Post 9 - My Symbol

                 Something that I always carry with me is something that probably everyone else also carries; my wallet. It's just a basic, crappy Velcro wallet that's almost falling apart, but what makes it special for me is the Pittsburgh Steelers logo on it. When I lived in Pittsburgh for the first nine years of my life, I never had an interest in football, that pretty much all changed when I moved to Florida. I fell in line with tradition and became a Steelers fan in about 2004. In 9th grade, I was in P.E. and the kid next to me knew I was a fan of the Steelers, and he offered to sell me a wallet with the logo on it for $5. Of course I took him up on the offer, and now, about 10 years later I still have it. Every time I take it out it reminds me of not only the team that I love, but my family and where I'm originally from.

Now for the logo itself, it looks like this(for the uninitiated). It was originally the logo used by the company U.S. Steel, but looked a tad different. In 1962, the Steelers adopted the logo as their team logo. That season the team had their best season in history up to that point, that only cemented the logo as there's from some superstition. The colors of the diamonds were later given some meaning, representing the materials used to produce steel: yellow for coal, orange/red for iron, and blue for scrap steel.