arrow supposed to be pointing?
Ernie Holmes was part of the vaunted Pittsburgh Steelers’ “Steel Curtain” defense along with L.C. Greenwood, “Mean Joe” Greene, and Dwight White.
As a member of the Steelers, Holmes was a 2-time Super Bowl Champion, Super Bowls IX and X. Holmes began wearing the arrowhead mohawk in 1974, the year Pittsburgh won the first of its consecutive Super Bowls.
There is some discrepancy over the arrow and its meaning: Some recall Holmes said it pointed the way toward the quarterback while others believe it pointed the way to the Super Bowl. Either way, Holmes was one of the NFL’s biggest characters of the mid-1970s as Sports Illustrated‘s famed NFL writer Paul Zimmerman recollects in this remembrance following Holmes’ death in 2008.
