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Obama’s Childhood Team: Pittsburgh Steelers

By matt carter ⋅ March 11, 2008 ⋅ Email This Post Email This Post ⋅ Print This Post Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Pittsburgh’s KDKA anchorman Jon Delano interviews Obama during Obama’s PA campaign launch. Of course, Delano cuts straight to the heart of the matter:

Delano: When you think Pittsburgh, what comes to mind?
Obama: Steelers … growing up in the early 70s in Hawaii … that was my team. I used to root for Franco Harris and Terry Bradshaw, Lynn Swann and John Stalworth and all those guys.

The Steelers might actually trump jobs in the Pittsburgh region as Issue #1 for a lot of Democratic voters, and as a Pittsburgher, I mean that seriously.

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  1. [...] By the way, as I reported earlier, the Steelers were Obama’s childhood team. [...]

    Posted by Jerome Bettis and Franco Harris Support Obama | Pennsylvania Primary | March 29, 2008, 10:23 am

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