My Oh My, That Sure is A Lot of Lombardi Trophies
Official Best Steelers Season Ever Checklist
[x] Avenge playoff loss to Jaguars in Jacksonville
[x] Destroy the Redskins in Raljon, MD with 30,000 Steelers fans in attendance
[x] Beat the shithead Ravens
[x] Beat the shithead Ravens twice
[x] Beat the shithead Ravens thrice MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
[x] Curb-stomp the Greatriots in Foxboro
[x] Defeat the Cowboys on a Romo pick-six
[x] Extend winning streak over Browns to 11
[x] End the annoying Chargers fluke of being 0-13 in Pittsburgh in the regular season but 2-0 in the playoffs
[x] Finally win a goddamn AFC Championship Game at home
[x] Win a record sixth Super Bowl title, this time in a thrilling game over a hyped-up underdog, with Roethlisberger forever silencing critics with game-winning drive
[x] Do it all without an offensive line and with an insanely difficult schedule
[x] Masturbate furiously
Special thanks to haters everywhere. You make this at least 8 to 12 percent more enjoyable.
AND MY PARROT FRIEND CAME BACK!
He got a little out of hand with some of the other fans, however.
Yes, the already ubiquitous Steelers fans are breeding, producing offspring indoctrinated into the polkatared ways of Steeler Nation.
Also, someone at the bar had a Cleatus action figure, which they claim was a Secret Santa gift. It almost ruined my day. Almost.
No Ben, that’s not a Choco Taco. Give it back to Santonio for quick bong manufacture.
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February 2nd, 2009 at 1:26 am
I guess I’m going to have to kill myself now. The only question is whether I try to take out as many Stillers fans as possible before eating my .45.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:28 am
No snark — a damn entertaining game. The Cards and Steelers can both leave that stadium proud.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:28 am
You know what this victory means?
An excuse to make 100000000000000 more Steelers tribute songs.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:30 am
I laughed loudly when the highlight of Clark killing the Receiver of Steel came on…ahh FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:30 am
We, by definition, rule. Ben has forever put to rest the “game manager” crap. D was awesome.
Here’s the best part – look at a Seahawks fan, count off 1,2,3,4,5 and then…wait for it…extend the middle finger – 6!!!!
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:30 am
This post requires the Sideshow Bob victory speech sir, it is only appropriate.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:30 am
A very good game. Grats to the Steelers….they definitely earned it. Now I can’t watch any sports channel for the next three months because of all the Shitsburgh slurping. Oh well.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:31 am
Roethlisberger forever silencing critics with game-winning drive
Not likely. But everything else must be pretty nice.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:31 am
You’ve put a bit of weight on.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:33 am
@CC…I don’t know, watching Young cream his pants at least 34 times when discussing the final drive makes me think they’ll lay off him for awhile. Not forever, but awhile.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:34 am
I have a plan to steal a large amount of gold, reanimate Michelangelo, and force him to sculpt a solid gold statue of Silverback. To quote Hacksaw Jim Duggan : “HOOOOOOOO!”
Now if you’ll excuse me, my celebration vodka calls.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:35 am
I’d see a game with Ape but then I’d have to bludgeon him to death. It’s not me… actually it is my problem.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:38 am
Suck it Caveman. Big Ben pwned your doubting ass. you are now our prison bitch so get on your knees and start sucking like a circus seal
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:39 am
“[ ] Stay classy.”
http://i40.tinypic.com/whbja8.gif
Oops, guess we can’t check that one.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:41 am
Never understood the ‘game manager’ tag for Ben. That’s like calling Favre a game manager.
Sure he will make incredible plays, but he also is liable for a solid turnover and a half a game, that’s the exact fucking opposite of being a game manager. Chad Pennington is a game manager … in the regular season … and he sucks. So I’m not sure where I’m going with this, but there are other labels for a QB that isn’t PeyPey or Brady than ‘game manager.’
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:43 am
Every bitter comment from davesignal only makes it sweeter. Go on, cry about it some more.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:44 am
@davesignal
/standing ovation
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:45 am
@ds
If Harrison hadn’t given him the business then maybe Fransico would have looked like an NFL defender on the Steelers game winning drive instead of a mentally challenged fourth grader.
James Harrison = psychological warrior.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:45 am
Ape, you forgot to add the part where they bitched about bad officiating for half the season but then got bailed out again when it really counted. Everything was perfect!
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:47 am
For someone with a Python moniker, I’d think you’d be above the Steelers/ref trolling. Tsk tsk tsk.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:51 am
@Ape
You forgot to add how much fun it is to laugh at pbhawks45 too. He makes davesignal look well-spoken, intelligent and congratulatory.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:52 am
I’m just gonna go ahead and say davesignal’s main purpose is to show you his .gif.
The two miscues I can think of were the roughing the passer penalty in the third (defendable but kinda weak in my eyes) and the running into the placeholder (even if it’s legitimate, it’s still stupid). Both occurred on the same drive, which led to a field goal. Otherwise, it was a pretty cleanly called game, and the crew did a good job.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:53 am
Kindly die in a fire.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:53 am
Via some douchenozzle at Yahoo Sports
“On the final Cardinals play from scrimmage, as the team was driving for a potential game-winning score”
Yeah lets just adopt a tone that they were basically going to score no matter what. Ignore the fact that Warner threw how many passes that traveled in the air more than twenty yards in that game, zero? The hailmary fails 99/100 times, let’s not pretend that there was a good chance Arizona was going to pull it off. And it WAS reviewed goddamnit, it was reviewed in the booth and they told the refs on the field that there wasn’t anything there to see. Why? Because the ball got hit before he brought his arm forward, it’s the empty hand, game over. Had it been reviewed for the second time, on the field, and stood as it would have, you people would be bitching how the end of the Super Bowl was so anti climatic because of a long review.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:54 am
Well, they were pretty much the best team in the NFL this year… Just too bad they didn’t play well enough today to win without, yet again, huge help from the refs.
Although it’s appropriate that a season with so much bad officiating would end with a little more.
BTW, the tainted championship count in this decade is now up to 5.
The good thing about this is that now Patriots fans won’t have an excuse to claim that they were really the best team this year… Always a silver lining.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:55 am
@Brian
You are forgetting the blatant 15 yard celebration penalty that, if a regular season game and Holmes wearing anything but a black-and-gold jersey – you would have seen a hanky.
http://img111.imageshack.us/my.php?image=a84fb98c12c44ca2a607026br3.jpg
/hatehatehate
//still a great game
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:56 am
You people are the reason Paul Blart Mall Cop has earned over eighty million dollars, aren’t you.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:59 am
Ah yes, Francois.
