THAT IS FROM HIS FAMILY. MIKE CLARK: WE HAVE HEARD FROM SOMEBODY PEOPLE INCLUDING THOSE THAT SHARED A LOCKER ROOM WITH HIM. SHANNON: FORMER TEAMMATES THAT WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW HE WAS SO MUCH MORE THAN AN AMAZING ATHLETE -- ATHLETE. >> REMEMBERS HIS ROOKIE YEAR. >> PEOPLE SAW PITTSBURGH AS A VERY HARD-NOSED CITY. HE BLENDED AND PERFECTLY. >> AREAS MEMBERS OF BLACK AND CIRCLE THE WAGON AND STARTED TO GRIEVE. >> WE WERE DOWNSTAIRS SHARING STORIES, IT KINDA SUES THE PAIN THAT WE ALL WENT THROUGH EARLIER IN THE DAY. >> STORIES LIKE THE TIME IN HIS ROOKIE YEAR WHERE HE STARTED -- JUST KEPT RACKING UP YARDS AND TOUCHDOWNS. >> IT WAS A 300 YARD GAME AT HOME WE WERE DRIVING OUT THE STADIUM AND I SEE A GUY HITCHHIKING. I SAID IT LOOKS LIKE FRANCO. I STOP THE CAR. ESSAY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? HE SAID HE DID NOT OWN A CAR AND I’M GOING UP TO THE BUS STOP. I SAID, GET THE CAR I WILL TAKE YOU HOME. >> IN 1972 ROOKIE OF THE YEAR HAD NOT GOTTEN AROUND TO BUYING A CAR. THE VERY BEST KIND OF JECKYL AND HYDE. >> ONCE IN A WHILE YOU RUN INTO A GUY WHO IS SLOW WALKING AND SLOW TALKING TO THE GETS BETWEEN THE LINES. ONCE HE WAS BETWEEN THE HE WAS FULLBORE THE ENTIRE TIME. REPORTER: PITTSBURGHERS VALUE A STEELER WHO HELPS WIN LOMBARDIES - AND LEVERAGES THAT ATHLETIC STAR POWER FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD WE CALL PITTSBURGH. >> MY GRANDSON, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE BET FRANCO. I HOPE SOMEDAY THEY CAN LOOK BACK, AND SOMETHING FRANCO TOLD THEM, WILL PULL THE THROUGH A TOUGH TIME. >> YOU CAN TAKE HIS. MOTHER AND FATHER TO BE WITH. . THEY RAISED A RED SON. HE IS A WONDERFUL PERSON -- RIGHT SON