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Alan Faneca aired out a new scratch pad toward the beginning of every one of his 13 NFL seasons and determinedly filled it over time with anything he thought may help him. 

A large number of pages, the six-time All-Pro gatekeeper would jot objectives, blueprints, tips, accomplishments and things he expected to develop and off the field. He'd likewise incorporate things that ticked him off so a lot, he needed to make certain to not neglect — or rehash — that inclination. 

"I was an objective setter my entire life and never truly understood that about myself, I never mulled over everything," Faneca said. "Be that as it may, I was continually putting things out there and coming to the furthest extent that I can go rather than just, you know, going after the following bar on the stepping stool. Simply coming to the furthest extent that you can reach." 

Composed within front of one of those note pads from right off the bat in his vocation with the Pittsburgh Steelers is the now-prophetic message: 

"Make The H.O.F." 

Faneca can at long last put a checkmark close to that once unbelievably grand objective. 

In his 6th year of qualification, he was chosen for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It was a hang tight that was in fact disappointing for him now and again, yet one he accepted would ultimately end with his bronze bust — and that uncommon scratch pad — in plain view in Canton, Ohio. 

"I'm not going to mislead anybody — I was anticipating it," Faneca said. "I've been looking out for it several years at this point. Along these lines, it was anything but a consolation, yet it resembled, 'Goodness, man, finally. We should do this thing,' was somewhat my mentality." 

That is a similar all-business approach that controlled the man referred to by his colleagues as "Large Red" for his then, at that point neck-length red hair and once in a while tough facial hair growth through his school profession at LSU and afterward in the NFL with the Steelers, New York Jets and Arizona Cardinals. 

"Alan, he was consistently the main person in the structure, the last person to leave," said previous Steelers wide recipient Hines Ward, who will be Faneca's moderator for the enlistment service. "He truly wasn't as vocal, yet when he talked, everybody tuned in. I just viewed at him as, as far as I might be concerned, he was Superman. He was unable to do any off-base. 

"I once in a while at any point heard any mentor shout at him or shout at him. Man, Alan Faneca is only a Hall of Famer. An incredible man, extraordinary individual." 

The significance of Faneca — who's presently clean-cut, an energetic sprinter and almost 100 pounds lighter from his playing days — on the field was clear. Mentor Bill Cowher, who's additionally being accepted for this present year, said Faneca was "the substance" of the Steelers' hostile line for 10 seasons subsequent to being the 26th in general pick in the 1998 NFL draft. 

The most paramount illustration of Faneca's splendid hindering and predominance front and center went ahead football's greatest stage in February 2006 during Pittsburgh's 21-10 triumph over Seattle in the Super Bowl. 

With the Steelers driving 7-3 in the second from last quarter, Ben Roethlisberger gave off to Willie Parker. Faneca pulled to one side from his spot at left gatekeeper, made a square and cleared an opening through which Parker rushed 75 yards for a score that stays the longest scoring run in Super Bowl history. 

"It was simply exemplary Alan Faneca," reviewed Ward, chosen MVP of that Super Bowl. "He's pulling near, he sprang the person open and I went down to get the wellbeing and I simply see No. 66 toward the edge of my eye. The before I know it, I see Willie slicing down the field to score a score. I said, 'Better believe it, that had Alan Faneca's name all on it.'" 

Faneca was a steady and dependable power whose hard working attitude filled in to act as an illustration for the remainder of the offense. Starting with his third season, he missed just one beginning the remainder of his vocation — a range of 176 games. 

"I believed that was an aspect of my responsibilities, that was essential for what I was out there to do was to established the vibe, set the rhythm," Faneca said. "I felt in case I wasn't establishing the vibe, individuals wouldn't arrive." 

He's actually doing that today. 

Faneca was recruited in May as the head football trainer at Frank W. Cox High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he and his better half Julie and their three children have lived for almost four years. 

"I'm attempting to foster great, upstanding residents," Faneca said. "That is most importantly, and we'll do that through football. I will give them the best that I have so they can give me the best they have." 

He has been doing that for himself almost his entire life, including beating an epilepsy determination at 15 years of age when he didn't know football could even be important for his future. Faneca's primary care physician recommended medicine to control the seizures and cleared him to continue to play. 

In this way, Faneca, who actually takes two pills three times each day and hasn't had a seizure in around eight years, zeroed in on being the awesome. That drive took him from the secondary school fields of Louisiana to a splendid school profession at LSU and afterward 10 years with the Steelers, two with the Jets and one with the Cardinals. 

Right to the Hall of Fame. 

At long last. 

"You play with dreams and buffoon in the yard and imagine and all that stuff," Faneca said. "However, I was never similar to speculation this huge, that it was actually a chance or that it planned to occur — particularly to have it happen to the extent that I had the option to do it. 

"On the off chance that you told a 10-year-old me that I would be here one day, man, that would have quite recently amazed me."