So, you’re a Browns and Steelers fan. I’m pretty fucking sure your opinion doesn’t count. Like, ever.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:02 am
@pbhawks
Thanks for being the fifth person to visit my blog!
Also, go die in a fire, preferably one that I set in celebration.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:03 am
Just so I can understand where everyone is coming from here.
1) Review which takes a Steelers touchdown off the board, accurately, nothing abnormal there.
2) Review which takes a Steelers turnover away, accurately, nothing abnormal there.
Now I’m with you thus far.
3) After reviewing two plays that could have been massive momentum swings and deciding to call them in Arizona’s way, the officiating people decide you know what, why not just give the Steelers a break. Even though if we are as crooked as people think we are, we could just as easily have let the previous two reviews stand, nah we’re gonna just throw Pittsburgh a bone here.
Or maybe the review was right each time and there is nothing here other than Kurt Warner being a turnover machine who isn’t man enough to blame God for his fumbleitis.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:05 am
@GPF: Meh. No worse than linebackers flexing after they tackle quarterbacks.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:07 am
I don’t see anyone saying the referees were crooked… Just incredibly incompetent.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:07 am
“You are forgetting the blatant 15 yard celebration penalty that, if a regular season game”
So you have no point, as there is absolutely no fucking way that would be called in the Super Bowl.
People are actually calling for excessive celebration penalties now as a way to say the officiating is bad …. Goodell has won.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:08 am
[ ] beat the eagles; allow big ben to get sacked less than 8 times
yep, still bitter about two weeks ago.
although i do love watching roethlisberger play sometimes. he’ll run around for 10-15 seconds on third-and-long, look like he has no idea what he’s doing, then throw right to a wide-open receiver for a big gain. and his final drive was spectacular.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:08 am
@Francois
Nice rebuttal. You remind me of the Steeler fan I saw stomping on a Pat Tillman jersey outside my dorm room.
HILARIOUS, I know. Because you guys won!
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:09 am
“I don’t see anyone saying the referees were crooked… Just incredibly incompetent.”
There were people in the game thread saying that the refs were being bribed, the league wanted them to win, etc etc.
But yeah what you said is different, just saying they got help isn’t implying they were in their pocket.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:11 am
“My Oh My, That Sure is A Lot of Lombardi Trophies”
You mean two?
Still, great game. Even though Kurt Warner obviously doesn’t read enough Bill Simmons, because if he did, he would have known to sweep the leg. And three Cards on Santonio and he still makes the catch? FIX YO’ DEFENSE!
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:20 am
Huh… got the Rongrastname and Santonio Cock Holmes Disney world commercial already on SportsCenter…
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:29 am
The game reminded me of the original Bad News Bears movie. Entertaining, but the heavily-favored villains win in the end.
Congrats to Ape and his North Valley League champion Yankees.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:30 am
I don’t mind steelers fans (my best friend is one), but what really pisses me off is when they take credit for the super bowls during the ’70’s. ya know, the ones MOST PEOPLE WEREN’T ALIVE FOR. Don’t talk about how “fuckin awesome” rocky blier, franco harris or lynn swann were, because YOU never saw them play!
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:33 am
‘“My Oh My, That Sure is A Lot of Lombardi Trophies”
You mean two?”
Ummm…he means six
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:36 am
The reason they talk about it Joe is that it’s because of those Championships that they’re Steelers fans. Not like most of them have any connection to the city, or would ever dream of cheering for the Pirates or the Penguins.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:37 am
@joe wade – I was born in 1969, and one of my earliest memories was of SB IX. OK with you if I celebrate 6 Lombardis?
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:43 am
@ cocksuckers
Yea, nobody in Pittsburgh gives a shit about the Pens or Bucs, that’s why they moved to Kansas City and Richmond respectively back in 96′.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:48 am
I have never had any problem with the Steelers. In fact, as a Redskins fan living in Seattle, I’m sick to death of hearing these whiny, passive-aggressive fucks (*cough* Caveman *cough*) go on and on over the results of Super Bowl XL (guess what Seahawks fans? Even with perfect officiating, you still would have lost. Because your team wasn’t that good. Deal with it). I accept (begrudgingly) the ass-pounding the Skins took from the Steelers earlier in the season, and admit that they have a solid team. But should the fucking Defensive Player of the Year be repeatedly punching an opposing player in the ribs after the play is stopped? And should at least ONE of the players/coaches/owners interviewed post-game (Rooney, Tomlin, Holmes, Rongrastname) have made *some* mention of the worthiness of their scrappy, underdog opponents? The answers, respectively, are “fuck no” and “fuck yes.” Reeeeeal classy guys.
p.s. Marry me, Maj.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:50 am
@Brian Dawkins: Ape was born in the 80s. So two.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:51 am
@joe Wade
I was alive and a fan during the 70’s Steelers teams. In fact, I just met Rocky Blier this weekend and thanked him. Not only for his service as an American vet but as one half of the greatest rushing tandem in football history!
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:52 am
congrats Ape and likeminded commenters. yeah, there were some issues with the officiatereering, but when aren’t there?
@ joe wade — “MOST PEOPLE weren’t alive for”?! believe it or not, some of us here made the 70s what they were when you were maybe only able to rock torn stInkin’ Pampers. you fucking puppy.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:58 am
Kent Graham, Slash, and a former insurance salesman. All of them were starting qb’s….
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:58 am
Because I wasn’t alive when the team won their first four Super Bowls, that somehow negates their existence? That’s wee todd ed.
Joe Wade’s comment about fans taking credit for championships is a curious one. When can a fan ever “take credit” for their team winning?
This thread is a glorious Steelers tortured hate fest and I love it.
/off to bed
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:01 am
/follows his gay power bottom to “bed”
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:09 am
Hooray for the Over.
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:10 am
@Aunt Jemima: If by punching you mean shoving (also known as blocking) while the play was still going on, then fuck yes. Or is there a rule that you can’t block someone until they are standing up again? He wasn’t gouging his eyes out crushing his trachea Jim Sorgi style. Besides, they got the weak ass half-yard penalty anyway. Seattle must be rubbing off on you.
