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Stella Malone intercepted a pass at the goal line and raced 80 yards the other way for a touchdown to double the Pirates’ lead eight seconds before halftime.

Pro sports lost me when big money teams began monopolizing, causing my beloved Pirates to fall by the wayside.

To say that the players will be fired up next week to face the Pirates might be an understatement.

He’s played Frankenstein’s monster in “Penny Dreadful,” Tolkien’s Tom Bombadil in “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” Winston Churchill in “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” twin pirates in “Our Flag Means Death” and 10 different creepy English villagers in Alex Garland’s horror fable “Men.”

The Pittsburgh Pirates want that card.