Who bleeds black and gold and postal blue? Your local mail distribution clerk Mike Sieber, who moonlights as a member of the chain gang for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
In all of the 40 years that Sieber has worked for the McKnight Post Office in Ross, he has never called off sick or missed a day of work, even though he is now also in his 20th year of holding the first-down sticks for his favorite football team.
“Imagine all those Sunday and Monday night home games, getting over around midnight, getting off the field and driving home, only to get up for work around 3 or 4 a.m.,” said Mark Wahl, strategic communications specialist for the U.S. Postal Service. “That’s what he did for years. His work ethic plays right into the mindset of Steeler Nation.”
It’s no surprise Sieber has such a mindset, considering his upbringing watching his dad. Hailing from the Garfield neighborhood, Sieber’s father, Ray, held the sticks for the Steelers for a quarter of a century as part of what previous radio announces Myron Cope and Bill Hillgrove called the “Garfield Chain Gang.”