Sorry John, can’t root for a rapist QB no matter how much I love this blog.
GO CHEESEDICKS! Er… CHEESEHEADS!!
Also too, here’s hoping that Big Ben gets knocked out pre-game with an injury to his throwing shoulder.
8.
Mudge
It was fun hearing McCarthy (the Packers coach, who’s from Pittsburgh) say his second favorite team is the Steelers. Start a Steelers fan, stay a Steelers fan.
Has anyone, in the history of the world, ever really been terrified by a dishtowel? Even an ugly one like that?
11.
RP
disturbing
12.
Villago Delenda Est
You know, if you did this with red banners in China, we’d all be totally outraged.
Now, if you did this in Seattle, with Mariner or Seahawk regalia, it would be perfectly acceptable and normal.
13.
suzanne
This reminds me of that scene in The Matrix where Neo wakes up naked in that cocoon with the plug in the back of his head.
It’s really cute.
14.
p.a.
as a Pats and Yankee fan, my only comment is to repeat what a
Red Sox fan said to me when I told him my being dressed in a tiny Yankee uniform as a 3 year old was the brainwashing that formed me as a native New Englander-Yankee fan:
“That’s not brainwashing. That’s child abuse.”
15.
danimal
It appears that ‘pink or blue?’ is replaced by ‘yellow or black?’ in Steelertown. But who gets the yellow, and who gets the black? And what are the effects on gender identity development? Inquiring minds want to know.
This, sorta. I don’t wish physical injury on him but he’s made it hard to root for the team despite the fact it’s one of pro sports’s best franchises.
Let’s look at it this way, I’m a guy and I can’t cheer for Ben. He’s a famous quarterback for a NFL football team and he still can’t find a willing participant in a bar full of drunk women. Says a ton about him that he can’t take no for an answer.
18.
gorillagogo
Heh. My buddy’s wife just had twins a week or so ago and he sent me a picture of them swaddled in a terrible towel the other day.
19.
Elizabelle
That is too funny.
20.
BGinCHI
Couple of poops and those really will be terrible towels.
It could be worse, they could be dressed as Dallas fans.
26.
Mary G
Adorable. I’m not a football fan and I will be happy when the
Super Bowl is over and you start ranting about wingnuts again, John, but enjoy it. It’s really special when your team goes to the big show.
27.
McWaffle
Psh. Packers babies could take your pansy-ass Steelers babies any day.
We’re still waiting for pictures of the pets dressed up in their Steeler regalia.
30.
David W.
Heh, did you know those Terrible Towels are MADE IN WISCONSIN? And have PACKERS COOTIES! Bwhahahahahah!
Really, it’s twue:
CHIPPEWA FALLS – Employees at Chippewa River Industries of Chippewa Falls feel like they’re a part of Super Bowl XLV festivities.
“They are ecstatic,” CRI director Dave Lemanski said Monday as company employees – most of whom were dressed in Green Bay Packers green and gold – produced Terrible Towels sold to fans of the Packers’ opponent in the Super Bowl, the Pittsburgh Steelers. “They are all … excited to be a part of this.”
31.
Mary G
@Mary G: Whoops, wrote that before scrolling down to earlier posts and finding some good rants there, apologies.
@peej: Ditto this. We haven’t seen Lily in weeks, unless I missed her.
of course the terrible towels are made by packer fans. the great part of the towels is they are truly a fan tradition. the allegheny valley school owns the copyright, and they make sure the contract to produce them goes to a company that employs people with special needs. that is where packer fans come in.
35.
danimal
@elmo: Those times are only good if you forget the game that followed two weeks later; the one that was essentially over after about four plays or so. Damn Steve Young.
you should really hate us for how we whooped you in 08.the great part, we got to sleep with tiffany that year. i guess lately you have come to accept defeat as part of being a charger fan. some day you guys will bust that cherry. and the streets of los angeles will be full of home town pride.
37.
trollhattan
Those are all Ben’s.
38.
Violet
That’s adorable.
Cole, we need photos of your pets in Steelers gear. We will not be denied!
He’s a famous quarterback for a NFL football team and he still can’t find a willing participant in a bar full of drunk women. Says a ton about him that he can’t take no for an answer.
