Read this while Bleier was still playing for my favorite team, the Steelers. A lot of kids have athletes as role models. Bleier was mine, and still is. ( )

What could be a better story than a young man who wanted to play football but got drafted to go to Vietnam instead? Bleier related the events of the worse time of his life, and then the best -- winning four Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers. There is probably no better sports story for pluck and good feelings. ( )