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James 12/04/2011 5:44:00 AM
One more thing, Marty. Myron Cope's accent was not a product of Appalachia, as you've suggested. He's nasally and Jewish. So unless Fran Drescher sounds like a redneck to you, you're rather mistaken.
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James 12/04/2011 5:42:00 AM
This article is a few year old, yet it gets to me. I had no problem with you bashing our team, Marty. That's part of sports. But I do take offense with you insulting the entire city. I'll admit, we have some popularity in some pretty rural, redneck areas (although Penn State and WVU tend to dominate there). But do not other professional teams have a contingency in the hinterland of their states? The only remotely Appalachian thing about the urban core is the topography. Also, having been to games in a few different locales, I really don't see Steeler fans as acting the way you do. Are there some idiots? Yes...but no more so than in the Philadelphia, Baltimore, Dallas, etc audience. If you wan to see some rude fans, try hitting up the Montreal Canadiens (although as a Phoenix area resident, I doubt you've seen a hockey game). We have a sports culture in this region that you won't quite understand as a desert dweller. It's ingrained in the towns of Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, etc. I think you can take a lesson from Larry Fitz and learn to be a bit respectful.
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05/16/2011 4:50:00 AM
really i didn't like this article
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Fred Grimes 07/10/2009 6:10:00 PM
What are you talking about at the end of the piece? In the modern era (since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970) the Steelers have posted the best record in pro football. The franchise has won the most total games, won the most divisional titles, earned the best winning percentage (including every expansion team), earned the most All-Pro nominations and has the most Super Bowl wins (6) since the modern game started in 1970. It is also 2nd overall in playoff wins and season game wins to the Packers.
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Ryan Hou 04/09/2009 11:48:00 AM
really a stupid marching band seriously you people have no idea how much work people put in to marching band even alot of people love it like i do even i play for the ravens so you know what FUCK YOU if you think i marching band is stupid then you havent even seen dci
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ted 02/22/2009 12:20:00 AM
This is to # 408. You have let this so called writer get to you. You have taken his article much to seriously and I think he really got to you. The reason people are writing silly things are because they just want a good laugh. You need to lighten up a little and not judge so harshly other peoples humor. Your comments really showed how upset the so called writer made you. You are the one that played right into his hands. Ya Big Dummy.
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Band Member 02/20/2009 1:14:00 PM
The Baltimore Ravens don't employ the band it's all volunteers.
Looks like a lot of your stupid article isn't accurate.
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Band Member 02/20/2009 1:13:00 PM
The Baltimore Ravens don't employ the band it's all volunteers.
Looks like a lot of your stupid article isn't accurate.
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Charles 02/15/2009 4:46:00 AM
Pittsburgh seems to be doing just fine economically. How's Phoenix faring, jagoff? Also, had you written this article about the Oakland Raiders and their "ghetto black trash" fans, the national uproar would have been amusing, but predictably, it remains open season on "white trash".
Good luck with the football, and the real estate, and especially the water.
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terri 02/13/2009 10:04:00 PM
The only white trash is the writer of this lame bigoted article.
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Ruben 02/10/2009 7:16:00 AM
And here's an article that has been published in a respectable newspaper.
You can believe in Steelers
By MIKE BIANCHI
Monday, February 2, 2009
TAMPA , Fla. - One of the heroes of the game nearly became a bus driver.
The owner of the team walks to work every day. The fans of the team drink Iron City beer, wave dish towels and ignored the slumping economy to make their pigskin pilgrimage and turn the Super Bowl into a Sunshine State version of the Steel City. This is why we should all be glad that Pittsburgh is now the home of more Super Bowl championships than any franchise in the history of pro football: Because the players are hungry, the owner is humble and the fans are loyal.
What more could you want out of the NFL's champion of champions? And what more could you want from a Super Bowl?
From Jennifer Hudson's remarkable rendition of the national anthem Sunday to the Boss bringing down the house at halftime to Santonio Holmes making one of the greatest catches in NFL history for the winning touchdown with 35 seconds left, this will go down as a Super Bowl for the ages. The Steelers, by virtue of their unbelievable, inconceivable 27-23 defeat of the Arizona Cardinals, have now won a record sixth Super Bowl and their second in four years.
They are a small-market team that doesn't pay big-time salaries and yet they continue to win ... and win ... and win. In these trying economic times, how can you not feel good that it's the Steelers who have become the model franchise in all of professional sports. Some other of the NFL's other dynastic franchises have come and gone, but the Steelers just keep coming. The Green Bay Packers? They haven't won a Super Bowl in more than a decade. The San Francisco 49ers? They haven't had a winning season in six years and haven't been to a Super Bowl in 15.
The Dallas Cowboys? They make headlines because their quarterback dates Jessica but they haven't won a playoff game in a dozen years.
In contrast, Pittsburgh 's quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is the youngest quarterback (26) to ever win two Super Bowls, and the only controversy star wide receiver Hines Ward has been involved in is that opposing defenses complain that he plays too physical.
The Steelers are the New York Yankees of the NFL-without the arrogance and the payroll. George Steinbrenner buys championships; the Rooney family builds them. Every one of Pittsburgh 's star players-Roethlisberger, Troy Polamalu, Willie Parker, Hines Ward and James Harrison were either drafted by the team or discovered off the street. Harrison , with his spectacular 100-yard interception return at the end of the first half, made one the greatest plays in Super Bowl history Sunday. He was undrafted out of college, signed as a rookie free agent by the Steelers in 2002 and nearly quit football during his struggling early years to become a Greyhound bus driver.
This is why the Steelers should be celebrated. They win without the knuckleheads that dot so many professional rosters. As great a story as it was for the New York Giants to upset the undefeated Patriots in last year's Super Bowl, the star of that Giants team was knucklehead wide receiver Plaxico Burress. Yes, the same Burress who couldn't cut it in Pittsburgh because Pittsburgh doesn't tolerate knuckleheads. When Burress left town, the Steelers simply drafted Holmes and plugged him into Burress' spot. They were rewarded Sunday. With 35 seconds left, Roethlisberger drilled the ball into triple coverage in the corner of the end zone. Somehow, Holmes was able to come down with the ball and barely get both of his tippy-toes in bounds for the touchdown.
This is the Steelers, a franchise built on patience and principal. Is it any wonder President Barack Obama made the unusual move of endorsing Pittsburgh this week? Proof positive that if you can't appreciate the Pittsburgh Steelers, you are simply un-American.
Mike Bianchi writes for the Orlando Sentinel.
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Fuck you Marty 02/10/2009 4:21:00 AM
Hey Martin, since your a music editor I figured I would give you some music for you ears, Fuck you you fat pile of shit. You have no idea what the steelers mean to Pittsburgh. Our fans love that team and everything it stands for. Myron Cope is a legend dont ever mention his name. If i were you I would hide because if any steeler fan sees you we will show you what white trash really is. Fuck you
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Fuck you Marty 02/10/2009 4:21:00 AM
Hey Martin, since your a music editor I figured I would give you some music for you ears, Fuck you you fat pile of shit. You have no idea what the steelers mean to Pittsburgh. Our fans love that team and everything it stands for. Myron Cope is a legend dont ever mention his name. If i were you I would hide because if any steeler fan sees you we will show you what white trash really is. Fuck you
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I can't thank you stiller fans enough. Reading your comments really cracks me up. Seriously, I am sitting here at work just laughing. You all pretty much just proved the authors point. You showed how classy you are. In fact I am impressed. You came off sounding worse then I thought you would. I would like to comment so many of the responses. You people never went back and read a damn thing. You may have read the original story and then went ape shit. So funny. I have booked make this site and am reading your replies twice a day. I have been collecting some of the 'classier bits' Maybe I'll make a little YouTube video showing how "smert yinz is" The best part about it is that I can say it right here and no one will even read it. Well aside from you Michael. I have to say I am impressed once again. I almost hate to antagonize you but...Well you seem to be the only person that reads. Hmmm Michael i am sorry to paint with such a broad brush. Maybe I underestimated you. I have nothing to hide. I would really rather not have my friends and family from back home get upset although, they are not reading this either. Point is does it really matter? I am getting free entertainment from a bunch of dirtbags that are upset because someone wrote a story to get fans of another team more involved. It just so happens that along the way he said what most people think about steeler fans. You may think you are 'A great Fan Base' You are! You are the best fan base! It's because you have no life. There is nothing to do in pittsburgh but talk steeler football. The bigger the fan, the bigger the freaking idiot. I don't care what wonderful things have come from suxburgh. The first aluminium bottle. Maybe 50% of the ketchup in the nation. The Clark Bar. No matter what you are still low life, dirty butt Steeler fans.
