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excerpt from Monday Morning Quarterback:
Men's room, Buffalo airport, Saturday morning:
Loud guy: "Hey, what do you think of the Stillers this year?''
Me (knowing Loud Guy meant the "Steelers'' in his South Side-ish accent): "Pretty good. I like [Coach Mike] Tomlin. I think he'll do a good job.''
Loud Guy: "How 'bout Big Ben? He gonna come back and be good?''
Me: "I think so. Got a lot to prove, but he's got too good an arm and too good a head to play as inconsistently as he did last year.''
By now, we're at the sink, and he's not letting me go. A few people are looking on.
Loud Guy: "You like Hines?''
Me: "Love him. How can you like football and not like Hines Ward?''
Loud Guy: "Can we do it again? Win it all?''
Me: "Well, you might be a year away. You got a shot, but that's a tough conference this year, about as tough as I've seen in a while.
Loud Guy: "They're no year away. This is their year. I don't know why you guys in the media don't like the Stillers.''
With that, he was gone. No goodbye, no have a nice day, not nothing. I wasn't picking the Stillers, so that was all he needed to know about me.
typical!