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:26 am
I’m not hating. I simply have a bright-line rule against celebrating team successes you weren’t alive to personally experience. I apply this rule to every fan of every franchise of every sport. And yes, I apply it to myself. The Marino teams that shit the bed every year mean more to me than the 1972 team ever will.
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:26 am
This thread is delicious. Steelers hate is delicious. Please, angry Cards fans, get together with whiny Seahawks fans and fail to get over your imagined slights for another 10 years. It will please me greatly.
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:33 am
@Old Gregg: All I’m saying was it was a weak-ass penalty, for pretty blatant unneccessary roughness. And yes, I know the rule is “half the distance to the goal line”–it just didn’t seem like enough considering the extent of the punishment taken by Francisco.
And HOW DARE you accuse Seattle of rubbing off on me!
/drinks latte while crying and writing a song about your post
Still love you Maj!
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:36 am
So, Steelers fans suck because they don’t follow the Pirates and/or Penguins? Wow. That’s a new one. I just have to laugh and move on, because if I think about that logic too long, my head will explode. Pittsburgh’s always been a football town. I didn’t realize it was required to like every sport just because your town has a team playing it. If we had a basketball team, I wouldn’t give a shit about them either.
As for the ’70s Super Bowls, I’ve never heard a fan “take credit” for those. I’ve never told anyone that I, personally, caught the immaculate reception. But maybe I should start doing that, since no one in Pittsburgh was born before 1980, and would probably believe me.
By the way, I was born in 1973 so I vividly remember SB XIII. I guess by the new rules, I have to pretend that IX and X never happened? That’s okay, four trophies is still pretty damn good.
It’s funny that everyone is going to start with the “officials wanted the Steelers to win” routine, when the whole way up to the Super Bowl, there has been nothing but media hype surrounding the “Cinderella story” of the Cardinals, and most of NBC’s talking heads picked the Cards to win.
That said, I do agree that Harrison should’ve been ejected, but he wasn’t, so what the hell are you gonna do? That wouldn’t have made the difference in the game.
I guess with this 6th title, the Steelers will now take the Patriots’ place as the most hated team in the NFL. Oh well.
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 am
It was a great game, but the comments by Steelers’ fans in this thread are already making me wish a meteor had struck the stadium before the game ended. I was going to congratulate you but fuck that. Dicks.
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:24 am
@Beckeye
It shows the city only gives a shit about the good teams. It shows that your city is a bunch of band wagoners, just like any other successful franchise.
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:27 am
James Harrison was fun to watch. He reminded me of one of the convict linemen from The Longest Yard.
“Alright men, now here’s the play we’re gonna use. I don’t think the guards know this formation. It’s called ‘incidental punishment after the ball is blown dead.’ Remember, any man you tackle gets an elbow, knee, or kick in the mouth.”
MP!
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:36 am
As the kingpin of last weekend’s Steeler hatefest, I’ll throw out a solid congrats. And as a Pittsburgh bartender tonight, I thank Yinzer nation for paying my rent this month.
Honestly though, that was a hell of a game [4th quarter]. And as a Pitt grad/Fitzy fanboy, I can’t overstate how much I was looking forward to feasting on your tears. The better team won.
HOWEVA, Ape, the fact the Carter didn’t get in again tilts the Hines argument from last week in my favor. It has to. Not that I agree with it on these terms, but if this is the world we’re living in, he can’t even be close. Still, enjoy the win you bastard.
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:37 am
P.S. James Harrison was running like he was late for his kid’s baptism. Did anyone make that joke yet? Hope not.
/real drunk
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:39 am
85, more like chasing after his girlfriend.
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:44 am
@pbhawks: Yeah, obviously that was the joke.
Coming from me, this actually means something. Time to let it go.
February 2nd, 2009 at 5:11 am
@pbhawks45 – Uh, no it doesn’t show that. It just shows that we’re primarily a football town. The Steelers haven’t been good every year, but the fans have always stuck by them.
Fans of any team are annoying to anyone who’s not part of that fan base. Get over it. Or, if you can’t, at least make an entertaining YouTube video about how much Steelers fans suck.
All this bullshit aside, I thought this was one of the better Super Bowls I’ve seen, and both teams played well. Like most people, I tend to love an underdog myself, so if the Cards had been playing anyone but the Steelers I probably would’ve been on their side. But they weren’t, so I wasn’t. Kudos to them though for a great effort (and causing me a couple of heartattacks before it was all over). I hope Warner decides to stick around for at least another year, because he proved he still belongs in the game.
February 2nd, 2009 at 5:20 am
@pbhawks45
Fuck you. The Penguins are unreal and Pittsburgh loves them and cheers for them. And baseball sucks hard cocks so fuck the Pirates. That’s like asking you to cheer for the incarcerated rapists in your local jail, because they’re in your city. You fair weather poofter.
February 2nd, 2009 at 5:52 am
@Mornacale
Cardinals and Seahawks fans won’t make it 10 years holding a grudge. By 2011, they’ll have reverted to rooting for the ‘49ers again. And their games will be blacked out on local TV… again.
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:20 am
“If we had a basketball team, I wouldn’t give a shit about them either. ”
Somewhere, the ghosts of the Pittsburgh Condors weep.
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:20 am
Truly an epic 4th quarter too bad the refs did everything in their power to ensure that the Steelers held on to their undeserved win. 1. Not ejecting James Harrison after he tried to pretend he was in the MMA and punches like a 5 year old schoolgirl. 2. Complete bullshit Santonio Holmes didn’t get called for a 15 yard using the ball as a prop touchdown… that would have completely changed the last drive they would have been starting from around their 40 instead of around their 20. 3. Not at least reviewing the Kurt Warner ‘fumble’ and allowing one more hailmary for fitty to pull down over the shit steelers defenders. 4. Roughing the passer call for tapping ben on the back and him going to the ground like the fat tub of lard he is. 5. Running into the holder faggotry on Adrian Wilson when he was clearly stumbling and given a push to hit the holder, and yet still the steelers shit ‘hard nosed, tough, power running’ (pussy) offense couldnt get the ball into the endzone with 6 tries from within 5 yards. Fuck the shitty steelers
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:23 am
Oh, and: Pregnant. Fan. At. Bar. How many celebratory IC Lites did she pound?
Fetal alcohol syndrome. Maybe that explains Stiller fans.
