Welcome to OnQ magazine, I'm Stacy Smith.

It has been ten years since Steelers fans were flying this high, and it has been at least that long since the city has had such an uplift.

The trip to the Super Bowl is what everyone is talking about.

And tonight we're going to take some time to celebrate.

As OnQs Tonia Caruso talks with fans who just can't wait for Super Bowl 40.

On a dreary, wet day in the city of Pittsburgh.

There is sunshine all over the place.

That's because everywhere you go, Steeler fans are still celebrating.

Here we go!

Im hoarse from screaming so loud how excited are you right now?

Oh, I'm.

I'm like the guy that went to the hospital with a heart attack.

I'm like, oh, we're excited.

Beautiful, happy.

Very much happy.

I'm really excited.

I never I've never thought we'd get to the Super Bowl of being succeed.

I thought I said 34, ten, 34, 17 as a 3410.

Why were you so confident?

Cause we're the Steelers.

Why else?

We're going all the way.

All the way.

No doubt and no doubt.

Fans want this one badly.

After all, it's been ten years since the Steelers last made it to the Super Bowl, and 25 years since they've won the last time the Lombardi Trophy came home to Pittsburgh.

Sophie Masloff was mayor.

Ronald Reagan was president, and Clifton Pugh of Brighton Heights was a bit younger, too.

See, I was in my teens when in the 70s, whenever, they were the steel curtain and on a roll.

And I'm in my 40s.

So, yes, we've been waiting a long time.

Well, it's been stressful for the last five years.

It's been stressful.

But, And we've been good team.

We're a good team.

We have a good team.

And maybe that's why there's such jubilation.

Everything everywhere is Steeler related.

From fingernails.

This is die hard Steeler fan stuff.

To cars, houses and earrings.

Fans can't wait to show their Steeler pride, even if it means standing in line to do so.

I have to go.

I stood in line to get in the store.

I got to go At Mike Feinberg's in the strip the line to buy Steeler merchandise stretched out the door.

And once inside, things were even crazier.

It hasn't stopped.

I mean, it was like this Saturday, they're coming for shirts and party supplies are grabbing anything, anything and everything.

And we just can't keep it under control.

What would you say is your biggest seller?

Probably the shirts.

The AFC shirts.

We sold out in 15 minutes and now we have this Brotherhood shirt.

We picked up quite a few and it's been going crazy.

I mean, they're grabbing five and six at a time.

Oh yeah.

It's fun, it's exciting.

It's it's out of control.

But it's probably going to go on like this for two weeks.

But no, it's it's great.

Everybody's in a good mood.

That's the nice thing about it.

Ron Laffey is an outdoor vendor.

He says business has never been better.

And when the boxes of AFC Championship shirts arrived, they didn't last ten minutes.

There were fighting over them.

It was, it's unbelievable.

It's the best fever I've ever experienced through all four Super Bowls.

Also, because I start vending merchandise at Forbes Field when the Steelers played at Forbes Field 40 years ago.

Wow.

And I've never seen the frantic that's taking place.

What are you buying in there today?

I want a Jesters hat and Polamalu shirt for my wife, who never watches the game but loves Polamalu I think lots of people do.

My in-laws live in Florida, so we got their requests yesterday, but we got our terrible towel, football pillow, or terrible Towel pillow and some license plates, and we're getting ready to send it so that the Steeler Nation can be represented all over.

And the Steeler Nation just keeps growing.

The latest fans, the very young.

How happy are you that the Steelers won?

Very!

Did you know it all the time, no.

tell me what.

Why you were nervous when you were nervous pretty much all the time.

Who's your favorite player Ben Roethlisberger.

Do you watch the games every Sunday?

Yea.

Who's your favorite player?

Hines Ward, Hines Ward and mom.

Is is Hines your favorite player to0?

Ben and Jerome.

They're my they're my favorites.

I'm just glad Jerome gets to go home.

