Fans Get Pumped Up For First Preseason Steeler Game
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- "We just really love getting crowd pumped up and excited for Steeler game," Director of the Steeline Band Vince Wallace said.
And that's what the Steeline Band did.
"We've been working all summer. Go through rigorous summer practice session get everything ready. It's been a lot of hard work and really excited to get out here for the first game and play," Wallace said.
And the heat isn't stopping them from having a good time. It's certainly not stopping this family from tailgating.
"You can see my sweat marks all over me but we're excited. A little alcoholic confidence to get us going for the game," Maggie Vinopal of Youngstown, OH said.
Maggie Vinopal is here to watch her brother, number 39 Ray Vinopal, play for the Steelers for the first time. He plays safety and hopes to make the squad.
"We are very excited to be here. It's close to home. He played at Pitt. Tailgated here before as a Pitt Panther so now we are a Pittsburgh Steeler. We're climbing the ladder and we are very excited, Vinopal said.
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So is their almost 90 year old grandmother.
"Oh I love you. Good luck Ray," Mary Dudash of Youngstown, OH said.
Even vendors are getting through the night with some decent sales.
"Sales are actually not too bad considering how hot it is. We've had a couple brief rain showers. Put tarps on it a couple times. Other than that people are excited," vendor Dave St. John said.
The rain didn't last long and even if it did, Steelers fans won't let that stop them from having a good time.
"It's an extremely exciting moment. I love the Steelers. just happy to be here," Kaleb Scanton of Plattsburgh, New York said.
Everything went pretty smoothly for police for the first game of the season. However, Pittsburgh Police say someone left a purse outside the stadium Friday.
The bomb squad inside the stadium checked it out and determined it was nothing.
