Here is how some fans in Butler County are backing the Pittsburgh Steelers as they prepare to play the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl on Sunday.

JEFFERSON TWP — About 650 employees of Penn United Technology Inc. will celebrate the Steelers on Friday with a catered lunch and dinner.Employees will be decked out in black and gold, celebrating both the Steelers' Super Bowl weekend and record shipment figures in December, said Becky Shaw, secretary to the officers of the company."We wanted to celebrate two good things that are happening around the same time," Shaw said.Rented tents decorated with Terrible Towels and banners will be set up outside the company's North Pike Road headquarters, and Penn United Carbide on Alwine Road in Saxonburg.During the lunch, which will be from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the company will auction off Steelers jerseys and other merchandise. Proceeds will go toward the company's Christmas Blessing Program, which provides Christmas meals to those in need during the holiday season.The employees at both locations will enjoy lunch, and the second-shift workers will have a dinner later on Friday.

BUTLER TWP — On a crusade to convert his niece to the other side, Ned Stokes has been waging an e-mail war with her from Seattle for the past month.He shoots her black 'n gold Steelers messages and she fires back with teal and silver Seahawk-coated responses. It's been heating up in the past week."I'm 83 years old so there's no way I'm going to change," he said. "But she's young enough that she might still see the light."He said the light, of course, is colored in the home team's colors.Stokes and his niece, Peggy, correspond through e-mail because of the three-hour time difference."My uncle loves technology," said Peggy in an e-mail message, "and he has always sent lots of e-mail — more than I can read sometimes."Recently, Ned received an e-mail from Peggy joking that if a child's mother is a moron and dad is an idiot, then the child is destined to be a Steelers fan.Peggy, who has lots of family from Western Pennsylvania, grew up in Montana — nowhere near the Steel City.She said she had lived in San Francisco and cheered on the 49ers and now that she's in Seattle, she roots for the home team."The Steelers have had their day. We deserve a little of the limelight. Never has this happened in 30 years, so it's quite a treat for Seattle and their Seahawks," Peggy said.

CRANBERRY TWP — The Steelers' win nearly two weeks ago over the Denver Broncos left one fan with more than a sense of disappointment.As part of a friendly bet Toney Salva, the pastor at Discovery Christian Church, has gotten "Steelers" tattooed on his arm.A Denver native, Salva bet associate pastor Bryan Gratton that if the Broncos won a trip to Sunday's Super Bowl, Gratton would get a Broncos tattoo, while a Pittsburgh victory would result in a Steelers tattoo for Salva.Salva was tattooed Thursday at Boney Joe's Tattoo Parlor in Zelienople, permanently marking him in black and gold."It's the real deal," Gratton said.Initially, the two wanted to make some sort of wager on the game, but wanted the ante higher than, say, a shaved head, Gratton said.And while it was a friendly bet, that doesn't mean the tattoo's small."You're going to be able to see it on his arm," Gratton said.Because of the Broncos loss, Gratton said Salva is now cheering for the Steelers and is thinking twice about making another bet against the black and gold.