Donnie Shell

I mean, I could just keep going all night.

Ru- Donnie Shell, Mel Blount.

I could keep going.

You just say that to them, they'll go, "Chuck Noll.

Well, I got to the Pittsburgh Steelers as a rookie, and we had a team full of strong Christian guys, and that impacted me.

And my roommate was a guy named Donnie Shell, and he took me to team Bible studies, took me to chapel service.

And he said, "You've got to start living your faith."

Mm-hmm.

Uh, I mean, they were just unbelievable.

Donnie Shell, and everybody was great on that team, the Bradshaw teams.

But for a single season, nothing ever-

Yeah

Um, you know, wearing the Steelers jersey, uh, there's always respect there.

Uh, but to wear it, you know, more than 200 times, and to be amongst, um, you know, guys like Donnie Shell, um, and others, I, uh, I am always thankful to be a part of that.

Um, but you know, um, still means I gotta produce and, uh, you know, I wanna hold up my end of the deal.

Cam, you've faced a number of running quarterbacks.

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the 25th, you get Webster, and then undrafted was Donnie Shell.

That is an, that is an out of control draft class.

I mean, you have s-

Okay? Not the Crimson Tide.

No. [laughs]

Okay? You mentioned Donnie Shell.

Donnie Shell, uh, you know, all of these guys played at small, uh, mostly Black colleges.

Ryan Seif is the quarterback and Seif gives it to Cleo Miller he's nailed fumbles it and Seif picks it up he fumbles the ball and the Steelers have it how about that Cleo Miller fumbled it Seif picked it up he was hit by Joe Green.

He fumbled it and Donnie Shell recovered it and the Steelers have it back at the Cleveland 48-yard line.

Two fumbles, the second one lost.

Yes, and the second one after Joe Green had caused the first fumble, the second one was caused by L.C. Greenwood who belted Brian Seip after he had picked up the football.

At the Steeler 40 first down 10.

Browns flanker left.

and right pitch back goes to Calvin Hill back in her ways over the right side across the thirty five and down inside the thirty five to the thirty two and a half yard line Donnie Shell made the tackle on big Calvin Hill who goes six four two hundred twenty seven pounds eight yard game on the play second down two yards to go.

Cleo Miller comes off the field so the Browns have moved into a Mike Pruitt is in the backfield third year man from Purdue man in the slot to the left flanker set to the right.

What's your guess?

I'm gonna go with Donnie Shell.

Yes.

[bell ringing] Four-time-

[laughs]

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Super Bowl champ, in the NFL Hall of Fame, Donnie Shell.

What is your name?

And just to kind of reiterate what, what Willie said, I mean, you know, we are blessed and fortunate and slash spoiled, um, to be a part of the Pittsburgh Steelers as we were, because we did get to co- come in contact with greatness such as Joe Greene, such as Franco Harris, right? I mean, Mel Blount, Lynn Swann, John Stallworth.

You know, I think about the, the late great Dwight White, uh, L.C. Greenwood, and, like, all of these people, you know- Craig, uh, Craig Bingham, Donnie Shell, Rocky Bleier, you know, Jon Kolb, right? We, we have all of these just mythical guys in the lore of football that we have to come in contact with, and we were blessed because me and Joe was right on the field.

He was watching one-on-ones when me and-

Mm

I mean, like, start this thing over.

And I was like, I remember the first time, and I was like, I looked at Donnie Shell.

I said, "Does he mean the whole practice?" From stretch.

All the way back.