PITTSBURGH -- Politics is often foolishly called a bloodsport. Friday was blood and sport, sometimes unintentionally, as Democratic Sen. Barack Obama collected the endorsement of Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, Jr., and was accompanied by quick-footed stars from past Pittsburgh Steelers' championship teams. Obama and Casey shared a stage at the Soldiers and Sailors Military Museum and Memorial, an imposing stone structure. After the event, reporters were led up a long, winding staircase to write their stories in a room familiar to some movie aficionados. It was the room used in the 1991 Oscar-winning film "The Silence of the Lambs" in which diabolic Dr. Hannibal Lecter is imprisoned in a giant steel cage. Lecter escapes after some slicing and dicing of his guards. Two football players who knew how to cut outside attended Obama's speech _ Franco Harris, famed for his "Immaculate Reception" in 1972, and Jerome Bettis, known in Pittsburgh as "the Bus" and a Steeler star from the Super Bowl in 2006. ___ By Devlin Barrett
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