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Steve Sabol's favorite Super Bowl stories, part III

Super Bowl XIII, post-game, in the Steelers' victorious locker room. Sabol. 'da man at NFL Films, is chatting with Mean Joe Greene. He and his crew are the only non-team employees in there (NFL Films gets to go right in after the game), with one exception.

There's an older, short, bald white dude, buck naked, in the shower with a bunch of Steelers, drinking and whooping it up. Yeah, you read that sentence correctly. No amount of security guards and police dogs were going to keep this superfan away from his victorious heroes.

"He's like 5-8, in his early 40s, and he's totally naked, drying off in front of Bennie Cunningham's locker - a 6-5, 250-pound tight end, who did not play in the game," Sabol said. "And we look over there and there's three reporters in front of him interviewing him. I guess they didn't know any better."

It was about this time that Sabol realized how big the Super Bowl was getting. The media hordes were up around 1,000 by then, and it was beginning to be covered more like a cultural phenomenon than a straight football game.

The mystery shower-er, by the way, was allowed to do as he pleased. No one threw him out, and he went on partying with the Steelers.

"There was such chaos in there that nobody cared," Sabol said. "Joe Green is looking at him and laughing. He said, 'I sure know he's not one of us, but I don't know who the hell he is.'"

By Jason La Canfora |  February 1, 2007; 8:00 AM ET
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Nobody respects the second-string punter!

Posted by: cload and daggar | February 1, 2007 8:04 AM

Heard during one of Buck Naked's interviews: "Oh, I don't play for the Steelers. I'm just here for the Bud Light."

Posted by: LH | February 1, 2007 8:17 AM

LMAO! Thanks for the the laugh this morning JLC. Did you get to change your hotel yet?

Posted by: jm220 | February 1, 2007 8:26 AM

That reminds me of that other commercial (can't remember what it was for) of the overweight bald guy getting dressed next to two huge NFL lineman. Too funny to hear a story of a man actually taking a shower with his team. To share soap suds with the skins, ahhh, I can only imagine.

Posted by: monkalicious | February 1, 2007 9:33 AM

Little did anyone realize that the naked showerer would some day grow up...errr...older to become the owner of the Washington Redskins.

Pass the loofa, Danny

Posted by: Anonymous | February 1, 2007 9:50 AM

Aaaargh... Monk to the HOF. The suspense is killing me. Where is the spoiler column from Peter King telling us who's in? C'mon already!

Posted by: Nate in the PDX | February 1, 2007 9:58 AM

so! i guess all my articulate, CLEAN, smart people have already talked about the joe biden thing. and as howard kurtz said this morning barack obama's response was just pure GENIUS!!!

btw, biden's "apology" was "when i said CLEAN i meant FRESH"...

heard it on wapo radio...anything that saves me from lisetning to dumb and dumber is worth paying money for and it's free! can't wait till mr. tony comes back...3 more weeks...

4th, i became a hypocrite today. i will disclose the circumstances a bit later.

lisa, so i guess you're not coming either right? since jm's not going to be there?

Posted by: dealer | February 1, 2007 10:04 AM

Does anybody want to see a picture of my kids?

Posted by: Sean Salisbury | February 1, 2007 10:10 AM

Mr. Salisbury please report to HR Immediately.

Posted by: ESPN, Legal Department | February 1, 2007 10:14 AM

lisa, so i guess you're not coming either right? since jm's not going to be there?

Dealer, why wouldn't Lisa show up? If she does show up I might have to tell my boy that I am sick and head to DC. LOL

ESPN, Legal Department make sure you slap him in the back of his head.

Posted by: jm220 | February 1, 2007 10:18 AM

ESPN, Legal Department make sure you slap him in the back of his head.

and not on the wrist!

and where's martha burke when you need her????

Posted by: dealer | February 1, 2007 10:30 AM

cload and dagger - I am not exactly sure what your tax advisor means by 'plus and minuses'. Could you explain further.....

