Comments on: Steel Resolve: Steelers Rally From 15 Down to Top Browns 31-28 http://www.nflgridirongab.com/2007/11/11/steel-resolve-steelers-rally-from-15-down-to-top-browns-31-28/ Are you ready for some football? Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:23:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jay http://www.nflgridirongab.com/2007/11/11/steel-resolve-steelers-rally-from-15-down-to-top-browns-31-28/comment-page-1/#comment-70439 Jay Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:09:43 +0000 http://www.nflgridirongab.com/2007/11/11/steel-resolve-steelers-rally-from-15-down-to-top-browns-31-28/#comment-70439 You ask why someone could not like the Steelers, the answer is, just because they exist. If there was such a thing as a "curse", I would "curse" Pittsburgh by having someone buy the team and then promptly move it to California, with the Steelers name, history, and everything attached to the team. Then, maybe after ten or so years without football, I would let Pittsburgh have a new team. But, the new team would be doomed for the next twenty years to be the "toilet paper" of the NFL due to mismanagement, bad luck, injuries, busted draft picks, etc. Pittsburgh would also have to suffer thought forty straight embarrassing thrashings by the Browns. Then perhaps, Steeler fans might have the slightest inkling what the Browns fans have been through for the last forty years. True, there are a few fans left that remember the glory years of the 1950s, but for the majority, Browns fans know only, gloom, doom, and abject disappointment. So, to a Browns fan, the Steelers represent the NFL’s "Axis of Evil" in the same way, due to no fault of his own, a beggar hates the rich simply because they "have" and he doesn’t. The only way these feeling will change is either by my "curse" coming true (very doubtful), or the Browns once again become a perennial playoff contender and the Steelers become just another football team. You ask why someone could not like the Steelers, the answer is, just because they exist. If there was such a thing as a “curse”, I would “curse” Pittsburgh by having someone buy the team and then promptly move it to California, with the Steelers name, history, and everything attached to the team. Then, maybe after ten or so years without football, I would let Pittsburgh have a new team. But, the new team would be doomed for the next twenty years to be the “toilet paper” of the NFL due to mismanagement, bad luck, injuries, busted draft picks, etc. Pittsburgh would also have to suffer thought forty straight embarrassing thrashings by the Browns. Then perhaps, Steeler fans might have the slightest inkling what the Browns fans have been through for the last forty years. True, there are a few fans left that remember the glory years of the 1950s, but for the majority, Browns fans know only, gloom, doom, and abject disappointment. So, to a Browns fan, the Steelers represent the NFL’s “Axis of Evil” in the same way, due to no fault of his own, a beggar hates the rich simply because they “have” and he doesn’t. The only way these feeling will change is either by my “curse” coming true (very doubtful), or the Browns once again become a perennial playoff contender and the Steelers become just another football team.

]]> By: Russ Loede http://www.nflgridirongab.com/2007/11/11/steel-resolve-steelers-rally-from-15-down-to-top-browns-31-28/comment-page-1/#comment-68751 Russ Loede Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:52:21 +0000 http://www.nflgridirongab.com/2007/11/11/steel-resolve-steelers-rally-from-15-down-to-top-browns-31-28/#comment-68751 Big Ben [#7] shows why one draft pundit/expert called him the most talented QB to come out of College (Miami OH) since John Elway[#7] (Stanford), after getting picked in the '04 NFL Draft. "7's" got something in common as they share: Great arms, scrambling/break tackle ability, and leadership role/a flair for the dramatic, as comeback signal callers that just win... Roethlisberger's performance was just pure brilliance and clutch in the 2nd half, and esp. in the 4th quarter with all those runs he managed to pull off - I haven't seen anything like it in awhile... Steelers = Legitimate AFC Contender ~ Pittsburgh at home vs. either SD or Tennessee TITANS Opening up the AFC Wild Card Playoffs would be a tremendous game to watch! (Looking ahead of course...) Cleveland = Browns are the new Bengals - No Defense and some good Offense... By the Way Jay ~ Don't DISS the spectaular "Terrible Towels" because it sure beats the awful "dawg" fans and dog bones they carry around in the pound at Browns stadium... How can you not like the STEELERS Franchise/Organization ~ It's one of the best in the NFL! Big Ben [#7] shows why one draft pundit/expert called him the most talented QB to come out of College (Miami OH) since John Elway[#7] (Stanford), after getting picked in the ‘04 NFL Draft. “7’s” got something in common as they share: Great arms, scrambling/break tackle ability, and leadership role/a flair for the dramatic, as comeback signal callers that just win… Roethlisberger’s performance was just pure brilliance and clutch in the 2nd half, and esp. in the 4th quarter with all those runs he managed to pull off – I haven’t seen anything like it in awhile…

Steelers = Legitimate AFC Contender ~ Pittsburgh at home vs. either SD or Tennessee TITANS Opening up the AFC Wild Card Playoffs would be a tremendous game to watch! (Looking ahead of course…)

Cleveland = Browns are the new Bengals – No Defense and some good Offense…

By the Way Jay ~ Don’t DISS the spectaular “Terrible Towels” because it sure beats the awful “dawg” fans and dog bones they carry around in the pound at Browns stadium… How can you not like the STEELERS Franchise/Organization ~ It’s one of the best in the NFL!

]]> By: Jay http://www.nflgridirongab.com/2007/11/11/steel-resolve-steelers-rally-from-15-down-to-top-browns-31-28/comment-page-1/#comment-68572 Jay Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:53:09 +0000 http://www.nflgridirongab.com/2007/11/11/steel-resolve-steelers-rally-from-15-down-to-top-browns-31-28/#comment-68572 I have to give Pittsburgh credit, for the first time since the Art(ful) dodger hosed Cleveland, Pittsburgh beat a real Cleveland team. Steeler fans should take about as much pride as an adult beating up a six year old on all those other wins, but this one, pride would be justified. One question though, when will the Steeler fans learn to use the bathroom instead of peeing into those towels and waving them about to dry? No wonder they re so yellow and referred to as being terrible. I have to give Pittsburgh credit, for the first time since the Art(ful) dodger hosed Cleveland, Pittsburgh beat a real Cleveland team. Steeler fans should take about as much pride as an adult beating up a six year old on all those other wins, but this one, pride would be justified. One question though, when will the Steeler fans learn to use the bathroom instead of peeing into those towels and waving them about to dry? No wonder they re so yellow and referred to as being terrible.

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