This year\u2019s road to our annual family Pittsburgh home game journey started back over the summer months.\u00a0 Our son D-man was starting his senior year of high school and his final year on the varsity football team for our hometown. As all football parents know, that means an all-encompassing schedule of practices, games, fundraisers, and all the other exciting things that come with having a varsity football player in the family.<\/p>\n
To rewind a bit, our home game of choice usually falls on or around the Veterans Day weekend, which luckily follows the end of the school\u2019s football schedule (sans playoffs) leaving us free to set out for our trip.\u00a0 This year, a new coach brought new life to our team and playoff hopes were alive from day one.\u00a0 As the wins stacked up for the team, it looked as though our family Pittsburgh trip was going to need to be either rescheduled, or cancelled for this year, as we would be cheering on the sideline for D.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m a planner, so tickets are usually my department, and I try to have us set up a month or so in advance. This year, it was going to come down to the wire with playoffs, so tickets were on hold until we knew for sure. Well\u2026 less than a week before our scheduled weekend our home season came to an end and BWG and I were scrambling for tickets\u2026 not just any tickets\u2026 but fantastic seats, to congratulate D-man on his own awesome season.<\/p>\n
My fallback plan is always our corporate seats at Acrisure but since the Packers game was in such demand, even our overflow seats outside the corporate box were already scooped up.\u00a0 \u00a0The scramble was on\u2026 \u00a0and we eventually settled on seats on the river side, pricey but, hey\u2026 it is the Steelers.<\/p>\n
Our norm is to try to get to the field as early as possible so that we get to see the player warmups on the field and talk about all the things that \u201ccivilian football coaches\u201d talk about before a game.\u00a0 It is fun to watch BWG, LMT (not so \u201cLittle Miss Tailgate\u201d now) and D-man go through the gameplan as if Mike Tomlin was relying on their feedback for the game.<\/p>\n
Our seats were PERFECT for this.\u00a0 We were right there for some of the best plays of the game and had an up-close of that final play that had us all sitting on the edge of our seat.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, even though the road is winding\u2026things just work out the way they were meant to.<\/p>\n
Another successful Pittsburgh trip on our scorecard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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