Since when is Jerome Bettis overweight? I highly doubt he could be FAT, considering all the goddamned exercise he gets. Those extra pounds are MUSCLE, not fat.
The Red Sox historically had a lot of near-misses. It also had a number of defeats at the hand of a hated rival. These is critical for a story on the long-suffering angle: plenty of footage of good players.
The Seahawks have had a lot of suck. They were defeated by everybody in a helmet, including coal miners, astronauts, and kids on bicycles. This generates footage which sucks, about players nobody outside Seattle has ever seen. No TV footage, no story.
There’s plenty of old footage of the Steelers and their historic lack of suck, and pictures and interviews of famous Steelers players to show on TV; hence, plenty of airtime for Steelers coverage. Cheaper and easier to scrounge up archive footage in the basement than flying to Seattle to film something worth watching.
Maybe, maybe not. I’ve never seen the man with his shirt off. But Shaq gets just as much exercise, if not more, than Bettis and he’s certainly signficantly overweight. A guy I rowed with in college was also definitely overweight and he got a ton of exercise, too. Given Bettis’s age, I’m willing to bet it’s more likely to be fat.