During Jack Lambert’s captaincy of the Steelers, the team had a long-standing tradition of gathering in the sauna after games—away from the coaches and the press—to both decompress and have unvarnished conversations about how they had played. It was a no-bullshit zone where candor reigned, accountability was demanded, and no one was above criticism. It was also the place where Lambert felt most at home. “It was Jack Lambert’s haven,” his former teammate Gerry Mullins said. “He’d be the first one in and the last one to leave.”
