Rooneys give Obama game ball from AFC Championship – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (1/20/09):

The Steelers say they have a new fan in the White House and the new president also has one of the team’s most recent prized collectibles, a game ball from their victory in the AFC championship game Sunday.

Dan Rooney and his son Jim personally delivered the football to Barack Obama Monday night in Washington, D.C.
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“He’s a Bears fan first, he admits that,” Dan Rooney said yesterday at the Steelers UPMC training center. “But he’s a Steelers’ fan. He’s said it, and all his staff, they’re rooting for us [in the Super Bowl].”

Also in attendance was former Steelers Hall of Fame running back Franco Harris.

OK, so Obama’s rooting for the Steelers and is palling around with Franco’s Italian Army. He’s about one drunken bender with Gerala’s Gorillas away from making me regret not voting for him. The cognitive dissonance is killing me.

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