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A toast to Art Rooney.(Sports On Stage)(Brief Article)
In a November episode of TV's The West Wing, set during a pre-holiday budget crisis, President Jed Bartlett excuses himself from a political debate by announcing he is off to watch Notre Dante play Providence in basketball. As any hoops fan knows, that Big East game would not be scheduled in the season's opening weeks.
Such a glaring error was unlikely in The Chief, an original play about the life of beloved Steelers owner Art Rooney that runs through December 14 at the Pittsburgh Public Theater. One of the authors, Gene Collier, spent nearly two decades as a sportswriter and now is a general columnist at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
"Stuff like the drafting and cutting of Johnny Unitas, we tried to be very meticulous about that," Collier says. "The play is going to attract, and has attracted, a lot of people who don't generally go to the theater. And if they hear some kind of obvious mistake, then it puts into question for them the other stuff."
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