This is cute! Megan and I were adventuring down at Bub's and missed this part before the game, and I just now read about it...

From kdka.com:

yeah it's hard to see what's going on hereBefore the Steelers and the Bengals took the field, there was a special reunion between a football great and the young man he teamed up with 30 years ago to make an award-winning commercial.

Mean Joe Greene is a retired Steelers legend and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and Tommy Okon is a 40-year-old father of four.

But Okon was just 9-years-old when he filmed the now famous Coca-Cola commercial with Greene. In a gesture of kindness the boy offered the battered football player a Coca-Cola on his way to the locker room. And in return Greene tossed the kid his number 75 jersey.

"I had a reputation of being a mean guy, I wasn't," said Greene before Sunday's ceremony. "After the commercial, because of the camaraderie - the relationship I had with the kid - it changed. I was being referred to in some quarters as 'Nice Joe Greene.'"

Okon says they started a friendship that's still alive today.

"The first day when we were supposed to be filming we weren't because they were doing a lot of work to the scene and I was bugging Joe - throw a football or whatever - and my mom was pulling me away," said Okon. "He said, 'He's okay, let him hang out.' From that day on, he's been real good to me and we've stayed in touch."

The two have occasionally had meetings over the years, and Okon is now married and sharing the experience with his family.

"It's exciting for the kids; I think they're excited to see their daddy on TV doing the Super Bowl commercials," said Okon's wife, Kristin.

I'm not going to give a link to the commercial because if you're on this site you have seen it before and are probably intelligent enough to find it on the internet if you want to see it again. Instead, I found two really cute clips of Joe Greene interviews from this past February.

Here's a cute interview of Joe Greene talking about the commercial:

His comments on the Troy remake:

It's nice to know he's still a huge Steelers fan :)