Pittsburgh Steelers (official thread)

[Deety]

Since Nutty liked this... rah rah Rothlisbuhhh.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ugfqEsw1gs"]YouTube - "Steel Defense" - In Acchord[/ame]

 

[Jake]

To be honest, I didn't even click on the article to read it. I try to avoid the site at all costs; I'm not going to give them the satisfaction of even getting the web hit. All I'm saying is that there are countless threads/posts on here about ESPiN's scripted agenda when it comes to sports "reporting" or the "talking heads" just trying to drive up ratings, but yet when some [Mark May] stirring article comes out about the Steelers all you Browns/Bengals fans (or whatever team, it really doesn't matter) are willing to accept it as gospel.

Just remember this conversation the next time you get into a [censored]ing match with some Auburn or Bama fan and they start pulling out some the garbage ESPiN has been spewing against OSU since 2003/2004 as part of their argument that OSU is as corrupt as the SEC. As Jax said, the idea of any OSU fan using an ESPiN article as support for an argument is laughable.

The Steelers were using steroids long before ESPN even existed, and probably before you existed, too. Their former players have flat out admitted it. They have the most SB titles, just like Barry Bonds has the most home runs.

I'll remember this conversation the next time you post anything. Don't read the article, just dismiss the source. After all, you already have the answer, even though you're too young to even know the subject matter.

 

[Jake]

Seven died of heart failure: Jim Clack, 58; Ray Oldham, 54; Dave Brown, 52; Mike Webster, 50; Steve Furness, 49; Joe Gilliam, 49; and Tyrone McGriff, 41. (In 1996, four years before the steady succession of Steelers deaths, longtime center Ray Mansfield died of a heart attack at 55.)

Not ESPN

Steroids linked to heart failure

"It started, really, in Pittsburgh. They got an advantage on a lot of football teams. They were so much stronger (in the) '70s, late '70s, early '80s," Haslett said Wednesday. "They're the ones who kind of started it."

Not ESPN

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/False-Glory-Steelers-Steroids-Courson/dp/0681411872]False Glory: Steelers and Steroids : The (former Steeler) Steve Courson Story[/ame]

 

[craigblitz]

Hhahaha..... Steeler's leading the nation in steroids in football.. Dear Lord!


"They have the most SB titles, just like Barry Bonds has the most home runs.'

Expand your research a little bit and I think you will see the hilarity of this notion.

Roids have been in the league for years no doubt but to claim any team had more/less users at anyone time is 100% speculative and will always be that.

Go Steelers! 7>6 but 6>then the rest of the NFL!

 

[Jake]

The Steelers have 5 SB titles courtesy of steroids and officials. The other came courtesy of the Cardinals. Congratulations.

Six championships in 77 years is not the stuff of legend, the Canadiens and Yankees hold those achievements. The Steelers sucked for 40 years, and that history IS part of their legacy, whether the towel wavers like it or not.

Green Bay won their 13th NFL title tonight. Kudos to them.

 

[BrutuStrength]

The Steelers have 5 SB titles courtesy of steroids and officials. The other came courtesy of the Cardinals. Congratulations.

Six championships in 77 years is not the stuff of legend, the Canadiens and Yankees hold those achievements. The Steelers sucked for 40 years, and that history IS part of their legacy, whether the towel wavers like it or not.

Green Bay won their 13th NFL title tonight. Kudos to them.

 

[OH10]

The Steelers have 5 SB titles courtesy of steroids and officials. The other came courtesy of the Cardinals. Congratulations.

Six championships in 77 years is not the stuff of legend, the Canadiens and Yankees hold those achievements. The Steelers sucked for 40 years, and that history IS part of their legacy, whether the towel wavers like it or not.

Green Bay won their 13th NFL title tonight. Kudos to them.

Great post. As I've always said, there are two kinds of people in this world: those of us who hate the Steelers and the Walmart shoppers who love them. Steeler fans don't care about quality or integrity.

 

[craigblitz]

"Steeler fans don't care about quality or integrity."

