Rocky Bleier nominated for Salute to Service Award
Pittsburgh Steelers legend Rocky Bleier is the team’s nominee for the NFL’s Salute to Service Award, the team announced Friday.
A running back on the Super Steelers’ four-time Super Bowl champions of the 1970s, Bleier’s story is familiar to Steelers fans but no less inspirational to those who tell it and hear it.
A year after Bleier was drafted by the Steelers in 1968, he was drafted into the Army to fight in the Vietnam War. He would end up wounded in combat when a platoon Bleier was a pa...