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Why am I a Pittsburgh Steelers Fan?

Now I wasn't born in Pennsylvania however, being a young man growing up in Selma, Alabama in the Mid-60's and with older brothers who watched football, my brother that's 7 years older than me, sat me down and said I want you to watch this team in the Black and Gold, well we know it yellow but anyway, I did and that day I feel in love with the colors, the team wasn't very good but I stuck with them anyway. Well a few years later during the draft, Mean Joe green was drafted, then Terry Bradshaw from Louisiana Tech, I watched him bring his college team back in the second half of that Bowl Game and tie it up and when we drafted him I knew things were looking up. Then we got Franco Harris, Lynn Swan, my home boy John stallworth, Rocky Bliar came back from his military tour of duty in the service, the we started to win games. By the way I can name almost all of the players from the early Super Bowl Era. Needless to say I became a huge fan never wavering from my loyalty. Those 4 Super Bowl victories made me a very happy youngster because there were a lot of Dallas Cowboy fans who thought the Cowgirls were invincible and I had to rub it in, saying ha, Americas team, not my team! I'm a Steelers fan. I found out why so many women like the Cowgirl, it's because of the Star on their helmet, every woman like to think of themselves as a Star, some are true fans of the game but that's why. Now, about Pittsburgh Draft choices, why aren't we drafting players out of Alabama? it hurts my heart when we don't draft Alabama players and every team in our division does and the play well against us, they are some of the top prospects out of high school and college going through Alabama, Yes, I'm a Crimson Tide Fan and pray that Pittsburgh star drafting Alabama players.


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