Posted on 02/09/2006 8:30:25 AM PST by beyond the sea
Dear Mr. Tagliabue,
I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize to you and the league for my intemperate remarks at our ceremony at Qwest Field concerning the officiating during the Superbowl.
On Monday, just one short day after “losing” (oops) the game, I was still burned about the outcome, and I had consumed about a pound of bad jumbo shrimp for lunch, my stomach was churning, and it was just a bad day all around. I came home from Detroit, our cat was missing from the house, the Governor’s dog was hit by a car, and she was blaming me for that. Just real bad all around, Paul.
Paul, I was still stinging from calls that went against our team. It seemed like the bad calls were stacking up as high as the Space Needle.
I’ve always been known as a good and decent man in the community. Well, perhaps except for the time I borrowed my neighbor’s Rototiller to do that work on the Church rose garden .................. heck I didn’t see that rock ............. like I didn’t see that sneaky Steeler trick play coming. My neighbor told me he wouldn’t be using that Rototiller for a good long time, I thought he’d never noticed it was broken. Wosrt thing I ever did, Paul......... until now.
I feel as badly about my comment to the fans, “ "I didn't know we were going to have to play the guys in the striped shirts as well”, as I did about giving my neighbor back his mangled Rototiller. Come to think about it, that Rototiller was as busted as our defense on that Willie Parker blast right through our defense.
In closing, you must know that I’m still crushed about the loss and my words, but if you and the league are going to fine me for my perverse and untoward words, I ask you to please take into consideration that at least I didn’t refer to the officials as zebras. That should count for something.......................... and, Paul, am I off the competition committee?
Regards,
Mike Holmgren
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word ....................... ping.
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Available on the album [Green and] Blue Moves
What have I got to do to make you love me
What have I got to do to make you care
What do I do when lightning strikes me
And I wake to find that you're not there
What do I do to make you want me
What have I got to do to be heard
What do I say when it's all over
And sorry seems to be the hardest word
It's sad, so sad
It's a sad, sad situation
And it's getting more and more absurd
It's sad, so sad
Why can't we talk it over
Oh it seems to me
That sorry seems to be the hardest word
What do I do to make you love me
What have I got to do to be heard
What do I do when lightning strikes me
What have I got to do
What have I got to do
When sorry seems to be the hardest word
© 1976 Big Pig Music Limited
There's not a single thread on the Super Bowl up today, so you figured you'd put up a smarmy, juvenile, incendiary post so you could gloat some more.
Get a life, will ya!
"Paul, I was still stinging from calls that went against our team. It seemed like the bad calls were stacking up as high as the Space Needle."
Not as high as the Space Needle..just 173 yards and 17 points worth...
;-)
LMAO!
ROFL
Man, where is your sense of humor?
Haven't you ever borrowed a tool or something with a plug and either not returned it or broken it?
;-)
It's just supposed to be funny.
You really must have taken Seattle and the points, eh?
He just had a couple of bad days ........... right in a row!
;-)
Please take me off your list. I'm sick of the poor behavior of Steeler fans.
Demonstrate some class. Shut the hell up about the Super Bowl!
You're off the list and sorry you're sick.
Now you ........ that is a different story. Get to the pharmacy.
Take it easy and settle down.
hehe.
It's just a game. I don't know why some people are so upset about it, barring the loss of bets.
Thank you, if possible.
I hear you.
Coach Holmgren is a solid and good man. It is just a game. He and his fine team will be right there in the hunt next year.
I used to like the Stealers. Never again.
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