The NFL's Sunday Snow Globe - WSJ

In the early twentieth century, down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company built one of the largest mills in the world and a town to go with it. Aliquippa was a beacon and a melting pot, pulling in thousands of families from eastern and southern Europe and the Jim Crow South. The J & L mill, though dirty and dangerous, offered a chance at a better life and hope for the future.