/shuts off the temporary hate
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:46 am
It’s so adorable; like some mutant version of anti-homerism. They only see the calls that benefit one team (the vast majority of which are imaginary) while being completely oblivious to the rest of the game.
But their salty tears of impotent rage sustain me. Yinz hang in there; you’re special.
So much easier to blame it on the refs than to step up your game. I recommend you just give up. We’re always up for more “ill-gotten” Lombardis.
/ Steerels sclatch them. Evelybody in China knows this.
// velly good nieuwss
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:51 am
Updated scoreboard from 2004 draft:
Big Ben — 2 rings
Eli — 1 ring
Marmalard — 0 rings
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:57 am
Looks like someone’s on Drew’s diet plan
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:27 am
MOST PEOPLE WEREN’T ALIVE FOR. Don’t talk about how “fuckin awesome” rocky blier, franco harris or lynn swann were, because YOU never saw them play!
I was and did, and was there
or would ever dream of cheering for the Pirates or the Penguins.
correct, that’s just crazy talk
also, SIX beatchhhhhhhhhhh
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:32 am
MOST PEOPLE WEREN’T ALIVE FOR. Don’t talk about how “fuckin awesome” rocky blier, franco harris or lynn swann were, because YOU never saw them play!
Funny, I seem to remember cheering for them in my maroon Penguins jersey. Dating myself, but what the hell.
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:53 am
I’m actually a tad disappointed. I was expecting something FAR more hateful and smug. But maybe Ape wasn’t thinking clearly as he still had alcohol in his system.
In all honesty, if there has to be a Yankees of (Super Bowl era) football, at least it’s the Steelers. It’s just harder to hate them. I mean seriously…their best quarterbacks have been Forrest Gumps, their defensive players make good commercials, and it’s going to be an historic day when you see the first porno DVD cover that says “featuring former Super Bowl MVP…” on it.
Besides, what’s everyone bitching about? NONE of you really liked the Cardinals and they even beat the spread! What more could you have asked for?
/in the absence of a real Oakland or L.A. franchise, better Pittsburgh than Dallas or New England
//mildly disappointed San Francisco won’t get #6 until 2028
///sweet liquor eases all pains
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:14 am
Awesome game; congrats to the Steelers and Steeler nation…even you, Ape.
By the way, when the HELL did Brenda Warner grow her hair out and stop lifting weights?? Sumbitch, last time I saw her in public she looked like a cross between It’s Pat and and Ellen. NOW she looks like a woman??
Must be the Arizona atmosphere. *cough cough*
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:24 am
I wasn’t alive for the first Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, or Christmas, but I still celebrate them by getting crushed and eating my weight in meat. Much like Steelers fans do every Sunday. And Tuesdays. And the odd Thursday.
/grumble grumble grumble Steelers earned this ring with the gauntlet they ran this season grumble grumble Brady’s coming back and hell’s coming with him grumble grumble
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:24 am
Who knew the Steelers fans were going to celebrate their win with a circular firing squad.
“No, no, no! I’M the biggest fan! Look, I wrote Mrs. Ben Roethlisberger on my hand! IN INK!”
Get a room, funboys.
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:30 am
congratulations, sir. for once a nationally televised steelers game was better than watching an abortion take place. and you won the game. so good job.
/i say put the hate on hold the day after the super bowl, since there are 364 other days to hate
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:36 am
Do we have a name for Holmes’ catch yet? I vote for “The Tripod”
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:38 am
Ape- when the cards went up by 3, how confident were you that your boys could come back and at least force OT.
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:42 am
Wow…
must suck to hate the steelers right about now.
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:45 am
Fucking A!!!!!!!!!!!!
Draft day is just around the corner – shithead steelers are going to draft another fucking future Hall of Famer with the last pick in each fucking round. How about a man/child linebacker – Laurenitus? Or maybe a great lineman that slips down? How about a lockdown corner that runs a 4.4 40yrd.
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:48 am
[X] Getting owned by the Eagles in regular season
[X] Playing thuggish, unsportsmanlike like football
[X] Probably creating a new Plaxico Burress with Holmes (Goes to Jets ASAP?)
[X] Jeff Reed’s hair making him look like a moron
To be fair, fuck the Cardinals hard. Eagles would have won that game. Especially with two weeks for Westbrook, and a defense who could actually tackle Ben, instead of letting him prance around. I don’t get how the Cardinals got home field for the Championship. Sure, you won a division, but I think when it comes down to the Championship, it should be best record. Which the Eagles had… And then they steal the Walter Payton from Dawkins too? Brian Dawkins is more man than five fumbling, limpwristed Kurt Warners, goddamnit.
But such is life. Fuck.
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:59 am
imo, birk should have won that award, not dawkins or warner
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:07 am
“I want to Lombardi you…”
/tainted
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:15 am
So I’m assuming Ape is chaffing from all the masturbating he’s done from today and all of last week.
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:18 am
I hate the Steelers more than anyone and the refs had nothing to do with the outcome. Fucking get over it. Congrats to the Steelers and all of their fans that at least try to fight the urge to be obnoxious.
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:27 am
Ryno Says:
Ape- when the cards went up by 3, how confident were you that your boys could come back and at least force OT.
The final-drive-score-for-the-win had been their M.O. all year, so I had hope, but I was still panicking hard that they would wait until the Super Bowl not to pull one off.
HOWEVA, Ape, the fact the Carter didn’t get in again tilts the Hines argument from last week in my favor. It has to. Not that I agree with it on these terms, but if this is the world we’re living in, he can’t even be close. Still, enjoy the win you bastard.
You forget that the writers who vote on the Hall hold petty grudges against churlish players. Hines is pretty friendly to the media, so he may not get the snub Carter has gotten, though, yes, Carter has a better HOF resume than Hines.
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:32 am
Did Harrison cost himself the MVP with that late personal foul (which IMO should have gotten him tossed)? Holmes’s catch was great, but I still think the Steelers win the game without it. I am not sure they do without the pick six.
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:39 am
Most likely. The 100-yard pick-six was obviously the biggest play of the game, but then Harrison didn’t have any sacks, though he did consistently beat Arizona’s left tackle badly enough to draw three or four holding calls. I thought Harrison would get MVP, but I have no problem with it going to Santonio.
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:48 am
Kurt Warner should start every Super Bowl. The 3 he has started has been have been awesome.
No hate here, would have liked to see Arizona win. Had to watch the game with a die hard Steelers fan (my cousin) so that was fun.