Now we come to the point where I ask my self 'why?' Why does it make me laugh? Why must I read this and respond with my thoughts? Why use ex-quarterbacks as aliases? Why should I waste my time? It's a good question.
I don't even know. You would think since I'm from that area I wouldn't want people to know about yinz. You are like the stupid kid we send away. I guess we can't really hide you. You pop up every few years, remind us all how trashy you are and then your gone again. Maybe I just think i am better then you all. Is that it? I did manage to move VERY far away and do pretty damn well. I don't think that's it either though. I'm not worried about being better. I'm not a steeler fan so...we that's a step up right there. I could have been like the rest of the cows and followed you. Moooooo Moooooo Please swap Mooooooo For 'Steeeelers'. So what is it? Probably that your just freaking annoying. You don't know when to shut up. No one really cares that much!!!! It's not life or death for the rest of us. The rest of us have lives. We have other things to read about, talk about, and be happy about. If my team doesn't go to the big game. I'm bummed. We will get them next year. If my team ties Suxburgh with six next year...Awesome. Make no mistake. I will NOT be a freaking idiot like the steeler dirtbags. I will not be sending text messeges to EVERYONE in my address book saying 'Go Shitsburgh' I will not comment on a story written just to piss me off. So I have no problem with someone writing something that isn't true. Whatever, I just smile. it's funny.
It's when something hit's close to home or someone calls you out that you get pissed. That's when people get upset. Suxburgh, you didn't disappoint me one bit. Classy, Classy, Classy. I LOVE IT. True Colors. Piss yellow and black. Hell I just say yellow. Yinz think it's gold.
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Jon 02/09/2009 2:51:00 PM
Thanks for a racist article. This is elitism at its finest. Both you and your editor should be fired. Imagine if I characterized Detroit fans as ghetto, gang-banging thugs? I'm sure that wouldn't go over well.
Oh, and I probably have more education than you do. At least Steelers home playoff games didn't need an extension from the NFL to sell out or risk being blacked out locally.
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Jon 02/09/2009 2:51:00 PM
Thanks for a racist article. This is elitism at its finest. Both you and your editor should be fired. Imagine if I characterized Detroit fans as ghetto, gang-banging thugs? I'm sure that wouldn't go over well.
Oh, and I probably have more education than you do. At least Steelers home playoff games didn't need an extension from the NFL to sell out or risk being blacked out locally.
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Chris 02/09/2009 12:59:00 PM
Sounds a little like you wish you had a real team to cheer for. Do you think you could ramble on and whine any more?
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Jennifer 02/09/2009 1:07:00 AM
As a Pittsburgh Native, I took offense to your portrayal of Pittsburgh Steelers fans as some sort of poverty-stricken, backwoods hillbillies. In fact, the fans around There are primarily Democrats (Not a very back-woodsy affiliation), and very blue collar. They are hardworking individuals who earn every dime that they get and then some. When you turn on your electricity, thank a Steelers fan. Chances are they mined the coal. Do you like nuclear energy in this country? Thank a Steelers fan. They have been putting up with the first commercial Nuclear power plant since it was built less than 30 miles from the city. When you see an officer wearing Kevlar, thank a Steelers fan.
Many things that are more fantastic have come from the Pittsburgh area as well.
In December of 2008, then unemployment rate in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan area was 6% even versus 7.2% in Phoenix. Pittsburgh has been one of the most recession resistant cities in the country because all of those poverty-stricken hillbillies have a work ethic that makes the labor force there desirable.
Yes, the "accent" --if it should be called that-- makes the typical Pittsburgher sound more like Jed Clampet than they do like Jude Law, but We Steelers fans are not an uneducated bunch. There are many fine institutions of higher learning that call the Greater Pittsburgh Area home. Saint Vincent College has been honored in Forbes Magazine and U.S News and World Report; it is also the summer home of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Fred Rogers Center. The University of Pittsburgh is world renowned as a medical teaching facility. Pittsburgh and its surrounding area also boasts Slippery Rock University, Seton Hill University, Carnegie Mellon University, Robert Morris, Duquesne, Geneva College, Carlow College, Chatham, Grove City, Point Park, and many others. These institutions make Pittsburgh a Mecca for higher learning.
Steelers� fans do not all live in trailer parks, we do not beat our spouses, we do not suffer from poverty, and most of all we are not fair-weather fans.
I am not bitter though. We did win the Super Bowl. Sports involve a great deal of trash talk. It is beneficial for players� psyches to engage in this juvenile behavior, but journalism is not the same arena. I am disappointed to see this filth in print in a new paper-- unless you now consider your publication a tabloid.
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andrewsmom 02/09/2009 12:54:00 AM
I just want you all to know that I sent Farty Marty a personal email about his attack of Steeler Nation. I have been away from Pittsburgh for the past 24 years, but it has always been in my heart. My husband is a native of Bennettsville, SC and has been a Steelers fan since the Super Steelers of the '70s. Our nine year old son has been know to wear Steeler jerseys at least twice a week (his favorite players are Polamalu, Big Ben, Hines). Florence is full of Steeler Nation. The school I teach in has about 40% of Steeler fans. Are we white trash - I think not. The Steeler Nation in Florence,SC is full of professional people - alot of doctors, college professors, public school teachers, etc. We had a Super Bowl party at our house (not doublewide trailer)last weekend and we had 40 proud members of Steeler Nation. We are of different colors, of different nationalities - not one bit of your so called white trash. Remember what I told you dude - you are a loser. As far as I am concerned, you have probably blown your career. If you interview for any other job, you never know when you will run across a member of Steeler Nation. They are everywher.
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Chris 02/08/2009 8:31:00 PM
Is this f*cking douchebag calling all Steeler fans "White Trash?"
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Chris 02/08/2009 8:30:00 PM
Is this f*cking douchebag calling all Steeler fans "White Trash?"
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Jimmy Mcnulty 02/08/2009 5:29:00 PM
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/preview08/columns/story?id=3530077
enough said...
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tara 02/08/2009 4:37:00 PM
It is hilarious that everyone loves to bash the towel yet every team was waving a version of the towel at during the playoffs. Every team waving an imitation towel lost. Don't disrespect it. Don't copy it. And by the way this Steeler fan is has a bachelors degree in nursing. Friends of this Steeler fan include engineers, teachers, brain injury specialists, logistics analysts, warehouse workers, bartenders,retail employees... the list goes on. The same types of people that make up the fan base of every other sports team. Oh and we all have all of our teeth and none of us live in a trailer park.
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David N 02/08/2009 3:46:00 PM
This writer is such a douchebag. I cant believe that your newspaper would even let this guy write for a living. If you have to put off someone else and the way they live to make you feel better then keep doing what your doing. But this so-called writer should be unemployeed.
The Pittsburgh Steelers have earned the right to be what they are and that is winners just like the 6 time super bowl champion Steelers organization is.. so get over it!!
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steelerfan4ever 02/08/2009 2:24:00 PM
Hey dumbass, I am a hillbilly from Western Pennsylvania and proud of it. You have embarrassed probably every Cardinal fan in the Phoenix area. I don't know how much media coverage your crap has gotten in Phoenix, since you work for an "alternative newspaper". I have a feeling though it has. Don't you know that probably the Cardinals did so well because Whiz and Grimm brought the Steeler philosophy to that team? Also, having an elite wide receiver like Larry Fitzgerald has helped too. Oh yeah, isn't he a University of Pittsburgh grad (Go Panthers!)?
Why don't you take your fat, ugly ass up to Cleveland and join your fellow members of the dog pound. You look like you would fit right in.
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to bad for arizona 02/08/2009 1:23:00 PM
Hey the Steelers burnt you like the piece of toast you are. Enjoy your 120 degree days and rattlesnakes. We showed you what a real football team can do and more importantly we showed the entire country what a tremendous fan base that the Steelers have. We outscored you, outspent you and overwhelmed you with more fans. According too you we may talk funny here but at least the majority of our faithful speak english and are in this country legally.
