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Labriola on grades, draft as theater, 1974 May 07, 2021 at 06:53 AM Ready or not, here it comes: • Finally, mock draft season is over, but the bad news accompaniment to that good news is it's now grading the draft season. Mock drafts may be pointless, but putting a grade on a team's draft 15 minutes after it's over adds a layer of meaningless to the pointlessness. • What makes these somewhat humorous is the same people who do the mock drafts then come back with their grades, and it always seems as though teams get good grades if they end up doing what the ...

Let's get to it: GRAHAM ANDERSON FROM PLYMOUTH, UK: Could you please remind us of the story where the Steelers forfeited a draft pick because Mr. Dan Rooney had made an agreement with a player that turned out to be against the rules? ANSWER: The player's name was Will Wolford, and the Steelers signed him as an unrestricted free agent during the 1996 offseason. Wolford had been a left tackle during his career with Buffalo and then Indianapolis, but the Steelers told him they were signing him to play guard, which meant a lesser rate. Dan Rooney told Wolford that if the team needed him to play l...

The Kansas City Chiefs and Cleveland Browns’ divisional-round playoff game kicked off without a hitch, but NFL fans trying to tune into the game on CBS were in a world of trouble.

Labriola on a 'happy' New Year Jan 01, 2021 at 07:00 AM Ready or not, here it comes: • Did you ever celebrate New Year's Eve in an airport? This is a story about the time the Pittsburgh Steelers traveling party was walking through the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport when the ball dropped and ended the 1980s. • It all began nine months earlier in the glorified boiler room that passed for an NFL weight room the Steelers used during their days at Three Rivers Stadium. It was the start of the offseason program leading up to the 1989 season, and if the...

BLOWING ROCK — We are approaching the end of an unusual football season, so why not reflect for a while on the life of an unusual man not just in college football, but all of college athletics? It is one of those inspiring stories of accomplishment that you hope can rub off on you, even if just a little bit. A lot of people have met him, but only a relative few know his story. How did a newly turned octogenarian who grew up in Morganton end up with Blowing Rock as a permanent residence? Well, it was a convoluted path, one that took him north, east, west, and south.