Jul 11th 2008 7:11AM by JJ Cooper
Politicians say a lot of things to get elected, so maybe this isn’t that surprising, but John McCain seemed to be stretching the truth at the least when he spoke to reporters in Pittsburgh on Wednesday.

McCain told Pittsburgh TV station KDKA that he recited the names of the Steelers defensive linemen when he was asked under interrogation for the name of his squadron mates.
“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!”
It’s a great story, and something that may help him pull in votes in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, but it’s almost assuredly untrue. If you’re picturing McCain naming Mean Joe Greene, Dwight White, Ernie Holmes and L.C. Greenwood, you’d be off by about six years. McCain was shot down in 1967, two years before Chuck Noll was hired, and two years before Greene was drafted. The Steel Curtain wasn’t the Steel Curtain until 1972 and Franco’s Immaculate Reception.Continue Reading