If there was a blitz, Dick LeBeau had it on his call sheet. The mad scientist he was revealed exactly how many different rushes he had on standby each time the Pittsburgh Steelers stepped inside a stadium.
“They had a crazy coach,” LeBeau joked during a recent panel discussion at the Heinz History Center promoting his new book. “I was going to carry 50 blitzes. That’s crazy. But they knew it was crazy. And they knew their coach was crazy. We couldn’t run 50 blitzes in a week’s practice. But we had time in between periods, and we would walk through anything that I thought we might need that Sunday.