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  • We're also having a little fun to work our way towards the Super Bowl.

  • Our see?

  • No one had more fun than you did on Media Day.

  • Once upon a time, I want everyone to just feast their eyes.

  • Uh, Ryan Clark, What What were we doing here?

  • They were going around with the Troy Polamalu wig at Media Day.

  • And so I finally got to get the wig.

  • And, you know, I was probably less Troy Polamalu more Eddie Murphy vampire in Brooklyn, But I enjoyed it.

  • Listen, I always wanted to Detroit.

  • I always wanted to get an opportunity to blitz.

  • I always wanted to be the guy that could be free.

  • That could roam.

  • And so for about 10 minutes, I was troy P.

  • I mean a lot less attractive with that hair.

  • I definitely didn't get any head and shoulders commercials, but it was fun also, too.

  • Though I don't understand, like why people ever want hair like that because all I kept doing was moving the hair out of my face because it was uncomfortable that made that.

  • Let me know why Troy other than when he plays football always wore, but fair enough.

  • But But all kidding aside like these players aren't gonna have that.

  • No one's gonna have it.

  • We don't have a Super Bowl Week, a super weak this year, for all the obvious and understandable reasons, it's a pandemic and you're not taking any chances with something like that.

  • But do you feel the players are missing out on something?

  • How important a part of the experience?

  • Absolutely you as a player was that absolutely greeny.

  • My first Super Bowl win, Super Bowl 43 When we won, it was after a great season with number one overall defense, and I'm walking out to go sit down and to go Do you know Media Day and someone grabs me and says, You know, you're at such a such podium and I remember sitting down and the first thing I said was I got a podium and that was a huge deal to me, and maybe it was a huge deal to me because I was undrafted free agent because I was a guy that had been cut because I was the dude that a lot of teams picked other people over.

  • That signified a moment for me that on two of the greatest teams are the two best teams in football with, however, many podiums there were for people to do Media day.

  • I was good enough to get one.

  • I was good enough to experience that.

  • I had people who stood in front of me and thought that the things that I had to say mattered about what was going toe happen on Sunday, and it's getting on the bus to head to that event.

  • And I think the one thing that the events do for the Super Bowl is they count down the days right.

  • You know, you're gonna have media day and then you're gonna have the Wednesday practices.

  • Then from Pittsburgh, we had a walk through that was actually started by my son Mike.

  • I would bring him every Saturday to the games.

  • I mean to the walk through, and then more people started to bring their kids and he became the baby sitter because I started really early.

  • My kids was kind of older than everybody else's.

  • And so on the last Saturday before the Super Bowl, coach Tomlin got Busses and everybody was able to bring one or two family members to that walk through and that became something that the Pittsburgh Steelers not only did that year, but we did it against the Green Bay Packers as well.

  • It's a great story, and so much of this.

  • Look at the biggest event, the biggest opportunity, the lives of so many people.

  • And we understand why these things can happen this week.

  • Players missing out, but they get a chance to play in the biggest game on Sunday.

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We're also having a little fun to work our way towards the Super Bowl.

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