Steelers House of Worship

Who?

Who is “We here at the SHoW”?

I, me, us, we, all refer to a single person, “Steelers” Shawn. I now live in Massachusetts, but was born in Pittsburgh and lived part of my life there. I’m a married thirty something high school math teacher who lives in Western/Central Massachusetts. I have two sons (the older is 4 and the younger is 2), and actually generally enjoy being Married with Children, in spite of what Al Bundy might have you believe. My family has everything to do with my successes. The failures, on the other hand, they’re all mine. Other than the Pittsburgh Steelers, I also enjoy writing (hence the web page dedicated to me writing about the Pittsburgh Steelers), hiking, fishing, playing video games, math, physics, and a wide variety of other topics. I’m a typical internet user in that I have an opinion on a great many things and am not shy about sharing it, no matter how stupid it might make me look.

What?

What is the SHoW?

Currently, the SHoW consists simply of my rants and raves about my favorite football team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. I generally write previews for upcoming games, reviews/recaps of past games, random rants about the NFL, try to post headlines that Steelers fans would find useful/interesting, and maintain a neat and orderly fan page that is updated weekly as often as possible. Occasionally, the page falls into disrepair, but I always eventually come back to make regular updates again. As time permits, I have also included games, desktop backgrounds (and I suppose they would work for laptops, too), and other things to make the page more unique and interactive.

Where?

Where are you from?

I’m currently living in North/Western/Central Massachusetts and that is about as specific as I want to get at this point. Part of the appeal of the internet is the relative anonymity that it provides. Besides, if you really know me, then it won’t be that hard to figure out who I am from the clues sprinkled throughout the web page. I was born in Pittsburgh and lived some of my life there, though I don’t remember a lot of what happened, I’ve been able to piece together some of my life from stories told by my mother, aunt, and grandmother. The family moved to Erie and I remember my time in that cesspool of rapidly expanding crass commercialism and disgusting environmental pollution much better. I then moved to Massachusetts, much to the chagrin of my mother and have lived out here ever since. I actually love Massachusetts. I’ve said to my wife on more than one occasion that I love the state and I love all of New England and that I really never felt like I was home anywhere before moving to New England. Certainly this isn’t a knock on my friends and family in Pennsylvania, but this area is like no other place that I’ve visited in the United States and I love living here.

When?

When did you start the SHoW?

I have been maintaining this page to some degree ever since I’ve had the internet. The Internet Wayback Machine has a cache of the page from March of 2001, but I know that it goes back even further than that. I remember using Geocities as a server to hold my images and writing about Kordell Stewart’s rookie season as a quarterback (and that was 1997) in the second or third year of maintaining the page. Therefore, to make a long story short (I know, too late!), about 10-12 years ago.

Why?

Why the Pittsburgh Steelers?

I know that Steelers fans have gotten a bad rap from other NFL fans and the internet seems to have allowed them to pile on in increasing numbers. However, I have been a fan of the Steelers since before birth, being born into a family in Pittsburgh in the late 70s. My fandom was cinched after brief protest flings with the Raiders and Browns of all teams by watching games with my father on Sundays and listening to the Steelers Radio Network with Myron Cope and his obvious unabashed bias towards the hometown team. Our very own Harry Caray, if you will. For some reason, WTBS (from Atlanta) and WGN (from Chicago) were on our cable system in Erie, PA. Hence the odd Harry Caray reference. Watching the Steelers win in Super Bowl XL with my younger brother (and actually finally being old enough to remember it) after our father died a few years earlier is another of those experiences that I won’t soon forget. My life doesn’t revolve around football, but there have been some great times associated with the Steelers.

How?

How do I get around this crazy place?

Short answer: Just start clicking links to see where it takes you.

Slightly longer answer: There are several links throughout the page. Some are contained to the left hand sidebar under the headings of “Pages” and “Categories”. Pages are static and will generally be reserved for important events such as my Super Bowl recap pages and recent Steelers schedules and results with links to my recaps from those seasons. Categories will take you to listings of the most recent posts that I have put into categories. If, for example, you’d like the latest headlines from around the web without having to visit all of those other pages individually, you can do that. You can also go straight to my recaps from recent games and previews from upcoming games if you find that you enjoy my take on things.

Thanks for visiting and come back often!