May 14, 2026 • 29 mins
Mark talks some Tomlin and how he handled his coaching staff, Shaun Suisham ex of the Steelers joins the show to talk about The Malone Foundation, his love of hockey and how he became an NFL kicker.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I like the Denucci segment sewn sweet, I'm gonna knock
it dead. I'm sure when he joins me at five
thirty now while we're talking about Drew Aller instead of
Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Rodgers old, boring, almost dead, Drew Aller,
the future of the Steelers, the future of the logo,
the savor of the logo. I know it quote the
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Talkcoast Nevermore. I was talking to Brett Keesl last night
at the Malone Family Foundation Heroes game, not at RMU
and the Diesel, and he didn't play. I think his
son had a lacrosse game, but he came to the
gathering afterwards. Always great to see the Diesel. And he
told a story about Troy Pulla Malli got a milestone interception,
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I think it was his thirtieth career interception, and at
a meeting of the defense Lebou said something like, congratulations, Troy,
you're only thirty two behind me, and of course hilarity ensued.
But Dick Clebo had sixty two career interceptions. He is
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still number ten all time in interceptions in NFL history,
and he played in an era where they threw about
half as much. You want to know when the Steelers
took a nose dive. I talked about this earlier. I'm
writing a column about it as we speak. When megamaniac
Mike Tomlin ran off guys like Dick Clebo and Bruce
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Arians can you imagine that Mike Tomlin thought that he
could do a better job coaching defense than Dick Clebo.
Dick Lebo probably the best mind in football history when
it comes to the defensive side of the ball. Mike
Tomlin ran him off. Mike Tomlin ran Bruce Arians off,
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and the Steelers lie said bea retired, except he didn't.
Came back, won a couple Coach of the Year awards,
won a Super Bowl with Tampa. Palma got too much
control with that team. That's when things went down hill.
That's when things started to just reek of horsemen or bs,
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the lying. Yeah, him being gone, it's a good thing,
it's a great thing. It was a necessary thing. You
can't flip the script if you won't turn a page,
and that was a big page to turn. A three three,
four one two WXDX is the number to call. We
were talking some a bit earlier about the Pirates. They
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won today, they lost last night won two out of
three against Colorado. But they were thirteen and ten, and
now a month later they're twenty four and twenty. They're
spinning their wheels. They need more consistency from guys like
O'Neal Cruz. And here's the headline I like about another
cruise and I quote from the Athletic. By prioritizing results
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over metrics, led La Cruz has become one of MLB's
best all around. That's true, and I wish that was
contagious among people named Cruise. O'Neil Cruz makes a great throw,
ooh ah, HiT's a long home run, ooh uh, exit
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velocity mph, blah, blah blah. He's won for eight over
the past two games. His batting averages dropped one hundred
points in the last month. I think one of the
big talking points of today's game is Andy Rodriguez got
called up due to injuries, and he caught today and
got two hits. You can't play Henry Davis forever. If
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he's gonna hit one fifty one, can't do it. I
don't care how good defensively he is. You can't have
a guy in your order that's a black hole hitting
one fifty one. You can't do it. And I'm not
saying any Rodriguez is the answer, because he was projected
as such a while back and has not yet been.
But I'd give everybody in that organization with a catcher's
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mitt an opportunity to get that job, because you can't
hit one fifty one and play forever. You can't do it.
Doesn't matter if Schemes likes you, catching doesn't matter. If
you're one one pick, which Henry Davis was, you can't
have him catch forever. All right, eight three to three,
four one two WXDX, get your calls in. We got
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Sean Sweets and the former Steeler kicker at the bottom
of the hour. I'm curious that I really have come
to realize tom Win leaving was so necessary, should have
happened a while back. But it's even more of a
positive that I thought it would be. And I thought
about him having runoff lebow and arians how could that
have happened? And look what happened, because it did. All
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Tomin has going for him is that phony record, that
meaningless mark of no losing seasons, and that was a
ben record more than it was a to Tomlin record.
McCarthy's the guy. Tomlin hurt that team more than helped
for many, many years. He was only a good coach
at the beginning with Cower's team and faded from there.
And it was his ego, his megalomania, McCarthy replacing Tomlin.
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I knew it was good. It's much better even even now,
even when we can see the hands on stuff with Aler.
It's much better than I thought it would be. And
I thought it would be good, but this is great.
I think might take a year.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
One oh five ninety X this Saturday, go to Joe
Daddy Brewery and give Sonia for the Pineapple power Play
release party with one oh five nine the X and
Mark Madden from three to five pl'chas the limited relief.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And now the super genius Mark Madden.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Hey, Mark, great show when you got a.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Young Trophy White Owes Monday to I can't even quote
the big o'bowski right goodbye with the ex at one
oh five nine. This is normally the portion of the
show where I say get your calls in now at
eight three, three, four one two wa because I'm just
about out of material. Bit uh between all the leaks
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Steelers Depot has managed to piece together what we think
is the entire Steelers schedule for twenty twenty six. That
will officially be ann once tonight at eight pm, but
it's week one at home against Atlanta, Week two at
New England, which, if Tom will we're still coaching. That
could be the Adultery Ball against Mike Rabel or the
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Irony Bowl, whatever you prefer. Week three at home against Cincinnati,
Week four at Cleveland, Week five at home against Indy,
Week six at Tampa, Week seven against New Orleans at Paris,
Week eight at home against Cleveland. Week nine. By then
it gets tough. Week ten at Bengals, Week eleven at Eagles,
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Week twelve versus Broncos, that's the Black Friday game. It's
at Pittsburgh, Week thirteen against Houston, Sunday Night football, Week
fourteen at Jacksonville, Monday Night football. Week fifteen and sixteen
home games against Baltimore and Carolina. Week seventeen at Tennessee,
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Week eighteen at Baltimore. So Steelers playing the Ravens twice
late in the season, again playing the Bronze twice before
the bye week. The Steelers will lose one of those games.