As I say about both Ben and Brett – if being a multimillion dollar pro quarterback doesn’t get the deal sealed for you, how pathetic is your pick up line?
40.
Peter J
Sacrificing babies? Isn’t that taking it a bit too far?
41.
estamm
Agree with a few posters up above… just can’t root for Rottingburger. He is real piece of shit.
42.
13th Generation
I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth..
And shouldn’t that be considered a form of child abuse?
43.
Martin
@Michael: They have pick up lines? I thought they just whipped their junk out at random.
To paraphrase Martin Niemöller’s famous admonition about complacency with totalitarian fascists: “First they came for Rush Limbaugh and called his satire racist, and I didn’t speak out because Rush Limbaugh is a conservative. Then they came for Dr. Laura and called her commentary racist, and I didn’t speak out because Dr. Laura is a conservative…”
I don’t think the guy was being ironic, but I didn’t really bother to read him very carefully.
45.
cmorenc
These sorts of threads remind me of the kinds of people who are so die-hard wrapped up in some pro or college sports team that e.g. they paint their entire set of kitchen cabinets Carolina blue, or Pittsburgh Steelers yellow with anodized black hardware. And fake the urge to puke if they come across a room in someone else’s house that’s inadvertently painted a color similar to that of their own team’s most hated rivals.
46.
Svensker
Always liked the Steelers but Ben makes it really hard to root for them now. Also, too, can we change the rotation up a bit? Pats, Pats, Steelers, Colts, Pats, Steelers, Colts, Steelers. Gets old.
As I say about both Ben and Brett – if being a multimillion dollar pro quarterback doesn’t get the deal sealed for you, how pathetic is your pick up line?
With both, it probably not just focused on the fucking, but about the “chase” and “capture”, as it were.
Willing partners might not light their fires.
48.
rebecca
@danimal:
Black is for boys and gold is for girls!
I was perfectly fine with everything you said, all in good fun, until you got to the part about Los Angeles. Those are fighting words, sir, and I demand satisfaction. My seconds shall call upon you at dawn.
@elmo: lol, sadly its that or the taxpayers get to fund a billion dollar enterprise.
51.
AxelFoley
:looks at those poor babies wrapped in those towels:
As my boy Charles Barkley would say, “That’s just turrible.”
52.
cmorenc
The unique attraction of the Green Bay Packers is that in all of professional team sports of any kind, it would be impossible for a small city like Green Bay to either obtain a franchise, or if they did have one, to keep it for very long. If the Green Bay Packers were the hobby project of some rich local businessman instead of a true civic franchise with widely distributed fractional ownership by ordinary residents around the Green Bay area, the franchise would long ago have been plucked and moved to a far bigger city. The NFL, NBA, NHL, even MLS would laugh an expansion-franchise (or franchise transfer) application by a city like Green Bay straight into the round-file today.
The city got the franchise back in the early Genesis phase of the NFL (1933!), back before “pro” football was even fully professional (most players needed off-season jobs to make a living), there were not yet any lucrative television contracts, and baseball was the one true (and overwhelmingly dominant) sport in America. Although there are quite a few franchise cities and names on that 1933 list that are still familiar today (e.g. NY Giants, Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers ), also on the 1933 list are Green Bay Packers and…Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans. Somehow, Portsmouth wasn’t able to sustain its franchise, but Green Bay was, and picked up a cult of local support.
There will never be another pro sports franchise anything like the Green Bay Packers, not one that’s as vibrantly viable and famous as they are. I’m not any sort of die-hard Green-Bay fan, nor not much of an NFL football fan at all. But they do have an engagingly unique niche.
53.
Suffern ACE
I assume that they need to wrap those babies in terrible towels so that the parents of said children will come and pick them up from the hospital sometime in the next two weeks.
54.
p.a.
re:Packers. Yesterday I was listening to a radio sports talk jock who is a Wisconsin native. He said if the Packers are ever sold the sale profits go to the Green Bay VFW! How can you not root for a team with one foot still in the 1930s?
55.
Sam Hutcheson
How many of those kids are from Roethlisberger raping coeds?
