There certainly seem to be a lot of Pittsburgh Steelers fans very angry over the fact that there are not four members of the team being enshrined in Canton this year. The argument could easily be made that Alan Faneca should have been a part of the modern class. I’m not going to make that argument. I’m going to focus on the three who are going in.
Troy Polamalu highlights the class as the only first-ballot inductee, a generational safety who changed the way the game was played. He gets the opportunity to share the class with head coach Bill Cowher, the man who drafted him, as well as the greatest safety in team history to precede him, Donnie Shell, and that fact was not lost on him.