I don't think the Brons are gonna stink. I think
they're taking an educated risk given to Shawn Watson another shot.
I think he'll do. Okay. They got Garrett, they got
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some players, they got some receivers, they had a good draft.
I think the Brons aren't gonna stink, and I think
they will beat the Steelers once. So let's see. Let
me go down this game by game. Okay, ten and seven.
I won't insult you by doing it. They're gonna beat Atlanta. No,
They're gonna go ten and seven, maybe nine to eight,
like they always do. And if they go worse, that's okay.
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If they go worse and move forward, if they go
worse and really get that offensive line assembled for the
long haul, If they get worse and Rogers gets hurt,
doesn't play for whatever reason and they figure things out
a quarterback, that's okay. But I'm predicting ten and seven
or nine and eight. We've been talking all day about
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the Againy Malkin situation. Josh Joe wrote a really good
column about it, talking about the age of the Penguins,
which I talked about to open the hour, and you
gotta they use that phrase flip the script about the playoffs,
how they proved everybody wrong until in the playoffs the
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Penguins proved everybody right because they weren't that good. But
you can't flip the script without turning the page. And
I think it is time for the Penguins to turn
the page. But again, I keep going back and forth
on it, and if they keep malking, I won't be
outraged because I'll understand why, But I also understand that
why will have been for the wrong reasons. When I
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do the last word tonight, at a little later on,
at five forty five or so, I will talk about
Malcolms some more, because I think that is the biggest
story in Pittsburgh sports. What happens now with the guinea
malk and the Rogers thing. It's gone on so long,
two years in a row, as to become clearly comical.
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And I don't care what he does. I care what
the Penguins decide about Malkin. I don't think what the
Steelers decide about Rogers affects the short term or the
long term with the team very much. I think bring
him back, a forty two year old quarterback, because he
thinks he gives you the best chance to win now,
especially this forty two year old quarterback who ain't what
he used to be and ain't one of the top
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twenty quarterbacks in the league. What they're doing now with
Rogers is just jerking off. And I made the hand motion.
I'm gonna be on camera soon. We installed those, so
when you see me on camera in the near future,
on Twitter, wherever we're gonna put it up, you will
see me do the jerking off motion. But bringing Rogers
back at forty two because you think you can win now,
because you think he can win now, that is just
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jerking off. And I say that with all respect for
what Mike McCarthy brings to the table with quarterbacks and offensively,
because I know you don't coach Rogers, you negotiate with him.
Let's go to uh, what's this guy's name, Mick Nick? Jack?
Who cares? Jack? You're on the air, I'm lark, what's
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up to you?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
So after the Steeler game on Black Friday, will be
uh Texas in a.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
And m then right, yeah, okay, okay, So what.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I'm glad Andy's back up. I've been waiting for him
for two years and he's not going to hit six
sixty seven all year, but he's finally a stick in
the behind the plate.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Well, yeah, one game he was, And I would certainly
keep him in the lineup for a bit to see
if he can keep up some semblance of offense, because
Henry Davis is providing you no semblance of offense. Joey
Bart's picked it up a little bit. Hey, if Endy
can hit, what I would do is I'd forget about
Henry Davis and I would just go with Dy and
Joey Bart, because you can't when you have a team
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with like the Pirates that is offensively. I think the
most charitable way to put it offensively is extremely inconsistent.
I don't think you can put a black hole in
the lineup. You can't have a bunch of guys who
were inconsistent and then Ryan O'Hearn who's consistent, and Henry Davis,
who does nothing. That's not a good lineup that it's
not going to get into playoffs. I'm just looking at
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whatever they can do to get them in the playoffs.
And you're right, I'd give Dy a shot. If he
keeps hitting, I'd keep him in there and forget about
Henry Davis. Thank you for the call. Yeah, I still,
I mean I like the Pirates better. I still don't
think they're good enough to make the playoffs. I think
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they still need more more fans, not least well, No,
that doesn't matter in terms of or losing bit uh,
I said earlier in just a review. I checked Dot
buco ticket prices UH for today's game, which god, I
think nineteen k. The cheapest ticket available was thirty six
bucks on the Pirate site, twenty three bucks on StubHub.
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Twenty three bucks is pretty reasonable. For tomorrow night's game
against Philly, it's the same ticket price on the Pirate site.
In on StubHub, the cheapest is forty three bucks. I
couldn't find any and I was looking like crazy. I
couldn't find any info on the Pirate's website, their ticket
site about about what what you know those you get
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those standing room tickets. I know there's a season ticket
for standing room that's really cheap, but but I again,
their website not really easy to navigate. In fact, I'm
trying to do it now to get to get updated
ticket prices for tomorrow, and it's just hard to do.
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A three three four one two wxdx. No, I hate
it when and my call screen went blank, so I
don't know if I have any calls. We put a
camera in, but the call screen doesn't work anymore. And uh,
and I'm trying to vample. I can look up the
ticket prices, but that is just going nowhere. A three
three four one two wxdx. I love the now Now
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I try to type in the pirate website. I got
blabermouth dot net, which is the music gossip website. So
this really isn't going well. Me trying to navigate on
the air, or is this gonna work? Hold on? Maybe now,
maybe not. Let's give it time to load. Let's give
it time to load. Let's give it time to load.
(13:46):
It didn't load, all right?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
We got Sean sweetson coming up next. The NFL schedule
revealers tonight at eight pm. Absolute showcase for the league's megalomania,
and they do Tom was talking earlier. They do goofy
videos each team that kinda is supposed to be comedic
and makes fun a little bit of the other teams,
the opponents. And I saw somewhere that like the Patriots opponents,
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they can joke about Rabel and Russini. The NFL didn't
tell them, No, that's unbelievable. I mean, if I'm the NFL,
I'm not a big guy with censorship, but I would
absolutely tell them they couldn't talk about Rabel and Rassini.
