"Being a Pittsburgh Steeler is like being in a CULT!" - Willie Colon on playing for the Steelers
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If the Steelers lose, the ENTIRE CITY is in a state of deep depression on Monday, no joke. Willie said it correctly... Steeler Nation is a CULT... And we love it. Great interview and Kudos to you on your program. Cheers
He is right about that. I remember when we lost the Superbowl there was a dark cloud over the whole city.
Prepare for depression sir cause week one Joey B is gonna get that azz 🫣
Same in Buffalo. All the rust belt cities live through their football teams.
Dude, that is SO 100% true!
I came to a 1 PM game from out of town where they lost to the Chargers. We were staying at the South Side Sheraton. Went to Station Square maybe an hour after the game was over, and my 3 friends and I were quite literally the only ones there. Like the whole place!
This all may be true. But there is only ONE Nation.
What he said about them protecting their players if they were drunk and needed a ride is true for everyone. My friend and I were obliterated on the south side one night and too drunk to even use the Uber app properly. A dude just playing the bongos just stopped what was making him some money just to give us a ride across town.
It’s a great city with incredibly kind people.
He's right about it being Generational. I'm born and raised in Pittsburgh, now live in DFW. Met my wife at at Steelers bar in DFW. She grew up a Steelers fan in DFW because her Dad was born and raised in Pittsburgh... it truly runs deep.
I done seen plenty of church services start and end based on what time the Steeler game starts. 12:45 You gotta rap it up. 😂
Lmao...😂😂😂
The Lord don't mind. He's watching and waving a towel up there with Myron anyway!
Absolutely!!!!
i agree with willie i'm a cult member of steeler nation - when we lose i get so depressed lol i know it sounds stupid but everything he says is true - and now with kenny pickett there is was energy at the preseason game saturday night against seattle that made for probably the most exciting preseason game in the history of the nfl - it was just cute lol
when we lose, i can't watch ESPN or the NFL network until the Wednesday/Thursday after the loss...
@@graysonbillings6400 Ditto!! 🖤💛
Win win gang
Willie Colon could have made more money playing elsewhere, but he left money on the table when a free agent to stay in Pittsburgh. And he wasn't the only one during those years. The Pittsburgh Steelers are considered the best workplace in the NFL by many players and their agents.
Especially to go play for the Jets. Ugg…one of the worst franchises in the league.
Truth, ask LeVeon Bell if he would do it differently now than when he held out. Mike Wallace wishes he stayed. Some guys even come back just because they hated it on other teams. Larry Foote, William Gay, Randle EL, Plaxico Burress, Bryant McFadden. Lawrence Timmons wanted to come back too. We wanted him back with us too, but he was still under contract with Miami. He went awol one week cause he hated the culture with the Dolphins, and he's from Florida. There's a culture about Steelers football, southwest PA football you won't get anywhere else. The best player in all of football at this present time is Aaron Donald, and he isn't a Steeler, but he has the key 🗝️ to the city here cause he's homegrown. Cam Heyward is treated like Gold around here cause he is our own. And he's one of the best Steelers to ever don a uniform. So it's not just Steelers we love our own round deaz parts 😆
@@michaellewis8467 letting Plax walk was a massive mistake. He was just heading into his prime but he did get a ring in NY v probably two he gets w the Steelers. Wallace and AR El were products of having an HOF QB. Their stats cratered once out of Pittsburgh. The Steelers weather you agree w their decisions are at least trying to win. And they win more than they lose most of the time. Are the lions, jets, commanders, giants, Texans, Jags really trying to win? Some franchises are just toxic like the raiders, bengals, browns, Vikings…it doesn’t matter who the coach or GM is. Don’t forget Harrison’s one year stint in Cincinnati. He came back and openly stated the bengals players don’t work hard or care about winning.
@@Biggdoom344 I forgot to add Harrison. There are a few others I forgot to mention too.
@@Biggdoom344 We didn't wanna let Plax go, but we only had enough $$ under the cap to keep him or Hines Ward. So, well, as hard of a decision as that was, the Steelers made the right one. But as history played out, they both got a ring out of the split. But we know Hines got 2 and a Superbowl MVP in the first one and won dancing with the stars. So I'd say Hines career had a few more bells and whistles. Plax had the unlucky decision of playing for the Jets after the Giants. Playing in NY is hard enough. But the Giants won it all. The Jets haven't been to the post season since he was there I think. And our other Superbowl winning receiver Santonio Holmes. Then we (Steelers) had pleasure of knocking them out of the playoffs lol.
