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Ex-Practice Squad Steeler Joins Marines

POSTED: 5:36 pm EDT July 6, 2007
UPDATED: 6:22 pm EDT July 6, 2007

Shaler native and Pittsburgh Steelers practice squad player Bob Dzvonick's perspective has changed.

He now goes by Pfc. Dzvonick.

Dzvonick, 27, a Shaler Area High School graduate, was the captain of the football team back then before heading to the University of Buffalo on a full scholarship.

The talented athlete was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals, before heading to play in the NFL Europe. The Steelers then signed him to their practice squad in 2005.

But Dzvonick was plagued by injuries and was let go in 2006, which is when he walked into a recruiting center.

Dzvonick lost 80 pounds for the Marines and said it is what he had always been looking for in life.

Dzvonick is the son of magisterial district Judge Robert Dzvonick.


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