Posted on 01/17/2006 12:00:48 PM PST by Nexus
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Talk about a heart-stopping game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Indianapolis Colts.
Fifty-year-old Terry O'Neill of Pittsburgh says he was watching the game at a bar when he had a heart attack just seconds after Steelers player Jerome Bettis' fumble at the two-yard line late in the fourth quarter. The play allowed the Colts to have a renewed chance at winning the game.
O'Neill says Bettis is his hero, and he was upset with the idea the player might have ended his career with an error.
"I wasn't upset that the Steelers might lose," O'Neill told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "I was upset because I didn't want to see him end his career like that. A guy like that deserves better. I guess it was a little too much for me to handle."
Doctors are planning to implant a pacemaker in O'Neill to help control an irregular heartbeat along with prescribing him medication to deal with hypertension.
When asked how he was feeling, O'Neill told the Tribune-Review: "The Steelers won the game and I'm still alive, so I guess I'm doing pretty good."
From now on, O'Neill says he will probably just take it easy and watch future games at home
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Yikes! Hope this gentleman gets his "fandom" under control.
And this from a Phils fan no less...!!
ROFLOL!!
Naahh, it was eating a Battleship from the Triangle Bar... either that or a Primanti's sammich.
im well aware of how our team chokes year after year. im not in denial of it the way many steeler fans are.
You should have been at our house. First of all we were all decked out of course - 2 kids in Bettis jersies, the third in a Big Ben tshirt, my husband also in Bettis jersey, clutching not one but 2 terrible towels, and myself in my Steelers logo shirt, and of course our 2 Steeler ornaments that we haven't yet put away.
My husband has stress-induced hypertension and started complaining of a headache about halfway through the 4th quarter so I made him take his BP, which was high, as was his heartrate. He and I were screaming so loud at the TV when Polamalu's interception got stolen that my 8 year old came running in wondering what was going on. She stayed for the rest of the game, watched us act like lunatics when Peyton was sacked on the 2, and asked me "Did they win?"
I said gleefully, "Put it this way - it would take a MIRACLE for us to lose at this point."
I had to say it, didn't I? Bettis fumbled, my husband started beating on the door to the basement and I said to her, "Well, there's your miracle." I was sick to my stomach.
Then when Ben made that crazy tackle we lost our minds again, got sick during the Colts' drive, then lost it again when the FG went right. I don't think we breathed until the clock officially ran out, then we sat on the couch just numb, like deer in headlights, for what must have been an entire hour, occasionally laughing nervously.
My throat was sore from yelling for hours and at some point my husband took his BP again to make sure he was doing ok. He said he wants me to tape next week's game, watch it and then let him know if he should be allowed to see it or not. Although I'm not sure I can be trusted to watch it alone.
I was almost as bad. My 3 year old son was wearing his Ben jersey and tried to stay up, but fell asleep during the third quarter, which turned out to be fortunate because he missed my stream of profanity after the interception was overturned (my wife almost threw me out of the house for the rest of the game at that point, and justifiably so). He woke up just after Porter's sack and asked if we won and I told him yes . . . just as they were handing the ball off to Bettis.
This one is going to stay with me a long time.
Yeah, but we won. I'm already forgetting the guy who picked up the fumble's name. Every Pittsburgh sports fan remembers Francisco Cabrera.
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Nick Harper
Yeah how could anybody forget Nick Harper, the guy started off Division Round weekend getting "accidentally" stabbed by his wife and finished by almost winning the game for his team except for a last minute grab on the stabbed leg.
Hell of a weekend for that guy.
that's what I am saying....
The only other thing that could have happened to him is that his wife would have stabbed him after having his child or something....
No, Amish one, Joey will not be writing any check to the NFL. Even during Cowher's presser (which of course has to be watched, religiously, by other members of my household), it was answered that Porter will not be fined. The impression was that the NFL just wanted last weekends reffing 'misjudgments' to be in the past.
He did NOT get fined by the league. It was just announced.
Wrong once more.
Right on!
You're right there. I thought Porter was going to get fined too. Talking about a "fix" is a HUGE no no with the NFL.
I like you tagline. That poster was about the biggest consistent fool of anyone on the football threads.
I don't know if you saw this guy with the cardiac arrest on the news, but he and Bettis were talking about the games, and Bettis said something like, "Well, maybe you might not want to watch this next game."
;-)
A sports reporter here in Pittsburgh sent Mrs. Harper a game ball and a set of Ginzu knives.
She may have slowed Harper down just enough for Big Ben to trip him up.
p.s. ---- we were trying to get her bond set before the game so she could use her sideline pass one more time.
;-)
No he did NOT! That's pretty funny. :)
That's what Stan Savran said last night........... with a grin on his face.....
;-)
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