Legendary running back Rocky Bleier laughed when he was asked the simple, yet unusual, question.
How good of a painter are you?
“My great artistic skills. I can paint walls,” laughed Bleier. “We’ll see how great a painter I am.”
The good news is, he isn’t alone when it comes to struggling with artistic talents, but that didn’t prevent Bleier and former Steelers defensive lineman Chris Hoke from helping others with their painting skills during the teams Ladies Night Out, presented by UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital.
“As long as they are okay with my second grade level painting, with stick figures and really painting outside the lines types of painting, I am good,” said Hoke. “It’s a lot of fun. I like to interact and socialize with the ladies and have a good time. Paint and talk with them. Understand them. Show our appreciation and gratitude for them.”
The Steelers mixed things up again this year for the annual Ladies Night Out. Instead of it being all about football, they turned it into an opportunity to create a fun painting the ladies could take home with them at the end of the night.
The painting was something the ladies, and players, could personalize as it was an image of themselves in a Steelers hat.
“It’s not a competition where you have to have a great skillset,” said Bleier. “All the talk about football, past stories, with this you are with a group of people that are in the same boat. I don’t know how many of them are artists. It’s a chance to see another side of players and talk in a different kind of relaxed atmosphere. It’s not as if we are Van Gogh and they expect great art from us. It’s just fun.”
While painting, and enjoying a relaxing dinner, was at the forefront, you know when it comes to Steelers Nation the conversation is always centered around football. But this time, it was a more relaxed football conversation.
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