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Mean Joe finally meets Clio
PITTSBURGH — Mean Joe Greene has four Super Bowl championship rings. Now, 30 years later, he also has a Clio for one of TV’s most famous commercials. Greene earned the award, given annually for excellence in advertising, for his role in the 1979 commercial in which he flipped his game jersey to a young fan who handed him a cold Coke as the Steelers’ defensive lineman limped to the locker room following a game. Greene was not available to receive the award at the time it was presented. When Coke realized upon the 30th anniversary of the commercial’s airing that Greene still didn’t have it, a ceremony was held before the Bengals-Steelers game Sunday.
