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That connection is an awesome connection.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">&#8220;And now we have 5 Steelers going in this weekend. And also, one of my teammates. That one of my teammates from the 70s, Donnie Shell, we still have players from the 70s going into the Hall of Fame &#8211; <em>w<\/em><\/span><em><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">hat does that say about the team we had in the 70s? <\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">I still think we have a few more to go &#8211; Andy Russell and LC Greenwood. 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The Game Day Socks lineup includes legends from the 2021 and 2020 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>VISIT HERE -&gt; <em>Game Day Socks<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31 years ago this weekend, Franco Harris was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame. &#8220;I was more excited than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1918,221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Franco Harris Recalls Hall of Fame Speech - I-80 Sports Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Franco Harris: &quot;My feeling was, &#039;What could be better than what we had during the 70s?&#039; 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