Packers = Schalke. Same deal. By any rational measure, Gelsenkirchen should be far too small to support a Bundesliga team, but 50K fans show up for every home match.
If the Jets had won, you wouldn’t see a similar scene in a maternity ward in the New York area. New Yorkers (except for Yankee fans, about whom the less said, the better) can be rabid fans, but they generally manage to keep it in perspective.
“some day you guys will bust that cherry. and the streets of los angeles will be full of home ”
Not. Even if they exercise the escape clause in their lease and move here, the Chargers will never be fully adopted by Los Angeles fans. We already have two pro football teams: USC and UCLA. And the Chargers have absentee ownership, which is not tolerated here.
59.
jl
And I thought the Raiduhs was the most dangerous quai-religious cult in American ‘football’.
How many of those kids are from Roethlisberger raping coeds?
LOL, oh snap!
61.
bookcat
@Poopyman: This is true- football fans are pod people (ducks, runs for exit).
62.
me
@p.a.: That changed 10 years ago. Now the profits would go to the team’s charitable foundation.
63.
geg6
All those babies will grow up to be better than average.
Because they are Steeler fans.
I love these threads, Cole. Love seeing all the jealousy and whining from bad losers. And it’s ever sweeter when it’s from a New York, Seattle, New England, or Dallas fan. As for Cincinnati or Baltimore fans? I can’t even hear their whining as it’s so constant but insignificant. Clevelanders, however, get my sympathies. Their pro teams have been shitting on them too much lately and I can relate to that town so much (don’t tell anyone I said that!) that I just can’t hate on them the way I did back in the 70s and 80s.
64.
eastriver
So, we finally find out one of the root causes of Autism. Fascinating.
No, dickhead. Hating the Steelers and their retarded fans is a full-time job. 24/7. Even when the Steelers lose. Because they’re always a pack of raping, ignorant thugs. Like the Raiders, but without the class.
If the Jets had won, you wouldn’t see a similar scene in a maternity ward in the New York area. New Yorkers (except for Yankee fans, about whom the less said, the better) can be rabid fans, but they generally manage to keep it in perspective.
Well, also, cuz a lot of New Yorkers/New Jerseyans are asshole Giants fans. They’re always flying their ugly flags in my face. I got nuttin against the Gints, per se, but the Jets don’t get no respect in the area, know what I’m sayin?
67.
cckids
This pic reminds me of my time back in Nebraska. At all the Lincoln hospitals, every baby born on a game day got a little red Huskers hat. It was very cute, & gender neutral, too, which meant many grandmas didn’t like it so much.
And I’m going to assume you hate the Jets the same way, based on Sanchez’s past rape allegations and Holmes’ assaults, right?
69.
PTirebiter
@burnspbesq: You all do realize they started out as The Los Angles Chargers, yes? I saw them play the Dallas Texans at the Coliseum in ’60. It was my first pro game.
The early-60s Chargers were a blast to watch. Sid Gilman was the original mad scientist, and with Hadl, Lincoln, Lowe, and Alworth he had plenty of weapons at his disposal.
71.
burnspbesq
I can’t think offhand of any fan base that likes its team’s owners less than Charger fans (well, maybe Manchester United).
72.
PTirebiter
@burnspbesq: No doubt. I live in N.Texas now. I hadn’t thought about that in years. I actually attended the very first Chargers – Chiefs game. I still follow SC of course.
Yes, you’re right. Because Sanchez was once accused of rape that makes Big Rapist’s rape okay. Thanks. (I’m certainly not going to defend Sanchez. But are you really going to defend Big Rapist?)
And thank you for proving the point that all Steeler fans are morons. Steeler Nation: Because We Like To Keep Our Idiots In The Same Place.
74.
Ash Can
@cmorenc: And this (besides the fact that I love Wisconsin) is why, Bears fan that I am, I simply cannot hate the Packers. I think the whole idea of a team like the Packers is great. I like the Steelers fine, and love the city of Pittsburgh, but I’ll be rooting for the Pack in the Superbowl.
75.
burnspbesq
@east river
@geg6
The allegations against both Sanchez and Roethlisberger were thoroughly investigated, and in each case no charges were filed. End of story. Neither is a rapist.
