Posted on 01/24/2011 5:17:14 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
PITTSBURGH -- You see it all around town these days. The "Big Ben" signs gradually returning to the windows in working-class hillside neighborhoods. The No. 7 jerseys on the backs of suburban convenience-store clerks, grade-school teachers - even, strikingly, children.
Most prominently, you see it in how the discussion unfolds when talk turns to Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Instead of phrases like "criminal investigation," ''NFL suspension" and "bad example," the words today are back to what they were a couple years ago: Completed passes. Makes things happen. Leader.
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I will have to find the linky, but the factory that makes our Beloved Terrible Towels is in (shudders) Wisconsin...and their owner, bless his little heart, is designing/manufacturing a ‘towel’ for the Packer fans.
How quaint. Mebbe Isaly’s will design a ‘Chipped Ham’ wedge to match up with the Cheesehead thingy.
I never said all coaches do it. I said it happens all the time. There’s a difference which you don’t want to understand. And you’ve taken this whole thing beyond the point of ridiculous. Talk about classless. Get over it.
There is some of that, but I know guys who are die hard Steeler fans who never lived in Pittsburgh nor had any relatives there. I attribute it all to timing.
A few teams were really good when a confluence of events occurred. First, the baby boom generation came of age through the later 1960s and 1970s reaching their late teens and 20s when they gained an interest in pro football. At the same time, the TV networks went big time into broadcasting pro football. They went from relatively bland 2-or 3 camera coverage into elaborate broadcasts with all the bells, whistles and special effects each hyping their broadcasts. Pro football went from to old black & white blocking and tackling game to a major production and national obsession.
People around the country (especially young men) who didn't live in or near a city with a pro team to follow tended to pick a team to follow and root for. And in that era, from the late 60s through the 1970s, the best teams were the Cowboys, Steelers, Packers and Raiders and those were the teams that attracted a national following that lasts to this day passing from one generation to the next.
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What’s really funny here about the way you’re treating this like some significant political debate instead of the silly sports discussion it should be is that you keep doing it so poorly. 3 times now you’ve lied about what I said. Get over it, you’re wrong, coaches jump out onto the field and even go to the end zone in celebration all the time, and you KNOW that and the fact that you have to keep lying about what I said and pointlessly attacking shows that you know it.
I am now MOVING ON, you can either keep up or bugger off, don’t care which.
And I fondly remember SBs X and XIII when Franco ran the ball down the Boys throats, Swan making his circus catches over the 'feared' Dallas D, and most especially Jack Lambert kicking Cliff Harris' skinny little behind after he started picking on our kicker.
Great memories. ;~))
Man’s a rapist, I don’t care how well he can throw a football... This Pittsburgher finds it revolting when he sees little girls wearing number 7 shirts and wants to beat their parents severely.
The Steelers should have just written Larry Brown a check for $12.5 million. That’s what his contract was the year after he picked O’Donnell off twice in the 2nd half.
He also ranks #3 on the NFL list of all time 'One Shot Wonders."
And I don't recall the Steelers crying about losing the game like we have been hearing for 35 years now over Jackie Smith droping a catch in the end zone. Damn, it's time to get over it Dallas.
And as far as Steeler - Cryboys Super Bowls go, the score in Pittsburgh 2, Dallas 1. ;~))
The Pack are the real deal and should have an excellent chance to keep the Steelers from jumping up to 7 SB wins. I certainly hope so because if the heads of Steeler fans get any bigger they'll explode.
Get a new owner, and maybe you can get a date to the big dance.
Three Super Bowl victories in four years (and it would have easily been four in a row if Steve Young hadn't had a Hall of Fame year in '94) during the height of my sports fandom; that was an experience few fans have had.
I even had a year where my favorite college team and favorite pro team won the National Championship and Super Bowl. I've been lucky as a fan in the long run.
But I might have to be like you and have to wait decades for another one, but I doubt it will be that long.
My goodness you really hate the Steelers. I lived in Austin during the glory days of the Cowboys (late 80s) and didn’t encounter such hatred even then.
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