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World Champions!Congratulation Steelers. Let me be the first to coin the phrase, "One for the other thumb." And here's to hoping they do like my Madden team and win the next eight. posted by Rory at 12:33 AM | |
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Stupid "D" WordHours before the game, flopping around looking for Steeler Videos to get psyched up. I find this one (I'll provide link later): a bunch of Steeler highlights and at the end they ask Jerome if this feels like Destiny? "Yes it does," he says. Dammnit. I hate the 'D' word. Especially when it comes to football. The Steelers have been a team of Destiny no less then six times in the last dozen years. It doesn't mean anything! God does not care about the game, Jesus goes to watch, but I'm pretty sure he's hands off. Don't start thinking your a team of destiny until after you've done what your claiming you're destined to do. Until then you still have to play a good game of football. It was after '95 that I realized an axiom I have used many times since: "You aren't a team of destiny until you've won it all."This is not the stuff I want to hear going into the game. I want to see focus, like when Joey Porter was asked about his pregame Colts comments on the first day back at practice: "I wasn't doing it to take a stand but, really, that's old news. New news is what we can do with Denver, " and that's it. That's what the whole teams attitude should be, next game, next game, next game. We're not some wildcard team trying become the first six seed to win the championship, now we're one of two teams in the Super Bowl who's trying to win, there's been 78 other teams historically that have been in this position. Now let's get it. Go Steelers. Go Bettis. Go Detriot. Go me with Mike Tomczak and his wife.  Go Cowher. Go (cry) stupid Seahawks fans. Go Steelers, did I say that already? Just go win already, I want my Trophy. posted by Rory at 1:12 PM | |
Watching Local NewsKDKA did a story on the bar I went to for the AFC Championship. It's nothing special, I may not go there tonight, opting to have people over, just thought it worth mentioning.I've only just recently learned I could watch the local news online. On that note, who in the world is this Sonni Abatta woman, Jesus! Why am I not living at home? posted by Rory at 1:52 AM | |
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The Reason Why I Started ThisLeading up to the NFC Championship game, the Seattle Times did a daily profile of a Seahawk fans. In Pittsburgh you get black and gold face pant, and good percentage of topless fat men. I'm not quite sure what these Seattle fans are going for. I thought the point was too look intense. To my understanding the best at this are Raiders fans, as going to an Oakland game is like going to a Gwar concert. Anyway, here's some of the pics and how totally unmenacing they are: Nothing says menacing to me quite like blue sparkled eye smudge. I think my problem with many of these people is that they're make-up is too nice. And they're all wearing those stupid gloves and that jersey, And the beads, what is up with the beads? Oh No! Please don't show the band teacher that looks like a giant effeminate woodpecker. It's just too scary! You guys can make up your own caption for a guy who looks like this flipping in finger up in the air. This guy is a cross between Miami Vice and a Power Ranger. "You know how I know that you're gay: you have a rainbow bumper sticker on your car that says, 'I love it when balls are in my face.'" I have to hand it to this guy. He's the one who I'm actually a little shaky about. I think intense when I see him, like in, "what is that intense smell?"posted by Rory at 2:55 PM | |
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The Drive for FiveLunchtime at work on a Friday, and its the official company tailgate party; although the use of party and any other work related word is an oxymoron. They show the NFC Championship game on the ceiling using a meeting projector. Off in a dark corner next to a rusty pipe on a television with no A/V inputs, I get to watch the first half of the AFC Championship. Leading up to the second Steeler touchdown, Troy and his friend park next to me to do some scout work. Troy is from Denver originally, but he hates the Broncos, he's a casual Seahawk fans, but his passion is the Raiders. It's weird. Troy knows what the shit he's talking about.This is the first Seahawk fan I've met who understands what's going on. What's more is that he has a photographic memory of the game. I'm hanging in there until the end of the second half so I can see the freaky-deaky-called-back-Jerome-draw-touchdown play. Troy is telling me each play before it happens. He's diagraphing the touchdown scores to his friend as the drives just start. This is entertaining. Troy's prediction is that Ben Roethlisberger won't get away with those tight passes against the Seahawk defense. I'm sure he's a homer but I trust him. Back in the cubicle there is one man. He's from Montana originally, so even though its a ways away, technically its in the Seahawks region. He's smart about his jabs. Instead of trying to argue Xs and Os with me, he's smart enough to make fun of the fact that I think of football. I respect that. We made a friendly bet, Hawks win I cut my hair like Matt Hasselback; Steelers win he lets his grow like Troy Polamalu.  posted by Rory at 6:44 PM | |
The 12th LoserThey're making this big hoopla about this 12th man gimmick they got going on over here. Texas A&M, which has trademarks to the 12th Man theme is threatening legal actions and the editorials I've seen on the local news are challenging Seahawk owner Paul Allen to put up the money to keep the monicer.Personally I just don't get it, or see why its important. I guess that explanation is three fold. 1) It's not an original idea, the same concept is used in basketball and other NFL teams have used it in the past, but they quit when, you guessed it, Texas A&M threatened legal action. 2) As a Steeler fan I do feel like my actions can directly or indirectly affect the teams play. However, I understand that I alone do not bear this responsibility. I'm one of 18 million fans or so that feel the same way, so I'm somewhere around the 14,700,000th Man. 3) They're shitty fans, why are they proud of this? posted by Rory at 9:37 AM | |
Further Proof that Seattle Fans are IdiotsThis article from Seattle Times Columnist Steve Kelley.My favorite: "Quick question. Nose tackle. Shouldn't that be illegal? Tackling a guy by his nose has to be as dangerous as tackling him by the face mask. I'm proposing the league make it a 15-yard penalty for nose tackle. What do you think?"I think some of them are fake, like the guy joking about why the Steelers are taking the bus to Detriot - can't the NFL chip in for airfare, but it makes sense that some people are just that dumb, I've met some of them. I have more faith that someone actually thought wide reciever was a criticism of former Penn State WR Joe Jurevicious's weight then someone actually think its funny. This Steve Kelley is one of the few Seattle Sports people I like. He's sort of the bizarro Bob Smizik, in that like Bob he's intelligent and knows what he's talking about sportswise, but unlike Bob he's enjoyable, and can write, and has a soul. posted by Rory at 1:39 AM | |
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Who Schedules These Things?There was a Seahawk Pep Rally with team members on Sunday. I wanted to go, just to have more fodder to criticize their fans. Plus if you saw the end of the NFC Championship game you noticed Steeler fans in the Qwest stands. I have never ever seen third party fans at a game, especially of that magnitude. Are we so in tune with our team that we now do advanced scouting. For that reason I figured I'd run into a few Steelers fans. However getting up at 8AM on a weekend is not in my bag of tricks. 8 freaking AM! Who the hell schedules a pep rally for that time? In fact I'm just now waking up from that weekend.My coworkers say there were a couple thousand people there, pathetic. posted by Rory at 1:17 PM | |
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