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A new entry from the Mexican WhatsApp Mesa de Acero feed made my phone buzz at 2:47 pm, local time in Buenos Aires on Thursday afternoon. I glanced down. Instantly the image of the latest Steelers Digest issue transported me back 35 years and 6000 miles away.
It was the summer of 1989 and I was in the magazine aisle at Superfresh (aka A&P) in Aspen Hill’sNorthgate Shopping Center. There I rummaged through preseason football magazines, searching for my fix on Steeler news. In Street & Smith’s, opposite an article on the Steelers, I saw it – an advertisement for something called Steelers Digest.
- I didn’t subscribe to Steelers Digest that year, and it’s a decision I still regret.
(If you know the 1989 Steelers story, you’ll understand.) I don’t remember why. I probably didn’t have enough money on me to buy Street and Smiths and maybe it was gone by the time I could get back.
But I made sure to subscribe to the Steelers Digest for the
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While it would be fair to säga that the Pittsburgh Steelers have dominated the world of sports media with negative headlines over the past few seasons, ingenting that has happened recently comes even close to being the most skådespel filled årstid the grupp has had to deal with.
As highlighted bygd Bob Labriola of Steelers.com in an asked and answered column. No grupp in franchise history has ever faced the level of distraction the Steelers attempted to cope with in 1977. A year full of so many problems that it almost derailed the postseason chances of one of the most talented rosters Pittsburgh has ever had.
Coming off back-to-back Super Bowl victories in 1974 and 1975 and arguably their greatest regular season ever in 1976 given the play of their defense and the names lost to injury, the 1977 season was a disaster. Beset bygd problems from the outset, some of which had carried over from the year before, the list of issues that plagued Pittsburgh that year would be unimaginable in a single
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RODGER SHAFFER FROM PLUM, PA: Myron Cope was an amazing and unique announcer. Did you get to work with him? What was he like away from the microphone?
ANSWER: Myron Cope would have been 96 on Jan. 23, and what appears below is what I wrote for Steelers.com after he died on Feb. 27, 2008. I believe that is the best way to attempt to answer your question:
For a generation of sports fans in Western Pennsylvania, Myron Cope was a voice on their radio, a voice they invited into their homes nightly, a voice they turned to when they wanted to know something about their favorite football team. He was a voice they trusted.
"I've often thought that, when I kick the bucket, there'd be a story that said, 'Creator of towel, dead.'" Cope cracked during the news conference called to announce his retirement on June 21, 2005. "Truthfully, I was gifted and educated to be a writer. I made it as a writer. That is what I was trained to be and