About a year ago right after the Steelers had selected Pickett, we had the Kdka TV nightly call-in sports show on in the evening. This typical ahole PSU fan (I knew him to be such because he proudly proclaimed it to start his call) berated the pick, with the brilliant reasoning that “Pitt sucks.”
The host, who I believe was Josh Taylor (?) tried to engage in debate, pointing out KP’s many positive traits, value for the pick etc… but as is their wont (along with assaulting young boys), the PSU guy was having none of it. He ended his call this way:
“Well, as a Penn State fan and Steelers fan I have the best of both worlds with this. If Pickett somehow does good, it’ll probably mean the team did good, and I’ll enjoy that. But if he stinks like I think he will, I’ll have the satisfaction that drafting a Pitt bum ruined the team“.
This thread actually sparked memory of that call, because the shoe is exactly on the other foot this season. And if it’s ok for PsU fans to hate Pickett for being a Pitt guy and happy if he fails in that context, but hypocritically happy if he does well for the Steelers success, then I feel ok feeling the same about Porter.