Former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin will show fans the Minecraft city he’s built for 12 years on Wednesday night, as the NFL analyst takes his long-running gaming hobby to his own YouTube channel.
Tomlin shared the news on X on Wednesday. His post read, “Tonight. 8 p.m. My Minecraft City.” The video is the first episode of a YouTube series called “My 12 Year Minecraft City Build.”
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Mike Tomlin’s Minecraft series on YouTube
Episode 1 will cover rooftops, penthouses and urban living. Tomlin posted a short summary of the episode on his channel.
“In this episode, I discuss why I decided to start the Minecraft City, followed by an examination of the first building downtown and other key rooftop properties,” Tomlin wrote.
He also wrote a description for the full series.
“This series explores the Minecraft city build that I started with my kids 12 years ago as a way to connect with them, as well as relax in my free time,” Tomlin shared.
Wednesday’s post was his second push for the premiere. On Sept. 26, he posted “My Minecraft City. Drops Wednesday – 9/30/26” and asked fans to subscribe. That first post has drawn more than 7.7 million views on X, and his channel had about 11,100 subscribers before the premiere.
His oldest son, Dino Tomlin, said on X that his father asked him to film the tour. Dino also explained why the city won’t come out as one long video. Dino was a wide receiver for the Boston College Eagles from 2019 to 2024.
“He wants me to record it and put it on YouTube,” Dino wrote. “We gotta break it into sections though, or the video would be 2 hours long.”
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How long has Tomlin been building?
Tomlin first talked about the city in a Today show interview with Craig Melvin before the season started.
“I’m a big Minecrafter,” Tomlin said, per NBC News. “I started playing Minecraft, man, when my kids were young. I have a Minecraft city on creative, man, that I’ve been working on for like 12 years.”
Creative mode gives players an endless supply of blocks with no monsters to fight. So builders can spend all of their time on design.
His kids have kept the city alive as the family moved from the PlayStation 3 to the PlayStation 4 and then the PlayStation 5.
“They’re into preserving it because they know I don’t have the technical knowledge,” Tomlin said during his interview with Melvin.
His kids also pushed him to go public with the build.
“My oldest son is like, ‘Dad, you gotta share this with the world. People need to see this city that you’ve been working on for 12 years,'” Tomlin said.
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Mike Tomlin’s NBC role after Pittsburgh
The 54-year-old coached the Steelers for 19 seasons, from 2007 to 2025, and won Super Bowl XLIII. He resigned in February. He told NBC host Maria Taylor that he’d thought about leaving for a while.
“It’s probably not an overnight decision,” Tomlin said, per ESPN.
NBC named him a studio analyst for Football Night in America in April. He joined Taylor, former Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett and former New England Patriots safety Devin McCourty on the panel. He replaced Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy.
Tomlin made his TV debut during NBC’s broadcast of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game in August. This season, Football Night in America airs from a different stadium each week before Sunday Night Football.
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