I had the privilege to listen to our founder J. Lloyd Tomer this week which prompted this week’s entry. I’ve met “Coach” several times during career with YTB Travel and Cruises and YTB Network. The fact that the founder is huge Steelers fan has nothing to do with my decision to listen to him.

Whether people want help with weight loss, managing careers, finances, relationships, quitting smoking, depression, self-esteem and more, they all have goals and changes they want that go unresolved. Yet, the goals we don’t accomplish can appear too ambitious to know where to begin, much less how to go about it. As daunting as these tasks seem, specific techniques do exist to help accomplish them and produce success.

I’ve read from several different sources that if you want to become a millionaire you need to do what a millionaire does. You can’t soar with eagles when you are pecking with chickens. Yet people will follow the instruction of someone making $30K a year over a millionaire, and wonder why their lives and financial situation doesn’t change just because it goes against what they are comfortable with.

Still, knowing what to do is usually not enough. Often people are stifled by their own patterns of behavior that prevent them from following through. They tell themselves that they don’t have the time or the money; they’ll get to it later; they’ll start tomorrow; or this one time is OK. These and countless similar considerations prevent people from implementing the changes they want. ”Coach” assists me and other individuals in developing constructive and proactive behavior patterns and allows us to monitor and evaluate our progress. The process integrates this new behavior as a permanent pattern to maintain the results, unlike other approaches. It contagious and I find old habits fading away, being replaced with new, and more productive habits.

There is one thing I know is universally true and that is we each have the ability to make sweeping changes and create the life we want. If you are ready to set goals and get into action and start living your life with new results, look into finding a qualified “Coach”.

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January 12^th, 1975. I don’t remember many dates from my childhood, but I remember that one. I was 10 years old at the time, growing up in the North Hills of Pittsburgh, Pa. The center of my world revolved around a place that I had never even heard of before, and a Championship game that consumed my day. What was supposed to be the first Super Bowl to be played indoors was instead played at Tulane stadium, because the Super Dome was not yet complete for Super Bowl IX.

36 years later that team remains the only NFL team to win four Super Bowls in six years, yet what might separate the Steel Curtain Steelers of the 1970s from other NFL champions is what they did off the football field. Lynn Swann is running for governor of Pennsylvania. John Stallworth founded an aerospace company in his native Alabama that employs hundreds. Franco Harris launched a successful bakery and is one of the most visible NFL players from the 1970s, making numerous public appearances. Jack Ham runs his own company in Pittsburgh and is a color analyst for NFL games on Westwood One radio and for Penn State’s vast radio network. Dwayne Woodruff must be called “Your Honor.” A successful Pittsburgh attorney, he was elected an Allegheny County Common Pleas Court judge last year. Mel Blount, runs a youth home for disadvantaged youngsters in Canonsburg, Pa. Tony Dungy, obviously is the Head Coach for the Indianapolis Colts. And of course, Terry Bradshaw might be the most recognizable TV studio host in NFL history. And I knew them when!

All these players have moved on. I’ve since moved away from Pittsburgh, and have resided in Atlanta the last 14 years. You can take the boy out of the city, but you can never take the Steelers out of the boy. I love football, but more importantly, Steelers football. I still never miss a game because of a wonderful product called TiVo, but watch the vast majority of the games live thanks to NFL Sunday Ticket. My daughter watched her first football game with me only days old in Piedmont Hospital for a Monday Night Football game against the Tennessee Titians.

I took a look at the series of draft picks that built the Dynasty of 70’s. 1969: Joe Greene, DT, North Texas St. 1970: Terry Bradshaw, QB, Louisiana Tech 1971: Frank Lewis, WR, Grambling 1972: Franco Harris, RB, Penn St. 1973: J.T. Thomas, DB, Florida St. and 1974: Lynn Swann, WR, Southern Cal. Now let’s take a look at some of the last few years that built the team that made Super Bowl XL: 2001: Casey Hampton, DT, Texas 2002: Kendall Simmons, OG, Auburn 2003: Troy Polamalu, SS, USC 2004: Ben Roethlisberger, QB Miami (Ohio) and 2005: Heath Miller, TE, Virginia. That’s some key drafts that between 2001 and 2005 that could arguably be the best since 1969 through 1974.

I don’t know about another run of 4 Super Bowls in 6 years for this team. I do like our odds in this Super Bowl, and I enjoy dreaming about what this team could be in the next few years. With free agency, it will most certainly be more difficult to keep this team in tact. However, the Steelers have been the model of consistency year in and year out for as long as I can remember. I’ve only known two Head Coaches in the long history of following the Steelers. I was 5 when they hired Chuck Noel in 1969. Since Bill Cowher has was hired 14 years ago, there have been 95 Head Coaching changes in the NFL.

I’ll close this weeks entry with a Prayer for Super Bowl XL.

Our Father, who is Art Rooney in Heaven, football be thy game.
Thy kingdom come, 4 Super Bowls won, on earth as it is at Heinz Field.
Give us this day our playoff victory, and forgive us our penalties,

As we defeat those who play against us.
Lead us to a playoff victory, and deliver us to Detroit.
A-Ben

Go Steelers!

