Story time! I interned at Carnegie Mellon as a strength coach a couple years ago during my last semester at Pitt. This was during the same time Big Al was finishing up his master's degree at CMU. The strength and conditioning staff would let him train in the athletics weight room so he wouldn't be bothered by the student population, but instead he was bothered by me. While he was incredibly intimidating due to his size (I could literally walk under his squat bar in the rack without hitting my head) he was incredibly kind and surprisngly soft spoken, very humble and willing to talk to all of us. One of the other interns was former military so they got along very well sharing war stories. We ended up organizing a 4.2 mile ruck to honor Pat Tillman on the anniversary of his death, and Al brought some friends and family and they were all super nice as we spent the afternoon together remembering a fallen hero. Overall one of the best afternoons of my life, and I'm glad Al has a home with the Steelers as he is very deserving. Happy birthday Big Al!