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At 0.975, Troy Polamalu and James Harrison (0.971) form a near-identical pair at the top of Hines Ward's neighbor set — and the shape flag confirms this is a two-peak structure, not a single dominant pull.
The top six neighbors tell a tight Pittsburgh story. Ryan Shazier (0.962), Ben Roethlisberger (0.962), the Pittsburgh Steelers (0.961), and Mike Tomlin (0.945) round out a cluster of fellow athletes and the franchise itself — all sharing subcategories of Athletes, Sports Teams, or Professionals. This is a same-kind cluster in the strictest sense: the audience that follows Ward looks almost identical to the audiences following his former teammates and coach.
The second peak arrives at position seven, where Sheetz (social) (0.915) breaks the pattern as a Restaurant brand — the first non-sports entity in the set. JuJu Smith-Schuster (0.904) and the Pittsburgh Pirates (0.889) follow before Cardale Jones (0.876) and the Pittsburgh Penguins (0.874) close out the top 10. That Sheetz sits at 0.915 — above multiple fellow athletes — signals that the regional consumer audience is nearly as structurally aligned with Ward's followers as the sports audience is.
The two-peak shape here reflects an audience anchored in Steelers-era football on one side and a distinct regional Ohio-Pennsylvania consumer identity on the other.
