In advance of Tuesday’s public visitation for Steelers legend Franco Harris at Acrisure Stadium, Harris’ family asked fans to make memorial donations to two charities — the Pittsburgh Promise and the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor — instead of sending flowers. Those who wish to donate can visit the charities’
PITTSBURGH “The Steeler Way” did not exist at 3:40 p.m. on Dec. 23, 1972. If it had, it would have been synonymous with one thing and one thing only.
Losing. Lots of it. Nearly four decades worth of pratfalls and misery cloaked in anonymity.
By 3:41 p.m., about the time Franco Harris raced across the goal line while the Oakland Raiders gave chase in what looked more like a dazed trot, everything had changed.