And that's something we heard over and over.

I'm really excited for Jerome Bettis.

I hope he gets the one for the thumb, you know?

And he retires in glory.

That and how much of this trip to Detroit will mean to Pittsburgh?

We are so excited.

This city has needed this kick.

It's wonderful.

Did you have any doubts?

Not a one.

Yeah.

This is bringing a sense of pride to Pittsburgh because we haven't you know, we've been trying to go for so many years.

And finally it happened.

And then with Jerome and his, you know, his last year maybe we're not sure, but it looks like it.

He's out on top no matter what.

You know the Steelers did good.

We went we're going to the Super Bowl.

So win or lose I'm happy.

Yeah.

So it's a big sense of pride.

Here we go Steelers, here we go!

This is the one for the thumb.

Yeah.

There's no doubt about it I mean it's wonderful.

It's fantastic.

I mean everybody can see us.

You know, we've been here through thick and thin.

And that's the way Pittsburgh it's, you know, good times and bad.

We support them.

And now it's all coming back.

We deserve it.

We earned it, and even if they put in happiness and safety together, we can't be beat.

We're unstoppable.

It's it's it's we can't be beat.

Hope she gets her voice back soon.

Yeah.

So there you have it.

Vendors like Ron Laffey saying it's busier now than even in the 70s, when the Steelers won four Super Bowls in six years.

A little history quiz in there for you.

Pittsburgh history.

Can you pick it out?

Yes I did I think I found it.

I don't know if our viewers did or not, but I at Sophie Masloff was not the mayor the last time.

Yeah, it was a little tricky question you put in there, Richard.

Richard Caligiuri was the last time they won the Super Bowl.

Absolutely right.

Where were you 25 years ago?

25 years ago?

Let's see.

I, I think I was in Kansas City at the time watching it at somebody's house.

I remember that little did you know, you'd come to Pittsburgh to.

Yeah.

You know, but I was here for the last time we were at the Super Bowl.

And let's hope the outcomes a little bit better this year.

Well, Tonia thank you.

Also coming up, eight local volunteers without whom Pittsburgh would not be the same.

We're going to introduce you to this year's Jefferson Award nominees.

And then after that, how much do you really know about the Steelers and their history?

Well, we'll go to the streets to test the Steelers Nation.

It's coming up.

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I was always kind of big.

My old pictures, I was pretty big.

My parents started to get worried.

It's changed a lot now.

My doctor's been helping.

My school has been helping.

I'm not afraid to try on clothes anymore.

I love my team picture.

I'm not big in it.

It's awesome.

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From an 18 year old who organizes dances for children, to a retired woman who was known as grandma to an entire high school.

This year's Jefferson Award winners have one thing in common they are local volunteers who perform remarkable deeds without the expectation of reward or recognition.

But this evening, along with the Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Foundation, we are recognizing them.

The Jefferson Award is sort of like the Nobel Prize for volunteers.

It's part of a program that was started in 1972 by the American Institute for Public Service, and we are proud to introduce you to this year's winners, eight Community Champions Making a Difference in the Pittsburgh region.

Wayne Coffield takes a hands on approach to getting people on their feet.

I teach people how to snow ski that have disabilities.

We start with, we take just about anybody that's disabled and try to adapt them to some kind of snow skiing or water skiing equipment so they can ski again and have fun.

Wayne is a volunteer for Three Rivers Adaptive Sports.

Using specialized equipment, Wayne and other volunteers help people with spinal injuries or debilitating illnesses remain active, and Wayne knows how important his work is to those he helps.

I kind of put myself in their position and I know that, I just had a small injury to myself and had and I had to lay around for like a month and a half, and I was going nuts.

Ten years ago, I probably would never have done this.

It's just something I started out slow doing and, it just multiplied, and I just, you know, it's I can't really give you a reason why.

Doctor.

E.J.

Donnelly makes a different kind of house call.

He helps Bethlehem Haven provide medical care and other services to homeless women.

