i went to an O's vs Yanks game in camden yards years ago and honestly had a yankee hat on not even realizing it. i mean, i could care less about the yankees, just liked the hat cause it was one of a few that fit my big ugly head..
When I went to those games, I didn't wear Steelers gear, I didn't feel like "representing" so to speak. I just wanted to fly under the radar and not act too excited when the home team was doing badly.
took the better half to a steeler / raven game one time in baltimore, we had on steeler gear. was last game of season on new years' eve i think. We had playoffs locked, they sucked. Was miserable experience. had guys wanting to fight me before i was even out of my car.. dude blasted me with a snowball that i took right to the face before my door was even shut..
I've been living in Baltimore and been to dozens of O's games, 3 vs. the Pirates since the 90s. But baseball isn't football, Pirates and O's are bad teams now and not really rivals anymore.
I went to the first six Steelers and Ravens games in Baltimore, and wore Steelers gear every time. I haven't gone since 2002, just because it's too much BS like you mentioned, and back then I used to go on a bus trip with like 100 Steelers fans with a club that doesn't exist anymore. It wasn't as bad being with a big group.
Jalen Hurts is definitely a difference maker for the Eagles.
In Super Bowl XL in Detroit, Jim Kelly, his brother and HS coach were at our tailgate party eating and drinking with us.
IIRC, Jim Kelly is from the Ford City/Kittanning area. Joe Paterno recruited him as a linebacker!
I don’t think Ford City/Kittaning is correct. It’s WPa. I think the town/school was East Brady.
VT game of 03, we had a big tailgate in those years, dozens of people … Dan Marino hung out briefly with us as he moved through the 7c lot coming from the old Clark Bar towards the stadium . He stayed long enough for at least one beer with us (though I’d had a number of my own to recall exactly how long for sure). For one of my buddies who was there (not even all that big a Pitt fan, just there for the party), DM was/is his absolute favorite athlete of all time, so this still ranks as one of the greatest moments of life for him.
i watched a 30 minute show on him on the NFL network and he talks about his recruitment. it was pretty good. yes, PSU wanted him at LB and Pitt in his words told him that they found "their guy.". so he asked his brother if he should go to psu and his bro basically told him that QBs get hot chicks so that's why he went to Miami..
Of course. They would give 20,000 tickets to each team and the rest to either corporate sponsors and people in the home city.
Who would have been the same year as him? Marino? If so, then you can't really say Pitt got that wrong.
Belatedly, you make a really good point concerning justifications that are given for local and state governments to subsidize new stadiums in north and Rust belt cities. To have even the admittedly no guaranteed prospect of big conference championship games hosted there someday definitely takes away some luster for the local entities to fund it. It even does the same for prospective private investors.
