Honors
The football stadium at Xavier High School was renamed Rocky Bleier Stadium on October 12, 2007. Bleier tossed the coin to start the high school football game that day. Bleier spoke earlier in the day to students at an all school assembly. The entire student body wore t-shirts with his number 23, the only number retired in the school's history. On the following day, the third day of the three day event, city mayor Tim Hanna unveiled a street named in his honor. The former Oneida Court was renamed Rocky Bleier Run.
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“My heart’s subdued
Even to the very quality of my lord.
I saw Othello’s visage in his mind,
And to his honors and his valiant parts
Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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And from his brows damps of oblivion shed
Full on the filial dullness:”
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