PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) – You ask those going into the Hall of Honor their favorite memories, they’ll usually say Super Bowls or championship games. You ask them what they miss, it’s each other.
One of four inducted into the Steelers Hall of Honor on Saturday, running back Willie Parker was glad to say he loved playing in a Super Bowl (where he holds the record for longest TD run in the game). Then you ask him what the players discuss when they are together.
“Any guy that I talk to, we always reminisce and we are always talking about the locker room,” Parker said Sunday. “We aren’t really talking about the Super Bowls. We aren’t talking about AFC Championships. We talk about how we created a brotherhood to become great. How we run through the wall for our leaders and coaches and everyone in the organization.”
While he was being interviewed before the Steelers-Cleveland game, it was like being a player again as former Steelers linebacker James Farrior was giving him grief, in a playful way.
“We had a group here so long we were like brothers,” said Steelers Hall of Honor inductee Casey Hampton. “When you play that long, it’s like family.”