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:56 am
I don’t know who won. I was at a trans-siberian concert with my mom. So no one say anything, I taped the game on beta and can’t wait to watch it. I love that spuds mckenzie!
/so says the average retard-backwards steelers fan
//steeler fan would go to concert with his mother if he knew who the crack whore bitch was
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:57 am
Congatulations you motherf*&^%in’ motherf%$#ers, f#*&K you!
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:08 am
Hines is pretty friendly to the media, so he may not get the snub Carter has gotten, though, yes, Carter has a better HOF resume than Hines.
At best, he should wait twice as long as Carter, if he gets in at all, however long Carter waits. Media bitchassness aside, there’s no comparing the resumes. This is it from me on this one though, the hate may be all I have left, but there’s a time and a place, and I do not want to deal with all the lurkers today.
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:11 am
Beat the defending Super Bowl Champions…not so much.
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:23 am
Wait…the Super Bowl was yesterday?!
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:33 am
Rou Hobbs -
Not sure if you’re the same Roy Hobbs from CelticsBlog, but if so, I’m caling shenanigans. Let me guess, you’re a die-hard Red Wings and Yankee fan too!
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:37 am
I’m suprised Harrison’s on field roid rage didn’t get him thrown out.
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:38 am
Best team of the year won this thing, and best team in NFL history they are.
You cant stop the Ben when 2 minutes or less on clock. Hes my MVP. But man Homies catch was like up there in Randy Moss and Fitz territory.
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:45 am
I am not a fan of the Steelers but not a Steelers hater either…so congrats. I am pretty much happy with any Super Bowl outcome just as long as the Cowboys and the Pats don’t win it all….oh and the Bears, Vikings, Eagles, Skins, and Giants (unless they are beating the Pats)
/I hate a lot of teams
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:48 am
We have a Steelers fan in my office; he’s actually a pretty cool guy and he hasn’t been going on about it too much yet, so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt that he’s not a tool. I guess fans deserve a full day to blah blah blah about the team. But tomorrow, we all going back to hating the Patriots fans and the Dallas Cowboys themselves, as God intended.
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:15 am
best team in NFL history
that’s a good one. now do your bit about supermarket buggies with that one wonky wheel. It’s gold!
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:39 am
Here’s something to hate:
“h. The Jets, as I said Sunday on NBC, are going to give Brett Favre lots of time to breathe. As in months. Favre and GM Mike Tannenbaum talked the other day for the first time since Dec. 29, and Tannenbaum said he was in no rush for Favre to make a decision on his future.
i. Doesn’t matter. I don’t believe Favre will play again.”
Yes. It doesn’t matter that we’re less than twenty-four hours from the Super Bowl, Peter King has to crowbar his Favre dicksucking in somewhere.
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:42 am
I’m disappointed that Ape hasn’t been as insufferable as we thought he’d be. But still, when does he get the cookie sheet to the face?
I’m also confused, do I get to celebrate all the Packers Super Bowls and championships, or only the You Know Who one against the Pats? Can we get a ruling on this?
/gonna celebrate them anyway so fuck you, Steelers have 6 trophies.
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:43 am
@Ditmas AV – No. Not the same one.
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:59 am
fuck the Steelers.
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:22 pm
You people need to stop living in the past! Last season is over, & today everyone is undefeated again!!… even the Cleveland Browns (who it warrants mentioning- especially now that I’ve been overwhelmingly authorized by Steelers fans to trash talk about past successes of my team- have won EIGHT CHAMPIONSHIPS compared to the measly 6 that Pittsburgh has… come talk to us after you win two more you fucking pansies!!)
/cries self to sleep, gently rocking back and forth.
//cries harder when he realizes that the three biggest impact players for the Steelers last night are all from Ohio… one of which was born and raised in Akron & was undrafted.
///takes solace in the small feat of remaining loyal to ALL THREE local sports teams no matter what… unlike all of the Ohio-born douchebags who are celebrating “our sixth trophy”
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:47 pm
A pregnant Steelers fan at a bar…what a shock.
Tip o’ the cap, tho, to a true 60-minute team. Damn shame no less than 3 people spelt the man’s name “Blier”. He’s a Vietnam vet with a clubfoot, people. Show a modicum of respect!
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:55 pm
@ Cheap Shot Altist
I always kind of considered cities like Youngstown and Steubenville to be Steelers territory, while Erie, PA tends to like Cleveland. Are there other parts of Ohio that also claim Pittsburgh?
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:06 pm
i know Ben forever silenced my criticism with his 20 point offensive explosion on an average Arizona D.
/just kidding, Ben is the greatest everything of all-time!
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Here’s my one and only Steelers fan hate for the day. 100 arrests in Pittsburgh last night. After the Phillies won the World Series, 76 arrests. Philly has 5 times the population. Way to act like you’ve been there before, yinzers. Although a lot of those arrests happened around the Pitt campus, home to the newest generation of bandwagon Steelers fans. (IT. IS. TRUE.) So a lot of them haven’t been there before.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Ben played like crap most of the game. He definitely was not the reason they won.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:44 pm
He definitely was not the reason they won.
Except that whole measly final game-winning drive. All everyone said before the game was quoting his Super Bowl XL rating and how they were sure he’d turn the ball over at least three times. He just won the Super Bowl behind one of the worst lines in the league. Give the guy his due.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:50 pm
@ Orange Julius
Can we give them Meadville, too?
And on a personal note: fuck Erie…I got thrown out of two bars there in one night and later fell into a snow pile…turns out I was drunk.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:56 pm
“He just won the Super Bowl behind one of the worst lines in the league.”
… however, when it comes to holding and/or tackling defenders from behind (without a flag, of course), they were definitely among the best in the league all season long! I give Ben credit for constantly converting clutch downfield receptions after standing/scrambling seemingly forever… but I’d say only about 50% of the time (or less) this is due to his elusiveness. A lot of shenanigans by this O-line seem to be overlooked… & if that’s not the case, then Steeler fans need to stop whining about how horrible they are all the time in an attempt to deify their latest retarded QB. The big dummy always has plenty of time to find an opening. Just saying…
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Uh, the Steelers line get flagged plenty fucking often, especially Willie Colon. Hell, they when got hit for a hold on the first play of the winning drive and still the offense found a way to win.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:17 pm
@Nimby
Yeah Meadville is Stillers territory, how did you know that town even existed. And for each of the last 15 painful years I have cheered for the Pirates although I refuse to go to games anymore. I fall in a snow pile every time I drink in Erie too, it’s not tough as snow is there 8 months a year
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:25 pm
I’m from just outside of Pittsburgh, one town over from where the Steelers hold training camp. I am 38 years old and I live in So Cal and I have seen all of the Super Bowl victories. I have to tell you this….being a Pirate and Penguin fan only makes the experience of winning something that much sweeter. Hell, I’m a Clipper fan too, so you know how much pain I have to go through.
