The Steelers fan showers
In Super Bowl XIII, Pittsburgh’s Terry Bradshaw threw four touchdown passes to lead the Steelers to a 35-31 win over Dallas at the Orange Bowl in Miami. After the game, NFL Films’ Steve Sabol saw someone who didn’t seem to be a player. Per the LA Times: “I’d been around the Steelers long enough to know this guy wasn’t a trainer or an equipment guy. Who the hell was he? It was obvious he wasn’t a player. So I went over to talk to Joe Greene at his locker, and during the course of the interview, this guy comes out of the shower and starts getting dressed in front of a locker near Joe’s. I said, “Joe, who is this guy?” And Joe’s exact words were, ‘I don’t know who . . . he is.’ Now, some guys are sheepish about walking around naked in those situations. That wasn’t this guy. No modesty at all. So he goes and parks himself in front of Larry Brown’s locker. And I think this is the best part: Suddenly, three reporters come over and start interviewing him about the game! First of all, Larry Brown was a 6-foot-4, 260-pound, big, muscular African-American guy. This was a little white guy. Not only that, but Larry Brown didn’t even suit up for the game. Well, this guy was going along with the interview for a while. But the reporters figured out pretty quickly that this wasn’t Larry Brown. Ever since then, I’ve always been kind of leery about any kind of locker-room quote from the Super Bowl. Anyway, this fan got dressed and walked out of the locker room.”