Allan Ware, Special Intern Assistant with the Pittsburgh Steelers

As a NY/Philly guy, why were you interested in the Steelers?

As a young child growing up in foster care, I did not see or hear of any football games on television except for the highlight shows from small documentaries at the time. Television and sports were so different at the time so I was outside playing and just having fun as a young child.

When I was adopted in 1974, I started to see a quite a few pro football games and I was amazed at this sport and how fun it was to see these guys go head to head in this sport A rough sport it is but it was fun to watch. I came across this football team that I knew nothing about and they were from Pittsburgh called the Steelers and wow, they had problems early on until they hired this genius of a coach by the name of Chuck Noll. I was 11 years old when I saw their second Super Bowl. They were down early to the Dallas Cowboys and a key drive I saw Roger Staubach throw an interception to Jack Lambert which gave the Steelers the momentum for the rest of the game and that was the only play that I saw for the whole game. This kid, Lynn Swann, I never saw that dramatic catches that he made throughout the game witch eventually gave him the MVP. What a receiver he was and to believe that he and his mate from the opposite side of the field (John Stallworth) are Hall of Famers to this day is simply amazing.