How did you become a STEELERS fan??

[takagi]

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Well, I live in Estonia (Northern Europe) and (american) football isn't popular in here. Soccer, basketball, track and field and winter sports are the main things
But I remember that the first NFL game I saw was Steelers vs Buccs..I think it was in 2002.. I was 14 then.
It was the first time I saw a football game (I know it's funny to you guys) and instantly fell in love with it!!! After that I learned all the rules and bought Madden 02.
The love for Steelers just became spontaneously. The more I learned about the game and the league, the more I was fascinated about them.
And the rest is history!

BTW. In October 2005 I had to go to the army (for 8 months). You can immagine my frustration! Fortunately I saw the playoff run but had to tape the Super Bowl
But in recent years the NFL has become more popular in here. The main reason is that our own boy Michael Roos is playing for the Tits.

We won that game.

You bandwagoner!

Ou yea, I forgot that
I'm glad Tampa didn't win, otherwise I would be a die hard Buccs fan...haah..just messing I remember rooting for the Steelers!
The other thing I forgot/messed up was my age. I was 16 then..jeezz, I can't even calculate the easiest things

[rpmpit]

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I love it when these posts come up. Great to hear all your stories!

Parents are from Italy, so soccer was what was on TV most of the time. Actually played soccer as a kid until I realized I wasn't really built for it. You guys that have met me will understand

I remember watching the Rocky Bleier movie "Fighting Back" with Robert Urich with my Mom and Grandmother. This was also around the time the Mean Joe Coke commercial was out. And Mean Joe was also a guest star on a show I watched as a kid called The Great Space Coaster. Add to that the Steelers were kinda sorta successful in the 70s so this was the team I latched onto. Can a 7 year old be a bandwagoner??

Someday when armpit jr. is posting on a Steeler message board and this question comes up, he'll say he was born a Steeler fan!!!

"No Gnews is Good Gnews with Gary...Gnu!"

NICE!!! RB, you obviously remember the show. Do you remember Mean Joe being on the show? No one I've ever talked to about this remembers him being on.

[RuthlessBurgher]

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NICE!!! RB, you obviously remember the show. Do you remember Mean Joe being on the show? No one I've ever talked to about this remembers him being on.

Nope. I just read the wiki entry for the Great Space Coaster, and I don't remember anything in there except for Gary Gnu. I'm sure if I saw an episode, it might start coming back to me.

[Jooser]

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Jooser here. I guess you'd say I was just born into it in 1973. My dad was always a Steelers fan. His brother was, and unfortunately for him still is, a die-hard Clowns fan. I can remember the two of them going round and round in the living room when I was a kid during games. I've never known any NFL loyalty to any team other than the B&G. In 1993, my uncle bought some tickets to a Cleveland game against the Steelers. He claimed we'd be born again Clowns fans after the game. LMAO! Boy, did Yancey Thigpen, Green, and Barry Foster prove him wrong! So, I guess that you'd say I was born into it too, even though I was born and raised in West by-God Virginia. Steelerism rules our family! next......



oh yeah, and for the record....

[proudpittsburgher]

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Yea, I was born into it as well. I was born in 75, so I missed out on any memories of the first four super bowls. I was more of a child of the 80's, which says something about me as a fan, because those were the lean Steelers years of my lifetime. Sitting through Mark Malone, Bubby Brister, Cliff Stoudt, Kordell Stewart, ect. My Aunt Rose was a nanny for the Rooneys, so I recieved press passes with my dad for most of my childhood, which would get us into three rivers and we could find some standing room spot for watching the games. I remember how cold we would get watching the game at the confluence (Pittsburgh word ) of two of the ramps. It was on the river side, but on the 50 yard line, so we would freeze our butts off, but it was worth it, because the crowd was more limited than the traditional standing room only spots above the tunnels. I could never turn my back on this team. What you mentioned in your post is true, the Steelers have a way about them. It just feels heroic sometimes watching them fight back and never quit. I truly feel like this is a team, with a few exceptions i'm sure. But I feel like this is a band of brother more than your average football team. Dallas, Indy, New Orleans may be more flashy, and New England might get all the press, but this is the football team with a constant chip on its shoulder, and I like that. It just feels like Pittsburgh. Most outsiders make fun of Steelers fans for how much they care about the team, but what they don't get is that the Steelers epitomize the city more than most franchises. So I am that guy who has a great week if they win, and a craptacular week when they lose. I'm not big on emotions, but I'll well up a bit for a big playoff win or a super bowl win because it truly does mean that much to me. I have perspective, but this team will always be a big part of my life.