When a team is consistently doing things "the right way", it fosters a deep lasting loyalty.
I am a born and bred Steelers fan from WV, (really not too far from Pittsburgh,) and it is an entire family thing! 🤣 My parents were fans, all my siblings were raised fans, and my kids had their baby pics taken in Steeler clothes. 🤣🖤💛
When I return to Pittsburgh, I know I'm home as soon as I step into the terminal. It could be the middle of May after a losing season and half of the people are wearing team colors.
Steelers baby!!!
I was waiting in line to get into the last game of the year that decided who got into the playoffs. It was Pittsburgh v Cincy, and the atmosphere was literally electric.
The guy in front of me in line was there with his young son, couldn’t have been more than 12. They were from WV. He was telling me his son bought them tickets to the game for his surprise Christmas present that year with money he’d earned doing odd jobs like mowing lawns, raking leaves, and shoveling driveways, and literally broke down into tears.
I looked my own kids who were about the same age and said “take notes, kids…”
Willie Colon. What a gentleman. Anytime you’re back in the burgh you know we’ll show that same love. Respect on this interview to the interviewer and to willie.
Willy is a real one...I did a fee shots with him before. He's funny as hell too💯 Always gonna be a fan of his. GO STEELERS!!!!
Awesome :3 best regards from Steeler Nation here in Mexico City! :D
Willie Colon, one of the greats
Love these interviews ❤️
Another amazing interview Rachel Hope you have a wonderful day 🙂❤️
I remember the days hanging out and seeing Steeler players in the bar or club like regular people. We still have Steeler Fridays at work. #SteelerNation
Can't wait to go see my first home game. Always been on top of all my list Togo to Pittsburgh and watch my first game in person
Great interview, Rachel! Willie is a great interview, and it didn’t hurt that you’re sporting Dodgers gear. 🤣 I hadn’t seen your work before (where have I been?!), but you have an easygoing way about you, a fantastic smile, and you’re obviously into the sports culture. Keep getting after it! 🙌🏼✊🏼👍🏼
This is awesome!! Great steelers player.
That was a great interview ! I’m a fan now !
Had a teacher where if the Steelers won, we did not have homework. Plus I remember my father deciding my family should go to see a musical when the Steelers were playing the Bears to get to Super Bowl 40, I know, and everyone was checking their phones for the score and when the game was over, someone came on stage and said the Steelers won.
Same here! English teacher in 6th grade always let us off the hook if the Steelers won, and he'd damn near fight you if you insulted his Terrible Towel
Been a fan since the early seventies, iwas in the navy at the time and needed something to ground me. They got good, after 40 years of not being good. And I rode the wave and still am even though idont live there no more. There are Steeler fans and bars in every major city in the U. S. and a lot of cities around the world. They have the biggest fan base of any NFL team. I'm proud to be a Steeler fan ,even though I'm not a yinzer. Keep on rolling black and gold!!
I am a lifelong Steelers fan and living in Western PA is amazing during football season. The emotional investment we put into our team is so intense. What is even crazier is that when leave the area and go on vacation the fans take their Steeler identity with them. I remember strolling down Daytona beach a few years ago and coming 4 different groups of people with Steeler beach blankets. Once I started talking to them it was like old home week. Invitations to party later on that evening and the nine yards. Willie is right. Being a Steeler fan is like being part of a wonderful family that borders on being cultlike.
This is such an accurate and admirable representation of Pittsburgh and Steeler nation. Willie always did right by us.
Dude, I've seen Steeler's jerseys in caskets in Pittsburgh. More than once. That's just how it is.
Great interview! Love your Dodgers t-shirt 🔥💙
I like your interviews Rachel!
A very nice on that video and August is on the halfway mark!❤️❤️
SteelerNation love you Rachel, great interview beautiful.
Southside 412 ...
Great interview
Reppin Akron, Ohio as well. West side. PeerlDamn good interview. I reallly enjoyed.
We still love you Willie!
Cool! I graduated from Central-Hower '04!
Rachel from 2k! Glad to see you're doing well!
He played some tough division rivalry games with us and never broke under pressure. He was part of that old style smash mouth football lineman Pittsburgh Steelers fan for life 💯
I went to Pittsburgh once. It was the game against the Redskins RGIII's rookie year and the people in Pittsburgh are so friendly surprisingly.
