The Steelers are going to the superbowl. It's the fourth quarter and the Broncos are suffering badly at the hands of Pittsburg. Its over the team placed 6th in their Division has spent the last few weeks marching over the number 1, 2 and 3 teams. It's Steeltowns revenge.
There isn't much left of Steel in Steel town. In fact all that is left of the mighty US Steel corporation is the ensigna of the Steelers Football Assocation.
And in this well crafted piece from Monthly Review, the author explains why the Steelers represent the icon of a passing industry, in a town now being recrafted as a Public Private Corporation.
And unlike last year Steeler Nation may not have to face the humiliation of not being in the Superbowl. While the folks left behind in Pittsburg suffer at the hands of the boondoogle of Corporate restructuring of the oldest working class city in North America.
The Glory and the Gutting: Steeler Nation and the Humiliation of Pittsburgh
Charles McCollester
Last football season the Pittsburgh Steelers stunned fans with an unexpected series of victories. A Steeler Nation-composed of a generation of Pittsburgh's workers who scattered across the United States as their jobs vanished in the last quarter of the twentieth century-filled stadiums in a dozen cities with their team's colors, black and gold. The delirium peaked with the Steelers' victory over the New York Jets, which seemed like an act of God. The improbable twice-missed field goals and overtime win continued the Steelers' fourteen-game winning streak and their march toward the Super Bowl-until that road was cleanly blocked by the New England Patriots. Whatever deity oversees such matters, she must have a sense of equity or cosmic balance because the Steeler Nation in diaspora enjoyed its moment of glory just as the real, living, here-still-today city of Pittsburgh, near bankruptcy, suffered humiliation and dismemberment.
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