About Me
I've been a Pittsburgh Steelers fan since 1974. Ever since I found "Players Sports Bar and Grill" in Laguna Hills, California (near where I live) I have been watching every Steelers regular and post season games since 2004 with about 100 to 150 hard core black and gold jersey wearing Steeler Nation fans. Anyone who knows me knows that I love to talk and share things Steelers. So don't be afraid to send me a message, comment or check out one of my blogs, I make every effort to respond back. This is a 100 percent all Steelers, all the time Myspace page, so if you're a Steelers fan, you're a friend of mine.
Super Bowl 14
It was hard to be a Pittsburgh Steelers fan living in Southern California during the late 1970’s. Before the advent of satellite TV you could only watch a regular season game or two on NBC and they were usually local games of California teams like the Rams, Chargers, Raiders or 49er’s and Monday Night Football on ABC. The only time that I could watch my favorite team was in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl. The very first Steelers game that I remembered watching on TV was Super Bowl 14 when they played the Los Angeles Rams. Back then the Rams played in the LA Coliseum which was only thirty miles away from my house, so almost every kid in my school rooted for the home team. A week before the big game the teachers at my school started a football pool for students with bragging rights, but with no money to win. To show my Pittsburgh Steelers pride I wore a black long sleeve sweat shirt that had the team’s jersey stripes printed on both of the upper sleeves, with Steelers and a sports number 32 printed in white on the front, that my Aunt Sissy from Gibsonia, PA had given to me for Christmas (a far cry from the prototype number 86 Hines Ward black home game Steelers sports jersey that I wear when I watch a game today, but back then it was all that was available). Even though it did not have my favorite player Terry Bradshaw’s number 12 printed on it, I still enjoyed it because I also liked Franco Harris and because it was the only thing that I could wear that was Steelers related. I soon found out that week that I was the only Pittsburgh Steelers Fan in the entire school. In a pre-Steeler Nation perspective, I felt like I was the only Steelers Fan west of Wheeling, West Virginia! During the game I remember holding up my faded gold Pittsburgh Steelers pennant that I had bought the last time I was there on my summer vacation and wearing my “faux†Steelers sweat shirt to cheer on my team! To this day I can still remember after the snap seeing Bradshaw wildly running from and dodging quick rushing Ram’s line backer after line backer only to throw an extremely deep spiral pass into the waiting hands of a fast running John Stallworth for a photo worthy Super Bowl game winning touch down. I would not see another touch down like that for another 26 years when Antoine Randle El on a trick play would throw a perfect spiral pass into the waiting hands of Super Bowl 40’s Most Valuable Player, Hines Ward. Needless to say, the next day after the Steelers won Super Bowl 14, I was the happiest kid in school with football bragging rights for the rest of the year.