A Steelers Fan’s Passion: Bleeding Black and Gold Is All I’ve Ever Known

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Published: May 6, 2009

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... The building has a domed roof, and the football field is kept up throughout the year. Roughly nine minutes away from me is George Halas Drive.  And on that road lays Fawcett Stadium and, more importantly, the Pro Football Hall Of Fame.

Upon entering this famed structure, one's eyes are immediately greeted with a seven-foot tall sculpture of Jim Thorpe, the rest is completely up to your own personal explorations. You can be astounded, amazed, or simply overwhelmed by the amount of history enshrined in one building in a small Ohio city.

My first trip is still a very vivid memory. It was in 1996, I was five years old and accompanied my parents, aunt, uncle, and cousin to the building. Little did I know that one trip would transform my life forever, in a number of ways.

I was all decked out in my Kordell Stewart jersey, which I had received that year for my birthday, and I couldn’t help but notice the repetition of the words "Pittsburgh" a...

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