To say that ‘Football Is Family’™ is beyond a cliché at this point, which tends to happen when corporate entities go about commodifying sentiment. And this is especially the case when it comes to the Pittsburgh Steelers, who currently employ four pairs of siblings on their 90-man roster. I won’t even get into the family connections within ownership and the front office.
But it has a deeper meaning for Charlotte Heyward, the widow of Craig ‘Ironhead’ Heyward, and the mother of Cameron and Connor, the latter of whom was drafted by the Steelers last month, joining his older brother, who has been a mainstay not just with Pittsburgh but the league as a whole since 2011.