Dealer - We are all hypocrites at one time or another.

Posted by: 4th Floor via 4th Floor | February 1, 2007 10:31 AM

Still at the same hotel ... it's a ugly, ugly scene. But I am trying to spend as little time there as possible.

Posted by: Jason La Canfora | February 1, 2007 10:32 AM

Still at the same hotel ... it's a ugly, ugly scene. But I am trying to spend as little time there as possible.

Posted by: Jason La Canfora | February 1, 2007 10:32 AM

JLaC aka Double Move Jr - Just hit submit once. It'll get there......

Posted by: 4th | February 1, 2007 10:38 AM

I believe he means 'addition and subtraction'. He is seven year old now, but has all kinds of ideas on how I should spend my money.

;-)

Posted by: cload and daggar | February 1, 2007 10:41 AM

Nate,

Still from your question of yesterday: two players of note, pre 1981.

Len Hauss played center for the skins for 14 seasons, was named to five pro bowls, and I do not think he missed a game in all 14 seasons. He was the center for all of Sonny Jurgenson's time in Washington.

Pat Fisher played cornerback for 17 seasons, the last 10 for the skins. He was named to three pro bowls. Fisher was only about 5'8", but played much bigger. He tackled like a linebacker. He had some classic battles with Harold Carmichael of the Iggles who was 6'8" tall.

Two of my favorites.

Posted by: Mark | February 1, 2007 10:41 AM

MONK! MONK!! MONK!!!

As a young lad, my folks ponied up for me to go to Art Monk football camp. It was right after the Super Bowl victory vs the Broncos and was easily one of the greatest experiences of my life. He is truly a wonderful man...the first night he came through all the dorms to each room, visiting with each kid there.

..still have the photo of me w/ #81 on the mantle at home. I was about up to his waist.

He belongs in Canton. Peter King and his contemporaries should do the right thing.

Posted by: Jeff Hayes | February 1, 2007 10:43 AM

"Ain't nobody dope as me I'm dressed so fresh so clean (So fresh and so clean clean)
Don't you think I'm so sexy I'm dressed so fresh so clean
(So fresh and so clean clean)
Ain't nobody dope as me I'm dressed so fresh so clean (So fresh and so clean clean)
I love when you stare at me I'm dressed so fresh so clean
(So fresh and so clean clean)"

- Outkast

Posted by: LH | February 1, 2007 10:45 AM

LH -- so were you the one humming that song right behind Biden during his announcement? Or do you think he was listening to it on his iPod to get jazzed up right before hitting the podium?

Posted by: cload and daggar | February 1, 2007 10:52 AM

Sen. Obama should have that hook looped and play as he walks out on all of his campaign stops.

Another thing about Biden: Whenever I look at him I am always distracted by his "hair." That guy used to be bald on top. From where did he get that "hair"?

Posted by: LH | February 1, 2007 11:22 AM

Mark, thanks for the memories. Love that stuff.

J-La, I got nothin' for you. I'm not a celeb hound kind of person. I wouldn't even recognize most celebs except weird ones. Just stay away from that hotel, that's my only advice.

HOF: I forgot about freakin' Tagliabue being among the 17 finalists. He'll probably get in because, I dunno, a lot of people think he was something special. I think he was a lawyer who lucked into this job and did okay but couldn't hold a candle to the great Pete Rozelle. You get into the HOF for signing successively greater teevee deals and maintaining labor peace with a docile union in an immensely profitable era?

So now I am guessing it will be the two senior committee nominees, Tagliabue, and three other players. Arthur Monk?

Posted by: Nate in the PDX | February 1, 2007 11:32 AM

The Steelers Rock!

Posted by: Frank the Tank | February 1, 2007 11:48 AM

Joe Greene was wrong - that old guy in the shower did belong there. He was the Steelers' personal punt protector

Posted by: Howard's End | February 1, 2007 1:29 PM

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