What's so strange is today while watching the Philly blowout of the Steelers, Phil Simms and Jim Nance said we know of one big Steelers fan who's watching this game in Pittsburgh, that's Arnold Palmer.
In 1962 when I was 12, Arnold Palmer opened a Golf School in St. Petersburg, my hometown. In the newspaper they said Mr. Palmer will be there today to cut the ribbon at 4pm. My dad and I were there early and 4:00 came and went. They handed everyone an 8x10 glossy b/w photo of Arnold and said he would be signing the photos. Now everyone was getting real excited. It started out like a sunny warm day like most Florida days, but this was in the winter. By 5pm it was pitch dark and getting chilly and most of us were in T-shirts and shorts and was a couple of hundred people standing in the dark in a shopping center parking lot. They announced a couple of times that Mr. Palmer is still coming, finally about 7pm Arnold arrived and cut the ribbon and then we didn't move. He walked around the parking lot to the line of fans and signed every photo, there must of been 300 people. I still have my autographed photo.
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