Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Santa Invades Steelers Presser

For a few minutes this was, probably, funny...

Bill DiFabio, a sports announcer from Washington, Pennsylvania, traditionally dresses up as Santa for the pre-Christmas media gathering and often pokes fun at the Steelers coach for a few moments. Former coach Bill Cowher often went along with the gag.

This time around, Steelers Head Coach Mike Tomlin got to witness it first-hand.

For close to five minutes... some of the video is below...notice we said "some..."

Tomlin played along asking, "What have you got for me, Santa?" and inviting DiFabio to join him at the table at the front of the room.

To end the unrehearsed skit, Tomlin -- who could be heard sighing several times throughout the comedy bit -- grudgingly agreed to toss a football to the fake Santa.

"If that will get you out of here," Tomlin said.

Later, the Steelers said there would be no future appearances from Santa at any of their news conferences.

Merciful ((insert-divine-being here))

((HT: NFL Network/the youtube))

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