New show spurs the idea: Who's on your high school's Mount Rushmore?

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FROM KEITH GROLLER

There's lots of NFL programming out there. There are NFL shows on constantly, usually studio shows breaking down a team's depth on the offensive line or who's playing quarterback, etc.

But this one caught my eye.

Pro Football Talk, NBC Sports Network’s daily NFL show co-hosted byMike Florio and Erik Kuselias, is creating a series called “Faces of the Franchise; Who’s on Your Team’s Mount Rushmore?” -- to determine the four most influential people in the history of each NFL team.

Coverage begins Monday at 5 p.m. on NBC Sports Network and continues through the end of the month. Over the course of 19 episodes, Florio, Kuselias, regular Pro Football Talk analysts and guest related to that day’s highlighted team will discuss, debate and ultimately select their own Mount Rushmore for each team, from among players, coaches, owners and executives. In addition, fans will have the opportunity to vote on ProFootballTalk.com for their own selections.

“The process of identifying 12 finalists for each team has been very difficult. For many teams, cutting the field to four will be nearly impossible. But we’ll do it, and plenty of fans will call us idiots,” said Florio, the creator of Pro Football Talk and ProFootballTalk.com. “Fortunately, the fans also vote on their own final four for each team. We won’t call them idiots, but we may think it based on their selections.”

Pro Football Talk’s “Faces of The Franchise; Who’s on Your Team’s Mount Rushmore?” will kick off with segments devoted to two NFC East teams, the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins. The series will conclude on June 28 with the six-time Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers.

But it got me thinking about local high school sports and who's on each school's Mount Rushmore?

I did something similiar a few years ago when I asked the question, who comes to mind when you think of a certain school, and I generally came up with six, seven or even more star athletes and coaches from each school. Narrowing it down to four is much more difficult.

I'll give a few thoughts on a couple of schools.

For Dieruff, my alma mater, my Mount Rushmore would feature Ross Moore, Dick Schmidt, Bruce Trotter and Linda Cruttenden.

For Whitehall, my Mount Rushmore would be Matt Millen, Dick Tracy, Curt Simmons and Scott Coval.

For Catasauqua, my Mount Rushmore starts with Larry Miller and then it gets much harder.

Allentown/Allen High, well you've got J. Birney Crum, Milo Sewards, Bob Heffner and then ...

Bethlehem/Liberty you've got Chuck Bednarik and then ....

In Bangor, you've got to start with Bill Pensyl

At Pen Argyl, I think you start with Woody Petchel

I am very interested in gathering your thoughts on this and who belongs on each school's Mount Rushmore and if there's enough feedback, we'll even do a school-by-school Mount Rushmore in a column.