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It’s hard for people who weren’t in western PA at that time to fully comprehend the despair that pervaded the region & conversely, the euphoria that came from our sports teams’ success. One could write an entire book on the subject, so I’ll never address it in a few characters.
One analog is the celebrated Super Bowl victory by the New Orleans Saints after Hurricane Katrina. I don’t want to minimize the physical & social damage caused by that disaster, but a key difference is that NOLA remained a tourist destination, a city with prospects to recover.
Pittsburgh had none. New Orleans lost over 250K people, about half of its population, due to Katrina but within a decade more than half of those losses were regained.
Pittsburgh, on the other hand, had been hemorrhaging residents for decades.
Pittsburgh, on the other hand, had been hemorrhaging residents for decades.