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jasonhightower 02/08/2009 3:47:00 AM
Wow, its not too often you see a writer offend his hometown fans AND the opposing fans. Way to go douche...
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jasonhightower 02/08/2009 3:46:00 AM
Wow, its not too often you see a writer offend his hometown fans AND the opposing fans. Way to go douche...
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Ken 02/08/2009 3:46:00 AM
You are a fucking asshole
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Ken 02/08/2009 3:45:00 AM
You are a fucking asshole
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Stlrs4Life 02/07/2009 10:59:00 PM
LOL at this article! What has Phoenix done for the USA except house a bunch of illegal immigrants!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sam 02/07/2009 10:37:00 PM
Cizmar, doesn't that translate to being Gay or a loser? Can see you are a Browns Fan, talk about being a loser, it's no wonder. Why don't you go cry to your mommy? And for your informaion, the Clowns only have 4 NFL Titles. The NFL does not recognize the AAFC titles, with a league of what 4 teams? We laugh at you Browns Fans, you're the butt of almost every NFL joke. At least Arizona can now say that they have been to a SB. Browns can't now can they! Must suck to be you.
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blackandgoldbabe 02/07/2009 8:36:00 PM
I wonder if this person has ever been to Pittsburgh? I have never seen trailer parks there? I heard that he is a native of Akron, Ohio. Pittsburgh is much more a metropolitan city than that place. People from our area are very educated. Think about the major colleges/universities in the area, UPMC, headquarters of major international businesses. Looking at a photo of him, he is just a bitter punk. Probably couldn't get a date in high school (probably thinks the job he has now can get the chicks). Can't get a real journalist job (I don't think a music editor is as a demanding job as a hard news reporter). Look at the team he pulls for. You can spell L-O-S-E-R right on his forhead.
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blackandgoldbabe 02/07/2009 8:34:00 PM
I wonder if this person has ever been to Pittsburgh? I have never seen trailer parks there? I heard that he is a native of Akron, Ohio. Pittsburgh is much more a metropolitan city than that place. People from our area are very educated. Think about the major colleges/universities in the area, UPMC, headquarters of major international businesses. Looking at a photo of him, he is just a bitter punk. Probably couldn't get a date in high school (probably thinks the job he has now can get the chicks). Can't get a real journalist job (I don't think a music editor is as a demanding job as a hard news reporter). Look at the team he pulls for. You can spell L-O-S-E-R right on his forhead.
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Jenni 02/07/2009 5:54:00 PM
I must state that first off you have not visited
Pittsburgh to write such a vengeful article. We are the BEST fans in the NFL. We have a nation backing us. This city is the hub of medical research. Heard of UPMC? Not hillbilly's! The breakthroughs our people develop are used all over the nation. Next... We have over 64 colleges and universities within 60 miles from downtown. Carnegie Mellon? One of the most prestigious schools in the WORLD! So before your anger and jealousy take over your article maybe do some research and understand that the Pittsburgh you write of is no longer there. And NEVER offend the Cope. You should be ashamed of yourself as a "journalist"! GO STEELERS!!! A team of class with fans to match!
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Que 02/07/2009 4:58:00 PM
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
You hit the nail on the head.
Suxburgh Steeler fans are screaming about this.
I grew up back there and I know about this first hand.
I saw pictures of a couple that got married in black and yellow.
A yellow dress?(They call it gold).
Anyway, don't be too hard on "These People" it is the ONLY thing they have. Steelers, family, work, Walmart and Giant Eagle.
Geetjet? Den Y'all go dun to da big eggle and get sum chip-chop ham now ghere.
Only slightly more annoying are the people that live in Ohio and cheer for the stillrs. For Christs sake you live in OHIO! Why must you bring yourself down to their level?
My best personal story was going to a game and watching four drunk dumn asses pour beers over a fan of the opposite team and his son. He wasn't even doing anything other then wearing a jersey.
You stay classy Suxburgh!
Oh and don't go trashing your QB's grandmothers lawn to get back at me.
Comment by James from Los Angeles on Feb 3rd, 2009, 18:50 pm
why the bad talk about your family, embrace it, because deep down that IS who you are. no matter how metrosexual you might try to make yourself appear.
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Cindy Lou 02/07/2009 4:09:00 PM
The writer of this article and the one about Talking Trash to a Steelers fan is a diehard CLEVELAND BROWNS FAN. They are one of 5 teams who have NEVER made an appearance in the Super Bowl. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand his negativity against Pittsburgh. Previous to this gig, he was a food editor so it is nothing more than the taste of too many SOUR GRAPES!
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Gene Gosney 02/07/2009 3:26:00 PM
Go Steelers, Congrats coach Wiz and staff for showing Pittsburgh class.
As for the fat F--k who wrote this, What can you have in the desert without importing the product that is any good, you recieved it from where, Pittsburgh.
Eat another cheeseburger fatso, the reason you do not probably go to the games is because you cannot fit in the seats. Get a real stadium out in the elements, and as for trailer park white trash, think about your freedom that you have because people who you call trash, trailer park trash is giving you your freedom. Thats right, not rich desert fat pukes like yourself, but trash as you call us that gives you the right to write this shit. So eat your cheeseburger Gomer and wipe the real shit hole with the terible towl and thats your mouth!
To let it be known, if it would not be for t.v. ratings pittsburgh would have one by 40 points at least! Goooo Steeler nation 6 is not enough!
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Krystle 02/07/2009 2:57:00 PM
I don't think that this idiot understands that by insulting the Steelers, he in turn insults half of the Cardinals organization. I'm not understanding why we are considered the nastiest fans. What about the Eagles fans? They threw snowballs at Santa for God's sake! Sure, we Steelers fans get a little rowdy sometimes, but isn't that what we are there for? To root on our team? Sure, we aren't the wealthiest city in the country, but does that matter? I think it gives us character.
And how could you sink as low as to insult Myron Cope? The poor guy passed away this year! Even if you hate the Steelers, show some respect to a beloved Pittsburgh Icon. I bet the moron who wrote this article doesn't even know that all the proceeds from the terrible towel get donated to charity... a charity that Myron Cope founded.
I am a die-hard Steelers fan. I also graduated from Woodland Hills High School in 2002 with Steve Breaston. During the whole super bowl, every time Stevie did something good, I cheered for him. I didn't want them to win the game, but I was happy for him. That's called class. Yeah, I wanted the Steelers to win, but I wasn't low enough to tear down the Cardinals.
This entire article was just ludicrous. Are you jealous that your the cards just don't have as strong of a fan base? Or are you just disrespectful and ignorant to the rich history of our city? Either way, doesn't matter.... We still won... bet that stings a little. Excuse me while I go secure my terrible towel to the outside of my double-wide..... oh wait... I live in a 3-story house... sorry to destroy that hillbilly image for you.
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Krystle 02/07/2009 2:57:00 PM
I don't think that this idiot understands that by insulting the Steelers, he in turn insults half of the Cardinals organization. I'm not understanding why we are considered the nastiest fans. What about the Eagles fans? They threw snowballs at Santa for God's sake! Sure, we Steelers fans get a little rowdy sometimes, but isn't that what we are there for? To root on our team? Sure, we aren't the wealthiest city in the country, but does that matter? I think it gives us character.
And how could you sink as low as to insult Myron Cope? The poor guy passed away this year! Even if you hate the Steelers, show some respect to a beloved Pittsburgh Icon. I bet the moron who wrote this article doesn't even know that all the proceeds from the terrible towel get donated to charity... a charity that Myron Cope founded.
I am a die-hard Steelers fan. I also graduated from Woodland Hills High School in 2002 with Steve Breaston. During the whole super bowl, every time Stevie did something good, I cheered for him. I didn't want them to win the game, but I was happy for him. That's called class. Yeah, I wanted the Steelers to win, but I wasn't low enough to tear down the Cardinals.
This entire article was just ludicrous. Are you jealous that your the cards just don't have as strong of a fan base? Or are you just disrespectful and ignorant to the rich history of our city? Either way, doesn't matter.... We still won... bet that stings a little. Excuse me while I go secure my terrible towel to the outside of my double-wide..... oh wait... I live in a 3-story house... sorry to destroy that hillbilly image for you.
