Yesterday after we left the hotel, we had to make a few important stops before heading back to NC. We went to the "strip district" in Pittsburgh where vendors sell everything "Steelers" on the sidewalks. We wanted to get some Super Bowl gear and a copy of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette before we hit the road. After buying our stuff, we were headed back to the car when a reporter stopped us and interviewed us about the game and what we had just bought. Since she was a reporter for the AP, she wasn't sure what paper her article would be in - whoever picked it up. Well, today we did a Google search and found out her article was picked up by a bunch of papers - New York, Penn., Chicago, US News & World Report, Boston, etc. She made a few errors in her report - like Sonny's age and the fact that Harrison is not our grandson, but our nephew, but, hey .... we're in the news!!
Here is an excerpt of the article. If you want to read the whole article, click HERE.
Pittsburgh restaurants and bars were packed on Sunday for hours before and after the game. Bars and clubs in popular sections of the city tacked on a cover charge. One trendy bar began at $5 about an hour after the victory and within minutes had upped the cover to $10. Despite some face-making, wallets opened and people partied.
Sonny Maranich, 60, a native Pittsburgher who drove seven hours from his new home in Mooresville, N.C., for the Super Bowl, spent the last few hours of his weekend in the Strip District, buying everything from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to that one last Hines Ward jersey.
His grandson, 14-year-old Harrison Webb, had already bought his Super Bowl hat the night before and had it perched backward on his head early Monday.
The family stayed in a suburban hotel for the weekend, their second visit to the area in a month; they also journeyed north for the AFC Championship Game in mid-January, when the Steelers secured their spot in the Super Bowl by beating the Baltimore Ravens 23-14.
Maranich paid $50 just to reserve a table in a restaurant to watch the game, and the family had to be there by 3 p.m., giving them three hours to spend money before the game even started.
Maranich's wife, Sharon, 60, was thrilled that she would be driving home with a happy husband and a plastic bag full of new Steelers stuff after an exhausting weekend of football and shopping.
"It was a nail-biter," she said. "My heart can't take it anymore; I'm getting too old for this."
Wish we could have been there today for the PARADE!! (click to see video)
I promise ..... I'll post some creative work tomorrow!!
2 comments:
Hey Sharon! Sounds like ya'll have a blast in Pittsburgh, or are still having one. Congratulations on being in the newspaper. The parade looks a sight! Reminds me of when I went to NYC before Christmas one year, and as we were leaving they took us down one street and showed up what it looked like down another street - it was a mob! It was the day everyone came into NYC to shop for Christmas!
Be careful driving home ya'll. Love to you.
Congratulations! Everyone should see their name in print at least once, it's too fun! That was a nail-biter of a game, we even watched it.
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