He has never had better coordinators, nor has 'he' had so great a winning percentage.
Posted on 01/23/2005 2:45:22 AM PST by beyond the sea
In Pittsburgh today, we welcome yet again our most cherished oxymoron -- the important game.
No other American city, at least since the National Football League calcified to its current form in 1970, has been host to as many conference championship games as we.
Kickoff will come in the vicinity of 6:35 p.m., and in the chaotic hours that follow, the fabled road to the Super Bowl will, like many Pittsburgh area roads, narrow to one lane, but the familiar civic clamor of the AFC Championship game has been crackling for a week.
"The city's on fire right now," said Steelers linebacker Larry Foote. "You can't even watch TV because we're all over it, but that's Pittsburgh. They love their football and they love their Steelers. And I thank God I'm a part of it."
That the New England Patriots are the defending Super Bowl champions and a proven Steelers post-season nemesis are compelling circumstances that further validate the drama, but the real frenzy has more to do with the retroactive quality of hope.
Everything that's been hoped for regarding these Steelers, probably since their last Super Bowl appearance nine years ago, through subsequent days almost exactly like today that ended in AFC title game losses to Denver and New England, and throughout this virtually unimaginable history-making 15-1 season, is about to pay off.
Unless it doesn't.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
"Cowher's not leaving, but that Hall of Fame portfolio he's been putting together for 13 years could certainly do without a fourth loss in the AFC Championship Game, all of them at home."
The author obviously has Steelers on the brain mentioning Cowher and the HOF in the same sentence. Is there a special section in the Hall for losing big games at home? Levy got in but he at won four AFC Championships.
I curse Kerry, because now when I see Heinz Field, I think of other things than football.Shouldn't you be blaming H. John Heinz III for his crappy taste in women?
I learned a few years ago that Myron Cope (Steeler color man, inventor of the thing) has a son who is mentally retarded. Terrible Towel profits go that school where his son has been learning his adjustment to our cynical, adult world.
Pittsburgh: it's a beautiful thing.
Her teenage son was mortified but the various fan factions in the crowd reacted with appropriate remarks.
GO STEELERS!!
Oh, well... don't I feel a little bit stupid. I guess i am cynical though, but surely you can understand where I was coming from. Someone starts something cool and unique and someone has to sponsor it. Remember Jack Murphy Stadium or Candlestick Park, Three Rivers or the Rose Bowl.
Oh, well... don't I feel a little bit stupid. I guess i am cynical though, but surely you can understand where I was coming from. Someone starts something cool and unique and someone has to sponsor it. Remember Jack Murphy Stadium or Candlestick Park, Three Rivers or the Rose Bowl.
I never got my check, therefore, I continue to refer to the 'Stick as "the 'Stick."
Don't feel stupid. I had to be told these things too. Plus, Cope (rightfully) keeps his charitable things quiet. Publicity about the donation would bring publicity to his son...not good. Cope's son is doing very well, but who can say how that would continue if the press swarmed?
No. Myron would not allow it. It's a charity thing...... except for the bootlegs.
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Why?
See here:
http://sportsforum.ws/showthread.html?t=11949
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As I understand it this year, Cowher will have next to nothing to say about the play calling. He's designated authority 'liberally' for the first time in his career -- a good thing!
He has never had better coordinators, nor has 'he' had so great a winning percentage.
LOL!
Let me know what you have to say on that after Cowher finishes his career with the Steelers in another decade or so! I know he seems to have had trouble in the big games in the past, but it hasn't been always about him.
And he has matured a great deal in the past couple of years. Take it from someone who know him.
;-)
GIVE a man a graphic, and he can annoy his fellow FReepers for a day.
TEACH a man HTML, and he can annoy his fellow FReepers FOR LIFE.
Herein endeth the lesson. < |:)~
We in the Red Sox Nation had 84 years of The Curse. Pittsburgh will survive when they lose...again.
She was a pretty damn nice girl back when John Heinz met her and married her in 1966. She was kind, very beautiful, and considerate to others. She changed in the past decade or so (look what living with a whacko liberal can do to you).
Do some reading, or maybe it would have been better if you had known Teresa and John Heinz back then like some of us here in The Burgh. It wasn't "crappy taste" John Heinz had back then.
Correctamundo and no garganzola!
>> Shouldn't you be blaming H. John Heinz III for his crappy taste in women? <<
Well, there is plenty of blame to go around. And John Heinz sure did mess up on that one.
Atlanta beating the spread (5) against Philly or winning outrightly, imo.
Oh man, I agree. And Russ Grimm is the best.
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