Scott Ferrall Talks to Joey Porter Sr. ABout Being a Steelers Fan

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00:00I'm a season ticket holder of the Steelers and I grew up in Pittsburgh. I went to high school,

00:07even though I'm older than you, I went to Mount Lebanon High School and when I was there they

00:11won four state Whippeal football championships and I've been going to Steeler games for 55 years.

00:18I went to every Steeler Super Bowl, all eight of them. My dad used to run U.S. Steel and I

00:27got the luxury, I was lucky enough as a kid to go to every Super Bowl with them,

00:31including Tulane Stadium and I went to your Super Bowl at Ford Field in the snowstorm

00:38that everybody thought the refs were on the take for the Steelers, even though I know you enjoyed

00:43that day as much as I did and I didn't care about the snowstorm, but I not only saw you win a ring,

00:50I've watched your son play almost every game of his career because I live in New York City,

00:56but I fly home to Pittsburgh for every game. Right on. How do you like them apples? Man,

01:01awesome. Like your true yinzer? A real yinzer, bro. You haven't left your roots at all? Not at

01:06all. So you're one of the people that I can actually have conversation with that understands

01:09the psychotic fan of a Steeler fan, like why we're different, why playing in Pittsburgh

01:15means so much more and we're judged different than every other city. So a guy said to me,

01:21argued with me that the six Super Bowl trophies don't matter anymore because they don't win them

01:28anymore. I said, you have no idea what you're talking about. We hang our hats on those six

01:33and we live by a different standard in Pittsburgh. We want to win it every year. There's nothing

01:38short of excellence there. That's all they live for. You don't know what you're talking about.

01:42And he argued with me and argued with me. I was like, are you kidding me? You must be stupid.

01:45He's not from Pittsburgh. Of course not. That's the whole thing because if they were,

01:50they'd know how different it is with us, how the whole city shuts down when you lose a game.

01:55I mean, everybody, everybody gets depressed. Depressed all the way to Friday. Babies aren't

01:59born. Yeah. No one goes to work. Schools are empty. They don't understand how serious it is.

02:06It's crazy. So I'm like, man, are we spoiled? Yes. Are we going to win over nine games every year?

02:13Yes. That's crazy. But like, is it good? Yeah, it's cool. But we probably have a championship.

02:19So it looks like we're not happy because when we don't go to the Super Bowl, we're not happy.

02:23That's just reality.