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JL 02/07/2009 2:47:00 PM
How sad that this Cleveland Browns fan has to deride the Steeler Nation. At least we do not cheer when one of our players that we do not like gets hurt. Please reference what happened when Derek Anderson got hurt this year in the Browns stadium. Also, our fans do not control how the team is run. The Steelers have had 3 coaches in the last 42 years and the Browns are at #14 and counting. We have six reasons why you are envious and would spew such hatred in a newspaper!
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Bob 02/07/2009 1:29:00 PM
White trash, huh? THANK YOU!! I'll bet Warner cried all the way home. Maybe someday yinz will know what it feels like to host a Super Bowl Parade..........SIX times here.
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Donnie Iris's #1 fan! 02/07/2009 1:02:00 PM
You could have at least Googled "Pittsburgh" to get a couple of true facts. Watch this video and learn what STEELER NATION is all about. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1527321414
Go PENS!
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Grace 02/07/2009 11:03:00 AM
HAVE YOU NOT DONE YOUR HOMEWORK----THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE TO THE CARDINALS----FITZGERALD, WHISENHUNT & GRIMM-DO YOU NOT KNOW WHERE THEY CAME FROM?????AND THEY ARE ALL CLASS ACTS!!!!!! CARDINALS WOULD BE NOTHING WITHOUT THEM-----SHAME ON YOU!!!!!! GO STEELERS-#1 FANS IN THE NATION!!!!!
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Yinzer22 02/07/2009 9:10:00 AM
After reading your little article here, I have a few points of contention my friend. While some of what you say is very true there is alot of what you say that sounds more like mindless babble from some moron in Arizona who doesn't know much about football or anything else...ooops wait. The comments you make about Steeler Nation and its fans are off color and off base as well. Not every Steelers' fan is a beer swilling, mullet hair cut wearing, loud mouthed, overweight pig and I find it highly offensive of you to categorize us in that light. It would be like me calling all of you folks out there in AZ a bunch of low class wet back thieves or anything of that nature, then again I guess I shouldn't expect much from someone who writes an article about football and doesn't really know anything about it. Alas it is February 7th and your Cardinals were soundly defeated (with the exception of a tremendous 4th quarter) and I fully expect all the "legions" of Cardinal fans to hate the Steelers, Pittsburgh, Steeler Nation, and everything else to do with us for the rest of their lives...and I'm ok with that you wouldn't be the first group of fans or general geographic area to "hate us 'cause you ain't us". Maybe one day your Cardinals will make it back to the Super Bowl or even better travel to Pittsburgh, then you'd really get what you deserve, but until then there's nothing to hang your head about, unfortunately you can't even blame the refs like your west coast blue bretheren did a few years ago.(Fat ass Holmgren didn't have a legit gripe anyhow) Just keep plugging away little friend maybe you guys out there in AZ will have a real football teams someday, but then again dreams are for suckers.
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nick a hillbilly 02/07/2009 5:11:00 AM
HAHAHA THANKS FOR ALL THE NICE THINGS US STILLERS FAN LOVE IT I WOULD WRITE MORE BUT MY MOONSHINE IS READY ALSO I MUST BE A PURE HILLBILLY SINCE I LIVE IN LATROBE THE HEART LAND OF THE WORLD CHAMPIONS
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david 02/07/2009 4:02:00 AM
Yea, sure there's white trash in Pittsburgh there's white trash in South Carolina there's white trash everywhere.So what's your point? You are considered to be "trashy" on how you conduct yourself. This artical was written maliciously to attack the character of someone..So i guess that makes you the "white trash" of Pheonix my friend.Isn't this the pot calling the kettle black.
signed From: a guy who rooted for the "WINNING" team.
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david 02/07/2009 4:01:00 AM
Yea, sure there's white trash in Pittsburgh there's white trash in South Carolina there's white trash everywhere.So what's your point? You are considered to be "trashy" on how you conduct yourself. This artical was written maliciously to attack the character of someone..So i guess that makes you the "white trash" of Pheonix my friend.Isn't this the pot calling the kettle black.
signed From: a guy who rooted for the "WINNING" team.
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jerry williams 02/07/2009 12:48:00 AM
thank you very much for the wonderful comments about the steelers and their fans....first of all,any city in the world would love to have the steelers franchise to call their own.the rooneys are a rare commodity.nothing but class..look,we have six super bowl trophies.what do you have..an empty glass,thats what.jealosy is not pretty.the cardinals held james harrison the whole game...so much so that he took his frustrations out on a cardinal by beating him to the ground.the refs tried to keep you red birds in the game as much as they could.you guys played a pretty good game and i have to admit that i was worried near the end but big ben came through like always.he is truly unbelievable...put your sour grapes where they belong...make some wine with them...you guys sound just like the seattle cryhawks and the dallas cryboys..maybe the cardinals should practice loosing with dignity,god knows your good at it....loosing that is..see you in miami next year..will be the ones holding trophy number seven...and as the late,great MYRON COPE would say.....BY NOW!
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jerry williams 02/07/2009 12:46:00 AM
thank you very much for the wonderful comments about the steelers and their fans....first of all,any city in the world would love to have the steelers franchise to call their own.the rooneys are a rare commodity.nothing but class..look,we have six super bowl trophies.what do you have..an empty glass,thats what.jealosy is not pretty.the cardinals held james harrison the whole game...so much so that he took his frustrations out on a cardinal by beating him to the ground.the refs tried to keep you red birds in the game as much as they could.you guys played a pretty good game and i have to admit that i was worried near the end but big ben came through like always.he is truly unbelievable...put your sour grapes where they belong...make some wine with them...you guys sound just like the seattle cryhawks and the dallas cryboys..maybe the cardinals should practice loosing with dignity,god knows your good at it....loosing that is..see you in miami next year..will be the ones holding trophy number seven...and as the late,great MYRON COPE would say.....BY NOW!
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Sam Orrico 02/06/2009 10:22:00 PM
You Phoenicians need to go change your Depends, you wouldn't last a month the 'Burgh. This is the NFL, not church league flag football for retirees in the Valley of the Sun.
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Doug 02/06/2009 8:41:00 PM
Hey Phoenix, this is what a free e-zine or news publication should be like. Not the filth spewed forth out of yours. This Phoenix New Times publication should be ashamed of itself, and this Cizmar jerk fired. He has completely and utterly ruined any and all credibility he may have had.
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/index
http://www.popcitymedia.com/
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Belle H 02/06/2009 8:32:00 PM
Sorry but I'd rather be a white trash hillbilly Steeler fan than some porn watch Cardinals fan..
Sixburgh Baybee!!!
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Belle H 02/06/2009 8:31:00 PM
Sorry but I'd rather be a white trash hillbilly Steeler fan than some porn watch Cardinals fan..
Sixburgh Baybee!!!
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Pamela Ross 02/06/2009 7:12:00 PM
We are hillbillies??? Perhaps you should come to our fair city and see that we eat, drink, and go to the bathroom just like everyone else. We have indoor plumbing and electricity, and have had them for years.
We drive cars that are made in recent years. We have jobs that involve computers, and we know how to use them.
How dare anyone say that a Steeler fan is 'backwoods.'
Jealousy will get you nowhere, just where you went after the Super Bowl. My gosh, grow up and take the loss like a man!!!
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JP 02/06/2009 4:24:00 PM
I believe the following excerpt from Wikipedia speaks for itself.
"Founded in 1933, Pittsburgh has won more Super Bowl titles (6), won more AFC Championship Games (7) and hosted more conference championship games (10)than any other AFC or NFC team. They have also played in more AFC conference championship games than any other team and are tied with the Dallas Cowboys with 14 championship game appearances in either the NFC or AFC contests."
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gigi 02/06/2009 2:51:00 PM
Wow: 389 You really have some class, don't believe you have even been to Boston as there are more homes there that cost way more than your ignorance, and you signed your name Charlie Batch. WOW. Sure he would like that.
To all Pittsburghers, don't waste your time or energy with this low life piece of crap and stop acting like a bunch of children talking about someones mother or father.
While I am a great Pgh fan, I simply do not agree with all this trash talk. This is waht he wants he want to humiliate
us and we are giving him what he wants. Bottom line is, we won and have more class than Arizona ever will. How degrading to the Cardinals especially since two of your players are from Bethel Park & Homestead and your coaches are from Pgh. I wonder what they think about this article. Also your paper should fire you, you don't see this trash talk in our papers.Once again the better team won, may we come back and thake the seventh. Go Steelers, better luck next time Cardianls, fell bad for your team to having to endure this.
