Category: Pittsburgh Steelers

Five reasons to hate the Steelers and their fans

5. Bill Cowher’s face. Bill Cowher’s chin. Bill Cowher spitting on everyone. Basically, Bill Cowher. You know, if I had a spitting problem, I’d cover my mouth when I yelled, but Cowher loves to berate referees and let the spit fly. Now, it’s all unintentional (maybe) but should an official really be subjected to getting doused with spit after every call that Bill doesn’t like?

4. No cheerleaders. By all accounts, there are no hot women in Pittsburgh. Or at least, they move away as soon as they can scrounge up bus fare to another city. Hell, the last hottie Pittsburgh produced was Sharon Stone and that was over a century ago. But, can’t they import enough decent looking girls to form a cheerleading squad? Instead, we have to have fat ass Jerome Bettis prancing around to rile up the crowd.

3. Hello. People in TV land, get a Fathead. This is how big a tool Roethlisberg is.

2. Steelers fans’ convenient selective memory of Steelers teams outside of the 1970s. If you talk to them, the “one for the thumb” is going to happen on the heels of their 4 Super Bowl victories, nevermind that the last one was during the 1979 season.

1. “Yinz”. Also seen written as ‘You-ins’ or ‘Yuns’ and is still used today in Pittsburgh. As a result of the distinct denial that life exists outside of Allegheny County and the popular belief among Pittsburghers that it’s better if you procreate with others like you, a unique language has evolved in the Pittsburgh area. (from PBB)

A teacher of a ethnicity class (embracing diversity and practicing tolerance) made a student take his midterm on the floor because he wore a John Elway jersey to class.  Then he had him sit in a circle of desks and had the other kids throw paper at him.  But according to the teacher, it was all just a big joke.  Yeah, hey, you know, that burning a cross on your front lawn, that’s just a practical joke…ha.    By the way, in his next class, Sex-Ed, they made him squeal like a pig.

I may be biased, but this is your typical Steelers fan, folks.  

[Denver Post]: Teacher’s true colors definitely not orange, blue

Remember the shot of Bettis on the sideline after Vanderjacked missed it wide right? He wiped his forehead and mouthed “whew!”. Not only did Jerome almost blow the game for his team, he almost killed a guy in a bar at the same time. 50 year-old Terry O’Neill had a heart attack seconds after Bettis fumbled on the 2 yard line. O’Neill survived and probably shouldn’t watch the game against Denver.

The Steelers won the game and I’m still alive, so I guess I’m doing pretty good.

Nice prioritization there, Terry.

[SI]: Man suffered attack when Steelers’ Bettis fumbled

Everyone who saw the interception by Troy Polamalu knew the game was over and that Indy was toast. Well, everyone but Referee Pete Morelli, who stood under the replay hood and somehow declared that it wasn’t an interception. There hasn’t been such a blatant attempt at swinging a game to one team’s favor since Game 6 of the Western Finals between the Lakers and T’Wolves. The bias was so bad that a player from the winning team came out and blasted the officials.

I felt they were cheating us. When the interception happened, everybody in the world knew that was an interception. Don’t cheat us that bad. When they did that, they really want Peyton Manning and these guys to win the Super Bowl. They are just going to straight take it for them. I felt that they were like ‘We don’t even care if you know we’re cheating. We’re cheating for them.’

The way the refs were going, I wouldn’t have trusted them in overtime,” Porter told the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. “If we hadn’t won, they would have cheated us in overtime.

[ESPN]: Porter on refs: ‘I felt they were cheating us’
[Sports Matters]: A Reading From The Book Of Crazy
[SI]: NFL: Official made judgment call
[Yahoo/AP]: NFL says ref got Polamalu call wrong; no comment on Porter remark