If you hadn’t known by now, famed actor Ed O’Neill was signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 1969. He was a two-year starter at Youngstown State and parlayed that into time with the Steelers at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa. He was cut during that first training camp and started his journey to become the actor we all know today.
“My problem was I was out trying to play outside linebacker, and I never played the position,” O’Neill said on a recent appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers. “So I was trying to make the team and learn the position at the same time, which is not recommended.