I am taking Az plus the 13.5 points.
On Jan 31, 8:24 am, "Mercury.Sailor" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wasnt a Steelers fan last night when I went to sleep, But I am this
> morning! :o)
>
> For Terrible Towels, a Wonderful Legacy
>
> The towels are a swirling reminder of her father, Myron Cope, a
> longtime Pittsburgh broadcaster credited with creating the Terrible
> Towel in 1975. Before he died last February at age 79, Elizabeth Cope
> watched last year’s Super Bowl with him in his hospital room. She
> draped his coffin with a quilt that a fan had made out of Terrible
> Towels.
>
> But the great part comes from what each of those towels does for
> people like Danny Cope, Myron’s son and Elizabeth’s older brother.
>
> Myron Cope left behind something far more personal than a legacy of
> terrycloth, a battle flag for a city and its team. In 1996, he handed
> over the trademark to the Terrible Towel to the Allegheny Valley
> School. It is a network of campuses and group homes across
> Pennsylvania for people with severe intellectual and developmental
> disabilities. It receives almost all the profits from sales of the
> towels.
>
> Hundreds of thousands of the towels — trademarked as “Myron Cope’s the
> Official Terrible Towel” — are sold every year, for about $7 each.
> Through the Steelers, who handle the marketing of the towels, the
> school receives a check every month, usually for tens of thousands of
> dollars.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/sports/football/30towel.html?_r=1&em
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