A few Sundays this past fall, Jeff Reed says he would be at the mall, or at lunch with a friend, or out running errands when his phone would start blowing up with messages and social media alerts. Uh-oh, he’d think to himself. What happened in the Steelers game?
Reed’s friends and random Steelers fans would bombard him:
What’s wrong with Chris Boswell?
Bro, you can still kick at 39 years old.
Bring back Jeff Reed!
“I’ve never felt so important,” Reed says, and then he catches himself.