Haggans played 13 seasons in the NFL, including eight with the Steelers.
The linebacker also recalled his first NFL game, a preseason battle against the Cowboys on July 30, 2000.
“I was star-struck seeing Troy Aikman. I used to use him on my Techno-Bowl team,” Haggans said. “Randall Cunningham was on their team then and when they snapped the ball, I didn’t move. It all happened so fast – I just stood there grabbing my crotch.”Haggans collected a career-high nine sacks during the 2005 season and sacked Seattle’s Matt Hasselbeck on the opening drive of Super Bowl XL, a 21-10 Steelers triumph.
The 2005 Steelers were the first team in NFL history to win the Super Bowl as a six-seed, a team carried largely in the postseason by its defense. “A cool memory of course is winning the Super Bowl,” Haggans said in 2019. “The coolest though was that the first dude I saw when the confetti fell was Joey. We would wig out when we won the Holiday Bowl at Colorado State – that was the greatest thing to us then. Here we were winning a Super Bowl together.”Haggans is survived by two children, Damon and Alianna,
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