{"id":379126,"date":"2025-09-19T01:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/379126\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T01:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:50:10","slug":"steelers-broken-up-after-sudden-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/379126\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers broken up after sudden death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Steelers are one of the most storied franchises in NFL history, with a league-leading six Super Bowl victories. With that kind of history surrounding the organization, the Steelers have become a staple in the Pittsburgh community.<\/p>\n<p>As such, members of the team and even those associated with the team in other capacities are a part of the fabric of the community, which is why it\u2019s no surprise that a death in that community would shake up Steeler Nation.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s exactly what happened this week, when Pittsburgh lost a beloved member of Steeler Nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe mourn the loss of Dale Lolley,\u201d the Steelers tweeted from their official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve spent more than half of my life covering the team. If I\u2019m not writing about them, I\u2019m talking about them. It\u2019s what I do,\u201d Lolley wrote in 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelers.com\/news\/contributing-writer-editor-dale-lolley-56\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">per the Steelers team website.<\/a> \u201cThere have been hundreds of wins and losses, plenty of AFC Championship games, Super Bowl wins and losses along the way. And thousands of stories. At the end of the day, it\u2019s always about the stories. It still is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, after spending the past three decades telling those stories and talking about the team on other platforms, I\u2019ll be doing so with the Steelers on a regular basis across their media platforms, which includes writing about the team on a year-round basis. I can\u2019t tell you how excited I am to be doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fans reacted to the tragic news on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Screw) cancer. Took away a great one too soon. Rest in Greatness Mr. Lolley, I\u2019ll always hear your voice when I hear the intro to the drive,\u201d one Steelers fan wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m saddened by the loss of a wonderful family man that I got the opportunity to know during his time with DK Pittsburgh Sports. Dale was always willing to share things about the team and answer questions about things he wrote about. It was a pleasure to have him in my life. Pray,\u201d someone else added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is awful. My 10 year old and I listened to Matt and Dale every single day. He has been asking me non-stop about Dale during his absence from The Drive. He is gong to be so heartbroken when I tell him\u2026as am I. Condolences to all close to him,\u201d another fan added.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, Lolley\u2019s family takes as much time as they need to heal and mourn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers are one of the most storied franchises in NFL history, with a league-leading six Super&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[33321,7,6,520,57,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-379126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-dale-lolley","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","13":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","14":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115228457830813231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}