I’m a huge football fan in general, but I’ve always had an especially big interest in high school ball. You can probably blame it on growing up in western Pennsylvania. I know I’m not the only one that still watches the WPIAL and PIAA championship games on TV despite graduating high school a while ago.
One thing I always wanted to do was map out which state all of the current Steelers played their high school football at (I’m also really into maps!). As boring as the lockout can be, it at least gives us a little bit of time to work on some other projects.
I spent some time mapping out where all of the 2010 Steelers played high school football and added in the yet-to-be-signed 2011 draft picks as well. Not included was Shaun Suisham who grew up in Canada. Texas and Florida, not surprisingly were the most well represented states. Pennsylvania held it’s own with three players hailing from the Pittsburgh area (Ryan Mundy, Morty Ivy, Charlie Batch).
