Fan Friday, Part II
A “Fan Friday” memory…
@_BigBen7 – 11th Anniversary of Ben handing my son, who was then 8, a football in Denver!! The Denver Post captured the scene!! Lifetime moment!!! @CadenBright2 pic.twitter.com/3pgP4gfsAH
— Ashley Bright (@BGCCW) September 2, 2021
Throwback Thursday – “Roethlisberger in Demand”
From ESPN’s Darren Rovell back in 2004:
Jeff Trebac is sometimes sorry he even invented the “Roethlisburger.”
Last month, as the owner of Peppi’s, Trebec dreamed up the sandwich of ground beef, sausage, scrambled eggs, grilled onions and American cheese. But ever since the sandwich’s namesake — Pittsburgh Steelers rookie quarterback Ben Roethlisberger — has been torching NFL defenses, the demand for the local hero’s hero has made lines longer and the space on the grills in his four shops limited.
“It’s out of freaking control,” said Trebec, who this week has been selling more than 150 Roethlisburgers a day for $7 apiece, not including tax. Roethlisberger wears number 7. “People are coming all the way from Ohio (his home state) to get them. The problem is, it’s a logistical nightmare. It takes more than 10 minutes to make it and we need more grills if this keeps up.”
Those who finish the sandwich, which weighs about a pound, can even buy a t-shirt that reads, “I tackled the ‘Roethlisburger.'”
Roethlisberger, who was the No. 11 overall pick in this year’s draft, is quickly emerging on the radar of the league’s most marketable players. Not only has Roethlisberger become the first rookie in the NFL to win his first five starts since Phil Simms accomplished the feat in 1979, but he also won his fifth straight game last Sunday by stopping the New England Patriots’ 21-game winning streak. That game was the most watched game on CBS this season, drawing 21.3 million viewers.
“We’ve been flooded with calls,” said his agent Leigh Steinberg. “But it’s too quick for us to respond because we want him to concentrate on the field. With Troy Aikman and Steve Young, we waited to do anything major until a few years into their career and it worked out.”
Steinberg says he has no intention of calling Trebac any time soon to insist that his client get a cut of sales from the “Roethlisburger.”
“We’ll let it run for a little while, since it’s funny more than anything,” Steinberg said. “You can get into policing it, but we probably wouldn’t do that unless a major chain started doing something.”
Steinberg should pay attention. The way Roethlisberger is playing, Peppi’s may turn into a major chain sometime in the very […]
Happy Monday Steelers Nation
If you’ve been following my page for at least a year, then you probably saw the images of Heinz Field that I shared last fall. Two of my favorites, from a perspective that I hadn’t really seen (I’ll get back to that in a minute). Well, I went back to shoot a version with non-fall colors this morning, and had planned to wait until closer to the Steelers opener, but I just can’t wait that long.
Flashback to last fall. I was shooting the fountain one morning, looking for a different way to capture Heinz Field. What I DIDN’T want to do, was shoot it reflecting in the river (it’s been done 100 times by everyone) or in the center of the fountain (has also been done, and there are huge pipes that stick out of the water). It had rained the night before, so the fountain was exceptionally high (just like it did yesterday), and I noticed that on the city side there was enough of an opening in the water to get the entire stadium. Perfectly still. No pipes, no ripples in the river…just the stadium. It ended up being one of my most popular images of the year.
So I went back to capture it again yesterday, without the fall colors. But the fountain was at its ‘normal’ level, which meant you’d see the fountain’s edge. But after all the rain, the fountain was more than full to give that ‘infinity pool’ look, exactly what I was going for. And it was one of those times when the shot I had in my head translated exactly to what I captured.— Dave.
And speaking of the ‘Dog Days of Summer’…
