Jul 11th 2008 2:50PM by Stephanie Stradley

As FanHouse’s JJ Cooper noted last night, John McCain told a story on the campaign trail about the Steelers line that didn’t make any sense. McCain told a Pittsburgh television station that he recited the names of Steelers defensive linemen as names of men in his squadron to North Vietnamese interrogators (see YouTube above):
“When I was first interrogated and really had to give some information because of the physical pressures that were on me, I named the starting lineup — defensive line — of the Pittsburgh Steelers as my squadron-mates!”
As Cooper pointed out, it would make no sense to name the Steelers of that time because they were pretty obscure playing on a poor team. Turns out that McCain has related this event many times, but always with the Green Bay Packers named instead.Continue Reading