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SaradaMork
09/09/09

In reply to Why Your Team Sucks: Pittsburgh Steelers
A clarifying thought: The actual reason there are Steeler fans all over the country is that during the 70's cable TV and TV reception in general became more widespread so while the Steelers were piling up their first 4 titles a larger cross country viewership was had which created a large fan base that has passed on through generations.
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formerly Chief Wahoo
09/09/09

@SaradaMork: to clarify further: at that time NONE of the NFL games were carried on cable, so your theory is useless.
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RosanneCaballo
09/09/09

In reply to Why Your Team Sucks: Baltimore Ravens
That fuck Ray Lewis with a knife comment was gay ''Balls Deep''! You don't get no pussy unless you molest cats!
Team Spirit is cool but you take shit too far ,some
of you Pittsburgh fans act high and mighty, like Pittsburgh
has no gangs or projects,yeah its a ''eutopia''. As far as
Cleveland you had time to save your team, you got your
team back and still losing don't hate Baltimore, hate Shitsburgh
they beat Ohio constantly! Calling us retards for wearing
purple, what about them ugly ass throw back uniforms
for some made up occassion the Steelers were them for!
I thought Stu Scott was cool, I'am convinced Espn does
show favortism. I hope The Steelers don't get anymore
touchdowns they don't deserve,(The Most Penalty Aided
Team in the NFL)! Fuck you Balls Deep!

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P. Escobar, Jets Fan
09/09/09

@RosanneCaballo: ??? Hey Comment Ninjas, why isn't there a disapprove option?
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Tracy Ham and Eggs
09/08/09

In reply to Why Your Team Sucks: Pittsburgh Steelers
Pittsburgh has three rivers, but no one who manages to bathe regularly.

(though they do throw a hell of a wedding)
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apostles03
09/08/09

In reply to Why Your Team Sucks: Pittsburgh Steelers
My uncle is a Steeler fan who works in the Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel plant in Steubenville, OH.

I WIN A UNICORN! WOOOOOOOOO !
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Rhymenocerous
09/08/09

In reply to Why Your Team Sucks: Pittsburgh Steelers
I have to say, if the worst you can say about Steelers fans is, briefly, we are fat and talk about how they win a lot, then I feel pretty good. Because, I'm not fat, and they win a lot.
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Artie Fufkin
09/08/09

@Rhymenocerous: don't forget that you're annoying.
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J Money BS
09/08/09

@Rhymenocerous: Always helps when you sidestep the good NFC teams and only have to beat a 9-7 team with a grocery bagger at QB.
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Chris Hanson's Axe
09/08/09

@Rhymenocerous: There's also the fact that they get in more arrests, with less suspensions, than any other team in the league. Good job!
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Rhymenocerous
09/08/09

@Artie Fufkin: Not forgotten.

@J Money BS: Sure does! Please note that "the good NFC teams" let said grocery bagger get to the Super Bowl in the first place. Good argument!
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SavetoFavorites
09/08/09

@Rhymenocerous: Ah, so you're just a carpetbagging know-nothing who makes specious logical connections between their team and some illusory blue-collar golden age? Check.
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Rhymenocerous
09/08/09

@Chris Hanson's Axe: Hard to blame the team for that, when the league hands out suspensions. But go ahead, anyway!

@SavetoFavorites: I guess my dad is the carpetbagger, based on your very liberal use of the word. I inherited the team from him. And I was 21 before they won a Super Bowl in my lifetime, so the winner picker insult doesn't really stick.

This is fun.
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ShuchismitaHlios
09/08/09

In reply to Why Your Team Sucks: Pittsburgh Steelers
I know this is not to be taken seriously, but how can you not know that the Steel Curtain was named as a play on the "Iron Curtain". You could have gone many ways with that. It was named by a 9th grader in a contest.
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comment_ninja
09/08/09

@ShuchismitaHlios: And now we know! Fabulous.
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Occam's Racer
09/08/09

In reply to Why Your Team Sucks: Pittsburgh Steelers
The next time you're at a bar and want to have some fun with obnoxious so-called Steelers fans, ask them to tell you what an astroidal hypocycloid is. You'll either a) start a fight or b) silence the crowd.
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The Seaward (nee Tocchets Bookie)
09/08/09

In reply to Why Your Team Sucks: Pittsburgh Steelers
I can see that a lot of people around these parts have never been to Pittsburgh lately... because it's so much worse than you're portraying it.

I ventured into the heart of the cesspool a month ago with a friend of mine for lunch as she was preparing to jump ship from Shitsburgh to Philly (and I was getting ready to jump ship from Youngstown to North Dakota... both decisions: best ideas ever). Going down to that crummy little area that surrounds Primanti Bros is everything I ever learned to hate about that dive of a city.

Fat, ugly, annoying Yinzers as far as the eye could see, surrounded by lame, unimiginative unlicensed Steelers gear "IT'S PRONOUNCED PUH-LUH-MAH-LOO" (fuck you, we know that from all of his goddamn commercials), cramming oversized sandwiches in their grease receptacles.

And the traffic? Holy fuckballs. Never have I seen more traffic from a city where nobody lives. Driving across any bridge at any time of day in that town is an easy way to get in a car accident/die. I don't know where these people came from, but clearly they had the right idea: getting the fuck out.

I wish Pittsburgh fans would all get hit by a bus full of cancer.
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DirkToberFest
09/08/09

@The Seaward (nee Tocchets Bookie): I've seen and written a lot of awful things on this site, but I think it's pretty rough to wish bad things on a Make-A-Wish road trip to Disney World.
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The Seaward (nee Tocchets Bookie)
09/08/09

@DirkToberFest: I would hope that Make-A-Wish would always take special care to route any excursion around Pittsburgh... unless their aim was to say "see, kids, there ARE worse things than dying a slow, horrible death!"
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Peter Cavan
09/08/09

In reply to Why Your Team Sucks: Pittsburgh Steelers
Why, yes, I do like to complain about my team's crappy O-line! How did you know?

And as much as I like Pittsburgh (and I'm from that area) I have no desire to live there. So you got that part right.
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Matt Sussman
09/08/09

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I finally understand why I don't have a favorite NFL team.
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SportsCentre
09/08/09

In reply to Why Your Team Sucks: Pittsburgh Steelers
They can't even spell their own city right. Like, not even close.

A smaller version of the beacon, still flashing out the name of the city remains to this day, although it spells Pittsburgh as "P-I-T-E-T-S-B-K-R-R-H"

[en.wikipedia.org]
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Rhymenocerous
09/08/09

In reply to Why Your Team Sucks: Pittsburgh Steelers
Nice try, but Joey Porter doesn't play for the Steelers anymore.
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TheStarterWife
09/08/09

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Bring the hate says fellow suburban Yinzer -
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twoeightnine
09/08/09

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I fucked a girl from Pittsburgh once. I don't remember her name or even talking to her before she was in my hotel room but I'm pretty sure bacon was involved.
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Moonshine Mike
09/08/09

@twoeightnine: Everything sexual in Pittsburgh involves Bacon. Write it down.
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Hatey McLife
09/08/09

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What I learned from Why Your Team Sucks: America is full of fat asses.
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DorkimusPrime
09/08/09

@Hatey McLife: And racists. Don't forget racists.
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formerly Chief Wahoo
09/08/09

@DorkimusPrime: Nah, that's Boston.
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Kid Canada
09/08/09

@Hatey McLife:

Damn right you are!

/eats peameal bacon sandwich drenched in maple syrup
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