Ryan Shazier a speaker at the 10th annual Man Up Conference in Cranberry. He shared the story of why he started going shirtless in warmups of cold weather games. Short thread on what he said. #Steelers 
Winter game at Buffalo several years ago. Shazier is sick, thinks he has the flu. Steelers' defenders are never to wear sleeves. But he tells teammates before the game he is planning to. Too cold, he's too sick.
Defense comes to him and says. You wear sleeves and we're fining you $15,000...per sleeve.
So Shazier opts against the sleeves. And decides to take the field without a shirt.
So Shazier opts against the sleeves. And decides to take the field without a shirt.
Steelers win, Shazier's "attire" gets picked up on camera, ok Twitter. Says Bills players came to him after the game to say they say too. And it threw them off.
So Shazier kept it going in cold-weather games to try and gain any mental advantage over the opponent he could.
So Shazier kept it going in cold-weather games to try and gain any mental advantage over the opponent he could.
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