If you two want to continue with your silliness, get a room.
I’m not and never have defended Ben’s actions in GA. But the way you just blow off a very similar incident in Sanchez’s past (accused but never charged, let alone convicted) to call Ben’s incident a rape when that has never been established in a court of law (accused but never charged, let alone convicted…just like Sanchez). I deplore both incidents, along with the hundreds and thousands of other incidents of rape, assault, and homicide that can be connected with pro and college athletes. To act as if Ben is the only one or that his case is unique to him (protip: it’s not) is ridiculous and only serves to show who the moron really is here.
But it’s not just Ben you are maligning right here in this thread.
Here’s what you said:
Because they’re always a pack of raping, ignorant thugs
You are painting with a rather large brush the entire Steeler organization. Kinda like if I said that every person who lives along or in view of the East River is as pig ignorant and vicious as you are.
Having spent quite a bit of time in New York, I know that is not true. But then, I don’t feel the need to prove my pen1s size by saying stupid shit no different than what you can hear on Rush Limbaugh’s show every day.
If you actually would read what I’ve typed, I think you would realize that is exactly the point I’m making. To criticize one particular athlete for his/her behavior which did not meet the level needed for criminal charges means you have to accept that same level of criticism for any athlete (or person, for that matter) on the identical basis.
And then to call the entire team rapists and an entire city morons because we still root for our team just like every other city/fans, regardless of the individual morality of the athletes on the teams, is bullshit. And I will call it out every single time, just as I do wingers who pull the same kind of bullshit politically. eastriver is no better than the wingers from whom he learned these types of tactics.
I could care less, but I do thank god that “One for the thumb” crap from Steelers fans is over. That had to be the worst Superbowl championship catchphrase ever.
80.
Sam Hutcheson
The allegations against both Sanchez and Roethlisberger were thoroughly investigated, and in each case no charges were filed. End of story. Neither is a rapist.
I’m not familiar with the charges against Sanchez, so I can’t speak to them. Same with Holmes. Living in Georgia I am a bit familiar with the Roethlisberger event in Milledgeville, and he most certainly is a rapist. He fed a 20-year old shot after shot of liquor, isolated her from her friends, exposed himself to her. She attempted to flee through the first door she saw, which happened to be a bathroom. He followed her in there attempted to force himself on her while his “bodyguards” prevented her friends from coming to her aid.
To claim Roethlisberger isn’t a rapist is to claim that O.J. Simpson isn’t a murderer. Both men committed the crime. Simpson was acquitted by a stupid jury. Roethlisberger wasn’t charged because the DA knew he would not be able to seat a non-stupid jury.
its real simple, the complaint filed in georgia claims there was unprotected sexual intercourse, but they could not find even a billionth of a gram of dna.
that is even more unlikely than the chmura prom defense “if the slit ain’t split, you must acquit”.” i mean he basically said he couldn’t have raped her because her hymen was still in tact, but of course that was at the trial, after he was charged….
with ben, because there were no charges, and they knew there wouldn’t be, but they held off on telling the world that, until after her lawyer came back from egypt, ben was convicted by people who only need to hear things often enough to believe them with evangelical fury. if he had gone to trial, you would see why there wasn’t enough to charge him.
you can also see by the way the prosecutor tried to excoriate and judge ben, but not charge him, how much he wanted a career maker against the great white, carpetbagging northerner, defendant, but still couldn’t bring himself to pursue it. no favoritism at all.
Legalize
One of us.
Elie
I’m jealous…what can I say?
GO BEARS (someday!)
Joel
Good riddance to the Jets!
General Stuck
creepy
Poopyman
MY GOD! THEY GROW THEM IN STEELER PODS!
Ash Can
SQUEEEE!
Short Bus Bully
Sorry John, can’t root for a rapist QB no matter how much I love this blog.
GO CHEESEDICKS! Er… CHEESEHEADS!!
Also too, here’s hoping that Big Ben gets knocked out pre-game with an injury to his throwing shoulder.
Mudge
It was fun hearing McCarthy (the Packers coach, who’s from Pittsburgh) say his second favorite team is the Steelers. Start a Steelers fan, stay a Steelers fan.
