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01-12-2011, 08:50 AM
Steelers Nation: No ticket to game? No problem
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
By Kevin Purcell
We all have a to-do list of things to accomplish before we get too old or kick the bucket. One item on my list was to see a football game in Pittsburgh.
I have been a Steelers fan since the dark days of 1969. I became one not because I lived in Pittsburgh (I grew up in Joplin, Mo.) but because I played on a lousy little league team.
After finishing in last place one year, my attention turned to football. One Sunday, the St. Louis Cardinals (lousy in their own right) were playing the Steelers and one of the announcers commented that the Steelers were the "worst team in the NFL." I took an instant liking to them. Maybe I could relate to their futility.
The next year, they drafted Terry Bradshaw and their climb to greatness accelerated. But despite years of psychotic devotion, I never tried to see a Steelers home game until 2008, when I had a Sunday morning revelation in Virginia to attend the Ravens-Steelers game the following night.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11012/1117246-294.stm#ixzz1ApgeP5Ke
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
By Kevin Purcell
We all have a to-do list of things to accomplish before we get too old or kick the bucket. One item on my list was to see a football game in Pittsburgh.
I have been a Steelers fan since the dark days of 1969. I became one not because I lived in Pittsburgh (I grew up in Joplin, Mo.) but because I played on a lousy little league team.
After finishing in last place one year, my attention turned to football. One Sunday, the St. Louis Cardinals (lousy in their own right) were playing the Steelers and one of the announcers commented that the Steelers were the "worst team in the NFL." I took an instant liking to them. Maybe I could relate to their futility.
The next year, they drafted Terry Bradshaw and their climb to greatness accelerated. But despite years of psychotic devotion, I never tried to see a Steelers home game until 2008, when I had a Sunday morning revelation in Virginia to attend the Ravens-Steelers game the following night.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11012/1117246-294.stm#ixzz1ApgeP5Ke