Coming To His Rescue
Remarkably, the team’s owner, and the same man who had sent Rocky the postcard while he was in recovery, Art Rooney, told the coach to put him back on the injured reserve player list the very next day. And in an even more stunning move, he even offered to pay for another surgery to remove more of the leftover shrapnel and scar tissue that was left in Rocky’s legs to help him have a better chance of being a successful player.
