# Anybody else watching Steelers at Titans? Was Cowher seriously CRYING?
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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 12, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-steelers-at-titans-was-cowher-seriously-crying/148054 "2003-01-12T01:28:11Z")
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### Author:  [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-steelers-at-titans-was-cowher-seriously-crying/148054/21 "2003-01-13T01:56:04Z")
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> \*Originally posted by lno \*
> \*\*How soon people forget the 1999 NFC championship game at the Metrodome. You want heartbreak? How about a kicker who never misses anything, no FGs, no PATs, _all year long_, and then shanking the 30-yarder that would have sent a team to the Super Bowl?
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> Atlanta Falcons have nothing to cry about. š \*\*
I had almost completely repressed that memory and here you bring it up again.
You bastard. š
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### Author:  [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-steelers-at-titans-was-cowher-seriously-crying/148054/22 "2003-01-13T03:01:01Z")
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> \*Originally posted by lno \*
> **How soon people forget the 1999 NFC championship game at the Metrodome.**
I will never, as long as I live, forget that game. I was living in Iowa, where the Vikings are pretty much considered the home team. I and my girlfriend and I think my dog were kneeling in front of the TV in devout prayerful positions, and when Mortenās kick was good and we were Super Bowl bound, we all jumped up and down and shouted, and all my Atlanta friends began calling.
I got nasty looks walking around Ames in my Falcons jersey. š
Weāll not mention how the actual Super Bowl wentā¦ And by the way, the Vikings have been to FOUR Super Bowls. It was our turn to start losing them.
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### Author:  [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-steelers-at-titans-was-cowher-seriously-crying/148054/23 "2003-01-13T03:17:12Z")
Thatās alright. . at least your team didnāt lay an egg in the last half of the fourth quarter in a game that shouldāve been easily won to miss the playoffs entirely (Dolphins)
I thought, okay, thatās fine, Iāll fall back to Team #2, hometown Colts. Letās just say that was a mistake.
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### Author:  [@d\_redguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d_redguy)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-steelers-at-titans-was-cowher-seriously-crying/148054/24 "2003-01-13T03:23:27Z")
**lno** wrote:
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> How soon people forget the 1999 NFC championship game at the Metrodome. You want heartbreak? How about a kicker who never misses anything, no FGs, no PATs, all year long, and then shanking the 30-yarder that would have sent a team to the Super Bowl?
I am from Buffalo. I know missed field goals. ā¹
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### Author:  [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-steelers-at-titans-was-cowher-seriously-crying/148054/25 "2003-01-13T03:35:22Z")
In the last Steelers-Tennessee game, a Titans strength coach _poured coffee_ on Steelers player Joey Porter when Porter pushed a Titan out of bounds on the Titan side. Poured hot coffee on a player, during the game.
Any and all Titans fans, players and coaches who want to boo hoo about anybody elseās poor sportsmanship have about, um, lemme look, yes, have NO legs to stand on.
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### Author:  [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-steelers-at-titans-was-cowher-seriously-crying/148054/26 "2003-01-13T04:36:54Z")
Come on, **tlw**. That never happened. A Titans coach would not be so classless as to pour hot coffee on an opposing player.
It was chicken broth.
(Yes, thatās what the coach actually said in his defense.)
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### Author:  [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-steelers-at-titans-was-cowher-seriously-crying/148054/27 "2003-01-13T04:49:38Z")
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> \*Originally posted by chique \*
> \*\*I had almost completely repressed that memory and here you bring it up again.
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> You bastard. š \*\*
Hell, one of the radio stations up here is replaying the play-by-play of the missed kick as part of the promo for their superbowl party. :mad:
Apparently on the off-chance that anybody had been able to forget about that.
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### Author:  [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-steelers-at-titans-was-cowher-seriously-crying/148054/28 "2003-01-13T07:00:34Z")
Ouch.
Lemme guess, that station Iām an NPR junkie; what station are you talking about? is owned by an Atlanta-based company? :mad:
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### Author:  [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-steelers-at-titans-was-cowher-seriously-crying/148054/29 "2003-01-13T18:42:52Z")
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> Weāll not mention how the actual Super Bowl wentā¦ And by the way, the Vikings have been to FOUR Super Bowls. It was our turn to start losing them
Ahhhh, that was a beautiful game. I know the memory of it keeps me warm during these trying times.
_sigh_ Stupid Jets. They were _supposed_ to beat the Raiders. Now I have to rely on the Titans.
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### Author:  [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-steelers-at-titans-was-cowher-seriously-crying/148054/30 "2003-01-14T15:44:07Z")
Slight highjack: Does anybody else think the stadium pyrotechnist should be in the next SouthWest Airlines āWanna get away?ā commercial?
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### Author:  [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-steelers-at-titans-was-cowher-seriously-crying/148054/31 "2003-01-14T16:04:25Z")
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> \*Originally posted by JaxBeachBoy \*
> **I imagine most of you would be surprised at how much crying goes on in football locker rooms after the last game of every season(especially in the HS and college levels, and especially for seniors)**
Amen. Plenty of guys cried when my H.S. team lost in the playoffs my senior year. I even got a little misty myself when my college team lost a game 45-0 during my sophomore season (which turned out to be my last.)
As a Browns fan to the grave, I have no choice but to admit Cowher is a very good coach. The Steelers have ALWAYS been competitive under him. But regardless, heās a whiney asshole for how he acted after that game. Thereās a reason roughing the kicker is such a serious penalty; kickers arenāt on the same level physically as other players, they wear less (FAR less) padding, and theyāre in a physically vulnerable position on every play. Anything that looks even remotely like roughing the kicker will get called every time, and Cowher knows that damn well. He shouldāve behaved with more class.
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### Author:  [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-watching-steelers-at-titans-was-cowher-seriously-crying/148054/32 "2003-01-14T19:22:04Z")
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> \*Originally posted by chique \*
> \*\*Ouch.
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> Lemme guess, that station Iām an NPR junkie; what station are you talking about? is owned by an Atlanta-based company? :mad: \*\*
The station in question is KQDS 94.9 in Duluth. (sister station to KQRS in the cities).
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