Steelers' defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau returned home in Ohio, and attended the activity of "A Night with the Coach" at London High School last Saturday night.
More than 400 people, including a handful of his former college and NFL teammates, packed into the gym at the school. Both the pary and the attendees were parts of a fundraising effort that is expected to produce a new building that has already been christened the LeBeau Field House. They also attended the evening to celebrate LeBeau is going into his 51st season in the NFL.
"When you're growing up, you don't expect to have your name laying around anything on your high school," LeBeau said. "That's really a sincere honor that I don't take lightly."
"He's the best," said Jauron, who played for LeBeau in Cincinnati from 1978-80. "Anything anybody told you about him, if it was good, it was true. I'm just really thankful I know him."
"Dick on the football field was a different man," said former Pitt star and NFL player Bill Priatko, who roomed with LeBeau at Browns training camp in 1959 before LeBeau got cut, and is still close friends with him. "Off the field, he's a gentleman. On the football field he would hit you. He was tough, he was aggressive, he was smart as a bugger."
LeBeau had a great playing career. He is also widely and highly praised as an innovator of the zone blitz that has made the Steelers' defense one of the most feared units in the NFL during his two coaching stints in Pittsburgh.
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