Gilliam "was an excellent quarterback and could really throw the ball," said Dick Hoak, a Steelers' assistant coach for 30 years. "But Joe had problems off the field and that hurt." ...

“Joe had some difficult times and everybody knows that,” said Dan Rooney, president of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Gilliam’s team in the mid-1970s. Gilliam was dead on arrival at Baptist ...

Joe Gilliam Jr., one of the first black quarterbacks to start an NFL game but who later fell into drug addiction and a life on the streets, has died of an apparent heart attack. He was 49. Gilliam ...

Gilliam was one of more than 40 former players who attended the team's last game at Three Rivers Stadium on Dec. 16. "The news of Joe Gilliam's death was shocking," Steelers President Dan Rooney ...

Former Tennessee State and Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Joe Gilliam Jr. started a camp for kids in 2000 and it's still going today.

Gilliam, one of the first blacks to start at quarterback in the NFL while playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1974, died of apparent heart attack late Monday. His career, which had its ups and ...

"Joe had some difficult times and everybody knows that," said Dan Rooney, president of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mr. Gilliam's team in the mid-1970s.

Ed Bouchette, the beat reporter for the Pittsburgh Steelers , published a piece of commentary on August 27 th I characterize as being inaccurate about the film I am making on former ...

A change behind center required receivers rolling with the punches. Third-year quarterback Joe Gilliam started the initial six games for the Pittsburgh Steelers during the team’s Super Bowl IX ...