Hall of Famer Johnny Blood, who won four championships as a Packer in the late 1920s and 1930s, was a 6-foot-1, 188-pound speedster who could do it all: run, catch, throw, kick, and tackle. Born in Wisconsin in 1903 as John McNally, Jr. he adopted the alias Johnny Blood so that he could play professionally without losing his college eligibility. Among the sport’s first dynamic playmakers, Blood played for five teams over 14 seasons, and was nicknamed “The Vagabond Halfback.” He was also a wild and colorful personality off the field – “a totally unpredictable funster,” as the Pro Football Hall of Fame has described him – and was reputed to be a Peter Pan type, a sort of overgrown kid. Blood, who was known to read Shakespeare when sober and pornography when intoxicated, in 1937 became a player-coach with the Pittsburgh Pirates (later the Steelers).