Rocky Bleier The Return
"The Return" features Tom Rinaldi and Pittsburgh Steelers legend Rocky Bleier as he makes an emotional return to Vietnam for the first time after being wounded in battle. Former Notre Dame and Pittsburgh Steelers great Rocky Bleier returns to Vietnam 50 years after he was wounded in combat. "The Return," an SC Featured documentary, debuts at 8 p.m.
ET on ESPN2 on August 20, the 50th anniversary of when Bleier was wounded. Steelers legend Rocky Bleier returned to Vietnam 50 years after he was wounded in combat. "The Return," an SC Featured documentary, debuts at 8 p.m.
ET on ESPN2 on August 20, the 50th anniversary of when Bleier was wounded. Bleier then defied the odds, returning to football as a star running back on the "Steel Curtain" Steelers teams of the 1970's and becoming the only war veteran to have four Super Bowl rings. In The Return, Bleier joins ESPN's Tom Rinaldi to go back to Vietnam.
The Return chronicles the journey of Rocky Bleier, who won a National Championship and was captain of the football team at The University of Notre Dame, drafted and played for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL, only to get called to service by the United States government during the Vietnam War. Tonight ESPN will air its documentary The Return chronicling Rocky Bleiers return to Vietnam and the retelling of his incredible comeback story that began 50 years ago. In "The Return," SC Featured documents former Steelers great Rocky Bleier's trip to Vietnam five decades after fighting in the war there
Bleier's visit to Vietnam - the first time he had been back since being injured in battle - is the subject of ESPN's "The Return", which debuts Tuesday at 8 p.m. EDT on ESPN2. THE RETURN chronicles the journey of Rocky Bleier, who won a National Championship at Notre Dame, was wounded in the Vietnam War, told he would never play football again, then went on to win 4 Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Five decades after being wounded, Bleier returned to Vietnam. " The Return", is an incredible documentary that followed Steeler's legend Rocky Bleier as he returned to Vietnam 49 years TO THE DAY after he was wounded in combat.