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Steelers' Ryan Shazier on a mission to help kids with Alopecia

PITTSBURGH -- Look at that guy with patches in his head.

Ryan Shazier's hair would fall out in patches, which kids in the stands at his football games would notice when he took off his helmet. The laughing and taunting was audibly clear to his parents.

“My wife was ready to fight in the stands,” Vernon Shazier, Ryan’s dad, said by telephone. “People are cruel.”

Patchy.

Patch.

Cue ball.