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| | Cigar Aficionado | Archives | Behind the Dolphin Line: Mean Joe Greene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Greene's anchoring of the defense prompted teammate Ray Mansfield to say, "Joe was like having a big brother around when the bullies were coming....He tossed them away like rag dolls." But Greene's leadership failed to lift the Steelers in 1969, '70, or '71. |
 | | The Dolphins had to throw often and long because the defensive line was awful. |
 | | Still an icon of big D, the type that meant gouged-out eyes, twisted limbs and moaning quarterbacks, Mean Joe is in rarefied company: with LT, Huff and Butkus in the trenches, where the man's name says it all. |
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