What????? So bitter that jealosy is.... B-I-T-T-E-R

"The Steelers have 5 SB titles courtesy of steroids and officials. The other came courtesy of the Cardinals. Congratulations. "

Hahaha what? What team do you follow that has a better track record then the Steelers????

 

[OH10]

"Steeler fans don't care about quality or integrity."

What????? So bitter that jealosy is.... B-I-T-T-E-R

"The Steelers have 5 SB titles courtesy of steroids and officials. The other came courtesy of the Cardinals. Congratulations. "

Hahaha what? What team do you follow that has a better track record then the Steelers????

And there's problem #946 with Steeler fans: Hightened sense of superiority - even though most of the fans in central Ohio are just a bunch of lame frontrunners.

 

[Buckeneye]

even though ALL of the fans in central Ohio are just a bunch of lame frontrunners.

FI.

I must stress how much I HATE the Steelers Organization and their "fanbase."
I'd also like to point out I haven't seen 95% of these fuckers that call themselves Steelers "fans" until their last title.

Fanatic: A person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal.

The term "Fan" is derived from this, and I find it to be a personal insult when someone calls them self a fan, yet isn't.

Why? I am a Buckeye FAN. I am a Browns FAN. To a lesser extent Cavs and Tribe. I just never had the connection to Baseball and Basketball that I do with Football.

What happens to my team's matters to me, and I suffer through terrible seasons (obviously with the latter) in hope that something better might be ahead. I have an emotional connection to my team because I feel they are a representation of the area and its people(s) - our values and more specifically for Cleveland, it's struggles.


That said, the whole "Pittsburgh" thing has been wearing thin on my patience over the past few months. Basically I've been shit talking anybody that wears the colors. Call it Juvenile , I simply don't care.

Prime example. True story from last night. 5:30pm I head to our local grocery (BiLo) for a few quick game entrees'. Keep in mind I'm about 30 minutes from the Pennsylvania border at most, but when I was growing up Ashtabula County was never a Steelers "Stronghold".

I walk into the front doors and the immediate view is of the produce and checkout lines. Super Bowl XLV balloons and TONS of Steeler balloons. NO Green Bay... NONE. I had been there only a week previous to last night, and not only were there some GB balloons then, but there was a far greater balance and overall fewer amount.

At the checkout line I'm talking to the clerk, nice guy... Browns fan. I ask him "What's with all the Steelers balloons?".

--- him "Manager is a Steelers "fan".
--- me "Oh, well, obviously we're both pulling for the Pack"
--- him "Yeah, hopefully our time will come"

*small laugh*

Pretty cool huh? So anyway, while he was swiping my items and ringing them up I mentioned how I was looking forward to the draft. Our conversation was very low-key. No raised voices, just private... I'd say there were about two dozen people wearing some type of Pittsburgh gear in the adjacent lines.

Older gentlemen from behind me feels the need to chime in on our conversation. Below are his EXACT words.

"Yeah, the Browns are playing tonight on channel 12, the Science-Fiction channel"

Literally this man must have smoked 3 packs a day at one point, he sounded like JimBo from South Park. Apologies if you are unaware of who that may be.

I just look at this guy with a blank stare for a solid minute.

At that point I flat out didn't care if I was holding up the line. I opened my wallet, and took at $20 bill out and put it on the counter and said...

"I'll let you have that $20 if you can name me 6 players for both offense and defense. Think of it like getting a grade. That's just over 50% of your squad. So, if you get anything above an 'F'.... you get the cash".

He got for offense.

Ben Fatshit
Ward
Mendenhall
Miller

- I filled in the rest for him

He got for defense

Polamalu
Harrison

- I gladly filled in the rest, picked up my 20 and said "That's what I thought".



That is your average Pittsburgh "fan" fellas. They don't need to be met with hostility, instead try insult for a change.

 

[OH10]

That is your average Pittsburgh "fan" fellas. They don't need to be met with hostility, instead try insult for a change.

I wonder how so many Steelers fans were able to buy tickets to the Super Bowl. Must have been a record number of re-financed trailer homes.

 

[Meyer]

I'm from Columbus and I'm certainly no frontrunner (GO BROWNS). But God yes there are a shit load of them. Steeler fans just come out the woodwork, man. There are so many of them and you know at least half of them have no connection whatsoever to Shitsburgh.

