 Swann
was a member of all four Pittsburgh
Steelers Super Bowl championship
teams and the MVP of Super Bowl X in
1976. His talents have been utilized
on various Wide World of Sports
segments, horse racing, halftime of
ABC's NFL Monday Night Football, and
other diverse events...Book
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He
was the expert commentator (teaming
with Keith Jackson) on ABC's
coverage of the United States
Football League in 1983-85. Swann
also provided commentary for the
bobsled competition on ABCs'
coverage of the 1988 Calgary Winter
Olympics and for weightlifting
during ABC's record-breaking
coverage of the 1984 Summer Olympics
in Los Angeles.
An
expert commentator for ABC's
coverage of NCAA Football in 1983,
he has been seen on coverage of the
NFL Pro Bowl. He has appeared on
coverage of a variety of ABC's Wide
World of Sports events, including
the English Rugby League Cup Final,
the travels of the ever-popular
Harlem Globetrotters in Hong Kong,
and the Jeep Superstars. He also
hosted coverage from 1988 to 1991 of
the Iditarod sled dog race from
Alaska.
Swann was the Steelers' first-round
draft choice in 1974 following his
graduation from the University of
Southern California, where he
received a degree in public
relations and was a unanimous
All-America choice in his senior
year.
Lynn is on the national Board of
Directors and is spokesman for the
Big Brothers and Big Sisters of
America (since 1980). He has created
a youth scholarship program for the
Pittsburgh Ballet Theater school.
Swann has been the recipient of
several honors and awards, both on
and off the field. He was named to
both the National Football
Foundation's College Football Hall
of Fame and the Senior Bowl Hall of
Fame in 1993. He was named the Best
Athlete of All-Time in San Mateo
County, California, in 1993. He was
named one of ten outstanding black
graduates by the University of
Southern California Eubonics Society
and was honored with the 1984
Humanitarian of the Year Award from
the San Antonio Chapter of the
Special Olympics.
He
received the USC Merit Award in
1990, the NAACP's Image Award in
1979, and was the Multiple Sclerosis
Athlete of the Year in Pittsburgh in
1980.
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