Super Bowl Rick
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.8 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
He’s slick, slippery, sweet-talking his way past the guards and straight into a superfan’s dream. He’s the stuff of legends, he’s Super Bowl Rick. And meet his counterpart… Tom Garvey. The man who lived inside the walls of his favorite stadium, Phantom-of-the-Opera style. It’s Pittsburgh vs Philly in an epic sports story-off.
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Super Bowl Rick
He’s slick, slippery, sweet-talking his way past the guards and straight into a superfan’s dream. He’s the stuff of legends, he’s Super Bowl Rick.
Thank you Rick Steigerwald for telling us your story!
When Rick returned home following the Super Bowl , he shared his story with the Pittsburgh Press - check out the 1979 article! Rick retired after a 39 year career in steamfitting and now serves as the Pennsylvania Boxing Commissioner. He’s a three time former Golden Gloves Boxing champion and longtime referee, and was just inducted into the Pennsylvania Boxing Hall of Fame this past year.
Big thanks as well to Ryan O’Shea who originally interviewed Rick and the late Steeler Jack Deloplaine on his Youtube channel.
Produced by Bo Walsh, edited by Anna Sussman, original score by Dirk Schwarzhoff.
A Vet in the Vet
For years, Tom Garvey lived every sports fan’s secret dream: he lived inside the walls of his favorite stadium, Phantom-of-the-Opera style.
Thanks Tom, Jud Bertholf, and John Grossman!
Read Tom’s story in his memoir The Secret Apartment and his autobiographical novel Many Beaucoup Magics.
Produced by John Fecile, edited by Nancy Lopez, original score by Dirk Schwarzhoff.
Season 16 - Episode 27
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| 0:00.0 | Snap Studios. |
| 0:07.2 | First off, let me assure you that this is not a political episode. |
| 0:13.6 | This is a sportsball episode, a football episode, a that guy episode. |
| 0:21.1 | Everyone knows that guy. |
| 0:23.3 | My that guy was a good buddy in high school. |
| 0:26.4 | Whenever there was a melee, a fracas, a disturbance, that guy was there. |
| 0:31.0 | Getting everybody riled up, ranting, grinning, |
| 0:34.3 | for a smack dab in the middle of the craziest most ridiculous stories ever. |
| 0:38.2 | We voted him most sophisticated as a joke in class partier because he was in fact a class |
| 0:44.5 | partier. |
| 0:44.9 | I haven't seen that guy since high school graduation. |
| 0:50.3 | So, January 6th, 2020, I'm watching TV like most Americans, horrified by the scene |
| 0:59.7 | unfolding at the nation's capital. And guess who steps to CNN's microphone? Fired up, |
| 1:07.7 | ranting, who knows what? Just like back in the high school hallways, |
| 1:13.2 | immediately, my phone starts blowing up. |
| 1:15.9 | Did you see? Did you see? Did you see? |
| 1:18.5 | Yeah, I saw. |
| 1:21.1 | Now here's the thing. |
| 1:23.3 | Sure, it's kind of strange, but discussing it later. |
| 1:27.7 | Not one of us. |
| 1:29.0 | Not one is the slightest bit shocked. |
| 1:32.8 | It's more like, who else would you expect to be in the middle of it but that guy? |
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