And the Steelers line is the worst. Colon and Kemoeatu are good for one holding call per half. Max Starks is a statue. But if you can win with that line and a running game with Willie Parker (no longer Fast Willie Parker) imagine what would happen with competent blockers? Alan Faneca…..great choice to go to the Jets.
Here’s looking for #7, or the Pirates winning 82 games….One of these is more likely to happen…..
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Big Ben had a good game. That’s good, not great, BTW. A horrible season though. Steeler fans keep on blathering about their offensive line but it was pretty fantastic most of yesterday. Ben held on to the ball for long periods multiple times. If you credit Big Ben for contributing in any significant way to this Championship, you’re an idiot who can’t understand the concept that football is a team game and it’s possible to have some players be mediocre even on an excellent team. He sucked most of the year and got bailed out by the best D in the league. League average QB.
He’s going to the hall of fame though, because sportswriters are imbeciles.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Okay Ape… check the tape. Pay special attention to the never-ending drive that included 3 personal fouls and eventually led to a field goal (and- more importantly- several minutes being drained from the clock). You know the play where Ben was “hit late”? Watch closely as the Zona defender wears an O-lineman as a cape for about 5 yards as he administers a choke hold… then when said defender peels off that O-lineman and is about to sack the flawless, God-like Ben, another blocker tackles him from behind! Inevitably, the announcers masturbate furiously over Ben’s “elusiveness”, and he is bailed out of a drive-ending incompletion by an unnecessary roughness penalty for hitting the QB .5 seconds after he released the ball.
I’m not saying that the Steelers won because of the refs (the game-winning drive was largely due to absolutely God-awful, “How the fuck do you let that happen” defense)… I’m not saying that Ben doesn’t always seem to come through in the clutch… all I’m saying is that your O-line- much like the dirty-ass Denver Chop-blockers- gets away with a lot of shit. I’m happy for some of my Steelers friends WHO ARE FROM PITTSBURGH and enjoy their team winning more than everyone else’s teams losing- but even most of them have readily admitted that they got (or, more often, Zona didn’t get) a lot more calls from the refs. Again, the point is moot, but some of you seem to think that admitting to a few obvious referee fuck-ups somehow means that you’re admitting that your team didn’t earn their rings. I don’t believe that you’re blind to what happened on the field Apey… just blindly stubborn.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:34 pm
I though everybody knew about the jewel of Crawford County (crystal meth capitol of Western PA).
I want to apologize for my comment about Erie – did any of you guys find a set of keys after the thaw?
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Dum Bunny’s hate gets more delusional the more the Steelers win. I kind of love it.
Cheap Shot, the Cards got away with as many holds as they were called for. Because there are tons of uncalled holds. Every line does, including Mighty Joe Thomas and the your Browns highly-touted line. And, dude, your commenter name is a shot at a Steelers player. Your ravings about how supposedly dirty the Steelers line is is to be taken with about a mountain of salt.
Looking forward to wins 12 and 13 in a row over Cleveland next year.
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:10 pm
It truly sucks having to defend your team after they win a Super Bowl. I remember putting up with a bunch of “if it wasn’t for Neil O’Donnell” comments the last time the Cowboys won a SB.
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Why don’t you complain about your offensive coordinator some more?
/Harrison takes 5 cheap shots at a Cardinal player
//Steelers fans swoon
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:21 pm
I don’t understand all this talk of a difficult schedule, however. Didn’t the Steelers go 4-4 against teams with a winning record? The only playoff teams they beat all year were the Chargers and Ravens. Oh My God….how the fuck did they survive such a gauntlet?
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Dum Bunny, you are so…well, dumb, that it boggles the mind. And you’re a Browns fan? Jeebis, just admit that you’d sell a testicle to be the Steelers.
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:34 pm
It is also worth pointing out that the Steelers seemed to have inexplicably gone to a prevent defense for stretches in the fourth quarter, especially on the drive that ended with the first Fitzgerald TD. If the safeties are playing closer to the line on the his second TD it might have been held to a 15-20 yard gain.
February 2nd, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Well that is certainly an interesting philosophy… since I’m a Browns fan and use a commenter name that is not nice (not to mention very unoriginal) to a Steelers player, any criticism must be taken with a mountain of salt. However, your status as the most insufferable homer on this site only serves to strengthen your pro-Stillers argument- even when there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. The Steelers are world champions, and by definition the best team in the league… but you don’t need to pretend that they’re flawless and have never done one thing wrong- you’re allowed to acknowledge negatives about them. Here, let me show you how it’s done:
The Browns O-line underachieved (much like the rest of the team- or any Cleveland team that comes into a season with any kind of expectations for success for that matter) and Thomas didn’t deserve to make the Pro Bowl over Clady, let alone start! With the #5 pick in the draft they will undoubtedly pick a “can’t miss” prospect who will immediately “miss” while Rooney randomly grabs some homeless guy off the streets of Cleveland and turns him into the next Hall of Fame Steelers linebacker. See, it’s not that hard! (by the way, what joy could you possibly derive from lashing out at Browns fans at this point? Seriously, it’s like making fun of somebody for having a retarded relative- they have no control over it and there’s really no retort).
P.S.- I never said the Steelers line was “dirty”, just that they get away with a lot of holding- and while the old standby that you all use whenever several potentially game-altering blatant holds go uncalled (”Every line holds”, “They could call a hold on every play”) may have a slight bit of merit, I don’t see very many QBs running around in circles behind the line of scrimmage as often or for as long as Simple Ben while defenders mysteriously fall face first after beating their blockers.
And, dude, please don’t fucking call me dude- I beg you.
February 2nd, 2009 at 5:14 pm
@Cheap Shot Altist: You might as well stop. You cannot win this. Take it from me. Once the yinzers finally get out of the drunk tank this afternoon they’ll gang up on you and from there you’re talking to a wall.