But there's nothing new about the schedule reveal except they
take what we already knew who's gonna play who and where,
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and they match it to a calendar. But it's treated
like this absolute event because the NFL one thing they're
good at is making everything, no matter how pick a
unit in minuscule, they make it into an event. And
like I avoided doing earlier, the minute that schedules released,
ninety nine point nine percent of the people who do
what I do will go down the schedule game by
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game because it wastes time and predict every result and
a one lost record. Think about that. People will be
telling you what the Steelers will do in November. Now,
it's silly for September October. But the further you get in,
I mean injuries, trades, YadA, YadA, they're gonna pricked it
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now and you're gonna listen and maybe I should do it.
I'm next gonna talk to former Steelers kicker Sean sweet
him here at one O five to nine.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
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Speaker 1 (15:41):
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Speaker 4 (15:48):
Ryan O'Hearn smash, the Homer of the Pirates, won the
rubber game of their series with the Rockies at PNC
Park today. Next up, the Phillies come to town for
a weekend series starting tomorrow. NFL fans will have their
second Christmas tonight when the league releases the schedule for
all thirty two teams.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
We already know the Steelers will go to Paris.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
They'll face the Saints there, but they're also reportedly hosting
Denver on Black Friday before two straight primetime games.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I'm Scott Davidson. Run a business and not thinking about radio.
Think again because people are listening to radio more today.
Those to win prime just horrible. He is terrible. The
exit one oh five nine. My guess right now is
a rare combination of football guy and hockey guy legit
in both. Formerly at the Pittsburgh Steelers. He is kicker
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Sean sweesum Sean. They're paying kickers seven million dollars? Now,
do you feel like you quit too early?
Speaker 5 (16:41):
No, I'm feeling like I wish they carried Beer League hockey.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Players that much. That's a great answer. Hey, this is
a loaded question, but is any kicker worth seven mil?
Is bos Worth that I know you're gonna say yes,
but I gotta ask. Tell me why. It's the best
job in the world.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Do you miss And as soon as the team as
a kicker that misses that kick, you know they wish
they would have paid seven millions. So I think if
anyone has ever been deserving, it is mister Boswell. Super
happy for him.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Now, you're involved with the mo Own Family Foundation, the
gala at River's Casino tomorrow night, and you played in
the Heroes game last night. How'd you feel out there?
I know you played hockey fairly off and correct. I
love hockey.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
I've football pulled me away for a while, but it's
it's been awesome to get back into it and to
be back on the ice, To be on ice, I
certainly don't belong within that group, but grateful for the opportunity.
And you know, I've been really working with Barkowski. He
calls me all the time and he looks for advice
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how to play the game the right way. And I
chirped him pretty hard because he wasn't who I wanted
him to be in the first period. And I did
an interview, and I want to be open and clear,
I called him an anchor, And man, was I proud
of him.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
A lot of resolved in the second period. He was unbelievable,
best player on the ice. Now, when you say Matt
Parkusky's an anchor, do you mean that he was an
anchored type player? Did he drag everybody down to the bottom.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
No, he was thinking the ship in the first but
he came the h He stepped up in a big
way in that second period.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Now, you play hockey fairly often, don't you talk about that?
How often? And where I do?
Speaker 5 (18:28):
So? The transition out of out of football is always tricky.
And the greatest thing I ever did was jump into
the Beer league circuit here in Pittsburgh and spent about
three years of my life, three nights a week in
parking lots, making friends.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
With a lot of with a lot of guys.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Had a lot of fun doing it. Then transition more
into coaching kids and more specifically coaching girls hockey. And
we're at the UPNC Lemieux Center, and I spend my
days at the rink. In fact, I'm driving back from
the rink right now and just doing the best I
can to try to create a great experience for our
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kids through hockey.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Now, let's stay with that, because you're not giving yourself
enough credit. Seawan. You are director of the Penzy League
girls hockey program, and boy, it is so successful. Lots
of championship and lots of girls moving on to bigger
and better Talk in more detail about what you got
going on there.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Yeah, it's special. We have one hundred and twenty five
girls in our program with some of our older teams.
We have girls from around the world that come to
be part of our program. And this year was very,
very special. We had four of our alumni compete and
win gold in the Olympics this year.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Just magic.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
And then we had a current player, our goalie Bianca,
who started for the U eighteen team in net and
beat Team Canada to win gold as well.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Pretty exciting year. Now, what age group do you coach?
Are you still hands on with the coaching or just
an administrator?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Now, well, I spend more time on my laptop than
I wish I did, But I jump on the ice
with all of our ages ten you up through nineteen you.
But I do spend the majority of the time with
the high school age teams.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
What what's the difference between coaching boys coaching girls. You know,
I don't want to say the girls are more delicate,
but it's just different, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
All These girls aren't These girls are wired different. They're
different than most and that's why they excel in our program.
They're warriors and they want to be great. They want
to be great teammates, and they're great competitors, and you know,
it's my job to ensure that that they have this
environment where they can chase their dreams. They're awesome, these girls,
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they're they're badass. You should come do a show. Watch
these girls play.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I've seen Penzy Lake girls play. It's incredible. It's it's
I mean, I mean, I think the boys programs great.
I think the girls program has probably done a bit
more at truth be told, I might have.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
To send you a Pensleague girls hockey T shirt maybe.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
If you could. If you can find double X, I'd
love to have it. We're talking to Seawn Sweetsim here
on on one oh five nine. Next. Now, Son, you're
from Ontario, talk about your hockey background. How long did
you play in at what levels and when? And how
did football steal you away?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
I can't. I can't tell you how excited I am
to talk about hockey. You might recall from my time
in football, I was always quite quiet in terms of
chatting with the media, and that was intentional, not that
I didn't think you were unbelievable, but I thought that
I thought that that role for me was was to
make kicks and keep my mouth quiet. But it's really
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exciting to talk about hockey.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I grew up.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
I grew up. I started as a figure skater small
town walls forg Ontario and played hockey from the time
I was four years old where our local junior team,
I played on the walls for Lakers. Some of the
greatest sport moments.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Of my life. That's a school bus.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Driving on school nights to play games in neighboring communities.
