The world's football roots
are in Pittsburgh mud
Tradition!
You've gotta give it to the Rooney's, aka "the front office"
of the Pittsburgh Steelers organization, because they listened to
the players on the Steelers' team and decided to stay with natural
turf on Heinz Field in Pittsburgh.
But you also gotta believe it has to do with tradition.
115 years ago, just a few blocks from the Steelers' stadium, the
world's first professional football game was played..... on natural
grass.
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Historical marker near
the Steelers' stadium proclaims:
November 12, 1892
FIRST PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL GAME |
This part of the United States takes its football seriously. Not
the type of football played across the rest of the globe (soccer),
but good old, smash-mouth GRIDIRON football. The kind where
you get down and dirty in the mud. Real mud.
Western Pennsylvania comes by its football tradition honestly. The
first football team to wear numbers. A long string of slingers with
the likes of Namath,
Kelly,
Montana and
Marino easily earning it the
nickname "Quarterback Country."
With well earned football traditions like these, you can see why the
Rooney's stuck with grass and mud. Real football is played in
Pittsburgh. Bring your cleats and laundry detergent, because some
tradition will get ground in!
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