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John Madden was in Atlanta to announce a football game one weekend when he noticed a special telephone near the Falcon’s bench. He asked Jim Mora what it was for and was told that it was the hotline to God. John asked if he could use it. Jim told him “Sure, but it will cost you $100.” Madden scratched his head, then thought, what the heck. I need a break picking the games. He pulled out his wallet and paid the $100. Madden was perfect that week.

The next week Madden was in Florida when he noticed the same kind of telephone on the Miami bench. He asked Nick Saban what the telephone was for and was told “It’s the hotline to God. If you want to use it, it’ll cost you $100.” Recalling the previous week, Madden pulled out his wallet and made the call. Madden was perfect that week.

The next weekend Madden was in Pittsburgh at Heinz Field, when he noticed the same kind of telephone by the Steelers bench. He asked Coach Bill Cowher, “Is that telephone the hotline to God?” Bill said “Yes and if you want to use it, it’ll cost 35 cents.” Madden looked incredulously at Bill and said, ” Wait a second, I just paid $100 at Atlanta and $100 at Miami to use the same telephone to God. Why does Pittsburgh only charge 35 cents?”

Bill looked at Madden and replied, “In Pittsburgh, it’s a local call.”

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Question: How many Steelers Fans does it take to change a light bulb?

Answer: Five (One to actually change the bulb and four to reminisce about the old one.)

This joke was originally told by an Associate Minister at a church I was a member of some years back, but he was a Green Bay Packers fan. I liked it so much; I stole it and simply change the name of the team. As I write this weeks Blog, I am watching NFL Films and a review of the Pittsburgh Steelers 1972 season that my TiVo automatically picked up and recorded for me. It’s been 25 years since Pittsburgh won their last World Championship and 10 years since they last reached the Super Bowl. So this joke has special meaning to me as a fan of this special team I grew up watching and rooting for. I too like to reminisce about Bradshaw, Harris, Lambert, Green, Ham, Swann, and Stalworth

It’s the end of the regular NFL season and this weekend, we start yet another journey into the NFL Playoffs. Topping the news in the NFL this week is all the Head Coaching changes going on. There have been no less than 8 firings so far this week in the league, with the rumor mill spinning round and round about other changes to be made by other teams. Since my earliest recollection of my Pittsburgh Steelers, I only know of two Head Coaches for my Steelers. (Chuck Noll and Bill Cowher) I can name more home stadiums than I can coaches for my team. (Forbes Field, Three Rivers Stadium, and Heinz Field)

I’ve been fortunate enough to enjoy numerous seasons with my beloved Steelers in this month of heart beating, palm sweating, carpet pacing second seasons. Win and go on to the next weekend…loose, and go home. My wife knows she’s a Football Widow for most of the season, and after 9 seasons together, she also knows that this is the most intense month of the entire year. My children are still a little too young to realize just how important this month is to their Daddy. Make no mistake; they know which team Daddy roots for. My daughter watched her first game with me while still in the hospital after being born for a Monday Night Football match up between Tennessee and Pittsburgh. She knew instantly what this game, and this team means to her Daddy. I, in my Kordell Stewart jersey, and her in a Steelers logo jumper, as we kept the entire delivery ward up till the wee hours of the night. Now that I think back to our first night together of watching football, I wonder if some of the nursing staff had concerns of me attempting to “spike” my daughter. In all honesty, my daughter has special meaning to me. It was because of her that my wife allowed me to get DirecTV along with the NFL Sunday Ticket Package. Because of her, I now don’t have to leave home to watch any game I want all day Sunday afternoons.

My son arrived two years later at the beginning of July, just in time to make training camp at the end of the month in Latrobe. He was a few week pre-mature and only 5 pounds 8 ounces when he arrived, but we worked hard to get him up the playing weight before camp opened. He’s my linebacker and let me tell you, he’s the perfect mold for a Steelers Linebacker. Quick and very light on his feet, and I know, I’ve had to chase him a few times! My proudest day was a when he was drafted last year at the last minute. I still have the Press Release saved that was sent out from the Front Office. Both my children’s first words weren’t Mommy or Daddy…it was “Touchdown!”

Pittsburgh heads to Cincinnati this weekend where we rightfully take back our AFC North crown that was handed to the Bengals in week 13. Make no mistake Cincinnati, we still own this division. A win in Cincinnati sends us to Indianapolis, for a rematch of another Monday Night game earlier in the year. I didn’t talk to one of my best team members for a week after that game earlier in the season, and it looks like heads will roll once again.

No matter what happens this year, Pittsburgh will be traveling “On the Road to the Super Bowl” this year, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing in my eyes. We have stayed home no less than 5 times over the last 14 years and made it to the Big Game only once. (I’ll remind that same team member that one game was against Indianapolis.)

Here’s to the NFL Playoffs. A month of great anticipation and excitement only to go through withdrawal until April and the NFL draft.

Let’s hope this will be the year of “One for the Thumb!”

Go Steelers!

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