Editor's Note - Since I live 1300 miles away, I always appreciate hearing from the Season Ticket holders.  Especially after last night when it seemed there were so many Steelers' fans at the game.  Welcome to MHR and thanks for the post - Guru

Good morning.  First time poster here.  I have been enjoying MHR since preseason as a reader and want to give the usual first poster shout out to everyone here for increasing my Broncos and general football IQ by a factor of 10+ over the last few months.  Excellent work everyone.  I am not going to try to compete with that, and instead want to focus on the fans for a moment.

Let me start with a story from last nights game.  I am a season ticket holder and have been bringing my three year old son to the games since he was a bump in my wife's belly.  He may not understand what is going on much (or most) of the time, but he loves going to the games.  Yesterday, his daycare teacher had to reprimand him for disrupting art time when he kept chanting 'Eddie, Eddie, Eddie...'  (Picked that up from his Dad.  I'm so proud)  Last night I had to stop him from clapping very enthusiastically during the game, pointing out that our quarterback getting sacked was NOT a good thing.  Of course his confusion was justified seeing as we were greatly outnumbered and the majority of fans around us were wearing black and yellow and cheering enthusiastically.  Nor was this limited to our area.   As I looked around the stadium I noted that almost every section had a significant Steeler presence.  The one exception was the south stands.  I estimate 1/6th of the stadium was fans for the opposing team.

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