Steeler fan and a Cub fan. Talk about dichotomy. Steelers are the elite of football. Two coaches for three decades. Steel Curtain and playoff entitlement as a history. Say their name and you can almost hear the NFL films music and the Sabol voices announcing the names of folks in Canton.

Say Cubbies and you look for a baseball blooper film. Ernie Banks being Mr. Baseball and never playing a playoff game. Yep AS is Cubbie baseball. THe sad part is that my pre-AS days are my Steeler years but they only lasted until I was about 14.

AS an aside ole BIg Ben is sorta my ASrole model in that when folks ask me what AS feels like I say its like crashing a motorcycle with no helmet at high speed. OF course unlike Big Ben I feel like I crash it almost every day. He learned his lesson with one crash.



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