Heard of Franco Harris passing this morning and it brought back memories of an interaction I had with Franco as a child:
Growing up my family had season tickets to the Chargers, and after the games my father would take me down to the area the players would board the bus. When I was about 9 years old the steelers were in town and after the game I went down the get some autographs. Terry Bradshaw, Rocky Bleier, Dwight White, Jack Ham and others signed autographs and were great to the fans. When I asked Franco to sign an autograph, he grumpily said not today kid, pushed passed me and got on the team bus. Maybe he was having a bad day, maybe he wasn't feeling well, or maybe thats just the kind of guy he was.