AliceBlue
That’s just…well, I don’t know.
TR
Has anyone, in the history of the world, ever really been terrified by a dishtowel? Even an ugly one like that?
RP
disturbing
Villago Delenda Est
You know, if you did this with red banners in China, we’d all be totally outraged.
Now, if you did this in Seattle, with Mariner or Seahawk regalia, it would be perfectly acceptable and normal.
suzanne
This reminds me of that scene in The Matrix where Neo wakes up naked in that cocoon with the plug in the back of his head.
It’s really cute.
p.a.
as a Pats and Yankee fan, my only comment is to repeat what a
Red Sox fan said to me when I told him my being dressed in a tiny Yankee uniform as a 3 year old was the brainwashing that formed me as a native New Englander-Yankee fan:
“That’s not brainwashing. That’s child abuse.”
danimal
It appears that ‘pink or blue?’ is replaced by ‘yellow or black?’ in Steelertown. But who gets the yellow, and who gets the black? And what are the effects on gender identity development? Inquiring minds want to know.
rikkileaks
Will no one think of the children!?
comrade scott's agenda of rage
@Short Bus Bully:
This, sorta. I don’t wish physical injury on him but he’s made it hard to root for the team despite the fact it’s one of pro sports’s best franchises.
Let’s look at it this way, I’m a guy and I can’t cheer for Ben. He’s a famous quarterback for a NFL football team and he still can’t find a willing participant in a bar full of drunk women. Says a ton about him that he can’t take no for an answer.
gorillagogo
Heh. My buddy’s wife just had twins a week or so ago and he sent me a picture of them swaddled in a terrible towel the other day.
Elizabelle
That is too funny.
BGinCHI
Couple of poops and those really will be terrible towels.
Villago Delenda Est
@TR:
Well, there’s Towelie from South Park, you know.
He’s pretty terrifying. The Towelie-ban is a direct result…
dollared
Sheesh – it appears that they have more variety in life in Green Bay.
For example, it’s sturgeon spearing season on Lake Winnebago right now!
mikefromArlington
That’s the 2036 Steelers Offensive Line in that pic.
AnnaN
OMG, Those poor children.
mikefromArlington
It could be worse, they could be dressed as Dallas fans.
Mary G
Adorable. I’m not a football fan and I will be happy when the
Super Bowl is over and you start ranting about wingnuts again, John, but enjoy it. It’s really special when your team goes to the big show.
McWaffle
Psh. Packers babies could take your pansy-ass Steelers babies any day.
Villago Delenda Est
@mikefromArlington:
My thoughts exactly, Mike.
Or, even more heinously, Raiders or 49ers…
peej
We’re still waiting for pictures of the pets dressed up in their Steeler regalia.
David W.
Heh, did you know those Terrible Towels are MADE IN WISCONSIN? And have PACKERS COOTIES! Bwhahahahahah!
Really, it’s twue:
CHIPPEWA FALLS – Employees at Chippewa River Industries of Chippewa Falls feel like they’re a part of Super Bowl XLV festivities.
“They are ecstatic,” CRI director Dave Lemanski said Monday as company employees – most of whom were dressed in Green Bay Packers green and gold – produced Terrible Towels sold to fans of the Packers’ opponent in the Super Bowl, the Pittsburgh Steelers. “They are all … excited to be a part of this.”
Mary G
@Mary G: Whoops, wrote that before scrolling down to earlier posts and finding some good rants there, apologies.
@peej: Ditto this. We haven’t seen Lily in weeks, unless I missed her.
fucen tarmal
what makes the picture truly outstanding is there are 7 babies.
elmo
Can’t root for the Steelers. Just can’t. I still have too much residual hate from the runup to the 1994 AFC Championship game.
