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‘If Anybody Ever Interferes With You Taking Care Of My Players, I Want To Know His Name:’ Steelers Doctor Remembers Dan Rooney

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When Dr. James Bradley was hired by Dan Rooney, there was no intense negotiation. No ten-step vetting process. There was hardly a formal interview. Just a conversation between two men, a handshake, and a decision. Appearing on the Nittany Game Week podcast, Steelers team doctor Dr. James Bradley remembered how he got his start.

“When he interviewed me the first time, which I didn’t think was for the job, he was just interviewing me,” Bradley told Todd Sadowski and former Steelers DBs Coach Tom Bradley. “We talked for 55 minutes. We talked about current events, we talked about religion, we talked about the press, we talked about the media…And then he said to me, ‘Jim, do you want to take care of my team?