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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 that 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 for 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.  My Aunt Sissy from Gibsonia, PA had given it to me for Christmas (a far cry from the current number 86 Hines Ward black Steelers 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 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 "jersey" 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 26 years when Antwaan 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.

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