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Saturday is Mean Joe Greene's 70th Birthday


Stix

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Let's beat Rice to celebrate!

Hey, the Mean Joe wikipedia page almost has the story right!  @FirefightnRick, can you improve it and provide the citation info from the Startlegram article you have?

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He got his nickname when the Pittsburgh fan base mistakenly assumed that the North Texas team nickname of "Mean Green" was

Joe Greene's nickname; however, it was actually Coach Rust's wife who wanted to give a nickname to the team's outstanding defense who laid down the description which stuck in two instances. Since green is the school's main color, she gave the defense the name "Mean Green".[citation needed]

 

Edited by Stix
replace "FFR" with Rick's tag so he'll get notified
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