Good times, good times.
fucen tarmal
@David W.:
of course the terrible towels are made by packer fans. the great part of the towels is they are truly a fan tradition. the allegheny valley school owns the copyright, and they make sure the contract to produce them goes to a company that employs people with special needs. that is where packer fans come in.
danimal
@elmo: Those times are only good if you forget the game that followed two weeks later; the one that was essentially over after about four plays or so. Damn Steve Young.
fucen tarmal
@elmo:
you should really hate us for how we whooped you in 08.the great part, we got to sleep with tiffany that year. i guess lately you have come to accept defeat as part of being a charger fan. some day you guys will bust that cherry. and the streets of los angeles will be full of home town pride.
trollhattan
Those are all Ben’s.
Violet
That’s adorable.
Cole, we need photos of your pets in Steelers gear. We will not be denied!
Michael
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage:
As I say about both Ben and Brett – if being a multimillion dollar pro quarterback doesn’t get the deal sealed for you, how pathetic is your pick up line?
Peter J
Sacrificing babies? Isn’t that taking it a bit too far?
estamm
Agree with a few posters up above… just can’t root for Rottingburger. He is real piece of shit.
13th Generation
I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth..
And shouldn’t that be considered a form of child abuse?
Martin
@Michael: They have pick up lines? I thought they just whipped their junk out at random.
Mark S.
Via Sully, some guy at Big Hollywood:
I don’t think the guy was being ironic, but I didn’t really bother to read him very carefully.
cmorenc
These sorts of threads remind me of the kinds of people who are so die-hard wrapped up in some pro or college sports team that e.g. they paint their entire set of kitchen cabinets Carolina blue, or Pittsburgh Steelers yellow with anodized black hardware. And fake the urge to puke if they come across a room in someone else’s house that’s inadvertently painted a color similar to that of their own team’s most hated rivals.
Svensker
Always liked the Steelers but Ben makes it really hard to root for them now. Also, too, can we change the rotation up a bit? Pats, Pats, Steelers, Colts, Pats, Steelers, Colts, Steelers. Gets old.
Therefore, go Packers!
Keith G
@Michael:
With both, it probably not just focused on the fucking, but about the “chase” and “capture”, as it were.
Willing partners might not light their fires.
rebecca
@danimal:
Black is for boys and gold is for girls!
elmo
@fucen tarmal:
I was perfectly fine with everything you said, all in good fun, until you got to the part about Los Angeles. Those are fighting words, sir, and I demand satisfaction. My seconds shall call upon you at dawn.
fucen tarmal
@elmo: lol, sadly its that or the taxpayers get to fund a billion dollar enterprise.
AxelFoley
:looks at those poor babies wrapped in those towels:
As my boy Charles Barkley would say, “That’s just turrible.”
cmorenc
The unique attraction of the Green Bay Packers is that in all of professional team sports of any kind, it would be impossible for a small city like Green Bay to either obtain a franchise, or if they did have one, to keep it for very long. If the Green Bay Packers were the hobby project of some rich local businessman instead of a true civic franchise with widely distributed fractional ownership by ordinary residents around the Green Bay area, the franchise would long ago have been plucked and moved to a far bigger city. The NFL, NBA, NHL, even MLS would laugh an expansion-franchise (or franchise transfer) application by a city like Green Bay straight into the round-file today.
The city got the franchise back in the early Genesis phase of the NFL (1933!), back before “pro” football was even fully professional (most players needed off-season jobs to make a living), there were not yet any lucrative television contracts, and baseball was the one true (and overwhelmingly dominant) sport in America. Although there are quite a few franchise cities and names on that 1933 list that are still familiar today (e.g. NY Giants, Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers ), also on the 1933 list are Green Bay Packers and…Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans. Somehow, Portsmouth wasn’t able to sustain its franchise, but Green Bay was, and picked up a cult of local support.
There will never be another pro sports franchise anything like the Green Bay Packers, not one that’s as vibrantly viable and famous as they are. I’m not any sort of die-hard Green-Bay fan, nor not much of an NFL football fan at all. But they do have an engagingly unique niche.
Suffern ACE
I assume that they need to wrap those babies in terrible towels so that the parents of said children will come and pick them up from the hospital sometime in the next two weeks.
p.a.
re:Packers. Yesterday I was listening to a radio sports talk jock who is a Wisconsin native. He said if the Packers are ever sold the sale profits go to the Green Bay VFW! How can you not root for a team with one foot still in the 1930s?
