Sports Stars on Teams You Don't Remember

By Ryan Tofil March 13, 2018 at 2:28pm

Franco Harris

Seahawks legend Franco Harris!! pic.twitter.com/lZKIXW23Io

— Gillis (@Gillis44) October 10, 2017

After twelve years with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Franco Harris held out for more money. Pittsburgh responded by releasing him. Just 363 yards behind Jim Brown for the most rushing yards in NFL history, Harris signed with the Seattle Seahawks after their starting back Curt Warner was injured in the season opener. Franco never could get it going in Seattle though, averaging just 2.1 yards per rush for eight games before being released. He never played in the NFL again, retiring as the second-leading rusher in league history, 193 yards behind Jim Brown.

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Ryan Tofil lived all of his life in Western New York before graduating college and moving to Arizona in 2014 to work for the nonprofit Western Center for Journalism. In 2015, he became the director of Liftable.com, and soon its sister website ThoughtfulWomen.org. Since 2018, Ryan has been involved with PatriotDepot.com, the exclusive provider of The Western Journal merchandise and other essential patriotic products, moving to the site full-time in early 2019.

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Ryan Tofil's experience on The Western Journal goes back to 2014 when he was an intern for the non-profit Western Center for Journalism. In 2015, he became the director of Liftable.com, and soon its sister website ThoughtfulWomen.org. These websites eventually combined and became one of the most popular lifestyle websites in the world, at one point being ranked inside the top 200 websites in America by Alexa.com. Liftable.com lives on today as a section of The Western Journal. Since 2018, Ryan has been involved with PatriotDepot.com, the exclusive provider of The Western Journal merchandise and other essential patriotic products, moving to the site full-time in early 2019.

Outside of work, Ryan loves to play chess, sports, and video games; usually while smoking a cigar. He is a proud bird-owner and aquarium aficionado, and always jokes about needing concealed carry permits for his fists, despite only having been in one fight in his life and losing quite badly. His claim to fame is having possibly been the worst NCAA baseball player in the country, riding the bench for a DIII team that went 3-31. He loved every second of it.

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Western New York

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A.S., Communication, Jamestown Community College

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Phoenix, Arizona

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English, barely. Even worse at Spanish.

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Video Games, Sports, Romance, Chess, E-Commerce, Okay not Romance