Former Steelers RB and military veteran Rocky Bleier flew with the U.S. Army Paratroopers - Golden Knights for a practice run before Thursday Night Football Skip to main content Open menu button ...

Rocky Bleier knows the difference. A 16th-round draft choice by the Steelers in 1968 as a halfback out of Notre Dame, Bleier also was drafted by the U.S. Army in 1969. Eventually shipped overseas, ...

Mirror photo by Patt Keith / Vietnam veteran, football player and philanthropist Rocky Bleier shakes the hands of Army veteran Frank Steiner, a resident of the Hollidaysburg Veterans Home.

The big five on our list are Harry Houdini, Edna Ferber, Joseph McCarthy, Rocky Bleier and Willem Dafoe ... before he was drafted into the U.S. Army. He was injured during an ambush in Vietnam ...

Both Bloomquist and Bleier were members of the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War ... and Hall-of-Fame defensive tackle Joe Greene in the SC Featured piece: “That Rocky attitude affected our entire ...