In Popular Culture
During Super Bowl XLII, the NFL aired a commercial starring Pitts and Texans teammate Ephraim Salaam. In it, Pitts and Salaam reminisce about Salaam discovering Pitts, "this big guy," bagging groceries at a store near San Diego State University, which they both attended. Pitts, a devoted oboist who had never played organized football, was convinced by Salaam to join the school's football team and performed so well that he would be drafted by the Houston Texans in the second round of the 2002 NFL Draft, while Salaam was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the seventh round in the 1998 NFL Draft. The music during the commercial, an oboe version of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, was played by Pitts.
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