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Mental Altitude
All the talk for the last week about Ryan Clark and will he or won't he and what does altitude have to do with anything reminds me of the time my family moved from Pittsburgh to a mile-high city and everyone was sick for six weeks. Not just, ooh, I f...
A Whole Lot of Dumb
I've had blog block... and then I watch WTAE's noon news for ten minutes and I was hit with a whole lot of dumb.Jeff Reed. You knew he was going to be here when you first saw the word dumb. So far, my favorite part of this whole story is his agent sa...
Too Soon to be Sad?
A friend asked me the other day if I was sad about the Steelers. She is the Steelers' number one anti-fan. She doesn't like football, for one, but she also loves the Pens and hates that they are overshadowed by the Steelers until their season ends. S...
Sorry, Skip
When this guy walked out onto the field yesterday to deliver a field goal, I was disgusted by his giant penis bulge and his overall sliminess and thought to myself, "I would like to see him fall flat on his face after he kicks that ball."Only he miss...
It's 8:00
Could Pittsburgh look any more beautiful?Could the fans at Point State Park be any more off-key?Could I be anymore excited about this game?Will.I.Am looks bored as hell.I think Fergie is lip synching. Possibly wasted.Commercial. So far this is disapp...
Wooooooooooooooooooo
Football is in the air. Can you smell the dogs? It's time.Today has everything I could want in a day.70 degrees? Check.10 hours of coverage on ESPN Radio? Check.Finding huge savings on groceries at a Wal-Mart Super Center? Check.Black Eyed Peas? Chec...
Notes from Training Camp
So the news from training camp is finally getting a little bit entertaining. Rookies fighting towel dispensers for the talent show. Limas Sweed finding a frog in his helmet. Lots of humorous little things.And then this odd ditty from Gerry Dulac in t...
He Really, Really Hates the Steelers
The thing with Pittsburgh is that we can dish it like nobody's business, but we take it about as well as your six-year-old sister. We say the most horrific things about Cleveland, for example, and hate on Philadelphia with every fiber of our beings.A...
They're Back!
So training camp is in its third day and...Nothing. Other than James Harrison showing up in a Smart Car, training camp news is not really interesting me. Oh, how I have waited for it to start to give me something to get excited about, to help me miss...
"terrible towels"
In the July issue of Marie Claire, a two-page spread highlights 50 reasons to love America. One of those reasons is fandom, specifically "cheeseheads" and "terrible towels."Now an ordinary Pittsburgher might look at this and think great! But your tru...
The Most Watched Game...
The most watched hockey game in 36 years was Game 7. With 8 million viewers, that's... not really all that many people. When you consider that the season premiere of Jon & Kate Plus 8, pretty much the worst show on television, captured eyeballs of so...
Confirmation of Better Fans
Okay, maybe not better fans. But this is from the PG:The crowd estimate of 375,000 bettered the 350,000 for the Steelers Super Bowl parade in February. Many children, finished with school for the summer, and the pleasant weather no doubt helped swell...
Yes, They Did.
Yes, they did.Wow. What a game! What an amazing night and what an amazing year in Pittsburgh!I spent Friday night in the streets of the South Side, loving every minute of it. I couldn’t believe how lax the cops were. How cool were they to let every...
They Like to be Bad
I think I've figured the Pirates out. Since they know their World Series chances are nil, they've got classic middle child syndrome and are acting out for attention.How else can you explain trading away one of their top players... again? (See Pirates...
To the Finals
And they swept the series.This series lacked a little something I think is vital to sports: suspense. Everyone will tune in to see the Steelers take on the Cardinals in a rematch. Best versus second-best. A game for the ages. Not that many people car...
Malkin Blows Up
Wow. What a game. What a goal! What a bunch of goals!A highlight at my house:Mary Alice (or a good look alike) from Ace of Cakes.In other news, Steelers at the White House (sans Harrison). Ben needs to get a haircut. Also, I absolutely cannot believe...
Scaredy-Cat
I don't believe this for a second, but the PG is reporting:Fear of flying why Steelers' Harrison will skip White House visitWashington, D.C., is only four hours away. He could drive.Conclusion: He is an idiot. Moving on. The Pens are up 1-0 in what d...
As Far As I'm Concerned
As far as I'm concerned, James Harrison is a blubbering idiot. He is a thorn in the Steelers' side.This "classy" organization that prides itself on the conduct of its players on and off the field, during the season and during the off season, that say...
What a Weekend
What a weekend to be a Pittsburgh sports fan!First, the Pens. Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Clinched round 1. I was there on Thursday bearing witness to possibly the worst game ever. I went to a high school where the football team has never once in ...
Brown Fans Don't Even Try
On a recent trip to Cleveland, I noticed that no one had anything to celebrate the Browns. There were no flags on porches, no stickers on cars, no signs in the windows of stores. In fact, I saw more Steelers stuff than I did Browns. In Cleveland.I po...
Divas
From MSNBC:In Vegas, Super Bowl champion Ben Roethlisberger with Pittsburgh Steelers teammates Willie Colon, Darnell Stapleton and Trai Essex, were overhead requesting the Coca Cola on his table be “in the aluminum bottle, not from the gun” while...
The Towels Were Asking For It
Oh, Skippy. You make us all so proud.From the Post-Gazette:Steelers kicker Jeff Reed was cited with disorderly conduct early this morning after damaging a towel dispenser at a Sheetz convenience store in Westmoreland County.Pennsylvania State Police ...
Gotta Love Steeler Fans (and Pens Fans!)
From Sports Illustrated's Peter King:Sight to behold on the day after the Super Bowl at the Orlando Airport: Group of Steelers fans, getting ready to fly home, seated in the Continental departure area, waiting for a flight to Newark. They're happy. T...
Super Bowl Champs!
Wooooooooooooooo!What a great game. You couldn't ask for a better game!I liked every bit of it, from the all-day pre-game coverage to Jennifer Hudson's national anthem (and who cares if it was prerecorded????) to the play of the entire team to the ha...
Steelers Fashion
It is finally upon us: the Super Bowl.As we prepare for the big game, I have noticed more and more Steelers apparel around town, and I wonder what the standards are for Steelers fashion. I saw the gamut this morning at church - a Bettis jersey over a...
Shocking.
Santonio Holmes admitted he sold drugs. Is anyone really surprised? Maybe if he hadn't recently been caught with marijuana, sure, it could be surprising.In other news, the Penguins are alive! Wooooo! They played the entire game. Sidney Crosby was ali...
Media Day
Among the media stories surrounding the Steelers are a lot of regurgitated stories us Pittsburghers already knew about (that Aaron Smith's son has cancer, that Jared Retkofsky was a mover, that Ben Roethlisberger was in a motorcycle accident).So. We ...
Blech First. Cheer Later.
That aside, if you didn't get to the Steelers pep rally on Friday, DVE has a ton of great pictures that can help you make you feel like you were there. Worked for me!There are a lot of articles in the national media that cheer on the Steelers. Fox Sp...
Steeler Songs
I spent yesterday morning listening to Stan and Guy on ESPN Radio as they played all the new and old Steeler songs. Is there anyone who isn't excited for the game after three straight hours of fan songs?One song, though, is exploding! The 11- and 12-...
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Head out for a few days on vacation, and the Pittsburgh sports scene explodes!1. Duh. Steelers are headed to the Super Bowl. Wooooo!What a game! My vacation was to Tampa, just a few weeks early. Bummer. All season, I bitched about the Steelers, that ...