February 2nd, 2009 at 5:16 pm
you’re allowed to acknowledge negatives about them
Haven’t I, in this very thread, said their O-line sucks? Bashed Bruce Arians? And I’m not any more of a homer than Maj or Drew are. It just happens that their teams weren’t contending for titles this year.
The Steelers line is one of the more penalized units in the league. Yet your argument is, what then? There’s not a flag every single time Ben rolls around the pocket? Jesus Duding Christ, that’s some lingering fucking bitterness. And then you’re gonna hide behind the Browns being pathetic to deflect any counterargument? Fucking weak.
February 2nd, 2009 at 5:19 pm
“Nate Newton’s van Says:
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:21 pm
I don’t understand all this talk of a difficult schedule, however. Didn’t the Steelers go 4-4 against teams with a winning record? The only playoff teams they beat all year were the Chargers and Ravens. Oh My God….how the fuck did they survive such a gauntlet?”
Giants had a much better record against playoff teams in the regular season and had about as difficult a schedule but announcers are typically up the Steelers asses. It’s one thing if they said the Steelers had one of the more difficult schedules, whcih was true. it’s another when the douchebags say, “most difficult schedule ever.”
That being said, congrats to the Steelers on winning a great game. 6 Superbowls is impressive. However, maybe now you can win as many championships as the NY Giants. 7 world championships, baby! And don’t act like the Steelers weren’t around in the pre-Superbowl era.
February 2nd, 2009 at 5:21 pm
85:
Or maybe you can’t “win” because you drop the same “I’m a non-Steelers fan living in Pittsburgh so if I’m an unreasoning hater, it’s okay” line in every comment thread. And now you’re engaging in passive aggressive bullshit to other commenters getting their hate on.
February 2nd, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Don’t NOBODY leave Ape alone, everybody ALWAYS HATIN’. But they’s champions anyway. ALL Y’ALL DO IS HATE. WOOF, WOOF, WOOF!
Don’t you NEVER disrespect Ape’s Parrot. YOU AIN’T WON NO SUPER BOWL. They a WORLD CHAMPION, and you ain’t nothin’ but a mark-ass, playa-hatin’, dog food eatin’, livin’ in a cave, Cap’n Stubin’ hat wearing BEEOTCH!
WOOF, WOOF, WOOF!
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:03 pm
“COUNTERARGUMENT”?!?! You heap praise upon Ben as Jesus in cleats because “HE just won the Super Bowl behind one of the worst lines in the league”, when- in reality- he was barely touched on the final drive and as a result was able to buy himself time to find wide open receivers who had 20 yards of running room after the catch. I attempted to make the point that they are very proficient at holding and tackling defenders, but you insist that they don’t hold any more than any other team. I proceeded to describe one such potentially game-altering play in detail and encouraged you to watch the play for yourself. Your response (or counterargument, as you called it) was, basically: “What you say cannot possibly have merit because you are a Browns fan… and the Browns suck balls!! Ha-Ha, your team sucks!”.
So… I guess I can assume that your conclusion is that Ben always comes through in the clutch with absolutely no help from his worthless line- he has all of the time in the world to throw because of his superior speed and athleticism- and even if there are game-altering no-calls of apparent holds at crucial points of a game, it doesn’t matter because everybody gets away with holding sometimes… and, most importantly, the Browns suck- and if you, as a Browns fan, admit this obvious fact you are a coward.
I mean, dude, what was I supposed to do?… “counterargue” that the Browns have been a successful franchise for the 10 years since they came back into the league? Inigo Montoya says, “I do not think that word means what you think it means”. Your Browns-bashing diversion would better be described as “changing the subject”.
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Yikes. I go sub for a 7th grade science class for the day, and this post erupts in irrational hate. Ape-mania has officially taken hold…
/grabs popcorn
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Cheap Shot Altist,
Counterpoint: Shut your whore mouth, whore.
Seriously, I think there’s some middle ground between “he’s a big worthless douche” and “he’s Jesus incarnate in pro-keds”. He might just be a quarterback good enough to win a few games here and there. Not perfect, but not as bad as you make him out to be.
Admit it: that 2 minute drill was pretty damn good, but we Stillers fans knew that it would be. Ben is a monster in the 2 minute drill and has been all year. If I’m not mistaken, the superbowl was the 6th game this year he pulled out the dumpster with a last-minute drive. Maybe you didn’t see what was coming, but we did.
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:20 pm
I’m so happy Big Ben finally won a Super Bowl!
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Okay, I’m going to try to sort through the rubble of that response.
[Cracks knuckles]
I never said Ben was some all-powerful quarterbacking demigod. Only that these detractors who call him a turnover machine and, the most pointless dig of all, “overrated” are shortchanging the guy. He belongs in the top five QBs in the league. The guy plays behind what any observer would call a subpar offensive line, one that is not only poor at blocking but also, despite your bitching to the contrary, already draws tons of penalties. Of course, in your ideal Steelers hating fantasy, you’d like it if they were somehow being helped by the refs too. Roethlisberger can exacerbate matters by holding the ball too long, yes. You argue that Roethlisberger was barely touched on the last drive? Was this because there was no pressure on him? No, it’s because he avoided the pressure that there was.
I don’t give a fuck about the Browns. Their shittiness has rendered any rivalry nearly irrelevant. I was getting annoyed that this was turning into a Super Bowl XL redux, but it’s nothing but a contingent of bitter fans who want to discredit a Steelers title. There’s really nothing left to argue at this point about yesterday, and those who are arguing it are doing it from a place of emotion, not from reason.
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Undt alzo…
I agree that Ol’ Silverback should have been ejected for that beat-down in the second half, but I also think he deserved the MVP for that pick-6.
That would have made for an epic disney world promo. (In the parking lot) “James Harrison: You just won the superbowl! What are you gonna do next?”
” First, I’mma wait for this candyass muthafucka to come get his second helping of pain. But then I’m taking his skull to Disney world.” (creepy psycho-smile)
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:42 pm
This site is better for all the homerism. And when your team wins a championship, you’re supposed to rub your cock in everyone’s face. Otherwise, why even bother?
