SALTSBURG, Pa. -- Stanley Cup, a steelworker from Saltsburg, Indiana County, is taking a lot of teasing from friends while the Pittsburgh Penguins are in the playoffs.

“Especially right now,” Cup said. “They call me Lord Stanley. You know, at work, I'll go in every morning and they'll say, ‘Here comes Lord Stanley.’”

Cup, 59, did some promotional work for the Versus Network a couple years ago, but said he has turned down offers from media outlets in other cities to appear there as a good luck charm for fans.

“I'm just not used to the cameras and the big city,” said Cup. “I'm just a country boy.”

Cup did get to touch the other Stanley Cup and actually has the chalice tattooed on his back. He said there have been times when it's good to be Stanley Cup.

When the Toronto Maple Leafs were in the playoffs, he and a friend walked into a bar in that city and reaped the benefits of this coincidental coining.

“[My friend] told the bartender, ‘You're not going to believe who this is,’” said Cup. “And you know, they didn't believe my name. So he had me take out my driver's license and show the bartender. Once they found out, everybody started hollering and hovering around and we drank all night for nothing.”

Yet this Stanley Cup from Saltsburg has his loyalties, and is hoping the other cup comes home to Pittsburgh after the playoffs.

“Go Pens,” said Cup. “I hope they come home with the cup.”

After the Pens play Games 1 and 2 of the seven-game Stanley Cup final in Detroit, the series will shift to Pittsburgh for Games 3 and 4.

Cup scored a free ticket to Game 4 -- so, for the first time in playoff history, there will be two Stanley Cups in the house.

And if the Pens are in position to win the trophy that night, the fan will leave Mellon Arena with quite a memory.

"I'm looking for the Pens to take it in six, but I'd love to see a sweep," Cup told WTAE Channel 4's news exchange partner, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "I'd love to see those young boys take it in four."

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