Stadium to be named after NFL great
Charleroi Area School District will name its football stadium in honor of Myron Pottios, who starred at Charleroi before moving on to Notre Dame and the NFL.
CHARLEROI – Charleroi Area School District will name its football stadium in honor of the most successful professional football player to ever walk through its hallways as a student.
Charleroi Area School Board voted Tuesday to name the stadium after Myron Joseph Pottios, who graduated from Charleroi High School in 1957 and went on to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Los Angeles Rams and Washington Redskins, district Superintendent Ed Zelich said.
“He’s the most successful professional athlete to have come through the community,” Zelich said. He said the board began discussions about changing the name of Cougar Stadium after the NFL gave the district a gold football last year honoring Pottios’ participation in Super Bowl VII. The NFL gave every high school in the United States a gold football at the time if they had a student who played in a Super Bowl.
Pottios wore the number 66 as a middle linebacker for the Redskins in the 1973 Super Bowl in which his team lost 14-7 to the Miami Dolphins.
He was born Jan. 18, 1939, in Van Voorhis, and he also was a standout player for the University of Notre Dame before the Steelers drafted him in 1961. He was a member of the undefeated Charleroi Cougars in 1956.
Zelich said the district is inviting Pottios, 77, to the ceremony to rename the stadium. Pottios lives in the state of California, Zelich said.
The ceremony will take place when the Cougars host Washington High School on Sept. 2.