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Matt 02/06/2009 2:39:00 PM
The writer of this column may be the most uneducated person to be in print. The fans of Pitt are loyal and have a passion about their team. We cheer good or bad, unfortunately for the rest of the league we are usually good. Top to bottom a team that cares about values and respect, a player is caught doing something illegal or a bad view to the public, GONE! No questions. To say that we made the superbowl on one play is ridiculous, so now you are an official and are giving your opinion of a collision. The game was already at hand and unlike the Cardinals we had the hardest schedule in the history of the NFL this year, we did not have 6 wins to teams that bearly won a combined 10 games or whatever. You provide nothing but opinion and no facts and if you did some homework about the Steelers you would respect the fact they are a great organization and one of the most respected in Pro Sports. You must be young because you are very uneducated!!!!!
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Judy 02/06/2009 1:49:00 PM
Stop crying!!!!!!!!!!No player intends to hurt another player. But things happen in football.I don't see anyone saying anything when our players get hurt,or a bounty that was on Heinz Wards head! so stop crying and stop being a sore loser.I grew up in Pittsburgh and resent that fact that YOUR paper calls us white trash!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Army Wife Steeler Fan 02/06/2009 1:14:00 PM
Sore losers! Face it, your fan base sucks. Maybe if you had a championship team your fans would have a reason to get fired-up.
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nancy 02/06/2009 12:19:00 PM
Don't hate!! Steelers are 6 time Super Bowl Champs.. I can see why your jealous. Steeler country is the best!!! GO Steelers! Black and Gold all the way baby ( as i wave the terrible towel)...
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Justin 02/06/2009 6:00:00 AM
Wow! Is that the only way that you can get anyone to read this trash that you write? You bash our city and fans and then get 400 Steeler fans to comment what an idiot you are. Myron Cope was a great man and he at least had some integrity. This article shows how much of a classless moron you are. You write this ill-informed garbage because you have little talent and don't have any creativity. Good luck actually winning something that counts one day! We just got our 6th!
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missy 02/06/2009 3:43:00 AM
You have a lot of nerve putting down pittsburgh steeler fans when your mayor blew his nose in the terrible towel and your mascot wiped his arm pits with it and you call our fans rude. Well that just goes to show what happends when you mess with the towel you LOOSE like you did. Better luck next year
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betty 02/06/2009 3:25:00 AM
HERE WE GO STEELERS, HERE WE GO. HERE WE GO STEELERS, HERE WE GO. HERE WE GO STEELERS, HERE WE GO.
IF YOU MANAGE TO GET TO HEAVEN, THERE WILL BE AN ANGEL THERE WITH A TERRIBLE TOWEL TO GREET YOU AT THE GATES. DID YOU EVER HEAR OF "THE STAIRWAY TO SEVEN"? YOU ARE SUCH A CRY BABY. I BET YOU HAVEN'T BEEN LAID IN YEARS. MY GOD DUDE, SPEND SOME OF THAT MONEY YOU MAKE FROM YOUR WONDERFUL WRITINGS AND GO GET YOURSELF A PROSTITUTE.
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mimi 02/06/2009 2:55:00 AM
I also went to Arizona and the only thing that stood out was the 85 year old dicks. That is all you people do there. The old men take viagra and then go around trying to get in the old ladies pants. You old bastards were getting arrested all over the place for having sex in public. Now that is something to be proud of. Now that really must give you a sense of community. You my so called newspaper man sure do have a hard on for Steeler Fans. Maybe you should lay off of the viagra.
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Brandy 02/06/2009 2:55:00 AM
After the Super Bowl, the Cardinals players showed so much class. I was totally impressed by them, especially Warner. Too bad none of that class rubbed off on the guy who wrote this horrible article. Talk about stereotyping people.
I'm not from Pittsburgh but I'm proud to be a Steeler fan. And real Cardinal fans should be very proud of how their team performed in the Super Bowl. Great game, one for the ages.
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Brandy 02/06/2009 2:47:00 AM
After the Super Bowl, the Cardinals players showed so much class. I was totally impressed by them, especially Warner. Too bad none of that class rubbed off on the guy who wrote this horrible article. Talk about stereotyping people.
I'm not from Pittsburgh but I'm proud to be a Steeler fan. And real Cardinal fans should be very proud of how their team performed in the Super Bowl. Great game, one for the ages.
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billyjean 02/06/2009 2:40:00 AM
Your brain doesn't work right. Your mother must have had sex with her brother to create a person like you. Pittsburgh has many top flight hospitals. Our surgeons are world renown. I am sure we can find one for you who would be willing to give you a brain transplant since the brain you have is not working at full capacity. Tell your mom and your daddy/uncle that this Steeler Fan says Hello.
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Jake 02/06/2009 2:33:00 AM
Mr. Jiz er Cizmar,
I've been to Arizona and believe me, you have balls to talk about trailer trash here in Pittsburgh. Your problem, besides being a hypocrite and a embarrassment to your city and newspaper, is that you have no culture. What is phoenix but a bunch of displaced losers who thought nice weather would fix what was wrong with them to begin with. On one hand you insult us as a people and a city for being supportive of our Team and on the other you ask your own pathetic fan base to "toughen up" and be more supportive. Well, I got news for yins Ciz (did your drunken Dad steal that name of the wall of some Mexican whorehouse ?) it aint gonna happen ! You people have no sense of community. How could you when every other person is from somewhere else? Pittsburgh IS Community ! Or as Rand-McNally says "The most livable city in America". You talk about poverty as if it were a joke but your state has some of the most squalid living conditions in this country. Your a joke!
Anyway Cizboy thanks for a 6th SuperBowl trophy and don't forget, The Steeler nation is everywhere!
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jsh 02/06/2009 2:16:00 AM
1. White trash? Over 40% of Pittsburgh residents under the age of 45 have a college degree or higher.
2. Arizona voted for George W. Bush, twice.
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jan 02/06/2009 1:39:00 AM
P.S. 389, if you don't know what chock means, look it up.
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janet 02/06/2009 1:31:00 AM
This comment is to 389, clearly you are from Baltimore.
Here is the truth. Pittsburgh has 6 trophies. Chock on it.
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ashley 02/06/2009 1:19:00 AM
Don't be jealous because you don't live in the greatest city around PITTSBURGH home of the 6 TIME SUPER BOWL CHAMPS, THE PITTSBURGH STEELERS...that just shows how good we really are her in PITTSBURGH...... Myrone Cope was an awesome man and anyone that downgrades him, that just shows how trashy you guys are.....PITTSBURGH STEELERS AND ALL THEIR FANS ARE THE BEST AROUND, JUST REMEMBER THAT!!!
FOREVER A PITTSBURGH STEELER FAN!!!ASHLEY
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Bill 02/06/2009 1:18:00 AM
You blithering, jabbering dipshit,
Apparently your mama's doctor bitch slapped you way too hard when you were hatched because he knocked all rational thought out of that puss filled, cankerous, festering lump you call a head.
'Nuff said douche bag.
Go Steelers
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Bill 02/06/2009 1:17:00 AM
You blithering, jabbering dipshit,
Apparently your mama's doctor bitch slapped you way too hard when you were hatched because he knocked all rational thought out of that puss filled, cankerous, festering lump you call a head.
'Nuff said douche bag.
Go Steelers
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Charlie Batch 02/06/2009 12:03:00 AM
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Man this is awesome!
I LOVE reading post after post of the same thing. 'Stiller fans upset.'
Whaaah he called it like he sees it. He's not pulling punches.
How could he call us dirty butts? We are loyal, We are loyal...
News Flash you are loyal because, wait for it....Wait for it...
It's the only fucking thing you have!
If you were not a bunch of annoying ass-halfs all the time people wouldn't be mean to you.
I think it is the same six people from pittsburgh posting over and over. They are the only six that actually know how to read and they are not even doing that because other people have said the same damn thing over and over and you are still saying it. You are pissed about the truth.
One person says I make 500K (actually he makes $500 a month)
Another says he has a house worth 1.3mil in Boston.
Nothing in Boston is worth that much. I think he was mistaken. 103k sounds more reasonable. Congratulations, you sir are the top tier of the steeler faithful. I mean you at least own a house and got out of Suxburgh. Hey if it's so great in p-town why done you sell your house move back. With 103K you could easily be King Shit on Turd Hill!
