{"id":1782983,"date":"2022-12-21T14:19:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782983"},"modified":"2022-12-21T14:19:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T19:19:12","slug":"true-blood-actor-shares-emotional-tribute-to-franco-harris-most-of-all-he-was-my-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/true-blood-actor-shares-emotional-tribute-to-franco-harris-most-of-all-he-was-my-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018True Blood\u2019 Actor Shares Emotional Tribute To Franco Harris: \u2018Most Of All, He Was My Friend\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrue-blood-actor-shares-emotional-tribute-to-franco-harris-most-of-all-he-was-my-friend%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782983&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cTrue Blood\u201d actor Joe Manganiello posted a heartfelt tribute to NFL legend \u2014 and friend \u2014 Franco Harris, sharing just how much the football great\u2019s friendship had meant to him over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Manganiello, who was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, said that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/franco-harris-nfl-hall-of-famer-who-caught-immaculate-reception-and-won-4-super-bowls-dies-at-72\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris<\/a> \u2014 a former Steeler \u2014 had been instrumental in rallying the entire city and bringing people together, raising morale \u201cat a very difficult and transitional time in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actor shared his thoughts in a tweet on Wednesday, captioning the post with the words: \u201cRIP FRANCO.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">RIP FRANCO <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/az91V00cs1\">pic.twitter.com\/az91V00cs1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JOE MANGANIELLO (@JoeManganiello) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeManganiello\/status\/1605612910247415810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to explain how much Franco Harris meant to me and to the city of Pittsburgh \u2026\u201d Manganiello began, telling a story about how even the stars in attendance at his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/sofia-vergara-wedding-details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">star-studded wedding<\/a>\u00a0to actress <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/true-modern-family-sofia-vergara-wins-legal-battle-paul-bois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sofia Vergara<\/a>\u00a0were intimidated by Harris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you only could have seen how genuinely in awe of him people were at my wedding. Out of everyone there (and he was in good company), he was the one everyone was the most nervous to meet. Ed O\u2019Neill for example, tells the story of being speechless when Franco approached him to say what a big fan he was when Ed was too scared to go over and say hi,\u201d Manganiello explained.<\/p>\n<p>The actor went on to note that most people were probably going to remember Harris because of the 1972 miraculous catch \u2014 quickly dubbed \u201cthe Immaculate Reception\u201d \u2014 and the fact that with just one play he changed the course of the Pittsburgh Steelers\u2019 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt goes without saying that Franco will be remembered by most because 50 years ago, in 1972 his \u2018luck\u2019 changed the course of the worst franchise in the NFL with the Immaculate Reception, the most dynamic and impossible play in football history,\u201d Manganiello said, adding that Harris\u2019 number (32) was set to be retired by the Steelers \u2014 making it only the third number in the organization\u2019s history to be retired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that isn\u2019t what I\u2019ll think of first.\u201d Manganiello pivoted to his personal connection with the late football legend, saying that Harris had been \u201clike an uncle\u201d to him over the years. He recalled lunches in Los Angeles when Harris had regaled him with \u201cstory after story\u201d about his life and experiences. \u201cHe was a gentle giant who raised the morale of an entire city at a very difficult and transitional time in its history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manganiello\u2019s conclusion was simple: \u201cHe was a hero to a lot of people \u2026 but most of all, he was my friend. Whenever I had something going on in Pittsburgh, he\u2019d show up for me.\u00a0It\u2019s sad to see him go but I can only imagine that somewhere out there Ave Maria is playing on his mother\u2019s record player as he catches that ball \u2026 forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRest in Peace, Franco,\u201d he added. \u201cThanks for meaning so much to me and to my hometown. I\u2019m going to miss you a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrue Blood\u201d actor Joe Manganiello posted a heartfelt tribute to NFL legend \u2014 and friend \u2014 Franco Harris, sharing just how much the football great\u2019s friendship had meant to him over the years. Manganiello, who was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, said that Harris \u2014 a former Steeler \u2014 had been instrumental in rallying &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1782986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6962,6107,7589,7079,6202,10970,10770,7377,4021,4244,4790,9122,5956,10844,6195],"class_list":["post-1782983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-the","tag-actor","tag-all","tag-blood","tag-daily","tag-emotional","tag-franco","tag-friend","tag-harris","tag-most","tag-shares","tag-tribute","tag-true","tag-was","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}