Pittsburgh is cool I like that city, I'm from California and I really felt like I was in the USA in Pittsburgh, I can't wait to go back the sun is operated especially when it's 110 degrees no rain ever, I would trade places with anyone in Pittsburgh, and on top of everything they have real people there
Winning cures everything. If the Steelers were losing during his playing days there then I'd like to believe Pittsburgh fans would be brutal just because of how passionate that fan base is. As a Jets fan, respect to the Steelers organization for being well run and for their consistency!
fans in Pittsburgh still watch and support the Pirates and all they do is lose year after year
@@backhurts11 I get it, but respectfully get at me when your team loses badly for several years and you don't make the playoffs for a decade lol smh. Then lets see how fair weather your fans are. Your fans are passionate. They would be upset AF if the team was consistently bad. You wouldn't treat your players like ancient Greek Gladiators and you wouldn't love and accept the team if they were trash. Yes, I'm not from there, but I disagree with you sir! Fair weather fans don't care if they win or lose. I'd bet Steeler fans do care.
@@backhurts11 I am also from Pittsburgh and I’ve seen sections of the Steelers fan base be ridiculous towards the franchise and players individually. I recall Michael Vick not having a warm welcome to many even though he already did his time in jail and had gotten his act together for years at that point.
Remember Joe Gilliam? He received death threats and racial slurs for being a black QB back in the 70s, I know that’s an entirely different generation but it still happened. If you dig deep enough you could probably fine other examples.
Every fan base has good and bad to it, and Pittsburgh isn’t separate from everyone else in that regard.
Just for that. Hope your jets have a prosperous winning season all the way. From a steelers fan myself to a jets fan to you. Respects my man👍🙏💪
I’ll always remember my psychology teacher discussing emotions/mood and asking “what singular event determines this school’s mood for the whole week?” And the answer was “if the Steelers won or lost on Sunday” Pittsburgh fans are just different
Pittsburgh is the best kept secret in the US...😆 dope city! I love visiting and hanging out in pittsburgh....good time
Hopefully you had the primanti bros sammich 😋 in dahn tahn pixburgh at market square 😎
@@alexandersippel the primanti bros around pittsburgh actually suck compared to the ones that are further out such as Erie. doesn't make sense but that is how it is
@@binessee that is fuckin strange 🤣 heck I've never had a primanti bros sammich outside of the burgh. Plus I've never been to Erie anyway.
Super awesome..🖤💛💯
Good interview
willie is a cool guy. nice interview!
Willie is absolutely right, but something else I noticed is if the steelers are winning cops don't pull you over but if they losing you goin to jail bc they be mad as hell too.
I forgot how much I love me some Willie colon
I rememeber when AB got caught speeding, like 50 over and no one wanted him to be suspended for the game vs the Panthers that Thursday
University of Pittsburgh had a study over ten years ago found that domestic violence calls jump something like 18% in Allegheny County after a Steeler loss..
I’m sure tv sales go up the next week too to replace the ones that got smashed.
😳
I married a yinzer, and at my wife's family's church during football season the pastor always has a Steelers jersey on and always prays for them to win and makes sure they wrap up in time for the game.
The most amazing part of being an actual Pittsburgh Steeler is that your occupation plays a HUGE role in the psychological health of an entire large city. The fans there are just nuts. Sure in a city the size of New York you'll have more clubs at night and more restaurants and such, but who cares if a city has 500 good restaurants or 50 good restaurants? Isn't 50 adequate? Or 100 good clubs vs. 10 good clubs? Who cares? What's way cooler to a player is when you GO IN those restaurants or clubs in Pittsburgh, 90% of the people in there recognize you and treat you like royalty. You're part of THEE BIG DEAL in town. That creates an amazing atmosphere for a player.
The difference is you can go out in NY at 2 AM on a Tuesday and find clubs that are packed. Pittsburgh is dead other than Friday or Saturday night.
@@krzykris Wow. I bet being stuck in Pittsburgh would be emotionally devastating for those of us who desperately want to be pounding shots and snorting coke in a sweaty wall to wall club at 2am on a Tuesday. lol.