I'm sure no steeler fan will read this. Maybe Michael at least he replied to something.
Michael, you may be a little to smart to be a stiller fan. I think it's like children of the corn. If you get to smart they kill you off. Run away before it's too late.
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Steve 02/05/2009 11:58:00 PM
This is an article with so much bitterness and so little class. Funny how all these poor hillbillies are able to fly to Tampa for the game to out number your fans 4 to 1. Well, when someone is as irrational as you, the facts don't mean anything. In trying to prove that Steelers fans have no class you only showed yourself to have no class.
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Dennis 02/05/2009 11:32:00 PM
Ha Ha!
You suck!
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Anne Oz 02/05/2009 11:26:00 PM
At least Steeler fans don't get arrested for burning Steeler emblems in people's yards.
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Gail/A Steelers fan stuck in E 02/05/2009 10:57:00 PM
FYI, if you want to try to understand what the Terrible Towel, Myron Cope and Steeler Nation is all about, I suggest you tune in to Charlie Gibson tomorrow night when he nominates Myron Cope as his "person of the week". I still doubt you'll get it though.
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Michele 02/05/2009 10:56:00 PM
In response to # 319
Comment by Cliff Stoudt from SuXburgh PU on Feb 4th, 2009, 20:25 pm
Wow, and yet you STILL use anonymous name! Got something to hide?
�Well at least one of you corn hollers went back and read comments.
I give you props for that and noticing the fun I have had with your
'Beloved' ex-QB's.�
Sorry to disappoint you, but no corn hollering on the Northside. As for noticing, well believe it or not, I can read, quite well actually.
�I would have to ask you to actually think about
that statement. Do you really think they are 'Beloved' by the people
of your town?�
In case you missed it, it�s called sarcasm� I remember all of our past QB�s quite well, albeit not all fondly.
� Whoever I am?
I'm from just outside of Suxburgh. I grew up there (not that I like admitting it).
I probably know stiller football better then you. Hell I probably know Suxburgh better then you.�
It�s sad really that you hate a town so much; just because it stands for values and traditions you seem not to embrace. I�m sure your parents are heartbroken that you care so little that you can�t be yourself to visit just because you hate where you grew up.
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Your Hypocrisy is dizzying. You love Jack Lambert, Greg Lloyd or Troy Polamalu for laying down a dirty hit on someone but God forbid someone does it to a p-town player. You piss and moan for weeks.�
Hmmmm piss and moan for weeks�isn�t that exactly what you�re doing? Dude its football! It�s not some pansy sport! You�ve got to get a grip and stop your bellyaching! My mother always said, �If you can�t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.� Now I�m sure you�ll have some witty comeback about my mother, but hey that�s ok. I know she was a hell of a woman who raised 6 family-oriented, well mannered, hard working children.
I�m damn proud to come from Pittsburgh, I have no reason to hide that fact. Say what you will, it just shows how small-minded you really are.
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Great City 02/05/2009 10:50:00 PM
Have you never heard of Henry Mancini, Rachel Carson, Andy Warhol, August Wilson, Jonas Salk, Thomas Starzl, Henry J Heinz, George Westinghouse, Andrew Carnegie?
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jp 02/05/2009 10:26:00 PM
wait, so the city/state that gave us online university (!) and the nation's 2 largest no-education party schools (arizona and arizona state) are educationally superior to the city that cured polio and houses Carnegie Mellon, Duquesne, University of Pittsburgh and Robert Morris?
once the game was over, i was impressed by the class shown by the cardinals organization. too bad some of their supporters don't share that class.
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jmc 02/05/2009 9:49:00 PM
shameful
faceless bashing of my home and my people.
rude, arrogant and indicative of who is TRULEY trash
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Chachi 02/05/2009 9:34:00 PM
Wipe your tears in Birdman's Feathers... oh, wait! He ditched yinz guys didn't he? Maybe he saw what happened to the Ravens and didn't want to fly into the steel curtain.
Russ Grimm, Coach Wiz, Fitz, Breston, and countless others are from or cut their teeth in the best damn football town in America. Six-Burgh.
Our mayer changed his name to Steelerstahl. Your mayor blew snot into our terrible towel. hmmm... who got the rings, again?
The author of this blog'nat should pat himself on the back now, because it will be flat on the ground after a stiller fan knows of his where-abouts.
Please google a guy by the name of "Cowherd" that works for the Baltimore Sun. The week leading to the AFC championship he made fun of Pittsburghese, the Incline, the Fort Pitt Tunnel, and the Primanti Sammich. What happened to those birds, huh?
I like my cardinals fried
a superbowl on a sunday night
a set of rings that fit just right
and Lombardi Uuuuuuuuuup.
You know, im kinda bummed that I have to wait 9 months to see more football... But not as bummed as Arizona. Tell Birdman I said... oh, wait... he ditched you didn't he?
Smart Guy.
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Chachi 02/05/2009 9:32:00 PM
Wipe your tears in Birdman's Feathers... oh, wait! He ditched yinz guys didn't he? Maybe he saw what happened to the Ravens and didn't want to fly into the steel curtain.
Russ Grimm, Coach Wiz, Fitz, Breston, and countless others are from or cut their teeth in the best damn football town in America. Six-Burgh.
Our mayer changed his name to Steelerstahl. Your mayor blew snot into our terrible towel. hmmm... who got the rings, again?
The author of this blog'nat should pat himself on the back now, because it will be flat on the ground after a stiller fan knows of his where-abouts.
Please google a guy by the name of "Cowherd" that works for the Baltimore Sun. The week leading to the AFC championship he made fun of Pittsburghese, the Incline, the Fort Pitt Tunnel, and the Primanti Sammich. What happened to those birds, huh?
I like my cardinals fried
a superbowl on a sunday night
a set of rings that fit just right
and Lombardi Uuuuuuuuuup.
You know, im kinda bummed that I have to wait 9 months to see more football... But not as bummed as Arizona. Tell Birdman I said... oh, wait... he ditched you didn't he?
Smart Guy.
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Greg 02/05/2009 9:10:00 PM
WOW< no comments posted yet? I am shocked. I guess if you had had the talent and won, you might have printed a different story. Funny, for all the burgh bashing, you seem to FORGET where your new head coach who has TAKEN YOU SO FAR IS FROM, AND THAT IS TOO BAD. Obviously, you have no respect for him either, since he is from Pittsburgh. Shame, maybe you need a story about he secretly conspired with the Rooneys to throw the game. Get a grip
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Greg 02/05/2009 9:10:00 PM
WOW< no comments posted yet? I am shocked. I guess if you had had the talent and won, you might have printed a different story. Funny, for all the burgh bashing, you seem to FORGET where your new head coach who has TAKEN YOU SO FAR IS FROM, AND THAT IS TOO BAD. Obviously, you have no respect for him either, since he is from Pittsburgh. Shame, maybe you need a story about he secretly conspired with the Rooneys to throw the game. Get a grip
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Joanne Vereb 02/05/2009 8:05:00 PM
I have just read the article that was published by your paper on January 27, 2008 and written by Martin Cizmar (http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2009-01-29/news/arizona-cardinals-fans-better-get-ferocious-or-the-steeler-nation-will-eat-them-alive/1). How can he call himself a journalist? And even more...how can you keep such a nasty, malicious on your payroll? Mr. Cizmar needs to find out his facts before writing such untrue gossip. Pgh. is not only always on the "most livable city" list but Pittsburghers have accomplished many of todays inventions and attributes. I am including a link to just a few below.
Mr. Cizmar should google Myron Cope and learn what class this Pittsburgher had not to mention what he did with all the proceeds from the Terrible Towel.
Mr. Cizmar sounds like a poor sport full of sour grapes to me. Lest he forgot...the Steelers dominated the first 3 quarters of the Super Bowl and won it fair and square. We even had a good touchdown called back and still managed to win. Actually, the Crds can thank Pittsburgh for even making it to the Super Bowl... after all, it took 2 coaches
(Whisenhunt & Grimm) from the Steelers to get you there finally and your best player, Larry Fitzgerald, just happens to be a Pittsburgher too. Phoenix should be proud of the Crds getting in the playoffs and going to the Super Bowl and encourage their team and root for their chance next year to win it all...That's what the Steeler fans did when they lost once...I think Mr. Cizmar is a poor excuse for a journalist and perhaps is jealous of Pittsburgh.
