I realize there are some people who are reading this article who weren’t alive for the Kordell Stewart era in Pittsburgh Steelers history. They weren’t there to see “Slash” explode onto the scene. They weren’t there for the meteoric rise of a Colorado quarterback as a do-it-all offensive weapon for Bill Cowher’s Steelers.
They also weren’t there for Stewart’s struggles on the field. The AFC Championship game losses, and of course the rumors.
In 1998 I was a freshman in High School in Wheeling, WV. For those who don’t know where Wheeling is geographically compared to Pittsburgh, it is about 45-50 minutes way from the Steel City in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, the small part pinched between Ohio and Pennsylvania.