I wouldn’t go so far as to call Pittsburgh a “large city” but very true
Father's from Pittsburgh and so is that side of the family all steelers fan. My mom from DC and I was raised in Baltimore. But I bleed purple cause this where I was raised and I like the color purple
All the Steelers fans I know fight with the team, and though there's that cloud after a loss, the fans rally behind the team. Continual and unconditional support, win or loss. That's the Steeler nation I see.
Willie was a dawg with the ladies at the clubs in Pittsburgh seen it with my own two eyes
In 70s, as we experienced the rise of the Steelers, the city would be in a funk all week after a loss. During the 80s, for my own sanity, I had to learn to not let the losses affect me because we lost more often. I'm now at the point where I can forget who won the super bowl one minute after the game when any other team than the Steelers win it.
Great insight about the people of Pittsburgh from a professional athlete. I once ran into a popular undersized LB on the Southside. Me and my boys made sure he got home safely.
One of my best friends and coworkers is a dyed in the wool Jets fan. He grew up down the street from Joe Namath in the late 60s and early 70s.
When we first met he told me how easy it was to be a Steelers fan. I was like “Why?” He then told me he was a Jets fan.
I asked him why he didn’t just let it go. He said it wasn’t like converting religions or something, but Broadway Joe would go toss catch with him and his buddies in the backyard if they cleaned the wire spike rims of his Lincoln Continental when he was washing his car back in the day.
when I went away to college, people would ask me, knowing i’m from pittsburgh, what my fav pro sports teams were. Id kinda just stare blankly and list off steelers, pens, bucs. they’d always hit me w the “ok yeah youre from pgh so you have to like them but whats your FAVORITE team” ….. people not from steeler nation will never understand. THERES NO CHOICE!! and honestly why would you wanna choose anyone else?
HERE WE
Pittsburgh Food is way better. Winning is also better in the Burgh. Miss you and the rest of the o line. Class act Willie!
#SteelerNation still would protect you ❤❤❤
Born and raised in Pittsburgh and i BLEEEEEEEEEEEED black and yellow
It's still like that and always will be in The Burgh
Growing up 15m north of Pittsburgh, I’ve been bleeding black n gold my 42yrs of life, even being a transplant living in Queens. Wear my black n gold daily up here. It’s just routine n natural wearing Steelers, Pirates or Pens.
4. Pittsburgh, PA; Annual cloudy days: 203! 6. Seattle, WA; Annual cloudy days: 201! 1. Anchorage, AK; Annual cloudy days: 239
I think its more of a working class Midwest thing really. In a lot of ways Pittsburgh felt like a Midwest rust belt city with a lot of hills and would almost consider it as maybe the very Eastern cusp of Midwest cities. But Cleveland, Buffalo and Milwaukee are Very Similar with how fans are with the players on their teams.
TRUTH!
PS4L 🖤💛🖤💛
I'm a Steeler fan. It's different.
SteelerNation til I die!!!
Pittsburgh the only city where I'f the players we out and about and needed a ride they would get in yinzers car for a ride where they needed to go.......saw it personally with juju
Win win gang bet them pleaas
Of course I do, I’m starving!
Willie and Hines were biggest players on that team with the ladies ask him about a certain club where they started on first floor would take their picks of ladies to invite to second floor then the floor this is a fact and Willie had his pick of any girl he wanted
Pittsburgh is a totally underrated city.....it is a "big-small city".....obviously that is sports mad.
I would just want to be in that church _ONE TIME_ to hear the priest say, "The game's about to start. Let's wrap it up. The Lord be with you. Peace be with you. We're out."
Out of respect for the all time greats and future great Steelers I make it a point of pride to not be fickle to the players that come to play for Pittsburgh. They always get the benefit of the doubt because the culture is focused on winning . This is why they never sink too low recently.
I've been a Steelers fan all my life since I was 8 I've been thru bad yrs and good ones, looks like we gonna have a damn good season 😁
#steelers 🏈💪
I'm not sure if we're a cult but I was named after Bradshaw before I was born :)
Rachel is the absolute best
I would say Green Bay is more of a cult since the Steelers are loved everywhere in the U.S and even Mexico. Heck, you’ll have more Steeler fans as visitors than the home team at times
Willie don't act like you aren't ordering fries and coleslaw in new york extra just to add the the sandwich or salad HAHA.
No! Steelers fans do not show cultish behavior. A cult has a leader. Every cult member will follow the leader and believe everything that leaders says. Who is the leader? Steeler football is more like a religion. Pure Faith we can win.
