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Biden gets emotional recalling gift from the Steelers
Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | September 25, 2008 | Salena Zito

Posted on 09/25/2008 12:40:06 PM PDT by Salena Zito

Sen. Joe Biden hit Western Pennsylvania today -- Greensburg specifically -- with his first visit to the area since the Democratic National Convention.

Before he began his morning speech, Biden had to compose himself while recalling a gift of two footballs (signed by former Steeler Rocky Bleier) given by late Steelers founder Art Rooney to Biden's two boys in 1972, when they were recuperating from a traffic accident that killed his wife and daughter.

Biden recalled the story after he was introduced by Rooney's son, Dan.

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


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1 posted on 09/25/2008 12:40:07 PM PDT by Salena Zito
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To: Salena Zito

“Let’s all lay down for Art”....sorry, I am also a Steeler fan.


2 posted on 09/25/2008 12:41:48 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: Salena Zito

Gratuitous “Sensitive” Speech? Check!


3 posted on 09/25/2008 12:42:55 PM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: gathersnomoss

Looks like Jimmy Swaggart in that photo.


4 posted on 09/25/2008 12:43:01 PM PDT by TFMcGuire (Either you are an American, or you are a liberal)
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To: Salena Zito

Did he tearfully re-tell the lie about his wife being killed by a “drunken” truck driver? And when is the mainstream media going to call him on this outrageous and offensive lie?


5 posted on 09/25/2008 12:43:39 PM PDT by hampdenkid
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To: Salena Zito

I hate the Pittsburgh Steelers.


6 posted on 09/25/2008 12:43:59 PM PDT by kesg
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To: Salena Zito

Biden was a Steelers fan until they moved to Pittsburgh.


7 posted on 09/25/2008 12:45:33 PM PDT by Tribune7 (How is inflicting pain and death on an innocent, helpless human being for profit, moral?)
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To: Salena Zito

Biden is such a poser.


8 posted on 09/25/2008 12:46:46 PM PDT by sarasota
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To: Salena Zito

I’d cry if Rocky Blier (or Franco Harris) gave me a dirt clod.


9 posted on 09/25/2008 12:47:34 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Salena Zito

Well, it worked for Hillary!


10 posted on 09/25/2008 12:49:23 PM PDT by jonsie
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To: Deb

: )


11 posted on 09/25/2008 12:49:38 PM PDT by Salena Zito (http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/blogs/fortyfourthestate/)
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To: Salena Zito

It’s fishy. On an earlier swing through Pittsburgh, he recalled the same story. He mentioned that Rooney delivered two signed footballs from the “World champion Steelers”. The problem is, the Steelers did not win their first championship until after the 1974 season. In 1972, they were merely an up-and-coming team that was finaly emerging from 40 years of futility.

Maybe the Steelers just sent him a nice email...in 1972. (snicker)


12 posted on 09/25/2008 12:49:49 PM PDT by trublu
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Shouldn’t Plugs be back in Washington and actually voting for soemething??


13 posted on 09/25/2008 12:53:26 PM PDT by KevinDavis (McCain/Palin 08 Palin/Jindal 12)
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To: trublu

Maybe Biden just knew they’d be champs soon


14 posted on 09/25/2008 12:55:16 PM PDT by MoreGovLess (The USA has one main political party: the Kleptocrats)
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To: Salena Zito

Oh, was that the accident caused by the drunk driver, or the one caused by his wife swerving into a truck because she was distracted by the children in the car.


15 posted on 09/25/2008 12:57:07 PM PDT by Carley (she's all out of caribou.............)
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To: theDentist
Gratuitous “Sensitive” Speech? Check!

Biden took a play out of the Hillary book.

16 posted on 09/25/2008 12:57:22 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign state.)
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To: Deb

Franco Harris once gave me an accidental elbow to the temple in a crowded bar. I didn’t cry, but boy I did see stars.


17 posted on 09/25/2008 12:59:02 PM PDT by Sisku Hanne (The day begins and ends in Alaska.)
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To: trublu

>>It’s fishy. On an earlier swing through Pittsburgh, he recalled the same story. He mentioned that Rooney delivered two signed footballs from the “World champion Steelers”. The problem is, the Steelers did not win their first championship until after the 1974 season. In 1972, they were merely an up-and-coming team that was finaly emerging from 40 years of futility.

Maybe the Steelers just sent him a nice email...in 1972. (snicker)<<

And in Green Bay, he claimed that he was a Packer fan. At home, his wife says that they are lifelong Eagle fans. Old Joe also claims to be Giants fan and a Colts fan until they moved from Baltimore.

He probably watched the Super Bowl in 1972 on his cell phone, text messaging George Halas plays to run.

Every time Old Joe opens his mouth, a thousand people move out of Delaware, in shame.


18 posted on 09/25/2008 1:00:36 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners.)
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To: trublu

Did he say that his grandfather used to watch the Steelers play on television back in the 1920s?


19 posted on 09/25/2008 1:01:44 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Salena Zito

Ha! Biden with 40 days left will easily have a hundred gaffes by then.

20 posted on 09/25/2008 1:02:16 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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