It’s hard for any team to rival the running back stories that the Pittsburgh Steelers have. Whether it’s the team encouraging Rocky Bleier to come back and try out for the team after he returned from the Vietnam War as a wounded veteran, or allowing Jerome Bettis to retire a Super Bowl champion in his home town, or drafting the local Pitt product who overcame cancer and inspired a region, the Steelers pretty much have a monopoly on inspiring running back backgrounds.
But a storybook beginning doesn’t promise a storybook ending. Even Franco’s Italian Army marched its final orders in another city.