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Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin Is a Big 'Sopranos' Fan

May 16, 2007 – 8:51 AM
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Michael David Smith

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If you're planning to watch this week's episode of The Sopranos but haven't seen it yet, you might want to skip this post.

I like everything I know about new Steelers coach Mike Tomlin. He's fairly young and inexperienced to become a head coach, but he had a great year as defensive coordinator of the Vikings last season, and he seems to have a good feel for the right way to deal with players.

And I really like him after learning this little fact from Peter King of Sports Illustrated:
I was sitting with Tomlin last week and talking about the show. He's a huge Sopranos fan. He thought that the climax of the show was going to center around the unraveling of Christopher Moltisanti. In a way, it did, but not quite in the way Tomlin thought. He figured, as I did, that Christopher the zombie would try to whack Tony in the last show, or something like that.

I tend to think of football coaches as people who are too busy watching game tape and diagramming plays to get caught up in a TV show. That Tomlin is into The Sopranos means that the Steelers hired a coach with good taste.
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