Having fun with the boys was really special time. Actually,
when I left, I came to Bowling Green in the
US with a broken hand from a hockey fight. As
I showed up as a kicker, I had no kicking
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plates and a broken hand. I had no idea what
I was signing up for, but grateful for the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Well, as a kid, if you'd been given a choice
between kicking in the NFL, which you did, or skating
in the NHL, what would you have picked? Well, I would.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
I would pick the NHL all day long. But that
doesn't mean that I'm not grateful for football. I love
the Pittsburgh Steelers. I love the NFL. And sometimes I
sit and I laugh and I can't believe that I
tricked the NFL for eleven years to have a job
kicking footballs. But that has changed my life in such
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a great way. I believe in sports the impact that
it has had on me, and I know it has
on our kids through sport.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Regardless of sport, I.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Just happened to be back in hockey, and Pittsburgh has become.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Our home where two daughters that have grown up here.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Sianna Installa is seventeen and fourteen years old now, and
we Pittsburgh has become our home and we're forever grateful
for what Pittsburgh has become and been to our family.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
How do you look back at your tenure with the Steelers,
because those were some interesting times and you got to
kick in the Super Bowl. That was a good team
when you were on it.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Oh, that was awesome. I was six years in when
I came back. I first came as a rookie in
two thousand and five, didn't make the team, and then
I made my found my way back to the Pittsburgh
Steelers and came at just an awesome time under great leadership,
great players. Special time to come back in and and
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find love for the sport, you know, and a passion
for it, and to be part of something that's so special.
The Rooney family, Mike Tomlin, Kevin Colbert, my buddies on
that team, you know, really special time to to come
back and to be part of something like that in
the pursuit of of trying.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
To be great. Well, and like I said, you kicked
in the Super Bowl. I mean, what do you remember
most about that game?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Well, the life of a kicker is absolute. So I
remember two things. I remember three things, one losing, two
making a field goal, and three missing a field goal.
You know, and those when you look back on sport
and the journey and like why you do it and
what you miss the most, it is so clear to
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me out that I'm that I'm removed from the game.
It's just it's being in it. It's the opportunity to
to be in that moment that's absolute, where it's uh,
there's nowhere to hide and uh, that's a special that's
a special journey to have being in that moment, preparing
for that moment, and it's tough.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
When you miss it.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Missing sucks, but you know, through that have have hopefully
become a better person and now give back and try
to help our kids and our girls, especially on their journey,
because it's not always going to be easy. And I
don't think it's supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Uh you're uh as a When you kicked in high
school ball in Ontario secondary school, I think it's called
did you use Canadian football rules? I've always been curious
about that. What was different for a kicker in scholastic
ball in Canada?
Speaker 5 (25:56):
So I how I got here is is amazing and
they certainly really haven't probably deserved any of the blessings
that I that I have in life. But I grew
up playing Canadian rules. I grew up in a very
small town and awesome town.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Great people. I love my home of Wallasburg.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
But football there is different than what you know football
to be here. We had twenty five guys on the team.
We would play in the afternoons our games. There's no
lights where I'm from, there's no night games. We didn't
have a scoreboard, so here's a fun one for you.
We had a flag guy that would hold up a
different color to let you know approximately how much time
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was left in each quarter. And that was what I
knew football to be. The middle third of our field.
I mean, we practiced on the same grass field. We
played on it the soccer teams used its kicking on
a dirt on a dirt football field, you know, and
found a way to earn a made some long field
goals and had an opportunity to come to the United States.
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Came to Bowling Green State University, met my lovely wife, Aaron,
and been.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
In the US twenty five years. Now. How did bowynd
Green find you or did you find them? You know,
kicking in that environment, because obviously it wasn't like high
school football in America.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Clearly, my uncle was my football coach, and like I
legitimately did not practice kicking footballs until I was on
scholarship in the United States. I would I played safety,
I played receiver, and I would kick. And in CFL rules,
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a missed field goal has to be returned, so there
was no there was no downside to kicking long field goals.
So that last year, the last three weeks of my
senior year, I kicked a fifty two fifty seven to
fifty yard field goal to finish out the last three weeks.
We're building up to Christmas. My own says, Sean, I
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think you can do this in the States and go
to school VHS tapes, taking the ferry across the border
into the US to mail them out help of family
and my parents of course, and Bowling Green said come
for a visit over Christmas break, and they said, and
I had enough credits, they wanted me to come to
Bowling Green and enroll in the spring semester. So the
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entire process took just over a month. I bought an
SAT book for dummies. I had to take the SATs
and it was a very, very, very quick turnaround. I
mean I showed up at Bowling Green with a broken
hand and no cacking cleats. I had no idea what
I was agreeing to. I just knew I was going
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to get to go to school for free.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Sean, that is such a great story. I mean that
your success with the Steelers, the work you do with
Penzy Late. It's such a pleasure to talk to you.
I thought you were one of the best players on
the ice last night, clearly better than Bartkowski, probably better
than Kolby Armstrong too.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Colby, Now, when we go back, one of the greatest
moments I've ever had is creating a roster a Beer
League team. We were the stiff Ones, and Colby was
part of that. That journey. He was He was great.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
He's the top ten.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
He's a ten plus eight plus all day.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Long in my eyes, Sewan, thank you so much about
he was go ahead.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
I was just gonna say, but there was a moment
where he was working so hard, he was a bit
red faced and needed some suck, some win. But I
was proud of him.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Sean This was great. Thank you so much for taking
a time, great work with Penzi lead with the Malone Foundation,
and we will see you tomorrow night at the gala. Thanks.
Take care that Shawn Swee some former Steeler kicker, pretty
good hockey player too. Did not look out of place
out there, although that was some Beer League guys. A
lot of first responders, that's what it's all about. A
lot of x nhtlers though, and Shawn Swee some fit
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right in and certainly a great kicker.
