Joe Greene
Joe Greene
Charles Edward Greene, known as "Mean Joe Greene,"is a former all-pro American football defensive tackle who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. Throughout the early 1970s, Greene was one of the most dominant defensive players in the NFL. Winning two NFL Defensive Player of the Year awards, as well as earning five first-team All-Pro selections, Greene is widely considered one of the greatest defensive linemen to ever play in the NFL. He was the cornerstone of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth24 September 1946
CountryUnited States of America
My first season with Pittsburgh was 1969. We were still in the old NFL. My second year, we moved to the AFC when the leagues merged. I went to the Pro Bowl that season, and there must have been nine Raiders and nine Chiefs. I got to know all those guys.
In all my years of being with Pittsburgh, I never encountered a player taking a contract dispute into the season and letting that dispute affect the way he played.
When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time. Good or bad, win or lose, I put it on the line.
For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.
Going after the QB is like playing king of the mountain. When you get the QB, you're on top of the mountain.
From the day Facebook launched in 2004, the profile was the most critical page on the site.
Donald Evans is a favorite person of mine. His worth ethic, his attitude and his dedication really set him apart.
The zone is a place that you rarely visit. It's not some place you go every week. The zone is sacred ground.
It brought Pittsburgh into the picture of football teams in the National Football League that, ‘OK, you have to deal with us now.’
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I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.
Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was what I felt about the Pittsburgh Steelers and where we came from, the history of us to that point.
I believe in being positive.
Remember all of the 'me too' social networks built just to have a social feature Facebook and MySpace didn't have? I built one for political discussion called Essembly. It enabled unique and potentially transformative social interactions, but only 20,000 people ever used it.