In the Pro Football Hall of Fame sits a bronze bust of a University of North Texas alumni. Charles Edward Greene was enshrined in football history in 1987. He’s more widely known as “Mean Joe Greene,” and is easily the most recognizable football player to come out of UNT.
So why is he not enshrined on the very campus where he studied and played? You can pull the nickname but not give him a statue?
Joe Greene was taken with the fourth overall pick of the 1969 NFL draft by the Pittsburgh