I like the Denucci segment sewn sweet, I'm gonna knock
it dead. I'm sure when he joins me at five
thirty now while we're talking about Drew Aller instead of
Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Rodgers old, boring, almost dead, Drew Aller,
the future of the Steelers, the future of the logo,
the savor of the logo. I know it quote the
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Talkcoast Nevermore. I was talking to Brett Keesl last night
at the Malone Family Foundation Heroes game, not at RMU
and the Diesel, and he didn't play. I think his
son had a lacrosse game, but he came to the
gathering afterwards. Always great to see the Diesel. And he
told a story about Troy Pulla Malli got a milestone interception,
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I think it was his thirtieth career interception, and at
a meeting of the defense Lebou said something like, congratulations, Troy,
you're only thirty two behind me, and of course hilarity ensued.
But Dick Clebo had sixty two career interceptions. He is
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still number ten all time in interceptions in NFL history,
and he played in an era where they threw about
half as much. You want to know when the Steelers
took a nose dive. I talked about this earlier. I'm
writing a column about it as we speak. When megamaniac
Mike Tomlin ran off guys like Dick Clebo and Bruce
(01:28):
Arians can you imagine that Mike Tomlin thought that he
could do a better job coaching defense than Dick Clebo.
Dick Lebo probably the best mind in football history when
it comes to the defensive side of the ball. Mike
Tomlin ran him off. Mike Tomlin ran Bruce Arians off,
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and the Steelers lie said bea retired, except he didn't.
Came back, won a couple Coach of the Year awards,
won a Super Bowl with Tampa. Palma got too much
control with that team. That's when things went down hill.
That's when things started to just reek of horsemen or bs,
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the lying. Yeah, him being gone, it's a good thing,
it's a great thing. It was a necessary thing. You
can't flip the script if you won't turn a page,
and that was a big page to turn. A three three,
four one two WXDX is the number to call. We
were talking some a bit earlier about the Pirates. They
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won today, they lost last night won two out of
three against Colorado. But they were thirteen and ten, and
now a month later they're twenty four and twenty. They're
spinning their wheels. They need more consistency from guys like
O'Neal Cruz. And here's the headline I like about another
cruise and I quote from the Athletic. By prioritizing results
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over metrics, led La Cruz has become one of MLB's
best all around. That's true, and I wish that was
contagious among people named Cruise. O'Neil Cruz makes a great throw,
ooh ah, HiT's a long home run, ooh uh, exit
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velocity mph, blah, blah blah. He's won for eight over
the past two games. His batting averages dropped one hundred
points in the last month. I think one of the
big talking points of today's game is Andy Rodriguez got
called up due to injuries, and he caught today and
got two hits. You can't play Henry Davis forever. If
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he's gonna hit one fifty one, can't do it. I
don't care how good defensively he is. You can't have
a guy in your order that's a black hole hitting
one fifty one. You can't do it. And I'm not
saying any Rodriguez is the answer, because he was projected
as such a while back and has not yet been.
But I'd give everybody in that organization with a catcher's
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mitt an opportunity to get that job, because you can't
hit one fifty one and play forever. You can't do it.
Doesn't matter if Schemes likes you, catching doesn't matter. If
you're one one pick, which Henry Davis was, you can't
have him catch forever. All right, eight three to three,
four one two WXDX, get your calls in. We got
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Sean Sweets and the former Steeler kicker at the bottom
of the hour. I'm curious that I really have come
to realize tom Win leaving was so necessary, should have
happened a while back. But it's even more of a
positive that I thought it would be. And I thought
about him having runoff lebow and arians how could that
have happened? And look what happened, because it did. All
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Tomin has going for him is that phony record, that
meaningless mark of no losing seasons, and that was a
ben record more than it was a to Tomlin record.
McCarthy's the guy. Tomlin hurt that team more than helped
for many, many years. He was only a good coach
at the beginning with Cower's team and faded from there.
And it was his ego, his megalomania, McCarthy replacing Tomlin.
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I knew it was good. It's much better even even now,
even when we can see the hands on stuff with Aler.
It's much better than I thought it would be. And
I thought it would be good, but this is great.
I think might take a year.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
One oh five ninety X this Saturday, go to Joe
Daddy Brewery and give Sonia for the Pineapple power Play
release party with one oh five nine the X and
Mark Madden from three to five pl'chas the limited relief.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And now the super genius Mark Madden.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Hey, Mark, great show when you got a.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Young Trophy White Owes Monday to I can't even quote
the big o'bowski right goodbye with the ex at one
oh five nine. This is normally the portion of the
show where I say get your calls in now at
eight three, three, four one two wa because I'm just
about out of material. Bit uh between all the leaks
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Steelers Depot has managed to piece together what we think
is the entire Steelers schedule for twenty twenty six. That
will officially be ann once tonight at eight pm, but
it's week one at home against Atlanta, Week two at
New England, which, if Tom will we're still coaching. That
could be the Adultery Ball against Mike Rabel or the
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Irony Bowl, whatever you prefer. Week three at home against Cincinnati,
Week four at Cleveland, Week five at home against Indy,
Week six at Tampa, Week seven against New Orleans at Paris,
Week eight at home against Cleveland. Week nine. By then
it gets tough. Week ten at Bengals, Week eleven at Eagles,
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Week twelve versus Broncos, that's the Black Friday game. It's
at Pittsburgh, Week thirteen against Houston, Sunday Night football, Week
fourteen at Jacksonville, Monday Night football. Week fifteen and sixteen
home games against Baltimore and Carolina. Week seventeen at Tennessee,
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Week eighteen at Baltimore. So Steelers playing the Ravens twice
late in the season, again playing the Bronze twice before
the bye week. The Steelers will lose one of those games.
I don't think the Brons are gonna stink. I think
they're taking an educated risk given to Shawn Watson another shot.
