Curious Hair wrote:
Sure. Penn State's sphere of football influence is bigger than Pitt's, if that's what you're getting at.
Both are smaller than the Steelers'. This is all I'm saying about the Pope of Pennsylvania crap: most people live at either end of the state and care significantly more about pro sports. Maybe Dan's napalm comments implicitly spare Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, but it doesn't sound that way. If he really thinks that Zombie Paterno has more pull in western PA than Dan Rooney, then I honestly don't know what to tell him.
I wouldn't get hung up on Bernstein's comments. He goes off the rails way too much.