Fr John Salem wears a St Eelers lapel pin. I grew up a Steeler fan. Fr John is THE Steeler fan. God is always good. But, I’m thankful the Steelers made it to the Super Bowl for many reasons — not least of which is it goes a long way in making a great work environment that much better. I predict, if they win, Fr John will give all of St George parishioners at least $1,000 each.

I realize the Carolina Panthers weren’t 100% yesterday. There’s one thing that has aggravated me for years about them … arm tackling. Whoever coaches them on “tackling” needs to be fired. They are the worst of the better teams. By arm tackling, I’m talking about when a player sort of does a whirl around the ball runner (sort of like an amusement ride) without knocking the heck out of him … or at least “wrapping him up” and falling to the ground. Yesterday, the Panthers played about as good as the Packers.

Go Steelers.