If you were born in Ohio then WTF???

I'm in Athens now and you wouldn't believe how many Steeler fans there are here too and they just so happen to be the most obnoxious group of fans on the planet.

These are probably the same people that were Cavs fans but when LeBron left they became Heat fans cause they were just "fans of LeBron."

I'm so happy they lost the Super Bowl so they can all shut the fuck up now (maybe if we were in Pittsburgh it'd be cool to be douches about it, but we're not and it's not).

And for the ones with the connection to Pittsburgh who then also try to be Buckeye fans too it's like "oh so you like the Steelers then why aren't you a Pitt fan??" Obviously the reason is cause Pitt sucks ass. Frontrunners is what they are. And not that it matters, but in my eyes, that kinda makes you a shitty fan.

Or maybe not a shitty fan but just kinda like a bitch.

 

[3074326]

It's sad that I sometimes don't wear Penguins gear in fear of being associated with the Steelers.

 

[buckeyboy]

FI.

I must stress how much I HATE the Steelers Organization and their "fanbase."
I'd also like to point out I haven't seen 95% of these fuckers that call themselves Steelers "fans" until their last title.

Fanatic: A person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal.

The term "Fan" is derived from this, and I find it to be a personal insult when someone calls them self a fan, yet isn't.

Why? I am a Buckeye FAN. I am a Browns FAN. To a lesser extent Cavs and Tribe. I just never had the connection to Baseball and Basketball that I do with Football.

What happens to my team's matters to me, and I suffer through terrible seasons (obviously with the latter) in hope that something better might be ahead. I have an emotional connection to my team because I feel they are a representation of the area and its people(s) - our values and more specifically for Cleveland, it's struggles.


That said, the whole "Pittsburgh" thing has been wearing thin on my patience over the past few months. Basically I've been shit talking anybody that wears the colors. Call it Juvenile , I simply don't care.

Prime example. True story from last night. 5:30pm I head to our local grocery (BiLo) for a few quick game entrees'. Keep in mind I'm about 30 minutes from the Pennsylvania border at most, but when I was growing up Ashtabula County was never a Steelers "Stronghold".

I walk into the front doors and the immediate view is of the produce and checkout lines. Super Bowl XLV balloons and TONS of Steeler balloons. NO Green Bay... NONE. I had been there only a week previous to last night, and not only were there some GB balloons then, but there was a far greater balance and overall fewer amount.

At the checkout line I'm talking to the clerk, nice guy... Browns fan. I ask him "What's with all the Steelers balloons?".

--- him "Manager is a Steelers "fan".
--- me "Oh, well, obviously we're both pulling for the Pack"
--- him "Yeah, hopefully our time will come"

*small laugh*

Pretty cool huh? So anyway, while he was swiping my items and ringing them up I mentioned how I was looking forward to the draft. Our conversation was very low-key. No raised voices, just private... I'd say there were about two dozen people wearing some type of Pittsburgh gear in the adjacent lines.

Older gentlemen from behind me feels the need to chime in on our conversation. Below are his EXACT words.

"Yeah, the Browns are playing tonight on channel 12, the Science-Fiction channel"

Literally this man must have smoked 3 packs a day at one point, he sounded like JimBo from South Park. Apologies if you are unaware of who that may be.

I just look at this guy with a blank stare for a solid minute.

At that point I flat out didn't care if I was holding up the line. I opened my wallet, and took at $20 bill out and put it on the counter and said...

"I'll let you have that $20 if you can name me 6 players for both offense and defense. Think of it like getting a grade. That's just over 50% of your squad. So, if you get anything above an 'F'.... you get the cash".

He got for offense.

Ben Fatshit
Ward
Mendenhall
Miller

- I filled in the rest for him

He got for defense

Polamalu
Harrison

- I gladly filled in the rest, picked up my 20 and said "That's what I thought".



That is your average Pittsburgh "fan" fellas. They don't need to be met with hostility, instead try insult for a change.

 

[JCOSU86]

Guys, this is a thread for Steelers fans to talk about their team. Let's leave it to them. Thanks.