Trash talk journalism gone too far? Pittsburgher & Denver fans may want to see this!

[KillarneyRose]

I'm dating myself, but I remember steel mills!

I remember driving over the bridge to get to Kennywood and seeing the Homestead works where Waterside is now.

I even remember when I lived out near the county airport for awhile that we actually didn't have some school some days because the air quality was so bad because of the US Steel Clairton works.

And I can definitely remember walking down the hill from my house to my elementary school and seeing the Blawnox works with the Allegheny River behind it and wondering if the water would rush into the mill when the back door was open. (so, maybe I didn't have the greatest depth perception...that's not the point of the story!)

Steel mills really weren't such a bad thing (aside from that whole air quality thing which was eventually addressed by the EPA). They provided well-paying jobs for many of the men in my family and Pittsburghers in general.

That said, Dani, Sheila and Honey are right that there aren't any mills within the city. So even if this an opinion piece we're discussing, he was still wrong to write that.

Pittsburghers do love their football, though, no way to deny that. And I think that was really the gist of the column.