As a volunteer for the Haven in the 80s, Doctor Donnelly provided medical services.

Now as a board member, he sees and tackles bigger problems.

It's now an institutional problem.

Where there is there is just the chronically homeless.

And, I think that, it's important because this problem just is not going to go away without a, without a concerted effort on, at many levels, there's the root cause of many, of the women who are homeless and men are, are drugs, alcohol and mental illness.

And, those are things that just we have to help them with.

And Doctor Donnelly's work is helping.

He sees results all the time.

You see, the testimonies of the women who have gone through the various programs and, and gotten off the street and got themselves clean and reunited with their families.

I mean, there's just there's just, it's it's exhilarating to, to know that, you know, somehow you have a little part of that.

So I get much more out of it than I ever give.

Edith Henderson is a volunteer at Langley High School, where she has a very special title.

Teachers call me mom and kids call me grandma.

I can't tell you when it started or how it just happened.

Edith guards the school's main entrance with a smile.

She helps the main office and keeps track of students coming and going.

My day is just filled with a lot of questions and little things I do.

But the most important thing she does all day just showing up in the first place.

There's a lot of volunteers in schools and I really give them a lot of credit, but I there's not any, volunteers in the high schools, and I think that's where you really need them.

Okay, I see you put the coat on.

Yeah.

I didnt have to tell you today.

Did I?

Teenagers really have a lot of problems.

And I think when they see this gray hair, they respect it.

And sometimes they feel that they can come to me.

Where in they can't come to a person.

That's you know, their peers or whatever.

Hi, sweetie.

How are you doing?

Good.

Okay.

You'd be surprised if the, young teenagers that almost raising themselves, you know, some of them don't have a grandmother.

And so that's what I feel like.

I'm a grandmother to them all.

Doctor Joseph Lagana started the Homeless Children's Education Fund in 1999.

Thanks to his work, local shelters now provide kids a place to live and a place to learn.

Our mission is to provide educational services for children living in a shelter with their mom, to give them an equal educational opportunity that other children who are not living in a shelter might have today.

Doctor Lagana is the Education Fund's champion and offers his expertise as a volunteer.

One of his biggest impacts isn't on the kids.

The shelter folks and the moms see that education is an important pathway out of the situation that they're in, even though it may be temporary.

They see that education is an incredible, important aspect of what they need to do while they're in that situation.

Hey, John.

Good morning.

Morning.

Tell me what's happening in those learning centers.

I'm excited.

And its really neat to be able to match a resource to a need and know that you're making a difference, making a contribution.

And that's a great feeling.

And I'm inspired by the reaction that children have when we just sometimes just smile, sometimes to provide them with a book, sometimes give them access to a computer that you normally would never have.

Those are very satisfying things.

As a volunteer with The Woodlands Foundation, Libby Powers is on a roll.

She helps kids with disabilities or chronic illness stay as active as she is.

It's a great place to be.

It's the environment is very calm and very relaxed and very friendly.

And, they kind hearted to the situations that kids with disabilities run in to.

Libby was born with spinal bifida, which limits her mobility, but nothing holds her back.

I help the kids with their activities I have organized my youth group came out last year to organize and dance for one of the weekend retreats.

I've, basically used as a second hand to whatever they need at all times.

And Libby hopes the kids she's helping get the same things out of Woodland's programs as she did.

They've helped me grow as an independent person and discover my own, possibilities and, responsibilities of the world and help me grow into a young person who is just going to try to make herself a way through the path through the world.

Brothers Frank and Charles Rice volunteer for the Jewish Association on Aging.

Together, this devoted team runs the nursing home snack shop.

Are you going back in?

Can I buy a hanukkah card?

The Rice Brothers, ran a pharmacy together for half a century.

They use their business experience in their volunteer work.

We do the orders We do the stocking.

We do it with the selling.

It is just like running a store.

But basically it was set up.

