You don't even have to take the interstate to get from Steubenville, Ohio to Pittsburgh, Pa.

Nope, just a 40-mile hop, skip and jump east along U.S. 22 and you can be there in about 45

minutes.

What you'll find when you get there is a football crazy town, where there's as much pride in

Steubenville High's seven state football titles -- the last in Division III in 2005 -- as

there is in its steel-worker ethos.

It's no surprise, then, that in Steubenville you'll find an enclave of blue-collar types

that go to church on Sundays -- so long as the sermon doesn't interfere with a Pittsburgh

Steelers game.

Indeed, you'd be hard-pressed to find one person out of the roughly 19,000 that live in the

Ohio border town that doesn't bleed black and gold.