I think he'll do. Okay. They got Garrett, they got
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some players, they got some receivers, they had a good draft.
I think the Brons aren't gonna stink, and I think
they will beat the Steelers once. So let's see. Let
me go down this game by game. Okay, ten and seven.
I won't insult you by doing it. They're gonna beat Atlanta. No,
They're gonna go ten and seven, maybe nine to eight,
like they always do. And if they go worse, that's okay.
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If they go worse and move forward, if they go
worse and really get that offensive line assembled for the
long haul, If they get worse and Rogers gets hurt,
doesn't play for whatever reason and they figure things out
a quarterback, that's okay. But I'm predicting ten and seven
or nine and eight. We've been talking all day about
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the Againy Malkin situation. Josh Joe wrote a really good
column about it, talking about the age of the Penguins,
which I talked about to open the hour, and you
gotta they use that phrase flip the script about the playoffs,
how they proved everybody wrong until in the playoffs the
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Penguins proved everybody right because they weren't that good. But
you can't flip the script without turning the page. And
I think it is time for the Penguins to turn
the page. But again, I keep going back and forth
on it, and if they keep malking, I won't be
outraged because I'll understand why, But I also understand that
why will have been for the wrong reasons. When I
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do the last word tonight, at a little later on,
at five forty five or so, I will talk about
Malcolms some more, because I think that is the biggest
story in Pittsburgh sports. What happens now with the guinea
malk and the Rogers thing. It's gone on so long,
two years in a row, as to become clearly comical.
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And I don't care what he does. I care what
the Penguins decide about Malkin. I don't think what the
Steelers decide about Rogers affects the short term or the
long term with the team very much. I think bring
him back, a forty two year old quarterback, because he
thinks he gives you the best chance to win now,
especially this forty two year old quarterback who ain't what
he used to be and ain't one of the top
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twenty quarterbacks in the league. What they're doing now with
Rogers is just jerking off. And I made the hand motion.
I'm gonna be on camera soon. We installed those, so
when you see me on camera in the near future,
on Twitter, wherever we're gonna put it up, you will
see me do the jerking off motion. But bringing Rogers
back at forty two because you think you can win now,
because you think he can win now, that is just
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jerking off. And I say that with all respect for
what Mike McCarthy brings to the table with quarterbacks and offensively,
because I know you don't coach Rogers, you negotiate with him.
Let's go to uh, what's this guy's name, Mick Nick? Jack?
Who cares? Jack? You're on the air, I'm lark, what's
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up to you?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
So after the Steeler game on Black Friday, will be
uh Texas in a.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
And m then right, yeah, okay, okay, So what.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I'm glad Andy's back up. I've been waiting for him
for two years and he's not going to hit six
sixty seven all year, but he's finally a stick in
the behind the plate.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Well, yeah, one game he was, And I would certainly
keep him in the lineup for a bit to see
if he can keep up some semblance of offense, because
Henry Davis is providing you no semblance of offense. Joey
Bart's picked it up a little bit. Hey, if Endy
can hit, what I would do is I'd forget about
Henry Davis and I would just go with Dy and
Joey Bart, because you can't when you have a team
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with like the Pirates that is offensively. I think the
most charitable way to put it offensively is extremely inconsistent.
I don't think you can put a black hole in
the lineup. You can't have a bunch of guys who
were inconsistent and then Ryan O'Hearn who's consistent, and Henry Davis,
who does nothing. That's not a good lineup that it's
not going to get into playoffs. I'm just looking at
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whatever they can do to get them in the playoffs.
And you're right, I'd give Dy a shot. If he
keeps hitting, I'd keep him in there and forget about
Henry Davis. Thank you for the call. Yeah, I still,
I mean I like the Pirates better. I still don't
think they're good enough to make the playoffs. I think
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they still need more more fans, not least well, No,
that doesn't matter in terms of or losing bit uh,
I said earlier in just a review. I checked Dot
buco ticket prices UH for today's game, which god, I
think nineteen k. The cheapest ticket available was thirty six
bucks on the Pirate site, twenty three bucks on StubHub.
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Twenty three bucks is pretty reasonable. For tomorrow night's game
against Philly, it's the same ticket price on the Pirate site.
In on StubHub, the cheapest is forty three bucks. I
couldn't find any and I was looking like crazy. I
couldn't find any info on the Pirate's website, their ticket
site about about what what you know those you get
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those standing room tickets. I know there's a season ticket
for standing room that's really cheap, but but I again,
their website not really easy to navigate. In fact, I'm
trying to do it now to get to get updated
ticket prices for tomorrow, and it's just hard to do.
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A three three four one two wxdx. No, I hate
it when and my call screen went blank, so I
don't know if I have any calls. We put a
camera in, but the call screen doesn't work anymore. And uh,
and I'm trying to vample. I can look up the
ticket prices, but that is just going nowhere. A three
three four one two wxdx. I love the now Now
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I try to type in the pirate website. I got
blabermouth dot net, which is the music gossip website. So
this really isn't going well. Me trying to navigate on
the air, or is this gonna work? Hold on? Maybe now,
maybe not. Let's give it time to load. Let's give
it time to load. Let's give it time to load.
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It didn't load, all right?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
We got Sean sweetson coming up next. The NFL schedule
revealers tonight at eight pm. Absolute showcase for the league's megalomania,
and they do Tom was talking earlier. They do goofy
videos each team that kinda is supposed to be comedic
and makes fun a little bit of the other teams,
the opponents. And I saw somewhere that like the Patriots opponents,
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they can joke about Rabel and Russini. The NFL didn't
tell them, No, that's unbelievable. I mean, if I'm the NFL,
I'm not a big guy with censorship, but I would
absolutely tell them they couldn't talk about Rabel and Rassini.