[fezziwig]

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God loved me so much, I was born and raised by Steelers parents, family and friends.
It is true, it takes a community to raise a child and being raised by a naiton, Steeler nation that is, we the fans are of the greatest NFL team in history.


I love it when these post come up about our fan base and our love for the black and gold. What makes it even nicer to be a Steeler Fan we, also have the best looking uniforms. It's having the best of both worlds.
It is one thing to have a not so good looking or ugly uniform that is over looked because your team is great but, we have the best team and uniforms.

All from above fellows, it was started all from above.

[RuthlessBurgher]

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Imagine wearing purple or brown or orange. Blech...can't even stomach the thought of it!

[NC Steeler Fan]

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My father grew up in Pittsburgh, my mom grew up in Johnstown (80 miles east).

Being a Steeler fan is in my genetic code.

Seriously, I have one little black chromosome and one little gold chromosone next to each other on the DNA chain.

[RuthlessBurgher]

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My father grew up in Pittsburgh, my mom grew up in Johnstown (80 miles east).

Being a Steeler fan is in my genetic code.

Seriously, I have one little black chromosome and one little gold chromosone next to each other on the DNA chain.

Black chromosome and gold chromosome? Were your parents Foxy Cleopatra and Goldmember? :P

[papillon]

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Birthright, never knew anything else since I was old enough (Don't even say it Ruthless, I know what you're thinking) to remember watching football.

Grew up about 20 - 25 miles east of the city and would catch the 67F to the stadium almost every weekend starting when I was about 13 or 14. A friend who lived in Rankin would meet me outside gate C at TRS and we'd either have tickets in hand (my mom worked for a justice of the peace and was helping Steelers with their speeding tickets and my friends dad was a county cop, so he got tickets often as well) or we'd purchase outside the stadium.

What a way to spend Sunday afternoons during my youth.

Pappy

[RockyMountainSteeler]

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For me it was predestined. Birthday was 3/3 (founding year) 1975 (first Super Bowl) win. Like alot of the others I missed out on the Super Bowl destiny of the 70's and became a fan of teh Steelers in the 80's, which is enough to make anyone these days appreciate that the Steelers organization continuously manages to field teams that are always in contention year in and yearout.

My parents got divorced right after I was born (father was a Raiders fan) and she remarried to my stepfather before my earliest memory. He was born and raised in Pittsburgh and brought me up on them ever since. I have family on that side still there in Canonsburg. My uncle was the local weatherman there in the 80's also (Dick Mancini if any of you remember him).

I had never been to a game there until '97 when we heard that Three Rivers might be replaced. That year I told my dad the only thing that I wanted for Christmas was to go see a game in Three Rivers. About a month later we were on a plane from Denver to see the Steelers play the Broncos (both of us did not like the Broncos because that is all you heard about locally, Elway this and Elway that). What a fantastic game and feeling to be in the home of the Steelers.

I honestly walked into the stadium in awe and remember telling my dad that "I am home, this is where I belong". The fans were awesome from tailgating to chanting on the way out of the stadium. I also remember being down at halftime and when I was in the pisser I told the guy next to me "I came along way to see this game, are they going to win or what?" His response was "we got them right where we want them, don't worry". Well, they came back to win. That's when I realized never to give up on this team and to always believe.

Since then I have been out the following year to see the Eagles, a game against the Raiders where we got hammered by Gannon, Rice and Tim Brown, another game against the Broncos 3 years ago with my wife and two years against the Bills opening day weekend. You can say that I am now an addict to coming out to see games whenever possible.

Now the tradition gets passed down to my son this Monday Night. He will be attending his first Steelers game and the next time we are in the Burgh he will assuredly be right by my side.

[Tomlinator]

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My Dad was in the Army. I was born in Germany. I’ve never been to Pittsburgh.

I got introduced to football on the playground. The first game I ever watched on tv was a Rams-49ers game. They did not peak my interest. Somewhere along the way (mid 70's) I saw Swann and Lambert highlights and something clicked. I really wanted to be just like Swanny.

We eventually ended up in Colorado. As you can imagine, Army folks come from all over, so all my friends liked different teams. This was also in the middle of the Orange Crush era, so a bunch of people gave me a hard time for not being a Donkey fan, but it only made my luv for the B&G stronger. I’ve lived in a number of places, but nothing can sway my loyalty to the Steelers.

[Jooser]

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[Jooser]

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a few reasons I remain a Steelers fan!

[Jooser]

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