More than a decade has come and gone since he last blasted a shoulder pad into anyone, last crumpled some luckless defender to the floor of an NFL stadium, last carried his helmet into that Hall of Fame sunset.
You won't be surprised, but they are still putting Alan Faneca back together again.
We were going over his surgeries on the phone the other day from Virginia Beach, where the great Steelers guard is coaching high school football, and he thinks there have been eight of them, a relatively modest number for someone who got through 13 autumns of wicked Sundays.