But there's nothing new about the schedule reveal except they
take what we already knew who's gonna play who and where,
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and they match it to a calendar. But it's treated
like this absolute event because the NFL one thing they're
good at is making everything, no matter how pick a
unit in minuscule, they make it into an event. And
like I avoided doing earlier, the minute that schedules released,
ninety nine point nine percent of the people who do
what I do will go down the schedule game by
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game because it wastes time and predict every result and
a one lost record. Think about that. People will be
telling you what the Steelers will do in November. Now,
it's silly for September October. But the further you get in,
I mean injuries, trades, YadA, YadA, they're gonna pricked it
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now and you're gonna listen and maybe I should do it.
I'm next gonna talk to former Steelers kicker Sean sweet
him here at one O five to nine.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
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Speaker 4 (15:48):
Ryan O'Hearn smash, the Homer of the Pirates, won the
rubber game of their series with the Rockies at PNC
Park today. Next up, the Phillies come to town for
a weekend series starting tomorrow. NFL fans will have their
second Christmas tonight when the league releases the schedule for
all thirty two teams.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
We already know the Steelers will go to Paris.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
They'll face the Saints there, but they're also reportedly hosting
Denver on Black Friday before two straight primetime games.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I'm Scott Davidson. Run a business and not thinking about radio.
Think again because people are listening to radio more today.
Those to win prime just horrible. He is terrible. The
exit one oh five nine. My guess right now is
a rare combination of football guy and hockey guy legit
in both. Formerly at the Pittsburgh Steelers. He is kicker
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Sean sweesum Sean. They're paying kickers seven million dollars? Now,
do you feel like you quit too early?
Speaker 5 (16:41):
No, I'm feeling like I wish they carried Beer League hockey.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Players that much. That's a great answer. Hey, this is
a loaded question, but is any kicker worth seven mil?
Is bos Worth that I know you're gonna say yes,
but I gotta ask. Tell me why. It's the best
job in the world.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Do you miss And as soon as the team as
a kicker that misses that kick, you know they wish
they would have paid seven millions. So I think if
anyone has ever been deserving, it is mister Boswell. Super
happy for him.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Now, you're involved with the mo Own Family Foundation, the
gala at River's Casino tomorrow night, and you played in
the Heroes game last night. How'd you feel out there?
I know you played hockey fairly off and correct. I
love hockey.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
I've football pulled me away for a while, but it's
it's been awesome to get back into it and to
be back on the ice, To be on ice, I
certainly don't belong within that group, but grateful for the opportunity.
And you know, I've been really working with Barkowski. He
calls me all the time and he looks for advice
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how to play the game the right way. And I
chirped him pretty hard because he wasn't who I wanted
him to be in the first period. And I did
an interview, and I want to be open and clear,
I called him an anchor, And man, was I proud
of him.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
A lot of resolved in the second period. He was unbelievable,
best player on the ice. Now, when you say Matt
Parkusky's an anchor, do you mean that he was an
anchored type player? Did he drag everybody down to the bottom.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
No, he was thinking the ship in the first but
he came the h He stepped up in a big
way in that second period.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Now, you play hockey fairly often, don't you talk about that?
How often? And where I do?
Speaker 5 (18:28):
So? The transition out of out of football is always tricky.
And the greatest thing I ever did was jump into
the Beer league circuit here in Pittsburgh and spent about
three years of my life, three nights a week in
parking lots, making friends.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
With a lot of with a lot of guys.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Had a lot of fun doing it. Then transition more
into coaching kids and more specifically coaching girls hockey. And
we're at the UPNC Lemieux Center, and I spend my
days at the rink. In fact, I'm driving back from
the rink right now and just doing the best I
can to try to create a great experience for our
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kids through hockey.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Now, let's stay with that, because you're not giving yourself
enough credit. Seawan. You are director of the Penzy League
girls hockey program, and boy, it is so successful. Lots
of championship and lots of girls moving on to bigger
and better Talk in more detail about what you got
going on there.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Yeah, it's special. We have one hundred and twenty five
girls in our program with some of our older teams.
We have girls from around the world that come to
be part of our program. And this year was very,
very special. We had four of our alumni compete and
win gold in the Olympics this year.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Just magic.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
And then we had a current player, our goalie Bianca,
who started for the U eighteen team in net and
beat Team Canada to win gold as well.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Pretty exciting year. Now, what age group do you coach?
Are you still hands on with the coaching or just
an administrator?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Now, well, I spend more time on my laptop than
I wish I did, But I jump on the ice
with all of our ages ten you up through nineteen you.
But I do spend the majority of the time with
the high school age teams.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
What what's the difference between coaching boys coaching girls. You know,
I don't want to say the girls are more delicate,
but it's just different, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
All These girls aren't These girls are wired different. They're
different than most and that's why they excel in our program.
They're warriors and they want to be great. They want
to be great teammates, and they're great competitors, and you know,
it's my job to ensure that that they have this
environment where they can chase their dreams. They're awesome, these girls,
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they're they're badass. You should come do a show. Watch
these girls play.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I've seen Penzy Lake girls play. It's incredible. It's it's
I mean, I mean, I think the boys programs great.
I think the girls program has probably done a bit
more at truth be told, I might have.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
To send you a Pensleague girls hockey T shirt maybe.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
If you could. If you can find double X, I'd
love to have it. We're talking to Seawn Sweetsim here
on on one oh five nine. Next. Now, Son, you're
from Ontario, talk about your hockey background. How long did
you play in at what levels and when? And how
did football steal you away?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
I can't. I can't tell you how excited I am
to talk about hockey. You might recall from my time
in football, I was always quite quiet in terms of
chatting with the media, and that was intentional, not that
I didn't think you were unbelievable, but I thought that
I thought that that role for me was was to
make kicks and keep my mouth quiet. But it's really
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exciting to talk about hockey.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I grew up.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
I grew up. I started as a figure skater small
town walls forg Ontario and played hockey from the time
I was four years old where our local junior team,
I played on the walls for Lakers. Some of the
greatest sport moments.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Of my life. That's a school bus.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Driving on school nights to play games in neighboring communities.