Brady is a cult leader and he has members.
Brotherhood
thats why steeler nation is the best
As a Bengals fan, I despise everything about the Steelers and the fan base.
You can go anywhere in the country and find a Steelers fan
I've been a Steelers fan since around 1971. Pittsburgh started going through some dark times, with the death of Pittsburgh's steel industry accelerating right around the time the Steelers became the dominant team in the history of professional football.
People were looking for something to hang onto, and the Pirates, as good as they were back then, weren't enough.
Willie is right, Steeler nation is a bit of a cult. People need something to hang onto, and the city doesn't have much going for it other than the Steelers. Exactly as he described it, you go shopping around Saturday or Sunday at waterworks, or wherever,and everyone seems to be draped in Black and Gold. In a way, it's kind of sad. After all, as much as we may love them, it's just a football team.
I was a young kid in the 70's, grew up in the Pitts area and loved the Steelers! Moved from PA and took that love with me! I still rock Steeler gear all the time! Many of my coworkers are Steeler fans and never lived in PA. Had nothing to do with hanging on to anything. Just about love for the sport and the team. Hey, I don't even have a 2nd team!
Go Dodgers 🔵⚾️ and Steelers 🔸♦️🔷🏈
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If geno payed what’s owed he wouldn’t have got his jaw broken. That really derailed his life.
Aint no way a Brown's fan rooted for Cincinnati
Damn Willie you have to learn how to pronounce Gyro correctly
She’s gorgeous. F- that shirt she wearin.
A cult eh? That's interesting
She's actually interviewing on of the worst O-Linemen we have ever had....he was terrible. lol
Bet you wish we had him now
@@budlight3649 Actually, no. He was always injured and would be overpaid in today's $'s.
@@nightwolf2666 there were only 2 seasons with the steelers where he didnt play every game of the season ( besides rookie year and the other season he only missed 5 games ). Maybe you just thought he was worse than he was because of everyone else around him.
@@budlight3649 He was average at best.
@@nightwolf2666 Man, would I be happy with an average O-Line today...
Willie “ false start” Colon!
U lost all credibility when u said u were a browns fan rooting for the bengals. Some people don’t understand football fan bases nvm AFC North fan bases
“Browns fan” cheering for the Bengals because “Ohio”? Fake casual. No AFC north fans cheer for another team in their division.
Or maybe some people understand it's just a game that has literally no real impact on anyone's lives that aren't apart of it. Some people just like to see everyone winning at life, is that such a bad thing?
@@josephlilley9249 no shit it has no impact on anyone’s life other than the people directly involved. But real NFL fans understand what I’m saying, specially the passionate fans of AFC north teams. It’s one thing cheering for the Jets and Giants, they’re not divisional rivals (key word, rivals). But cheering for two teams in the same division is as common as liberals and conservatives agreeing on anything these days. It’s just how NFL fandom works.
The stealers are losers always have been…wait till they start losing this season…4-13🤫
Weird situation with the Steelers coaching and ownership.... they have thrown Mason R. under the bus.. even though he has been solid.. In my opinion, I strongly think it's personal. I hope Mason finds a good team and leaves this BS behind.
When Kenny won the game late against the Seahawks he was the second coming.....when Mason did the same thing against the jags (with more pinpoint passes) Tomlin called Mason a back up at best playing against 3rd teamers. I'll be rooting against this franchise all season. If they win 7 games I'll be shocked. Should've drafted 1st, 2nd and 3rd round O-line help....then grabbed Malik. Mason would've looked like a young Ben with a strong O-line and Malik will be one of the best ever. Done with this backward organization
you're the only person ive seen with this take lmfao, kenny and mitch are better options then mason. Mason is a great backup but hes not good enough to start like a charlie batch type, nothing wrong with it. But not starter level qb
Tomlin said he was a Varsity guy playing against JV, and he was. Of course it wasn’t taken as it was when Kenny did it. He’s a rookie!
Okay mason we hear you eye 🙄
People forget 2019. The Steelers aren't going to cut or trade an established and effective Mason Rudolph for just a late round pick. At least not until Kenny takes the next step and Mitch doesn't blow his chance with INTs. After Ben, with zero established starter QB, the Steelers are keeping three.
@@n8tethegr8t20 meant what I said.
Wtf is with this title?!?! If it’s supposed to be good it’s makes the Steelers out to be evil.