yes I was born and raised in Texas and am damn proud of it....like all Texans
but my dad was a damn yankee. he was born and raised just outside Dunbar Township....one of his older brothers had moved to Houston to find work around 1962 and my dad and another brother came down to visit in 1963....he met my mom and found a job at the same plant as my Uncle (Anchor Hocking - they made glass stuff...biggest contract for many years was the Budweiser brewery) so he and my other uncle both set up houses here. they started popping out kids (my twin and i were born in 1966) so by the time I was old enough to know what was going on the Steelrs had hired Noll and started building a quality team. The first game I can remember seeing (I know I watched games before it) was the Immaculate Reception game....been hooked ever since.
it was not easy back in those days to keep up with teams outside your home market, but I read everything the paper printed about them and one of my aunts still in PA would sometimes send the sports pages from their local paper to me. I watched every Monday night game just to see the Steeler highlights at halftime...Thank god when espn came around and then Al Gore invented the internet and now we are where we are knowing everything about everything about the teams
