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Black and Gold
Steelers, Pirates, Penguins and…the fans.
With
three major-league franchisees and one minor-league team, not to mention
loads of college teams, Pittsburgh is a sports enthusiast's paradise. Oh,
did we forget to mention the fans?In Pittsburgh, diehard fans (in black and gold from head to toe, of course) arrive at the stadium parking lot at 7 a.m. And the city's rivalries are the stuff of legend: when the Pirates play the Phillies or the Penguins play the Flyers, the city virtually shuts down. The Pitt vs. Penn State rivalry, dating back to 1893, is memorialized in the College Football Hall of Fame.
In
Pittsburgh, the sports memories are so thick fans have to brush them away
from their faces. Remnants of old sports arenas are preserved as silent
testaments to the victories of yesteryear, like the "Gate D" pylon
from the old Steelers stadium which stands 150 feet from the new stadium.
And then there's Maz's wall, the centerfield wall from the old Pirates park
in Oakland, at which diehard fans gather every year to listen to a radio
broadcast of the famous 1960 game where Bill Mazeroski hit a homer over
the wall to win the World Series against the New York Yankees.
