alittlejazzbird
02-09-2009, 01:19 PM
If you haven't picked up the current Sports Illustrated or the Super Bowl Commemorative Issue, you owe it to yourself to read Damon Hack's excellent cover story. It's quite long so I'll only post the link, but I wanted to share the last paragraph with you, because I think it contains one of the most beautiful and poignant closing sentences I've ever read.
Every time I open my commemorative issue -- I must have read it cover to cover about two dozen times by now! -- and see that sentence, I get a huge lump in my throat and tears in my eyes. For those of us who came of age during the Steelers' glory years of the 1970s, then went 26 years without a Super Bowl win, to now see the future stretched before us with so much possibility thanks to the quality of our coach and franchise players, this one sentence carries so much weight, such eloquence...if it doesn't move you when you consider it in that light, then I don't know if you can be moved.
Soon the Lombardi Trophy would be making its way to western Pennsylvania, where it would be driven across town, over the Hot Metal Bridge, down South Water Street and dropped off at the third building on the right.
It is there that the coach's office sits close to a trophy case that is about to grow larger. Where a dynasty born in a long-ago winter is young again.
Here's the link to the full article: http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1151480/1/index.htm
Every time I open my commemorative issue -- I must have read it cover to cover about two dozen times by now! -- and see that sentence, I get a huge lump in my throat and tears in my eyes. For those of us who came of age during the Steelers' glory years of the 1970s, then went 26 years without a Super Bowl win, to now see the future stretched before us with so much possibility thanks to the quality of our coach and franchise players, this one sentence carries so much weight, such eloquence...if it doesn't move you when you consider it in that light, then I don't know if you can be moved.
Soon the Lombardi Trophy would be making its way to western Pennsylvania, where it would be driven across town, over the Hot Metal Bridge, down South Water Street and dropped off at the third building on the right.
It is there that the coach's office sits close to a trophy case that is about to grow larger. Where a dynasty born in a long-ago winter is young again.
Here's the link to the full article: http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1151480/1/index.htm