Even during the off-season, Mike Tomlin's life seems to revolve around football.
He's running a camp at Mars Area High School this week.
On day two of his camp, Tomlin stepped from the sidelines into the action.
"I don't do anything out here that I don't do with my boys, my boys are out here, it's one of the things I love about coaching is teaching, it's encouraging, it's instructing," he said. "You get all the things that you enjoy."
Tomlin was joined by Brett Keisel and Chris Hoke.
"A lot of these guys are in a similar place in life as I am," Tomlin said. "They are husbands fathers – they have some of the similar issues that I have. I think it kind of creates a unique bond that I can kind of form with some guys – some 30-something-year-old guys if you will that have 7 and 8 and 9-year-old kids like I do."
"Whatever you want to do, whatever you dream to be, let it be your dream," Hoke told the children. "The future belongs to those who dream guys. Don't ever let anybody stand in your way."
"Football is what we do, dads are who we are, so my hobbies are kind of geared toward what my kids' hobbies are, what they want me to do," Tomlin said.
And in the Tomlin household, that's not just football.
"My daughter takes tennis lessons. She's in dance, she's a gymnast," he said.
"My sons are on the chess team at school – they really enjoy that. I spend rainy afternoons dodging chess matches. Whatever it is as long as they have a passion for it I'm going to encourage it."
Zalamir Meador, of McKeesport, didn't make any points with the coach picking him off twice.
"I'm going to make sure I get his name and make sure he's not camper of the day," Tomlin said.
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