For as much grief as the Pittsburgh Steelers extended family has gone through over the course of the past several days following the passing of Chairman Dan Rooney, I would be remiss to let it pass without comment that Pittsburgh also lost another notable figure in its history the day before Rooney’s passing.
Tom Modrak, a Pittsburgh native, climbed the professional ranks of the National Football League from the building block of his work with the Steelers as a scout who was integral to the team’s affairs for most of the period between the 1970s and the 1990s before he became the general manager of the Eagles in 1998.