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Mike Tomlin Channels Dan Rooney’s Life Of Thoughtfulness During Address

I talked to you yesterday about a very small part of the commencement speech that Pittsburgh Steelers Head Coach Mike Tomlin delivered in front of the graduating class this year at Robert Morris University, during which he poked fun at himself by referencing his much-publicized private locker room moment with his team in which he referenced the Patriots as “assholes”.

But it was such an inconsequential element of his speech that in hindsight I felt it did injustice to the message that he was trying to get across. And it was, in fact, a very small element—perhaps an example—of the ultimate message that he wished to convey to the graduating class, and one that anybody could profit from.