Highlight Real; Summing Up Decades of Sports Mediocrity
Pittsburgh City Paper › July 31, 2009
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It's the curse of the Gen-Xer in Pittsburgh: We're inundated with nostalgia and have little to call our own. No Maz homer. No Immaculate Reception. I was four months shy of my second birthday the last time the Steelers raised a Lombardi Trophy.
Hockey fans had their moments in the '90s and the rest of us enjoyed the bandwagon ride. But for young adults my age, we're more the City of Chumps than Champs. We're more often bridesmaids than brides.3) January 28, 1996 -- Super Bowl XXX. I still break out the VHS tape marked "XXX" about once a year. It's not porn, but it's got a similar effect. I get excited for awhile, but it's ultimately unsatisfying.See the full content of this document
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Highlight Real; Summing Up Decades of Sports Mediocrity
I've always considered it one of life's great cruelties that the greatest moments in Pittsburgh sports history happened before I developed consciousness.
It's the curse of the Gen-Xer in Pittsburgh: We're inundated wi...See the full content of this document
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