Here We Go: Memories of the Immaculate Reception

I realize that I had the advantage of being at Penn State when there was some awesome football going on --- Franco Harris, Lydell Mitchell, John Cappalletti. For part of that time I worked at the Kentucky Fried Chicken just down the street from Beaver Stadium and on game days we were run ragged supplying buckets---nay, barrels---of chicken for the throngs of fans. I never dated any of the players but I remember seeing Franco Harris around campus, he was hard to miss, and having a massive crush on him. Naturally, I've been thinking about all this in preparation for tomorrow night. Steelers-Super Bowl. Just seems to go together doesn't it?
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Anyway, the memories brought back a frozen, snowy, terrible night and I for some reason was stuck on I-80 headed back home, probably for Christmas. I just remember that I had the radio on, listening to the Steelers-Raiders game when the most amazing play happened. The crazy thing was all these cars battling the snow on I-80 must have been tuned in too because all up and down the freeway horns started blowing. People were actually pulling over and getting out of their cars and hugging one another. Lights were flashing and it was total pandemonium. All because of this:

Unbelievable. Franco did it and all the freaking snow on earth didn't matter.

So tomorrow night I'll be thinking of that night and the past Super Bowl wins.




Way to go, guys!

P.S. May I add that I LOVE this YouTube tribute to Troy Polamalu. I'm looking forward to the Coke commercial.... though it'll be hard to come up to Mean Joe's performance.


Thanks for reading.