Today is Thursday, August 6. In another timeline, we would be counting down the hours before being treated to Pittsburgh Steelers preseason football later today, when they were scheduled to face off against the Dallas Cowboys in the 2020 edition of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game.
It would have come shortly after we witnessed Steelers legend Troy Polamalu and former Super Bowl-winning head coach Bill Cowher inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and listened to their no-doubt poignant speeches. And all the while we would have bee thinking about Donnie Shell, who would have been due to be enshrined in a separate ceremony next month.