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    Andy Russell, seven-time Pro Bowl OLB who helped turn Steelers into champions, dies at 82

    PITTSBURGH (AP) — Andy Russell, the standout linebacker who was an integral part of the Pittsburgh Steelers' evolution from perennial losers to champions, has died. He was 82.

    The team confirmed Russell's death on Saturday. There was no immediate word on the cause or place of death.

    A 16th-round pick in the 1963 draft, Russell won two Super Bowls during a 12-year NFL career interrupted by a two-year stint in the military. Russell spent 10 years as a team captain and was named to the Pro Bowl seven times. His teammates voted Russell the club's Most Valuable Player in 1971, a season in which the roster included future Hall of Famers Joe Greene, Mel Blount, Jack Ham and Terry Bradshaw.

    "Andy was part of the foundation of the great Steelers teams of the 1970s," Steelers president Art Rooney II said in a statement. "He was one of the few players kept by Coach Chuck Noll on the team afte

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    A Steeler Odyssey

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    For those of you who don't know, Andy Russell, two-time Super Bowl Champion and seven-time Pro Bowler, was one of the all time great Steeler linebackers. Maybe the first in a long line of great Steeler linebackers. Drafted in 1963 out of Missouri, he played his rookie year, served in the army for two years, came back and was able to rejoin the grupp, played on some terrible teams in the 1960s and then on some incredible 1970s teams before retiring midway through the decade. He was a ten time team captain. He was a great player, a great leader, and a great individ. And it just so happens that as inom mov

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    Andy Russell (American football)

    American football player (1941–2024)

    American football player

    Position:Linebacker
    Born:(1941-10-29)October 29, 1941
    Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
    Died:March 1, 2024(2024-03-01) (aged 82)
    Height:6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
    Weight:225 lb (102 kg)
    High school:Ladue Horton Watkins
    (Ladue, Missouri)
    College:Missouri
    NFL draft:1963 / round: 16 / pick: 220

    Charles Andrew Russell (October 29, 1941 – March 1, 2024) was an American professional football player who spent his entire 12-year career as a linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL).

    Early life and college

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    Russell was born October 29, 1941, in Detroit, Michigan to a family that relocated multiple times in his childhood (to Chicago and New York) due to his father's work as an executive with the Monsanto chemical company. The family eventually settling in Ladue,

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