The Seahawks gave Joey Porter what he wanted:
Steelers linebacker Joey Porter minded his manners and said nothing derogatory about the Seahawks during his first two days at the Super Bowl. That changed Wednesday after Seattle tight end Jerramy Stevens effectively guaranteed a victory.
Porter said Stevens’ remarks were all he needed to get him going for the Super Bowl.
“I’ve been asleep all week but now I got woke up,” Porter said Wednesday. “I’ve got my first taste of blood and now I’m thirsty for more. Until now, it was ‘Watch what I say,’ `I can’t say this,’ `I can’t say that,’ `Don’t do anything silly,’ but I’m ready now.
“You look for the guys that say something that aren’t supposed to say nothing, and I feel like he definitely was out of pocket to say what he said,” Porter said. “I’m going to make sure he owns up to those words.”
Porter was agitated about Stevens’ comments Tuesday regarding Steelers star Jerome Bettis’ much-publicized return to his hometown of Detroit to try to win a Super Bowl in what likely is his final season.
“It’s a heartwarming story and all that, but it will be a sad day when he leaves without that trophy,” said Stevens, who said later he wasn’t guaranteeing a victory but was only saying what he felt.
Stevens also said Porter will have a difficult time whenever he is matched up with Seahawks All-Pro tackle Walter Jones.
***“He’s too soft to say something like that,” Porter said. “He’s going to have the opportunity to back up his words. I’m going to have the opportunity to back up my words. So it’s something I’m looking forward to and I’m ready to get going.”
Excellent. Although as far as trash talking goes, this is pretty tame. More here on Porter’s trash-talking.
KC
Tame’s the word.
Paul Wartenberg
The Best Trash Talk Ever:
I’ll shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a popsicle! — Ajax (James Remar), from The Warriors original movie
Vladi G
Kind of pathetic when it takes some stupid comment from an opponent to get you motivated for the FREAKING SUPER BOWL! This isn’t a week seven matchup against the 49ers. It’s the goddamn championship game, and he can’t get “woken up” until someone on the other team opens their mouth?
Aren’t these guys professionals?
Pooh
Paul,
Sam Cassell after the T’wolves beat the Kings in the 2004 playofffs, asked about comments by the legitimately nuts wife of the legitimately nuts Doug Christie:
“Some guys run their house. Some guys run around their house. I run my house.”
Brian
Sounds like he’s the Al-Zawahiri of the Super Bowl.
Seahawks will beat the Steelers by 4.
Mean Gene
This insult, the most heinous blasphemy in the history of the world, will not be allowed to stand. The name of Stevens will take it’s proper place on the rostrum of villains. Caligula. Stalin. Stevens.
Ehh…I guess with such a quiet week you gotta make do with what you get.
demimondian
What a joke. The idiot over at MSNBC is saying “Finally, controversy!”
Uh, people? This is _Seattle_ we’re talking about. Seattle is the capital of “polite but unspeakably nasty”, remember? Trash talk here comes down to saying things like “Pittsburgh is as dead as its rivers.” or “Pittsburgh was a great town back in the fifties when it produced anything other than whores and Carnegie Mellon graduates.”
Gold Star for Robot Boy
I was in Orlando last year when the Magic made the mistake of trading for him and the Mrs.
There’s only one word I can use to describe Doug, and it’s a word I avoid because I find it too vulgar, which is saying something because I can throw around f-bombs like nobody’s business.
Doug Christie is a pussy.
Steve
What always gets me about the media coverage leading up to the Super Bowl is that the media always thinks it’s clever to make their story about the oversaturation of media coverage leading up to the game. Every story is like “Wow, there are 12,000 reporters here, and here are the top 10 questions that got asked today!” And year after year, they think this is a clever and innovative way to cover the game.
zzyzx
Steve – actually this year it’s been hip to notice that it’s stupid that people cover the coverage. The Superbowl isn’t a football game, it’s a post-modern exercise to see how meta we can get.
Mean Gene
To reply to demimondian’s statement that Seattlese would insult Pittsburgh by saying it’s “as dead as it’s rivers”, I would like to point out that all three of our rivers are teeming with aquatic life. In fact, the most recent Bassmasters Classic (the Super Bowl of fishing) was held this past summer in Pittsburgh with great results.
The economy may be awful and the city’s finances in the shitter, but WE GOT FISH.