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At 0.9753, Troy Polamalu and at 0.9711, Hines Ward form a tight Pittsburgh Steelers cluster at the top of James Harrison's neighbor set — but the shape flag signals two distinct peaks, and the second one pulls toward something else entirely.
The top 10 neighbors divide cleanly along two axes. The first is a Steelers-specific band: Polamalu (0.9753), Ward (0.9711), Ryan Shazier (0.9678), Ben Roethlisberger (0.9636), the Pittsburgh Steelers organization itself (0.9499), Mike Tomlin (0.9326), and JuJu Smith-Schuster (0.9271) — all Athletes or Professionals tied to the same franchise. Six of the ten neighbors carry the Athletes subcategory; one (Tomlin) is Professionals; one is a Sports Team. That leaves two outliers that define the second peak: the Pittsburgh Pirates (0.9021) and Sheetz (social) (0.9012). The Pirates represent a cross-sport Pittsburgh audience; Sheetz — a Restaurant brand — represents a regional consumer identity that overlaps with the same geographic fanbase. Together, these two pull the shape away from a pure same-team cluster and toward a broader Pittsburgh-area audience profile.
The two-peak structure here reflects an audience that is simultaneously a Steelers-specific following and a Pittsburgh regional one — the franchise and the city are nearly, but not quite, the same thing.
