A Pittsburgh Steelers fan says he was left blind and suffered memory loss after taking a drink from a Bears fan following a game at Soldier Field in September.

The Steelers had lost to the Bears and some trash-talking was going on between Zack Heddinger's group of Pittsburgh fans and a group of Bears fans at Kitty O'Shea's, his family says.

There was an "altercation between Bears and Pittsburgh fans," said Chicago Police Officer Laura Kubiak, citing a police report filed about the incident.

Later, Heddinger, 46, was offered a drink by one of the Chicago fans, a gesture he thought was a peace offering, his older sister Linda Heddinger said this morning. "My brother, trying to be a peacemaker, drank it," she said. "No one else did."

The police report notes Heddinger's group left the bar a short time later. At about 11 p.m., a call was made from their hotel for an ambulance.

Linda Heddinger said another sister received a call at about 2:30 a.m. from Rush University Medical Center that their brother's heart had stopped and he wasn't expected to survive.

By Thursday, Heddinger was still hospitalized; he was getting headaches and starting to lose his vision, his sister said.

Doctors told the family that alcohol alone would not explain his condition and believe the drink was spiked with grain alcohol, antifreeze or some kind of pesticide, Linda Heddinger said.

Heddinger later returned to the Pittsburgh area, where he is staying with one of his sisters and his account was first reported by WTAE-TV Ch. 4.

Linda Heddinger said her brother is having memory difficulties and is nearly blind.

"It seems like a bad connection you have with television," she said. "He has glimpses, but just because he can see you today doesn't mean he will see you tomorrow."

Based on conversations with those with Heddinger, he and his family have "narrowed down" the instances in which he could have been poisoned to Kitty O'Shea's, his sister said.

Linda Heddinger said the game was part of an annual trip her brother takes with childhood friends to see sporting events in various cities.

The last two months have been "very, very difficult," Linda Heddinger said, with the family trying various treatments and making arrangements for his rehabilitation.

Heddinger is the 7th of nine siblings, most of whom live in the Pittsburgh area.

A regional sales manager for a jewelry company, Zack Heddinger hasn't been working and he doesn't have health insurance, his sister said. "We're emotionally drained, financially drained," she said. "I don't understand the mentality where you would do this to someone."

Police said Belmont Area detectives are still investigating the incident.

a gesture he thought was a peace offering

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

I am in the urination, puking, drunk, yelling zone.

I once jerked in a chicken truck, so I have that going for me.

Now do you guys see why I don't want to go to CSFMB events?

I am in the urination, puking, drunk, yelling zone.

I once jerked in a chicken truck, so I have that going for me.

Now do you guys see why I don't want to go to CSFMB events?

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

I know you are weird, but I cannot see you poisoning anyone around here.

I often wish I were blinded after watching Bears games.

[size=85]Just kidding![/size]

I just saw this story on the news. The guy seemed pretty coherent. Then i heard some thing about him being able to see one day and not the next?
Who gets into a fight, then has some antifreeze ready to spike a drink? I would guess only Grain Alcohol, as maybe someone brought some of it into the game?
Not saying the guy is lieing, but something does seem fishy?

Kitty O sheas claims to have video of the incident as well?

Also if you fuck someone like they are a millionaire they might go try to be one.

I hope they manage to catch the douchebag who did this. but, Eaglo is right...you don't accept "a drink" from some random dude ever.

It was in Kitty O sheas, the big container of anti freeze under the jacket is a bit cumbersome

I hope they manage to catch the douchebag who did this. but, Eaglo is right...you don't accept "a drink" from some random dude ever.

I am in the urination, puking, drunk, yelling zone.

I once jerked in a chicken truck, so I have that going for me.