Sam Hutcheson
How many of those kids are from Roethlisberger raping coeds?
burnspbesq
@cmorenc:
Packers = Schalke. Same deal. By any rational measure, Gelsenkirchen should be far too small to support a Bundesliga team, but 50K fans show up for every home match.
If the Jets had won, you wouldn’t see a similar scene in a maternity ward in the New York area. New Yorkers (except for Yankee fans, about whom the less said, the better) can be rabid fans, but they generally manage to keep it in perspective.
jibeaux
@cmorenc:
Seconded. Plus, a town in which any sizable young black male is statistically likely to be a professional football player is just kind of cool.
burnspbesq
@fucen tarmal:
“some day you guys will bust that cherry. and the streets of los angeles will be full of home ”
Not. Even if they exercise the escape clause in their lease and move here, the Chargers will never be fully adopted by Los Angeles fans. We already have two pro football teams: USC and UCLA. And the Chargers have absentee ownership, which is not tolerated here.
jl
And I thought the Raiduhs was the most dangerous quai-religious cult in American ‘football’.
Looks like I was misinformed.
AxelFoley
@Sam Hutcheson:
LOL, oh snap!
bookcat
@Poopyman: This is true- football fans are pod people (ducks, runs for exit).
me
@p.a.: That changed 10 years ago. Now the profits would go to the team’s charitable foundation.
geg6
All those babies will grow up to be better than average.
Because they are Steeler fans.
I love these threads, Cole. Love seeing all the jealousy and whining from bad losers. And it’s ever sweeter when it’s from a New York, Seattle, New England, or Dallas fan. As for Cincinnati or Baltimore fans? I can’t even hear their whining as it’s so constant but insignificant. Clevelanders, however, get my sympathies. Their pro teams have been shitting on them too much lately and I can relate to that town so much (don’t tell anyone I said that!) that I just can’t hate on them the way I did back in the 70s and 80s.
eastriver
So, we finally find out one of the root causes of Autism. Fascinating.
eastriver
@geg6:
No, dickhead. Hating the Steelers and their retarded fans is a full-time job. 24/7. Even when the Steelers lose. Because they’re always a pack of raping, ignorant thugs. Like the Raiders, but without the class.
Svensker
@burnspbesq:
Well, also, cuz a lot of New Yorkers/New Jerseyans are asshole Giants fans. They’re always flying their ugly flags in my face. I got nuttin against the Gints, per se, but the Jets don’t get no respect in the area, know what I’m sayin?
cckids
This pic reminds me of my time back in Nebraska. At all the Lincoln hospitals, every baby born on a game day got a little red Huskers hat. It was very cute, & gender neutral, too, which meant many grandmas didn’t like it so much.
geg6
@eastriver:
Way to make my point.
And I’m going to assume you hate the Jets the same way, based on Sanchez’s past rape allegations and Holmes’ assaults, right?
PTirebiter
@burnspbesq: You all do realize they started out as The Los Angles Chargers, yes? I saw them play the Dallas Texans at the Coliseum in ’60. It was my first pro game.
burnspbesq
@PTirebiter:
Statute of limitations ran out a while ago.
The early-60s Chargers were a blast to watch. Sid Gilman was the original mad scientist, and with Hadl, Lincoln, Lowe, and Alworth he had plenty of weapons at his disposal.
burnspbesq
I can’t think offhand of any fan base that likes its team’s owners less than Charger fans (well, maybe Manchester United).
PTirebiter
@burnspbesq: No doubt. I live in N.Texas now. I hadn’t thought about that in years. I actually attended the very first Chargers – Chiefs game. I still follow SC of course.
eastriver
@geg6:
Yes, you’re right. Because Sanchez was once accused of rape that makes Big Rapist’s rape okay. Thanks. (I’m certainly not going to defend Sanchez. But are you really going to defend Big Rapist?)
And thank you for proving the point that all Steeler fans are morons. Steeler Nation: Because We Like To Keep Our Idiots In The Same Place.
