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The Black&Gold Vol.1
2000
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The Black&Gold Vol.2
2000
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Hometown Heroes
Pittsburgh Steelers fans are among
the most loyal and passionate in all of football.
If you grew up in the steel-city during the 1970's
like I did, you still bleed black and gold. From
1994-2001, I hosted a website called "Steelerweb"
and published an e-Magazine entitled "The
Black&Gold." For years, I (along with other
fanclubs) built a huge Internet following while
paying tribute to our beloved team and it's fans. I
also produced an online catalog for sharing my
hobby of collecting autographed Steelers
memorabilia and cards. Eventually, this led to some
of my first professional writing assignments for
clients like LoveFootball.com and the Dick Butkus
Football Network.
Unfortunately, the NFL decided that
revenue-generating fan-sites were unacceptable and
many webmasters were threatened with legal action.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sports-writer Chuck Finder
was responsible for a lot of our heavy traffic
during the early years when he highlighted many of
us in his Steelers Site of the
Week articles. He was also
the first member of the press to support us by
writing another article dealing with the "No Fun
League's" crusade: NFL crackdown on Web
sites. Thanks Chuck!
I
folded, but other members of the Steelers
Nation refused to go quietly and are
still online today. Although I have moved on to
other publishing endeavors, I still frequent their
websites and applaud their convictions. In honor of
our team finally winning "One For The Thumb," I
want to share some of my own player tributes that I
posted back in 2002: Hometown Heroes, as well as
links to my Top 3 favorite Pittsburgh Steelers
fan-sites.
McMillen and Wife's
Extravaganza
Pittsburgh Steeler
Gridiron
Stillers.com: Hard-Hitting
Analysis
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