Shane and Alexis nearly missed each other entirely. For years, he went to the bar she worked at every Sunday for the Steelers, but that wasn’t her shift. It took a Saturday night preseason game in August 2023 to finally put them in the same room. By the end of the night they were both thinking the same thing, this might be the coolest person I’ve ever met. It took almost another year of visits to the bar, a move to Pittsburgh and back, a brush with death for Shane, a first date where Alexis panicked and fled to a fake grocery run, and one night outside of punk rock karaoke, for things to finally click into place. A few months later, at the same place they’d first gotten a beer together, he told her she was the last woman he ever wanted to kiss. After that, the engagement was a formality. He proposed the next year at their secret campsite, a spot they’d both been visiting independently for a long time without realizing it, again just missing each other. He got down on one knee and kept it simple. “Hey. Do you wanna get married?” She did.