Welcome to Steelers Takeaways!

First, can you let readers know how your NFL career got started?

In 1964, I was drafted in the seventh round by the Chicago Bears and in the 15th round by the Denver Broncos of the AFL. I was selected 1st team All-Big 10 and third team All American at Northwestern University.

In those days, you had to play both offense and defense. I played both tight end on offense and defensive end. I selected the Bears since I was born and raised in Chicago and lived one mile from Wrigley Field, home to both the Cubs and Bears.

Continue reading “Chuck Logan, Steelers Tight End, 1964”

First, can you let readers know about your post-NFL career in law enforcement – what area of law enforcement you’ve been working in and how you got involved?

SRO/Patrol/Emergency Officer – ten years on the force  .

What lessons from your days in Pittsburgh – coaching and playing – have influenced you most since your time in the NFL, and how so?

Be accountable…Make no excuse… What you do when nobody looking…tells the Character of the person…. Finally, “PUT THE LORD FIRST THE REST WILL FALL IN PLACE”

Continue reading “Dwight Stone, Steelers Wide Receiver/Return Specialist, 1987-1994”

First, can you let readers know what you’ve bene doing with yourself since the NFL?

I’m back in school now, at the University of Houston. I’m getting my B.S. in Construction Management. I worked at a remodeling company for a time, then became a superintendent and project manager for a home building company.

I left that company to become the vice-president elsewhere, then went on to own my own custom home building company. But after my mother died, and with the recession, I just got tired of it.

Continue reading “Craig Veasey, Steelers Defensive Lineman, 1990-1992”

First, can you let readers know about your career as a history professor – how did you get started and what appeals to you most about it? 

As a young boy I was an avid reader, with a special interest in history and biography. In 1985, with much encouragement from my wife Beth, I enrolled in the Ph.D. program in American History at Northwestern University.  I was forty-three years old and not at all sure that a university with be interested in someone as old as I would be when I graduated.

But, in 1991, I landed a great position at Purdue University as professor of Colonial and Revolutionary American History.  I have been there now for twenty-one years, and what a great life it has been.  I spend my time reading, thinking, teaching, and writing, and I get to do all of that on a beautiful campus with bright young people.

For me it is a dream job.

Continue reading “Frank Lambert, Steelers Punter, 1965-1966”

First, can you let readers know what you’ve been doing with yourself since you retired from the NFL and how you got involved in this work?

Since retiring from the NFL in 2001, I got into some entrepreneurial things such as real estate, night club ownership, IT executive recruiting and Network Marketing which all ended around 2009.

After that I interned with a couple of NFL teams (Miami and the Ravens). Currently I am looking for an opportunity in sports, preferably as an assistant player development guy with a NFL team.

Continue reading “Chris Calloway, Steelers Wide Receiver, 1990-1991”

First, can you tell readers about your coaching career – how you got started and what you enjoy most about coaching?

I got started when I began coaching my kids after I retired from the NFL. I found myself coaching the kid’s baseball, softball, basketball and football games. I took an internship afterwards with the Bears in 2004 and enjoyed it. I guess I caught the coaching bug.

I coached the kids’ school teams and then became the linebackers coach for the Bears in 2007. My mother-in-law got sick and passed away, so I resigned from my position with the Bears and went back to coaching my kids in North Carolina. When my daughter got accepted to Cal, we moved out there.

Continue reading “Hardy Nickerson, Steelers Linebacker, 1987-1992”

First, can you tell readers about R.A.W. Training and what else you’ve been doing since you retired from the NFL? 

Since my retirement from the NFL, my wife (Molly) and I along with co-owner Amy Butteri have opened a training facility called R.A.W. (Realize the Athlete Within) Training in the North Hills.  Our foundation for our facility is Crossfit based.  In short we are strength and conditioning system built on constantly varied, if not randomized, functional movements executed at high intensity.

We have been operating our gym for about three years now.  I have also been competing in Crossfit competitions for the last three years with my wife and members from our gym.

Most importantly, since my retirement I have been able to spend more time with my son and three daughters.  I have coached their football, softball, soccer, basketball, wrestling, and baseball teams.

Continue reading “Jerame Tuman, Steelers Tight End, 1999-2007”

First, can you let readers know about your work as a high school child welfare supervisor – how you got involved in this role? 

Actually my role services children from elementary to high school attending school in Caddo Parish School District. This job has me monitoring children’s school attendance, furnishing  the court with referrals and petitions of students who have too many unexcused absences.

It also requires that I assist students and parents with finding services for family   needs, which may include agencies which may help with counseling for various mental and emotional problems, clothing and other necessities and overall day-to-day issues which may   keep students from attending school.

Continue reading “Larry Anderson, Steelers Cornerback/Return Specialist, 1978-1981”

First, can you let readers know about your new coaching job at Valley High School – how you got started and what you are looking forward to in this new role?

I coached for several years before at McKees Rocks. I took time off after that, then Troy Hill, one of the coaches at Valley and I guy I used to play with, said he needed help. I had a couple of opportunities to talk to the coaches about their philosophy and coaching techniques. I was familiar with their techniques and got  interested in his philosophy, and started coaching for them.

Continue reading “Lorenzo Freeman, Steelers Defensive Lineman, 1987-1990”