Final Chapter: Welcome Home Champions
Pittsburgh Victory Parade, February 7, 2006 The road back to Pittsburgh was full of cars marked with “Super Bowl Champs” all the way from Detroit. At the last Ohio toll plaza, there was a traffic jam two miles long. But […]
World Champion Pittsburgh Steelers!
Super Bowl Sunday. Detroit. February 5, 2006. The moment was right before kickoff. The moment I realized the significance of the event. It was when Franco Harris walked onto Ford Field with the previous Super Bowl MVP’s, waving a Terrible […]
Super Bowl Bound
I spent the AFC Championship game at Jack’s on the South Side (recently dissed by Rocky Mountain News writer Bill Johnson). Jack’s is around the corner from my studio so it as close to home as I can get. And […]
Fan Presence Needed at Playoff Road Games
Over the last few years, NFL teams have started to catch on that Steelers fans travel to see their team play, and they’ll most likely pay to do it. When buying group seats in Houston and San Diego, we were […]
Bears hit by Bus
Ever been hit by a bus? Of course you haven’t, but you can imagine what that would feel like. If you were hit by a bus, you’d most likely want to stay in bed all day. The Bears game was […]
Submit your own Fan Photos
THIS POST IS OUTDATED. PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT PHOTOS! I’ll show you mine if you show me yours. Here’s your chance to contribute your own fan photos to Sixteen Sundays. Email photographs to fanphotos@sixteensundays.com Please limit submissions to Four photographs. […]
Doubtful for Sunday
There won’t be any pictures for game 12. Not because it was a week to forget but because I was a last minute addition to the injury report. Instead of Heinz Field, I got to add a new experience to […]
Blue Monday for Steelers
Looking back on my trip to Indianapolis, it wasn’t fun at all. My first bad feeling came in the Detroit airport. I was connecting on an early morning flight, the Monday after Thanksgiving. The airport was busy, but there were […]
Shanghai Sunday in San Francisco
Unless you’re a photographer working on a long-term documentary, the way you wind up in a Steelers bar is that you find yourself thousands of miles away from home on a Sunday. If football is important to you, you’ll find […]
If it’s brown, flush it down
If the term “Brownies” conjures up images of little girls with cookies, then you might be too young to remember the original rivalry that existed between Pittsburgh and the Mistake on the Lake known as Cleveland. Before Art Modell wrenched […]
Steelers visit Titletown
Want to know how important football is in Green Bay? Even the geese head North to Lambeau Field in November. One of the wonderful things about traveling to away games is the opportunity visit other great stadiums. I felt I […]
Halloween Scare
When the last night of October comes around, things get a little weird. Monsters and madmen creep out of the timbers and converge on the city. So as the Baltimore Ravens came to Pittsburgh for Monday Night Football, the Halloween […]
Have a seat in Bloomfield
The feeling of a roaring stadium produces its own kind of adrenaline, but sometimes a comfortable chair anchors the excitement of football at home. So instead of a road trip, like weeks past, I headed to Bloomfield – Pittsburgh’s Little […]
Save your Boos for Halloween
Because of last season’s record wins, losing has become unacceptable in Pittsburgh. In fact it felt like a thing of the past. But losing is part of the sport. And how you deal with a single loss says as much […]
All Eyes on San Diego
Though not a “Sunday,” I couldn’t miss the Steelers first Monday Night Football appearance of the Roethlisberger era. So why would I travel two thousand miles for a game? Sun, sand, and black and gold fans. California provided a beautiful […]
Reflections on a bye week: Football Widows
On each and every Sunday, my wife becomes a football widow. Early in the morning I go off to tailgate and come home late after a day of Steelers football. During football season, its seems like we never see each […]
Quietest One Second
Before every game I walk amongst the tailgaters and talk to people about how they think the game will turn out. Some people have good feelings, others just don’t know. I on the other hand was afraid to make any […]
Texas, It’s Like a whole other Steeler Country
Seventeen hours after Heinz Field narrowed in my rear view mirror through the Fort Pitt Tunnel, I was standing in a Lowe’s hardware store parking lot in Texas. At 4:45 A.M., under the full moon, the legendary jersey numbers started […]
Football and Relief
There are four cities I have called home: Houston, New Orleans, New York City, and Pittsburgh. I am still so emotionally tied to the city of New Orleans that since Hurricane Katrina I felt sick with each piece of news […]
Camp Cowher: The Renewal of Hope
One hundred seventy one days have passed since you last saw your heroes in action in Honolulu. After all the waiting, if you can find your way to the end of a cornfield in Latrobe, PA, you will find the […]
Sixteen Sundays Returns
After 24 weeks without Steelers football, Sixteen Sundays returns. This project was born because of a unique year when the Steelers played no games on ABC’s Monday Night Football. And thus the unbelievable record setting 15-1 regular season occurred over […]