The NFL

“Incredible! Okay Ravens, lets finish the job.”

“I can't see the Ravens winning. But, what do I know?”

“I can't either, but I have an agenda.”

“Yeah the Steelers aren't in the Super Bowl yet, but I think the Steelers will get there and will roll over the Cards.

Of course, I may he biased by annoyance that the Patriots went 11-5 and the team they clobbered 47-7 less than a month ago is going to the Super Bowl while the Pats don't make the playoffs. So it will sit better with me to see a team with a better record than the Pats and which rolled over the Pats ends up winning the Super Bowl.
Logic plays into it as well,if you compare the Cards and Steelers in December '08 at Foxboro - you can't help but think the Cards will be crushed.”

“i cant stand steeler nation, but i cant see their team lose to the ravens or cards.”

“I'VE GOT A FEELING; PITTSBURGH'S GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL!!!!
I'VE GOT A FEELING; PITTSBURGH'S GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL!!!”

“yea, like im going to waste the next 90 seconds of my life on that
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“SACKED!!!


INTERCEPTION FOR TOUCH DOWN


END OF THE GAME

last edited: 1/18/09 8:11:09 PM”

“$^(!&^$$%@ football!”

“I look for the Cards to stomp Titsburge. 13-0 at one point and they almost let them come back and win? Ha!”

“Dear Andy, Donovan, et al,

Football games last more than one quarter. It is not considered good to not show up for the other three. Please do a better job in the future.

Your fan,
Geobeet”

“I'd love to see McNabb go somewhere else and give it a shot. Like maybe Chicago, a team that hasn't had an NFL-calibre QB in forever.”

“13-0 at one point and they almost let them come back and win? Ha!�

cards were up 24-6 and damn near blew it

anybody know when the last time a 9-7 made the superbowl? i remember when jim harbaugh almost took the colts to the superbowl nearly 15 years ago. that was a very thrilling game”

“I liked Harbaugh. If he could have been placed on the right team he could have gone all the way.”

“that hail mary pass at the end could have easily have been called the wrong way. instant replay showed that it was incomplete, but live and full speed, it looked like a touchdown. im sure that played a big part in instant replay challenges being reinstated the next year”

“Steelers are going for a six pack!!! (Of Super Bowl RINGS!!!)”

“I am so conditioned to disappointment by the Eagles that not only was I not surprised, I was barely even disappointed.”

“I had high hopes for the Panthers this year so I have to pull for the Cradinals all the way since they knocked my guys out!!!”

“yea, we know, tango, but thanks for the update (rolls eyes)”

“This is going to be the greatest superbowl EVER!

Why?
Because Eurohike arrives at ATL airport at 3:20 that day. We plan to watch the game at the Carosol lounge in the atrium of the Hyatt Regency. Her first Superbowl. She seems excited. I know I am...”

“The Hall of Fame receiver, Michael Irvin is launching a reality TV show in which 12 “football neophytes” will compete for an impressive grand prize: a spot on the Dallas Cowboys’ training camp roster.”

“I'm betting on you Tango! Do me proud!”

“You couldn't pay me enough to put on anything associated with Dallas!”

“thats americas team, by gawd. if you dont support the cowboys, then youre a terrorist”

“If you want to have an enjoyable evening turn on the NFL channel they are replaying The Steelers Super Bowl wins!”

“why would that be enjoyable to anyone but you?”

“Are the Stealers an american bank?”

“Yeah...what he said!!!”

“Dallas Cowboys can suck eggs.”

“S-- So sorry to disappoint. You spelled the team name wrong. It is Steelers as in steel workers. As in built this country!”

“AW...Tango lets not go there.....Marky Mark I woulda thought you would love the Cowboys..heck Jerry will let anyone play, and he looks for vermin to give a "chance" to.....”

“So, it's their fault?”

“Nimble is this going to turn into a "Evolution (i.e. the North American Continent was a result of eons of change and plate techtonics) vs "Intelligent Design" (the Sthiller made the rocks and trees and mountains and streams)"?
If so I want to argue the best way to cook free range chicken.”

“I'm talking about the steelworkers.”

“I say cook them over a large bed of coals on a spit”

“Sorry I thought the country (geologically) was mostly rocks, trees, dirt etc...

Or are you discussing the "infrastructure" meaning roads, buildings....in which case I would have to say the concrete workers or carpenters built it.....”