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:01 pm
I completely agree that Ben is a top 5 QB… and I said from the outset that he does a helluva job in the clutch. Believe me, as a Browns fan I KNEW what was coming when the Steelers got the ball back at the end. For the past three or four years, the Browns were completely obliterated in one game and sweated out an inevitable soul-crushing close defeat at the hands of the Steelers- and it always seemed to happen just like that. I’ll admit I was passionately cheering against them last night, but I blame the Cards offense (for going 3 1/2 fucking quarters without ONCE tossing the ball deep to #11- I don’t give a shit how many guys were covering him… and for not trying Fitzy fades before halftime instead of a quick slant against the best LB group in the league.) and last minute defense (for suddenly making HUGE coverage errors to ensure that the inevitable OT turned into the inevitable regulation choke-job) MUCH more than the referees. I just think it’s somewhat disingenuous to pretend that there were no instances where the officiating didn’t seem to tilt somewhat in the Steelers favor. It’s not like a bunch of jealous, whiny-ass critics have the power to tarnish your teams trophy. So Congrats… motherfuckers
/wait for it… wait for it… … WAIT TIL NEXT YEAR!
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Cheap Shot Altist,
By definition, every crappy call made tilts the balance in favor of one team or another. The problem with the anti-homers is that they can only acknowledge half of the shitty calls; the ones that support their paranoid-delusional world view.
There were exactly two questionable calls in this game, and they both *coincidentally* happened to favor the Cardinals.
#1 the phantom-hold safety without which Arizona wouldn’t have been in the game in the first place and #2 the amazing Fitzy I-never-actually-had-control-of-the-ball touchdown catch. But you know what? We never broke a sweat and we didn’t whine about it like a buncha prepubescent schoolgirls because sometimes shit just falls that way, and you either overcome or pack your shit and go home.
So to all the haters, I say this: If you’re so all-fired convinced that the game is rigged, STOP WATCHING!
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:08 pm
@Ape: Congrats on your team’s win (couldn’t care less, I’m a Skins fan, but it was for sure an entertaining game). But just out of curiosity, how many team jerseys do own? So far, I’ve seen at least 3 pictured on the site. Inquiring minds want to know.
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:18 pm
GoSlash is a delusional hypocritical jackass. You Steelers fans are such consummate professionals when it comes to watching your football team- we all have a lot to learn from you… NO ONE DENIES THIS!!! It’s almost as if you copied and pasted a sports guy column, changed the “patriots” references to “steelers”, then continued to fan the splendid odor of your feces for all of us to enjoy. “We never broke a sweat… you either overcome or pack your shit and go home”…what a smug fucking prick. I can just picture all of the Pittsburgh faithful stoicly looking on, completely unaffected by the fact that their #1 defense just squandered the lead with under 3 minutes left. Had the Steelers failed to go back on top, I’m sure you classy gentlemen would simply have said “Oh well, that’s the way the cookie crumbles- congratulations Cardinals!” Assholes like this are the ones that make people generalize entire fanbases of certain teams as douchebags.
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:34 pm
I have four.
Hines Ward (home)
James Farrior (home)
LaMarr Woodley (away)
Ben Roethlisberger (alternate)
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Correction: “Smug fucking prick” whose team now has 6 rings. But you know… I’m sure the Browns were *this* close to being in contention…
/ playa hatin’ is no substitute for competence
// excuses are no substitute for determination
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Oh yeah… and personal attacks are no substitute for a coherent argument.
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:42 pm
And incidentally, yeah, that’s exactly what I would have said. I wouldn’t have broken out any weak-ass shit about how the game was rigged. Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes it eats you. Quit snivelin; your snot bubble’s gettin bigger than warner’s when he was blubberin’ “Hey! I was passin’ that”
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Sorry, dude…beating a 5-11 team in the regular season doesn’t “avenge” a goddamn thing that happened in the previous year’s playoffs. Nice try.
/onlyjagsfanontheplanet
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:07 pm
“Nice try.”
That sort of sums up the Jaguars in general, doesn’t it?
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Sniffle.
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:10 pm
We did get Byron Leftwich a Super Bowl ring though. So you can appreciate that.
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:22 pm
[x] Win a record* sixth** Super Bowl title, this time in a thrilling game over a hyped-up underdog, with Roethlisberger forever silencing critics with game-winning drive
* for Super Bowl era
** five legit – see SBXL
/fixed
//like my balls
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Jesus Hussein Christ… what on earth are you blathering on about?!?
I stand corrected sir, you are an oak! I am in awe of your nonchalant attitude towards the outcome of your favorite team’s games! So, let me get this straight; if they win you rush off to sports blogs to trash talk & glorify yourself & your team, but if they lose you unemotionally say “oh well”- then within minutes you forget all about football until the next season. I must say, I envy you… my team hasn’t played a meaningful game in I don’t know when & I get pissed off during/after every single loss- but you would be unaffected at coming thisclose to a historic 6th title before losing. Boy, I sure wish I had your… competence?… determination??… & ability to make a coherent argument as well!
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:26 pm
If you homers are going to honor your legends (as you should), get their names right. He’s Robert Rocky Bleier. Stop getting it wrong and reinforcing all those stereotypes about the brain damage caused by too much coal dust in the air and iron city beer.
Oh, and now that you’ve won 6 super bowl trophies, would you mind doing the recruiting necessary (go outside Pennsylvania, since it’s the only way this will happen; I understand there’s a whole industry devoted to helping you find the talent) and field a goddam cheerleading squad?! Success traditionally attracts hot bitches, and God knows Pittsburgh needs some. Plus, doing so will make this shot to the balls even more painful for Jerry Jones. The man sold his soul for a 6th ring, and all he got was a bed full of shit. Please do what’s necessary to prolong his pain and frustration.
Finally, congratulations. The better team won, and that’s how it’s supposed to be.
February 3rd, 2009 at 1:55 am
on to the STAIRWAY TO SEVEN!
February 3rd, 2009 at 4:54 am
@Hater: Some team won more than 5 Super Bowls before the Super Bowl era? What? That first * just doesn’t make sense.
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:19 am
Just to put it to rest, people from Pittsburgh do care immensely about the Pens. Hockey fans here are die hard fans. The Pirates are another story. Most of the people in Pittsburgh still root for the Pirates, but few will show up to the games because they hate management sooooo f’n bad. 16 straight losing season will do that to you though. Personally I was never a big baseball fan in general because the game is so f’n flawed (salary cap anyone, anyone?) but will support the Pens until I die.
February 4th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Pregnant woman patronizing a crowded bar at the Super Bowl.
Probably drove into a lake after the game.