- Jon Kolb
NFL player
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DateOfBirth=Birth date and age|1947|8|30|mf=y
Birthplace=Ponca City, Oklahoma
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College=Oklahoma State
Position=Tackle
number=55
DraftedYear=1969
DraftedRound=3
DraftedPick=56
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years=1969-1981
teams=Pittsburgh Steelers
CBS=Jon Kolb (born
August 30 ,1947 ) is a formeroffensive lineman with thePittsburgh Steelers , where he played for 13 seasons.Born in
Ponca City, Oklahoma , Kolb attended Owasso High School, where he earned all-state honors during his senior year. He attendedOklahoma State University where he started at center. While at OSU he was named All-Big Eight in 1967 and 1968 and was selectedAll-American in 1968. He currently resides inGrove City, Pennsylvania with his wife Deborah and three sons.National Football League
Kolb was drafted by Pittsburgh out of OSU in 1969, and he played with the Steelers from 1969 to 1981. He started as tackle in 177 games and earned 4
Super Bowl ring s. During his playing days, he was widely regarded as one of the strongest men in the NFL and played like the strongest one protectingTerry Bradshaw 's blind side in the pass protection and open holes for therunning back sFranco Harris ,Rocky Bleier , andJohn Fuqua . He became aStrength and conditioning coach with the Steelers after his playing career ended.teroid use?
After his career rumors circulated about his probable steroid use while playing with the Steelers. Former coach and player
Jim Haslett said to the "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette " in 2005:"It started, really, in Pittsburgh. They got an advantage on a lot of football teams. They were so much stronger [in the] '70s, late '70s, early '80s ... Steve [Courson] , Jon [Kolb] and all those guys. They're the ones who kind of started it." [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05083/476887.stm]
Haslett apologized shortly after the comments were made. Allegations have cropped up from time to time, but no one has fingered Kolb as having taken any performance enhancing drugs. The "Post-Gazette" 's Robert Dvorchak wrote on October 4, 2005:
"Offensive lineman Jon Kolb, who was part of the Steelers dynasty, said he never heard about steroids until the made-for-TV world's strongest man competition in 1980. He won four events but was blown away by other athletes who were bulked up on muscle-building substances.
'I think that was the first time I heard people talk about it. It was scary to me," Mr. Kolb said. "(Strength coach Lou) Riecke never brought it up. Never. Never. You can get pretty strong without [steroids] . When I was in college, there was a sign in the wrestling room at Oklahoma State that said if muscles were everything, a bull could catch a rabbit.'" [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05277/582201.stm]
Exercise & Training
Jon Kolb runs his own training facility, he is one of the panel members for Health Initiatives [http://www.ccmhi.org] He has over 50 video demonstration on Health eTV [http://healthetv.blogspot.com/search/label/Jon%20Kolb] and Google Videos. One of his most impressive exercise is called the "windshield wiper" [http://healthetv.blogspot.com/search?q=windshield] .
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