"I wanted to watch with my dad"

This week's episode of This Is Us was all about Steeler football. 

I always tend to geek out when the Steelers are on any show I watch, but this Steeler reference had me in tears, happy tears, but tears. This might be because it had been a rough day when I watched it. But most likely because last weekend was my dad's birthday and he is the man who taught me to love football and the Steelers. 

Football is our thing. 

We are constantly talking sports, that's mostly what we talk about actually. 

We talk shit, we talk injuries, we talk trades, we talk about how much we hate Mike Tomlin.

It's our love language you could say.

In this episode the dad, Jack, is wearing an identical hat to my dad's Steelers ski cap. The whole family is watching the game together waving their Terrible Towels and when they score Jack puts his hat on the daughter, Kate. And that's when I lost it. 

There's a picture of me that hangs on my fridge of me in my dad's hat. 

I am extremely blessed to have such an incredible father. I don't tell him that enough. And I realize it's sad that it took an episode of a sitcom to make me realize that but such is real life. 

There's a framed picture on my desk of dad and I at my first Steeler game at Heinz Field that I look to whenever I'm missing him. I can't wait to take another when we go again in December or to tell him just how much I love him when we talk sports tonight. 

#blackandyellow