I find it hard to believe a newspaper such as yours would print that malicious, nasty garbage that he wrote.
Joanne Vereb, a Proud Pittsburgher and Steeler Fan.
http://gabbiash.com/PghSteelers.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron_Cope
http://www.josdreamland.com/thenightbeforethesuperbowl.html
http://gabbiash.com/supersteelers.html
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Gloria Thomas 02/05/2009 7:12:00 PM
My brother lived in Phoenix for 20 years, I loved it till I read your article. In Pittsburgh we are brought up not to say anything if you don't have anything nice to say and most people learn it from the Bambi movie. I have never been so upset by an article as this one. Sour grapes are one thing, but remember, it's a game. Always a winner always a loser. Who made a fool out of themselves by this article? No one in Pittsburgh. Our parade in Pgh. to welcome home our world champions had hundreds of thousands and not one arrest. Match that. Here's what I found upsetting and the city deserves an apology. Just because you lost doesn't give you the right to say what you did. I challenge you to come to this city any time of year, and see how you are treated. We are the friendliest people, not the trash you spoke of.
These are YOUR words from your article. Shame on you.:
They're matched up against the grubbiest, loudest, and nastiest fan base in all of sports � as well as one of the largest.
The Pittsburgh Steelers are White Trash America's team. Though Raiders, Eagles, and Browns fans certainly have their own reputations for trashy behavior, Steelers fans win the prize for crudeness. It's hard to find a trailer park anywhere in the country that doesn't have a black-and-yellow flag fluttering from the door of a doublewide.
Anecdotal evidence of the mindset of Steelers fans is everywhere � do a search for "Steelers fans" on YouTube and bear witness to a 90-year-old woman getting the team's logo tattooed on her arm at her family's insistence and a guy who became estranged from his brothers after he put a giant Steelers logo on his father's tombstone.
But there's much more than that out there.
Take the team's official band, a country act called The PovertyNeck Hillbillies. Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger appeared in the video for the group's song "Mr. Right Now."
Or the team's mascot, Steeley McBeam (that is, the guy who portrays him), blowing twice the legal limit during his DUI arrest last year. Or the way a Steelers fan accidentally set fire in November to a dozen Redskins fans' vehicles in Washington by leaving a grill full of burning coals in the back of his car. Or Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's calling a press conference to say he'd temporarily changed his name to Luke Steelerstahl before the Ravens and his hometown team met in the AFC Championship game.
Before that contest, some strings were pulled to have a Terrible Towel waved on the International Space Station (no word on whether the astronaut Steelers fan was part of some experiment to see how hillbillies fare in a zero-gravity environment).
A columnist for the Baltimore Examiner summed it up pretty well in an article called, "Why do we hate Steelers fans? Let me count the reasons," where he described them as wearing "stone-washed, black Wranglers with a 'Terrible Towel' hanging from the back pocket like Cooter from The Dukes of Hazzard."
Geography has a lot to do with why some Steelers fans are the way they are.
Pittsburgh's the largest city in the massive poverty-stricken backwoods known as Appalachia, and the Steelers are the only NFL team that plays on Appalachian soil. (Technically, Nashville and Charlotte, where the Tennessee Titans and Carolina Panthers play, respectively, aren't in Appalachia). The heart of the Steelers fan base is in the moonshine-making hills of western Pennsylvania and hollows of West Virginia, and their location colors much about them.
Take Myron Cope, the longtime Steelers broadcaster who died last year. His calls were screeched in a hillbilly patois nearly indecipherable to the ears of somebody accustomed to Standard American English. But, in the Steel City, his "Pittsburghese" made him a deity. "Kin yinz belif tha way he moved that pal? Yoi, he's slippy!"
Thing is, many Steelers fans may be impoverished but they find a way to support their team. The last time the Steelers were in the Super Bowl, ESPN columnist Greg Garber speculated their fans outnumbered Seahawks fans 25 to 1.
At a neutral-site game like the Super Bowl, cheering goes beyond the intangible effect of getting players psyched up. Home teams usually get more calls, and referees unconsciously seem to respond to all the spinning piss-yellow towels.
Ask Seattle Seahawks fans about referee Bill Leavy's "shameful" performance in Super Bowl XL. Ex-Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren addressed it at a post-season rally: "We knew it was going to be tough going against the Pittsburgh Steelers. I didn't know we were going to have to play the guys in the striped shirts as well."
Cardinals fans, that's what could happen if you get out-cheered all game long � the Super Bowl will be turned into a Steelers home game.
Maybe that's why Steelers fans are so cocky going into this weekend. In the Valley, Steelers faithful certainly aren't suffering from the crisis of confidence that almost made the aforementioned Clayton Jacobson take a swing at another Cards fan.
Kim Chapman describes herself as a "hardcore" Steelers fan. "I would say, Steelers by at least 14," she says smugly.
Chapman, who watches Pittsburgh games at First Round Draft in Gilbert, one of a half-dozen Steelers bars in the Valley, has little respect for the Cardinals or their fans: "They're playing in a college stadium for how many years, and they finally got their own official NFL stadium a couple years ago? Come on!"
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Velcro 02/05/2009 7:07:00 PM
You sir are an a$$hole. Your sissy boys lost and YOU cant take it. The better team won. NO - THE BEST TEAM WON !!!!
The Pittsburgh Steelers
This writer has the mind of a retarded 4 year old
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Sara 02/05/2009 7:04:00 PM
Wow. First of all, IT MUST BE NICE BEING A CARDINALS FAN...STILL NO RINGS!?!? BRAVO ON STAYING OUT OF THE SPOTLIGHT ONCE AGAIN! That was one fantastic load of crap if I have ever read one. I don't understand what attacking the fans of the Steelers has anything to do with the Cardinals having any shot at winning the Super Bowl. I'm still confused as to the whole point of your article. Was it supposed to be about some overweight, desperate and drunk guy who decided to paint his body to look eerily similar to that of Mr. Kool-Aid or was the sole purpose of the article to bash the Steeler fans?
Regardless of your purpose for attempting to write anything that makes sense, let me just tell you, I am PROUD to be a STILLER FAN! We have the BEST FANS IN THE NATION. Hands-down. And Hill-billys? Seriously? Grubby Hill-Billys? That's the best insult you could come up with? That's absolutely shameful. I actually feel bad for you...If that is your aspect on how Steeler fans are, then I would suggest getting your smug ass to an airport next season, dress in the required attire for a Steeler game, and GO! I'll give you some hints:
Get a Steeler Jersey (hell, you can borrow one of mine), put it on.
Get a Terrible Towel, and yes, put it in your back pocket. We do this to keep both hands free for drinking and eating.
You're going to want to get to one of the parking lots on the North Shore about 2-3 hours before the game begins to tailgate...while tailgating, mingle...you'll learn that we "yinzers" are friendly, we'll share our beer, and some laughs.
About 15-30 minutes before kick off, head to Heinz Field, go pee, get another beer, and find your seats.
Once you get to your seats, whomever is sitting to your immediate right, left, in front of, and behind of you will become your best friends...unless they are for the opposing team.
Might I suggest - only after being a Steeler fan for a day, then write an article bashing us. Until you've walked a mile in someone else's shoes (fortunate for us, those shoes are attached to people who wear 6 SUPER BOWL RINGS), then keep our Steeler Nation out of your whiney mouth. Look, I'm sorry your fan base sucks, that the fan base actually solely rested on the overweight sloppy guy who looks like Mr. Kool-Aid with a beak, but you shouldn't jag us on our fans.
GOOOOOOOOOO STEEEEEEEEEEEELERS! I'M FROM SIX-BURGH BABY, WHERE ARE YOU FROM?!?!?!?! LOOOOOOSERS!
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Sara 02/05/2009 7:04:00 PM
Wow. First of all, IT MUST BE NICE BEING A CARDINALS FAN...STILL NO RINGS!?!? BRAVO ON STAYING OUT OF THE SPOTLIGHT ONCE AGAIN! That was one fantastic load of crap if I have ever read one. I don't understand what attacking the fans of the Steelers has anything to do with the Cardinals having any shot at winning the Super Bowl. I'm still confused as to the whole point of your article. Was it supposed to be about some overweight, desperate and drunk guy who decided to paint his body to look eerily similar to that of Mr. Kool-Aid or was the sole purpose of the article to bash the Steeler fans?
