01-27-2016, 01:11 PM
(01-27-2016, 12:57 PM)BMK Wrote: Just stumbled across this thread. FWIW, not that anyone really cares, but the story at the restaurant most likely never happened. Pittsburgh, like most (all?) NFL teams the night before a game, eat as a team at the hotel. They then have a Catholic mass and then split up for meetings. Around 8:30-9:00 everyone regroups. Tomlin talks to them or he may have arranged someone else to come to speak / motivate the team. Once in a while he arranges to show a movie. Then lights out around 11-11:30.
They even go to a hotel and keep this routine for home games....which I understand is pretty common in the NFL.
Depending what time they get into town, there may be some down time in there for players to visit friends, family, etc. but it will most likely happen at the hotel.
The reason I know this stuff is that my brother was a medical trainer intern for PIT 2 years ago. (He's now on staff at Arizona State)
There's enough to hate the stoolers about without completely making stuff up, but if the waiter is a member of this board, I'm sure he got a good laugh at the 4 pages of responses.
Anything is possible. While I have questions about the initial post, I also question yours. Team rules are different the night before a night game, so going out to a nice dinner isn't unheard of. Also, while I could see some sort of non-denominational service, Catholic Mass is both specific and a little questionable. Catholics aren't big on Mass outside of their churches, and it's a fairly rigid service for non-Catholics to get behind...
Seems to me the guy with 1 post, with unusual, two year old, third party information may not be any more "in the know" than the initial poster.
