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Planning a trip to Pittsburgh

When I was a little kid, born in 1976 I was a steelers fan. I grew up in Central New Jersey. Then one day Pitt was playing Notre Dame on TV in the 80s and my family was all ND fans. I saw the awesome helmets and the greatest uniforms in college football and I think Pitt won that day so I just always remembering loving Pitt from that day forward. I went to ECU in the mid 90s and I have season tickets to all their games and love my alma mater too. But I managed to make my son a Pitt and Steelers fan as well as ECU. This is going to be a memorable weekend for us both, dont know how many more we have since he is a freshman in college now.
I have attended a whole lot of Pitt games from going back to Seton Hall Pitt basketball when I was in high school, and since they joined the ACC I have seen them play Duke at Duke in bball, UNC and NCSU in football, NCSU in bball since its about 90 minutes away. All with my son. But like I said its our first time to Pittsburgh. Its going to be expensive but you cant put a price on these memories. 3 games in 3 days now. If anyone has 2 tickets in the lower level (I dont do heights well) to any of the games please let me know. Otherwise its only seatgeek and I am waiting to see if they go down a bit. Steelers are really expensive, the pitt football game has decent seats for 120-150 each but I really want to be behind the Pitt bench. I really dont know if that is normal or not.
One cool story I will share was when we saw Pitt beat UNC in football and after the game AJ Davis gave his Pitt gloves to my son. It made his year.
Thanks for all the advice guys. I did end up in Point Breeze North because the place was amazing and it was $98 per night with great reviews.
If anyone has room at their tailgate I would be more than willing to pay you for my son and I to attend. I tailgate every ECU game and love the experience.
That's awesome. Hope you see three big Pitt victories.
Hopefully someone reaches out and hooks you up with a tailgate.
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On whatever ACC Network show they had on late last night, they said Pitt at #18 is lowest ranked power conference team that was undefeated after 7 weeks in the history of the AP Poll. So maybe a few people like us but the general consensus says we aren't good. Narduzzi needs to keep proving to the masses that they're wr
Both Pitt and SMU are underrated. If SMU wins this game, they very likely will finish 11-1 (BC, ar UVA, Cal).

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As usual, your desire to create perception to align with your take avoids reality.

First off, there really isnt any fiscal responsibility by politcal affiliation these days. Today’s conservatives aren’t your fathers conservatives. But that’s a different discussion for a different forum. And furthermore when it comes to sports, people irresponsibly spend regardless of their ideology.

Secondly, Trinity is not a very poor area. The median household is right in line with other school districts like a Chartiers Valley (which has Nemacolin in its borders), Shaler, Hempfield, etc. it’s a small notch below a Norwin or Canon Mac, and considerably higher than a Baldwin or Belle Vernon. So pump the breaks a bit on your rhetoric. Median household is in the 60’s which might be in line with national averages.

And another data point for reference, Washington school district is in the 30’s, as well as schools like Clairton, City of Pittsburgh, and Sto Rox.

Median Household Income
Amwell $44,922
South Strabane $42,762
North Franklin $37,516

Admittedly those numbers are always skewed a lot by retiree households but still, that's poor.

Not sure why you are comparing with CV, Shaler, Hempfield, Baldwin, Belle Vernon, etc as there is a lot of poverty in those districts.
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