	Russell, Andy.
publisher	:	Sports Publishing, Inc.
isbn10 | asin	:	1571672354
print isbn13	:	9781571672353
ebook isbn13	:	9780585046273
language	:	English
subject	Football players.
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	GV939R9611 1998eb
ddc	:	796.332092
subject	:	Football players.

Page i A Steeler Odyssey by Andy Russell SPORTS PUBLISHING INC. Champaign, IL 61820

Page ii 1998 Andy Russell All rights reserved. Director of Production: Susan M. McKinney Dustjacket and photo insert design: Joe Buck ISBN: 1-57167-235-4 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number:98-86642 Printed in the United States. Sports Publishing Inc. 804 N. Neil Champaign, IL 61820 www.SportsPublishingInc.com

Page iii I dedicate this book to Ray Mansfield, the renaissance man warrior, who helped me through all those challenging (winning and losing) years with the Steelers and, afterwards, who joined me on our journey of self-discovery through adventure travel and challenge.

Page v Contents Acknowledgments vi Foreword by Rocky Bleier vii Introduction xii 1 Steeler Profile: Andy Russell 1 2 The Well-Armed Dove 25 3 Steeler Profile: Ray Mansfield 63 4 Catch 22 Revisited 77 5 The Rites of Passage 87 6 Steeler Profile: Joe Greene 103 7 The Mansfield/Russell Act Goes Worldwide 113 8 Steeler Profile: Terry Bradshaw 127 9 The Dark Side of Bangkok 135 10 The Black Hole 145 11 Playing Hurt 153 12 Steeler Profile: Jack Ham 169 13 The Mysterious Middle East 181 14 Steeler Profile: Rocky Bleier 191 15 Kathmandu 199 16 Steeler Profile: Jack Lambert 211 17 The Sacred Mountain 219 18 Steeler Profile: Franco and His Italian Army 229 19 Leaving the Sauna 235 20 Steeler Profile: Chuck Noll 241 21 Other Steeler Profiles 253 22 Has the Game Changed? 265

Page vi Acknowledgments There are virtually too many people to thank. I appreciate all the encouragement my business partners and friends gave me during the two years it took write this book. Many of them read my pitiful first efforts and still offered suggestions and the supportive comments that I needed. I found writing to be very humbling but tremendously challenging and rewardingin a sense, a lot like playing football. I would like to especially thank my writing mentor, Phil Musick who spent many hours reading and making suggestions. My best friends, Cindy Ellis, Ray Mansfield, Jack and Susan Musgrave, Sam Zacharias and Jim Card were always supportive and willing to give constructive criticism. Pete Gent, a real author, and former Cowboy, also helped with ideas and suggestions, as did my writer friend Roy Blount Jr. who once wrote another book about the Steelers. My good friend Myron Cope also offered helpful suggestions. Family members who read these pieces before they were edited and resisted criticizing my fledgling efforts to write are also to be thanked: Amy, Andy and Nancy Russell, and my parents, William and Esther Russell. Friends and business partners, Don Rea and Jeff Kendall also gave good counsel.

Page vii Foreword An observation I've come to appreciate is that we all record history from our own perspectives. It is neither good nor bad, right nor wrong. It just is. We process information by how it impacts us. Then we either write it or orally transfer it from our point of view, to those who are willing to listen. We do it all the time. Two people can view the same situation, and when questioned about the event, come up with two completely different scenarios. I experienced that phenomenon all the time when I was playing for the Steelers. After every home game, and right after Chuck Noll gave his summation of the win or loss, a majority of the guys would then head for the sauna. As beers were opened, playersin various stages of undresswould discuss the contest we just left, I wondered sometimes if the dialogue was about the same game in which I just played.

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