To provide services to the, to the ones who live here.

we were in business.

We have a little knowledge, you know, and how it should be run.

So we more or less take over the management, although they never told us so.

But, we took it upon ourselves.

The rice brothers know that their contribution goes far beyond what they stock and sell to the residents.

We get a lot of satisfaction just mingling with them and talking to them.

So some of them don't have anybody comes to visit them.

They come down here.

We visit, we talk.

Sure.

Knowing that you're doing something for somebody, you know, you giving back, you know, it's we're both we're both up in years.

And, he's 89.

I'm 87.

And we believe that we're here for a purpose.

And as long as we can provide for somebody less fortunate and, we do it.

Susan Wong is a medical student who teaches victims of domestic abuse about health issues.

She began volunteering at the free health clinic offered by the Women's Center and Shelter, but it soon became a bigger project.

I just really liked the energy there.

And, I was kind of notorious for spending too much time with patients because it still is a clinic and people still have patients and they sell flats.

And then I would kind of talk too much.

And then I went to the director and asked her, if there was an opportunity to do more health education so that I could just move those conversations somewhere else.

Susan organized weekly health classes covering a variety of topics.

She earned her patients trust and was surprised by what they had to teach her.

I go back there and, I think a lot about my own experiences going over the relationships that I have had.

And, I feel like I'm learning so much from them.

I'm just giving them medical information packed into a nice kind of presentation.

But they're sharing with me life experiences and insight and reflection and interpretation on their lives.

And it's very hard to get and that they give it out so freely.

It's just wonderful.

And a privilege.

These are volunteers will receive their awards during a special ceremony Thursday night.

And for more information, or if you know a volunteer who deserves to be recognized.

Log on to our website wqed.org.

Click the OnQ logo on the first page and look for the Jefferson Awards link.

Now still to come.

How long have you been a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers since they won the AFC Championship this past Sunday?

Or does your love date back to the Iron Curtain days?

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With the Super Bowl less than two weeks away, and with all of the media coverage surrounding this big event, you may think you know everything there is to know about the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Well OnQs Dave and Dave decided to quiz the Steelers Nation on the knowledge they have of the black and gold.

Here's how they scored.

Dave here we go.

Steelers is all I'm hearing.

It's the talk of the town.

It certainly is Dave.

You watch all the games.

You know all the players.

But how much do you really know about your favorite football team.

Today we're here at Monroeville Mall.

We're going to talk to some people, find out what they know about the Pittsburgh Steelers and maybe do a little shopping.

First question which side of the helmet is the Steelers logo on the left side?

The right side left this side on the left side.

You seem very sure.

On the left side.

On both sides.

Oh, okay.

Wait a side.

Is it on both sides or one side?

Right side.

I'm going with the right side.

Right.

Good answer.

One for one.

Good start John.

Which college did Ben Roethlisberger attend?

You're wearing his jersey.

I can't help but notice Notre Dame.

I'm saying Ohio State.

I know he's from Ohio, but I'm not sure.

Miami of Ohio.

There we go.

I'll give you a half point.

Miami.

Have a point.

All right.

Miami up.

Ohio.

Miami.

Okay.

What was the original name of the Steelers when Art Rooney bought the team in 1933?

The hint it wasn't the Steelers.

Well, that helps.

I'm gonna say the Pittsburgh Eagles.

Ironmen.

Coalmakers, I dont know.

That's what it's called.

Pittsburgh Pirates.

Yes, yes.

You got it.

I didn't know that.

Oh, now you do.

You can you can amaze and dazzle your friends with that fact.

How many Steelers have had their numbers retired?

Three.

Three.

Three.

Twenty six.

I don't know, two.

Six, but five.

None.

Officially.

Are you sure?

Yep.

Good.

He's correct.

Steelers do not retire numbers.

However, they don't use about seven numbers.

Who caught Terry Bradshaw's longest touchdown pass?

It's a trick question.

