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Terrible Towel Creator Donates All to Disabled

If they gave out a Most Valuable Tchotchke award, it would have to go to the Pittsburgh Steelers' Terrible Towel. At any Pittsburgh Steelers game, if you don't have a Terrible Towel, you will be in the minority. "If you ain't got a towel, you ain't got nothing," Steelers vendors yell to fans. Legendary Steelers radio announcer Myron Cope, who died a year ago this month, came up with the idea in 1975. "He wanted something that would be easy to carry," his daughter Elizabeth Cope said. "If it...Full Story
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