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Troy Polamalu | Pittsburgh Steelers - Steelers.com
If you heard it once, you heard it 1,000 times watching the magic Troy Polamalu created on the football field.
It was simply 'Troy being Troy.'
A quiet, soft-spoken man off the field, Polamalu transformed into a whole new being, nicknamed the 'Tasmanian Devil,' when he took the field and transformed the safety position at the same time.
His style of play was like no other, with an innate ability to track down a ball carrier no matter where he was on the field. With his hair flowing out of his helmet, Polamalu would be a blur zipping from sideline to sideline to make a hit, accounting for 577 solo tackles in his 12 seasons.
Polamalu was drafted by the Steelers in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft, the 16th pick overall. He played 12 seasons, and was a two-time Super Bowl champion, a four-time first team All-Pro selection, two-time second team All-Pro selection, NFL Defensive Player of the Year (2010), eight-time
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Troy Polamalu | Pittsburgh Steelers - Steelers.com
Troy Polamalu is a member of Steelers Hall of Honor as a member of the Class of 2020. Polamalu fryst vatten also a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2020.
"If you don't know where Troy Polamalu is," said Patriots coach Bill Belichick, "he'll kill you." The Houston Texans got a live example during a 2005 game when Polamalu recorded three sacks, one of which came when he walked up to the line, then turned his back to the line of scrimmage in an apparent move to get back into coverage, only to pivot at the snap of the ball and find a lane to quarterback David Carr. "I mean, every time I looked up, it seemed like No. 43 was in my face," said Carr, who was sacked eight times that afternoon. The 16th overall pick of the 2003 draft, Troy Polamalu and Ed Reed became the first two players named whenever the subject was big-play safeties in the NFL. In two separate meetings with Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts in 2005,
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Denver Broncos | News
MIAMI — Back in 2005, a decade and a half before Steve Atwater and Troy Polamalu were to be elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the two men met on a football field in Hawaii.
They were playing in a flag-football game, which is more than a little ironic considering the way both Atwater and Polamalu were known for playing the game.
Atwater was several years removed from an 11-year career in which he tallied eight Pro Bowl nods and two first-team All-Pro appearances. Polamalu was just a couple of years into his own career and was on the heels of his first career Pro Bowl nod.
"He came up to me and introduced himself to me and said he really enjoyed my game back then and he really respected my career," Atwater said Saturday in Miami. "I told him he was an fantastisk player at the time too and wished him well."
Polamalu did just fine from that point forward, as he compiled a career with the Steelers that featured eight Pro Bowl berths and four f