We'll tell you that up front Lynn Swann doesn't mean Fournette or Franco Harris.

No it's the other guy John Stallworth.

You want a lifeline.

Yeah.

Do you want to phone a friend.

Yeah.

Can I do that.

Yep.

Terry Bradshaw can I phone you?

He looks a lot like Magnum Pi.

I forgot about that at the earlier 91 yards.

It looks kind of like Tom Selleck.

Who's Tom Selleck?

You probably don't know him.

No.

No.

I wasnt even born.

I want to go back to shopping now.

Yeah.

What player holds the records for most games played by a Steeler, Jack Lambert?

Say, John Cole.

I'm saying Jerome Bettis.

Jerome Bettis.

Okay.

I'm thinking I went to the 1,000th game last year on the program.

They had Mel Blunt.

It was Mike Webster, Donnie Shell and Dick Coke on the front.

Let's just say it's in that group of four.

You've named one of them.

Most games played by Steeler.

Mel Blunt had 200.

It's not him.

He said it's not Dick Hoke.

Is it mike Webster?

Yeah.

By process of elimination, iron Mike Webster.

During World War Two, the Steelers had to merge with two other teams.

Name either of them.

Philadelphia Eagles.

Philadelphia Eagles.

Philadelphia.

Nice.

Oh, I got one!

What if I said Steagles?

Oh.

Seattle.

Seattle.

Steelers.

Eagles.

Oh, Steagles.

Okay, I'm thinking of the Seahawks.

Okay.

Do you think America was advanced to Seattle by then?

We weren't even across the Mississippi by World War two.

Chicago Cardinals was the other.

What three colors make up the diamonds in the Steeler logo.

Blue, yellow and red.

Red, blue and yellow.

Blue, yellow and red.

I didn't look you in the eye.

Didn't know.

You didn't even see.

Was above board.

Most people do stare at my chest when they talk.

Black, yellow and white.

Number nine.

What team did the Steelers beat in the famous Immaculate Reception game?

Oilers.

Cleveland Browns.

Rams.

Their colors are black and silver.

I think.

Is it the Eagles?

No, no.

Oakland.

There we go.

Raiders.

Oakland Raiders.

It starts with Oakland Raiders.

Yeah.

Here's the good news okay.

This is the last question.

All right.

How are you at spelling.

That's a trick question I can spell.

Okay.

Here we go.

Okay.

Spell Von Oelhoffen Say the name again.

Von Oelhoffen.

Von Oelhoffen.

Not only is it hard to spell, it's hard to say.

V-O-N Space O-L-H wait There's an H in there somewhere.

You ain't looking.

No, no, no, I swear I wasn't taking my clipboard.

V-A-U-G-H-N, No V-A-N Stevie Ray Van Oelfhoffen pa t n v o n. Yes.

H h o l. Yeah.

There's a bad beginning.

Okay.

H-O-F-F-E-N.

Yes.

I thought it was going to be like an easy word.

Like.

Good.

I can't spell.

I don't know anything about the Steelers.

I want to go shopping.

Do you know anything about the Penguins?

No, you're just wearing that.

I'm just wearing the jersey.

Go Steelers!

And of course, we will have a continuing coverage of the Steelers on their road to the Super Bowl in Detroit.

In the meantime, tune into WQED Saturday nights at 10:30 to see more of Dave and Dave's excellent adventures.

Before we go this evening.

Here's a quick look at some of the other stories we are working on this week.

Tomorrow night, the dramatic conclusion of the War That Made America will air right here on WQED at 9:00.

Before that, we'll have continuing coverage of this major PBS production.

We'll take a look at one of the key battlefields located right here in western Pennsylvania.

See how Fort Necessity played a key role in the French and Indian War, and how the site is used today as an interactive educational center.

It's OnQ tomorrow night at 7:30.

Stay connected.

And to thank you for watching.

We'll see you back here live at 7:30 tomorrow night.

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