“Civic Arena first retractable dome stadium in the world

1803 Lewis and Clark started their expedition here
1840 America's first business college opened
John Robeling invented wire cable that made suspension bridges possible
A Pittsburgher first distilled refined petroleum and started the oil industry
During the Civil war the Fort Pitt Foundry cast the worlds' biggest cannon and constructed the first ironclad war ships
John Arbuckle packaged the first ground coffee
Trains stopped themselves using Westinghouse air brakes
Westinghouse employees were the first to get time off on Saturdays (½ day)
1881 Pittsburgh became the birthplace of labor unions
Westinghouse made electric lighting possible with alternating current and had the first electric meter
Professional football started on the Northside of Pittsburgh-Pudge Heppelfinger was the first paid player in 1892
In 1893 George Ferris built a huge revolving wheel for the Chicago's Columbian Exposition to eclipse the Eiffel Tower
Heinz pioneered the marketing of ketchup and other packaged foods
In 1903 Pittsburgh hosted the first World Series
A Pittsburgher invented the banana split, built the first movie theater and the first gas station
University of Pittsburgh football players were the first to attach numbers to their jerseys
In 1909 Forbes Field was the first steel and concrete stadium in America
Pittsburgh's Nelly Blye became the first female war correspondent
Pittsburgh saw the first road map for motorists and the first Fraternal Order of Police lodge and the first ever Bingo game
Pittsburghers heard first radio broadcast of phonograph records
KDKA the first commercial radio station also broadcast the first presidential election, first baseball game and the first church service
In 1924 the Liberty Tubes was the world's longest artificially ventilated automobile tunnel
1925 Calbrey Rogers flew his Wright flyer from coast to coast the first trans-continental flight in history
The Cathedral of Learning at Pitt was the first skyscraper for a University
Islays introed the Klondike bar in 1929
In the 1930's manufacturers couldn't get enough of the new Allegheny metal-Stainless Steel
Chatham Village became the first low cost planned community
1937 Kenny Clark pioneered Bebop music
Pittsburgh Inventions:
Zippo lighter
Icecapades
Jeeps
Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine in Pittsburgh
Alcoa built the first aluminum skyscraper
1954 WQED became the first educational television station home to Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
The first atomic submarine and the first atomic electric plant powered up in 1958
The first pull tabs on cans in 1962 on Iron City Beer and the Big Mac a few years later
Pittsburghers prefabricated and erected the St. Louis arch
The first EMT program began in Pittsburgh
The first ABA basketball championship was played in Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh Pipers won)
The first sky ballet was performed over Point State Park
Publication of Silent Spring in 1962 Rachel Carson launched the modern environmental movement and Pittsburgh pioneered clean air legislation
The worlds first picture phone conversation came from Pittsburgh in 1970
Mr. Yuck sticker was born in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Pirates boasted the first all African-American lineup in the National League in 1971
1971 the first nighttime World Series game was played in Pittsburgh
Steelers became the first NFL team to win 4 Superbowls
Carnegie Mellon University founded the robotic Institute in the world
In the 1980's UPMC Doctors pioneered advances in defibrillation and organ transplantation including the first simultaneous heart, liver, kidney transplant.
A Pittsburgher became the first big screen Batman.
Zambelli Fireworks was the first to use computers to coordinate their shows.
In 1992 Pittsburgh christened Robot RX the first automated prescription machine
In 2002 Grace became the first socially skilled robot
Fetal heart surgery, reactive contact lenses and a prosthetic device for eye blinking came from break throughs in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh became the greenest city in America when the David L Lawrence Convention Center came online as a LEED certified building
Iron City beer introduced aluminum bottles
Pittsburgh scientists laid the first nano carpet
In 2004 researchers used the first ever 3d protein patch repair living tissue
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“Mike Tomlin named Coach of the Year!!!”

“Speaking of the Superbowl...

I'm watching it with an out-of-towner. A waaay out-of-towner.

She's here in the U.S. doing one of her NOLS gigs. On Sunday, she's flying from Idaho Falls to SLC, then on to ATL - where she's scheduled to arrive at about 3:30 P.M. She will be here until Tuesday.

The plan is for me to pick her up at the airport and take her to a downtown hotel. She's taking a couple hours to herself, then I will escort her to the Carasol Lounge in the atrium of the Hyatt Regency. There I will wine and dine her as she enjoys her first ever Super Bowl.

All this hinges on on-time flight schedules, naturally.

Oh - who is she?
She is our one-and-only Eurohike, of course!
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“I will tell ever buddy if she got a butt bwt (o:3”

“Gojo is an escort? Who knew?

(remind her that American footballs are not round)”

“Please explain to her that THE BLACK & GOLD are the team that we want to win!

Go Steelers!!!”

“LOL...I am watching as usual ....for the commercials.”