for Spumoni: Steelers fans outnumber Eagles fans in Philly

***Donovan McNabb mingled with the masses at Jay-Z's 40/40 Club in Atlantic
City Monday night, signing autographs and posing for pictures with fans.

Posted on Wed, Jan. 25, 2006

Dan Gross

A home for Steelers fans

EAGLE FANS may now be jumping on the Steelers bandwagon, but one local bar
has been the Black & Gold's unofficial Philly headquarters all season long.

At the Fox & Hound (15th & Spruce) on game days for much of the NFL season.

"I find it amazing how many Steelers fans have converged on this place,"
says the bar/restaurant's service manager, Ron Smicker, who's glad to have
the business. Smicker, locally reared, feels, as do we, that if it's not
gonna be the Birds to go all the way, may as well be the other PA. team.

At Sunday's AFC Championship game in which the Steelers defeated the
Broncos, the bar was packed with fans turning up as early as 11 a.m. to land
seats for the 3 p.m. game.

A recent City Paper story credited a Philly Steelers group at Yahoo.com for
helping to make the Fox & Hound the place to be for PGH expatriates.

Smicker says fans have volunteered to help his staff decorate the bar for
Super Bowl Sunday, when we expect sheer insanity.

Masters of their domain

Friends O' Clyde took the grand prize at Monday night's "Seinfeld" trivia
contest at the Khyber (56 S. 2nd), which Your Humble Narrator hosted along
with None More Black frontman Jason Shevchuk and No Quarter record mogul
Mike Quinn. The team was made up of Mike Capilato, Dan Weeden, Matt Sweeney
and Jon Brett.

QB in A.C.

***Donovan McNabb mingled with the masses at Jay-Z's 40/40 Club in Atlantic
City Monday night, signing autographs and posing for pictures with fans.

The Iggles QB, who wore a suit and was accompanied by a pal and a bodyguard,
had dinner and watched some ESPN highlights.

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