Having fun with the boys was really special time. Actually,
when I left, I came to Bowling Green in the
US with a broken hand from a hockey fight. As
I showed up as a kicker, I had no kicking
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plates and a broken hand. I had no idea what
I was signing up for, but grateful for the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Well, as a kid, if you'd been given a choice
between kicking in the NFL, which you did, or skating
in the NHL, what would you have picked? Well, I would.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
I would pick the NHL all day long. But that
doesn't mean that I'm not grateful for football. I love
the Pittsburgh Steelers. I love the NFL. And sometimes I
sit and I laugh and I can't believe that I
tricked the NFL for eleven years to have a job
kicking footballs. But that has changed my life in such
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a great way. I believe in sports the impact that
it has had on me, and I know it has
on our kids through sport.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Regardless of sport, I.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Just happened to be back in hockey, and Pittsburgh has become.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Our home where two daughters that have grown up here.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Sianna Installa is seventeen and fourteen years old now, and
we Pittsburgh has become our home and we're forever grateful
for what Pittsburgh has become and been to our family.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
How do you look back at your tenure with the Steelers,
because those were some interesting times and you got to
kick in the Super Bowl. That was a good team
when you were on it.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Oh, that was awesome. I was six years in when
I came back. I first came as a rookie in
two thousand and five, didn't make the team, and then
I made my found my way back to the Pittsburgh
Steelers and came at just an awesome time under great leadership,
great players. Special time to come back in and and
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find love for the sport, you know, and a passion
for it, and to be part of something that's so special.
The Rooney family, Mike Tomlin, Kevin Colbert, my buddies on
that team, you know, really special time to to come
back and to be part of something like that in
the pursuit of of trying.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
To be great. Well, and like I said, you kicked
in the Super Bowl. I mean, what do you remember
most about that game?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Well, the life of a kicker is absolute. So I
remember two things. I remember three things, one losing, two
making a field goal, and three missing a field goal.
You know, and those when you look back on sport
and the journey and like why you do it and
what you miss the most, it is so clear to
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me out that I'm that I'm removed from the game.
It's just it's being in it. It's the opportunity to
to be in that moment that's absolute, where it's uh,
there's nowhere to hide and uh, that's a special that's
a special journey to have being in that moment, preparing
for that moment, and it's tough.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
When you miss it.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Missing sucks, but you know, through that have have hopefully
become a better person and now give back and try
to help our kids and our girls, especially on their journey,
because it's not always going to be easy. And I
don't think it's supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Uh you're uh as a When you kicked in high
school ball in Ontario secondary school, I think it's called
did you use Canadian football rules? I've always been curious
about that. What was different for a kicker in scholastic
ball in Canada?
Speaker 5 (25:56):
So I how I got here is is amazing and
they certainly really haven't probably deserved any of the blessings
that I that I have in life. But I grew
up playing Canadian rules. I grew up in a very
small town and awesome town.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Great people. I love my home of Wallasburg.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
But football there is different than what you know football
to be here. We had twenty five guys on the team.
We would play in the afternoons our games. There's no
lights where I'm from, there's no night games. We didn't
have a scoreboard, so here's a fun one for you.
We had a flag guy that would hold up a
different color to let you know approximately how much time
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was left in each quarter. And that was what I
knew football to be. The middle third of our field.
I mean, we practiced on the same grass field. We
played on it the soccer teams used its kicking on
a dirt on a dirt football field, you know, and
found a way to earn a made some long field
goals and had an opportunity to come to the United States.
(27:03):
Came to Bowling Green State University, met my lovely wife, Aaron,
and been.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
In the US twenty five years. Now. How did bowynd
Green find you or did you find them? You know,
kicking in that environment, because obviously it wasn't like high
school football in America.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Clearly, my uncle was my football coach, and like I
legitimately did not practice kicking footballs until I was on
scholarship in the United States. I would I played safety,
I played receiver, and I would kick. And in CFL rules,
(27:39):
a missed field goal has to be returned, so there
was no there was no downside to kicking long field goals.
So that last year, the last three weeks of my
senior year, I kicked a fifty two fifty seven to
fifty yard field goal to finish out the last three weeks.
We're building up to Christmas. My own says, Sean, I
(28:01):
think you can do this in the States and go
to school VHS tapes, taking the ferry across the border
into the US to mail them out help of family
and my parents of course, and Bowling Green said come
for a visit over Christmas break, and they said, and
I had enough credits, they wanted me to come to
Bowling Green and enroll in the spring semester. So the
(28:23):
entire process took just over a month. I bought an
SAT book for dummies. I had to take the SATs
and it was a very, very, very quick turnaround. I
mean I showed up at Bowling Green with a broken
hand and no cacking cleats. I had no idea what
I was agreeing to. I just knew I was going
(28:43):
to get to go to school for free.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Sean, that is such a great story. I mean that
your success with the Steelers, the work you do with
Penzy Late. It's such a pleasure to talk to you.
I thought you were one of the best players on
the ice last night, clearly better than Bartkowski, probably better
than Kolby Armstrong too.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Colby, Now, when we go back, one of the greatest
moments I've ever had is creating a roster a Beer
League team. We were the stiff Ones, and Colby was
part of that. That journey. He was He was great.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
He's the top ten.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
He's a ten plus eight plus all day.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Long in my eyes, Sewan, thank you so much about
he was go ahead.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
I was just gonna say, but there was a moment
where he was working so hard, he was a bit
red faced and needed some suck, some win. But I
was proud of him.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Sean This was great. Thank you so much for taking
a time, great work with Penzi lead with the Malone Foundation,
and we will see you tomorrow night at the gala. Thanks.
Take care that Shawn Swee some former Steeler kicker, pretty
good hockey player too. Did not look out of place
out there, although that was some Beer League guys. A
lot of first responders, that's what it's all about. A
lot of x nhtlers though, and Shawn Swee some fit
(29:55):
right in and certainly a great kicker.
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