Joe

big deal when they when the penguins traded for a ginla that was gigantic pirates drafting paul skeens was on a sunday so that wouldn't have yeah yeah but that wasn't necessarily a surprise as it was building up most people thought it was going to be that this is what yeah you only get a few and i bob your career has been longer than mine you only get a few where everybody in the newsroom suddenly like limits jumps up and runs down the hallway you don't jump up and run down the hallway

Oh, my God.

I remember, Bob, 2012 for the Trib.

I found the guy who was hit by Rivera, who he had been drinking.

and of course his injuries were just inconceivable, right?

I think he had a crushed spinal column and everything else, and he wound up really turning his life around, Gabe Rivera, before he passed recently.

Well, I didn't mean to get off on this tangent here, but it's an interesting story.

It was a little after 9 p.m.

on October 20th, 1983 is when it happened.

Eight somewhere in there.

Bob, I was coming from Buffalo, driving, visiting my folks.

And I swear to you, this is all true.

I swear it.

So I'm coming from Buffalo.

I'm late.

They had a thing where they wanted us over at the south side, to which I was always like, if news happens, I'll get over there.

But no, they were like, you have to be in the office, you know, the Steelers media office over there.

So I'm driving late, late from straight from Buffalo to the Steelers headquarters.

And I cut down on whatever that street was.

Second Avenue.