Ash Can
@cmorenc: And this (besides the fact that I love Wisconsin) is why, Bears fan that I am, I simply cannot hate the Packers. I think the whole idea of a team like the Packers is great. I like the Steelers fine, and love the city of Pittsburgh, but I’ll be rooting for the Pack in the Superbowl.
burnspbesq
@east river
@geg6
The allegations against both Sanchez and Roethlisberger were thoroughly investigated, and in each case no charges were filed. End of story. Neither is a rapist.
If you two want to continue with your silliness, get a room.
geg6
@eastriver:
I’m not and never have defended Ben’s actions in GA. But the way you just blow off a very similar incident in Sanchez’s past (accused but never charged, let alone convicted) to call Ben’s incident a rape when that has never been established in a court of law (accused but never charged, let alone convicted…just like Sanchez). I deplore both incidents, along with the hundreds and thousands of other incidents of rape, assault, and homicide that can be connected with pro and college athletes. To act as if Ben is the only one or that his case is unique to him (protip: it’s not) is ridiculous and only serves to show who the moron really is here.
But it’s not just Ben you are maligning right here in this thread.
Here’s what you said:
You are painting with a rather large brush the entire Steeler organization. Kinda like if I said that every person who lives along or in view of the East River is as pig ignorant and vicious as you are.
Having spent quite a bit of time in New York, I know that is not true. But then, I don’t feel the need to prove my pen1s size by saying stupid shit no different than what you can hear on Rush Limbaugh’s show every day.
geg6
@burnspbesq:
If you actually would read what I’ve typed, I think you would realize that is exactly the point I’m making. To criticize one particular athlete for his/her behavior which did not meet the level needed for criminal charges means you have to accept that same level of criticism for any athlete (or person, for that matter) on the identical basis.
And then to call the entire team rapists and an entire city morons because we still root for our team just like every other city/fans, regardless of the individual morality of the athletes on the teams, is bullshit. And I will call it out every single time, just as I do wingers who pull the same kind of bullshit politically. eastriver is no better than the wingers from whom he learned these types of tactics.
Lastly, are you now the BJ ombudsman?
trollhattan
Hatahs gotta hate.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-01-24/news/ct-talk-green-bay-packers-necktie-01220110124_1_car-salesman-packers-tie-wgn
Surly Duff
I could care less, but I do thank god that “One for the thumb” crap from Steelers fans is over. That had to be the worst Superbowl championship catchphrase ever.
Sam Hutcheson
I’m not familiar with the charges against Sanchez, so I can’t speak to them. Same with Holmes. Living in Georgia I am a bit familiar with the Roethlisberger event in Milledgeville, and he most certainly is a rapist. He fed a 20-year old shot after shot of liquor, isolated her from her friends, exposed himself to her. She attempted to flee through the first door she saw, which happened to be a bathroom. He followed her in there attempted to force himself on her while his “bodyguards” prevented her friends from coming to her aid.
To claim Roethlisberger isn’t a rapist is to claim that O.J. Simpson isn’t a murderer. Both men committed the crime. Simpson was acquitted by a stupid jury. Roethlisberger wasn’t charged because the DA knew he would not be able to seat a non-stupid jury.
fucen tarmal
its real simple, the complaint filed in georgia claims there was unprotected sexual intercourse, but they could not find even a billionth of a gram of dna.
that is even more unlikely than the chmura prom defense “if the slit ain’t split, you must acquit”.” i mean he basically said he couldn’t have raped her because her hymen was still in tact, but of course that was at the trial, after he was charged….
with ben, because there were no charges, and they knew there wouldn’t be, but they held off on telling the world that, until after her lawyer came back from egypt, ben was convicted by people who only need to hear things often enough to believe them with evangelical fury. if he had gone to trial, you would see why there wasn’t enough to charge him.
you can also see by the way the prosecutor tried to excoriate and judge ben, but not charge him, how much he wanted a career maker against the great white, carpetbagging northerner, defendant, but still couldn’t bring himself to pursue it. no favoritism at all.
Sam Hutcheson
@fucen tarmal:
Wow. You’re stupendously stupid, aren’t you?
Rook
OMG! Those poor babies. Someone call Child Protection, now!
Roz
@Sam Hutcheson:
Hey asshole, where you there? People with big mouths just should not be allowed to speak. You are as rotten as Clay!