Regardless of your purpose for attempting to write anything that makes sense, let me just tell you, I am PROUD to be a STILLER FAN! We have the BEST FANS IN THE NATION. Hands-down. And Hill-billys? Seriously? Grubby Hill-Billys? That's the best insult you could come up with? That's absolutely shameful. I actually feel bad for you...If that is your aspect on how Steeler fans are, then I would suggest getting your smug ass to an airport next season, dress in the required attire for a Steeler game, and GO! I'll give you some hints:
Get a Steeler Jersey (hell, you can borrow one of mine), put it on.
Get a Terrible Towel, and yes, put it in your back pocket. We do this to keep both hands free for drinking and eating.
You're going to want to get to one of the parking lots on the North Shore about 2-3 hours before the game begins to tailgate...while tailgating, mingle...you'll learn that we "yinzers" are friendly, we'll share our beer, and some laughs.
About 15-30 minutes before kick off, head to Heinz Field, go pee, get another beer, and find your seats.
Once you get to your seats, whomever is sitting to your immediate right, left, in front of, and behind of you will become your best friends...unless they are for the opposing team.
Might I suggest - only after being a Steeler fan for a day, then write an article bashing us. Until you've walked a mile in someone else's shoes (fortunate for us, those shoes are attached to people who wear 6 SUPER BOWL RINGS), then keep our Steeler Nation out of your whiney mouth. Look, I'm sorry your fan base sucks, that the fan base actually solely rested on the overweight sloppy guy who looks like Mr. Kool-Aid with a beak, but you shouldn't jag us on our fans.
GOOOOOOOOOO STEEEEEEEEEEEELERS! I'M FROM SIX-BURGH BABY, WHERE ARE YOU FROM?!?!?!?! LOOOOOOSERS!
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Sandy 02/05/2009 6:52:00 PM
Clearly, this writer (and I use that term loosely) has a bone to pick with the phenomenal city of Pittsburgh. Let's review what this redneck town has to offer:
Not just home of the 6 time Super Bowl Champions, (Just to reiterate: 6 TIME World CHAMPIONS) the Pittsburgh Steelers, but also:
Home of some of the most advanced and renowned hospitals and medical community in the nation;
Home of some of the highest ranked colleges and universities in the nation including Carnegie Mellon University (you know those crazy rednecks Andrew Carnegie -and Andrew Mellon, who came from Pittsburgh (the heart of Appalachia) and who, many would say, were instrumental in building the baseline for our nations' industrial and financial structures), University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University (With a top ranked Pharmaceutical program - perhaps you are on some of the drugs these pharmacists dispense across the nation).
Home of a phenomenal cultural district that can compete with New York, Boston and Chicago. There is not one hot Broadway show that has not come through Pittsburgh, and our Ballet, Symphony and other arts groups are well known throughout the nation and envied by many cities.
A diverse, ethnic and PASSIONATE city located within 500 miles of some of the most prolific cities in the nation that are the center of the nations' financial and cultural districts. A city with a relatively low cost of living and some GREAT sports teams...(let's not forget about our FABULOUS Pittsburgh Penguins! and all the Stanley Cups we have brought home to the Burgh)
Home of some of the oldest and most venerable Fortune 100 Companies (started by, who else, those crazy redeck Pittsburghers!)
Let's not forget all the famous people (crude rednecks, no doubt) who call Pittsburgh home, many of whom have had significant impact on our nation in its youth and beyond: the two aforementioned Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon, Henry Clay Frick, Paul O'Neill (you remember him...he ran Alcoa for awhile and was the US Secretary of Treasury), Henry J. Heinz (have you ever actually bought any Heinz food -- if so, you should have bowed down to Pittsburgh where the food giant got its start), George Westinghouse (Ever use any of those products -- Pittsburgh again - you know, the one that you so fondly referred to as the white trash, red neck American city), August Wilson (huge playright - I'm sure he would have been in your English curriculum somewhere, no matter what city in the United States of America that you lived), Andy Warhol (probably a lot of money if you own any of his redneck pieces), Thomas Starzl (I am sure anyone who has had their life saved from a liver transplant or multiorgan transplant can thank this redneck in Pittsburgh), Jonas Salk (ever heard of Polio????), Tom Ridge (Homeland Security), Christina Aguilera, Lou Christie, Perry Como, Jeff Goldblum, Holly Hunter, Michael Keaton, Gene Kelly, Henry Mancini, Demi Moore, Fred Rogers, Bill Mazeroski, Honus Wagner, Mike Ditka, Dan Marino, Chuck Noll, Joe Walton, Joe Namath, Lou Holtz, Arnold Palmer, Rocco Mediate, Johnny Weismuller, Kurt Angle, and so many more that I cannot list...Not bad for the white trash, redneck city you so crassly highlighted...
So all this talent, creativity, intelligence, entrepreneurship, and passion from this Grand, Phenomenal, Outrageous, and Great City of Pittsburgh.
By the way, I received my MBA from the University of Pittsburgh (ranked in the Top 25) and am a Vice President at one of Pittsburgh's Fortune 100 Companies. Born and bred Pittsburgh and a HUGE Pittsburgh Steeler and Penguin Fan.
So now from the words of "your white trash redneck trailer park Pittsburgher" and all the other Pittsburghers that influenced our nation: Don't screw with MY CITY...get your facts straight and go back the hell hole you came from!
GO STEELERS! GO STEELER NATION! Congratulations on number 6 and let's TAKE number 7! WE WORK FOR EVERYTHING WE GET AND WE EARNED IT!
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Mary Jane 02/05/2009 6:24:00 PM
As a Steeler fan I am appalled at your lack of class. First of all we are not white trash. If you consider hard working people trash then what are you? Second, the colors are BLACK AND GOLD not black and yellow. As far as Mr. Cope. How dare you talk about a man whos gave more to the city and surrounding communities than you will ever gie in ten lifetimes. I am a college graduate and all 100 plus of my co-workers also have college degrees. First you trash your own fans then you trash the Steeler fans. What happened in your life that has made you such a mean,despicable coward??
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Nancy 02/05/2009 6:18:00 PM
I echo the sentiments of many of my fellow Pittsburghers--I double-dare you to come here and say this! How about triple-dog dare you?
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Rick 02/05/2009 5:38:00 PM
Typical sore loser. I own and run a Financial Planning firm, an Income Tax prep business and I also testify as an expert witness on insurance and investment fraud. I AM A STEELER FAN and I live in a very nice home. It is a shame they let obvious losers write for the paper.
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Sabrina 02/05/2009 5:28:00 PM
This is one of the most poorly written and ignorant articles I have ever read. Most Pittsburghers are not "rednecks" nor does everyone live in a "trailer park". So what if we're proud of our football team and our city. Obviously, other teams do not have as much love and support as the Steelers and I think the person who wrote this story is a little envious and bitter. Must be a Cardinals fan, lol.
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STLRFAN 02/05/2009 5:19:00 PM
ah ha. Cry now pussy. I can think of six good reasons some people hate steeler fans or the team. Six superbowl trophies. Is this guy really a writter for the paper? Dont feel bad. Maybe someday when your team gets older they can grow up and be like the steelers. also when the team gets a younger quaterback. instead of some has been. He needs to go back to the grocery store bagging food. Every interview before the game was about the story of Kurt. Well i bet the stories have all ended. welcome to the afc. Steelers had the hardest sched. in football and still finished with a record worthy enough to make the play-offs. not 9-7. This is what happenes when the cards met a team that didnt suck. F all of you sore loser. Hey there is still time to become a steeler fan and be ready for next season. then you'll have something to cheer about!
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STLRFAN 02/05/2009 5:19:00 PM
ah ha. Cry now pussy. I can think of six good reasons some people hate steeler fans or the team. Six superbowl trophies. Is this guy really a writter for the paper? Dont feel bad. Maybe someday when your team gets older they can grow up and be like the steelers. also when the team gets a younger quaterback. instead of some has been. He needs to go back to the grocery store bagging food. Every interview before the game was about the story of Kurt. Well i bet the stories have all ended. welcome to the afc. Steelers had the hardest sched. in football and still finished with a record worthy enough to make the play-offs. not 9-7. This is what happenes when the cards met a team that didnt suck. F all of you sore loser. Hey there is still time to become a steeler fan and be ready for next season. then you'll have something to cheer about!
