No, no, no, I don't know of any sport that I dislike.

I know one thing that, I went to, Europe.

Just, I suppose last June.

It's the first time I'd ever been to Europe.

I went to Ireland to, look at some racetracks and dog tracks and, I brought horses home from Ireland and, I don't think I was there a half hour when the phone rang.

It was a newspaper, man.

The Super Bowl game had been in January, and that's all I heard for all those months.

And this newspaper man called me and he asked me if I was going to bring any horses back, what forms I was going to visit, and so forth.

And so I answered him, and, we've talked for a while.

I was waiting all the time for him to ask me something about the football field with the Super Bowl and out of Dallowin.

I said to him, when I knew that he was going to ask me about my team win the Super Bowl game without hesitation he said, what's that?

And, I said to him, God bless you.

So he didn't get what I meant.

He said, what's that?

I said, God bless he said, you're the first person that I you're the first person that I've talked to since last January that never heard of the Super Bowl.

Arthur J. Rooney has lived in the same city for 74 years.

He's been married to the same woman for 46 years.

He has owned the same football team for 42 years, and he's lived in the same house for 38 years.

He has money, fame and power, and he's a living legend to Pittsburghers and sports fans across the nation, not because he's a member of the pro football Hall of Fame, not because of the widely circulated story of how he won over $200,000 in two days playing the horses, not because the Steelers won the Super Bowl after 40 years as a losing team, and not even because he has won more awards for his charitable and humane deeds than most of us have ever heard of.

Art Rooney is a legend because he's living proof that sometimes nice guys do finish first.

We actually live on the North Side with, which was not a very wealthy neighborhood.

And, he tried to make us feel is the same as all the other kids and things like this.

And then, he really tried to work at that to make sure that we didn't think we were, you know, big shots or anything like that.

And, the one thing that I've always seen about him is that his concern for people and, sometimes that gets in the way of doing the job.

Everything's going good.

Good.

And that must be your good luck charm.

You wear it every Saturday or Sunday.

What?

-Your cap.

Oh, I never thought of that.

How are you doing with the man on the street?

I mean, he comes from the street.

He comes from the ghetto.

And he knows the little man better than the big man.

He knows your feelings and what you go through.

And he's with you all the way.

Hes just.

He's one of us.

You feel it.

I believe that if there were more people like him, there wouldn't be any sense for unions, but he's fair play all the way.

He's got here.

Nights we work 3:00 in the morning 4:00 the morning.

Hes here with us.

You can see these lights on, he comes down to the stadium.

Sometimes brought a ham.

Set... living up to a little with that Irish coffee I think if you're close to people and you know people.

You like people.

I think that, none of us are perfect, that we all have our faults and we all make mistakes.

And I think that, that when you're close to somebody with them, that you recognize those things much more than you do if you would only be seeing them occasionally.

Now, I walk out of here often and walk into our dressing room, and the ball players are all there, and I spend a good bit of time with them.

And, I never did get away from the point that I wasn't part of them.

When I first met Mr.

Rooney, he, he offered me one of his cigars, and I've had I've had deep, deep feelings for him ever since then And it's not just a cigar that he let me have.

It was the way that he gave me the cigar.

And I remember my rookie year when I think we had maybe 70 or 80 ball players out there.

He remember all those ballplayers, all of them by their first name.

I never had a ballplayer that ever played for me, regardless if we had problems over a contract or, well, that would be probably it that I didnt like and I, I hope that, that they feel the same about me as I feel about them.

Hes very humble.

He's, evidently has an awful lot of patience to go through what he's been through for 40 odd years and never had a championship ring to wear.

And, we're awfully proud of him.

And I think one of the things we do on this team, probably more so than the other teams, in fact, you really get close to him and you end up loving the man.

Chief is, is a great old man.

He's, easygoing and just as nice as he can be.

I think he's an inspiration to the whole ballclub.

You know, I think.

Well, I don't think I ever stopped being a competitor, and I don't think that I ever stopped being close to the to the ball player, even though I couldn't play, you know, and I that it passed me up.

But I never got from the ball player's point of view.

I came up in sports.

I was a player myself.

I played baseball, football and basketball, and I was a boxer.

And my whole life has always been sports.

Winning is winning.

There's only one thing winning.

Losing is like death.

Losing this, and that's for everybody.

Nobody got the X on it.

Nobody got that.

Like I was considered a good loser, but I wasn't.

I mean, I was a good loser as far as, I kept it to myself, but, there's no good losers.