Guin Make that a double OY!
**LadyFoxFyre, **I feel truly sorry for you.
Having lived in Tampa for a while, I know just how much they support the local team. Why, I could just walk down Nebraska from my hovel and have a beer at the Steeler bar (I forget the name, it was about 1/2 mile north of Fowler.) You don’t find that kind of loyalty in the 'Burgh.
Yes, Steeler fans are enthusiastic. Just listen to that Charlie Daniels (?) song to find out.
Don’t worry, there’s still a chance for the Steelers to beat the Bucs in the Super Bowl.
(I think that the call was reviewed and called correctly.)
Did Jerome Bettis move into 13th place alltime today? I seem to remember something about “just 62 yards.”
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It’s pointless to argue whether Bruener went out or not, he wasn’t the first player to touch the ball after coming back in, and therefore was fine.
Plus, if you recall they signaled steeler ball before taking it back. If you watch the replay the Tampa Bay player may have HAD the ball but didn’t have CONTROL of the ball–big difference. There is no argument that the steelers recovered the ball.
In addition, plus the Bucs would have had 28 seconds do do something they hadn’t done until the final minute–score a touchdown. Then the game would have gone to overtime where all bets are off, so it really is a stretch to say the Bucs may have won, considering how bad they struggled against the defense.
And yes, it IS impossible to be a passive Steeler fan.
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If you were to say these kinds of things in Pittsburgh, most likely you’d be lynched. 
Seriously, at least you don’t have the fat Rush Limbaugh lookalikes-only even more repulsive-running around in G-strings and body paint at games…or do you?
Here. As for the call, ah, I had a little nap–the TB offense can do that to you. Another pointless interjection–it’s the Doug Williams curse I tell you! starts grumbling incoherently
Hi ladyfoxfyre, sorry I am here so late, I don’t play in the Pit too often. Also, I didn’t see the game today, I was too sad after how it turned out last week, so instead of finding a smoky bar somewhere to watch I went to play soccer and tweaked my groin, which is a perfect example of something which sounds sexy but is not.
Maybe the Bucs got hosed again (they were definitely hosed in the 1999 NFC Championship Game, it’s even referred to by football commentators as the ultimate recent hosing, although something will surpass it soon).
I think in a way your ire is misdirected here. The Steelers have a good defense this year and a mobile QB, which is exactly the sort of team which gives them fits. The Steelers will likely go on to mediocrity later this season, just be patient. But in the case of the Bucs they seem to already be there. Great football teams put away the mediocre up front, and don’t rely on onsides kicks to get it done.
You should probably be ranting about the Bucs offensive play calling, why their defense seems to have disappeared, why Brad Johnson waits until the fourth quarter to show up, why their special teams suck, etc.
Don’t get in a pissing match with Steelers fans, their team has been pretty pathetic the past couple years, they didn’t make the calls. The Steelers set standards of suckiness as a team which make the first 20 years of the Bucs franchise seem like a dream. They were bad forever, from 1930-something until they got into the 1970s. Granted the refs cheated the Raiders in one of the AFC Championship games, but they were a truly great team during that period.
The Bucs will either get better real soon or the season will be a total loss. Don’t get too caught up in it every weekend, it’s not good for your health. And enjoy that the Broncos seem to be sucking pretty badly right now as well.
Yes, he passed Otis Anderson today to move into 13th. He is about 150 yards behind Ricky Watters, who is still playing, but currently injured, and he’s about 900 behind Orenthal the bus-driving murderer, and just short of 1000 shy of John Riggins.
At the rate he is going it is very possible for him to finish this season in the top 10 of all time.
Saw the game, saw the call. I didn’t think he had full possession as he was going down. It looked to me like the ball was coming out of his hands. So I think the call was correct. But, I wanted TB to get the ball, just to make the game more interesting.
Well then I am greatly appreciative of your giving it enough merit to bother answering.
In return for your lesson in hyperbole, I’ll return the favor with another funny little trick of the English language called sarcasm.
Your use of the words “another instance” leads one to believe you reference more than one instance, thus indicating a conspiracy.
As to liking King over Johnson, that’s your preference and you’re entitled to it. You slammed a player I like and that led me to post anything at all, otherwise I wouldn’t have bothered.
Upon further review, I was coming across as a jerk when I was posting earlier. It’s too bad you couldn’t see me winking through the computer screen. Ask iampunha and he’ll tell you. I am an incorrigible wiseass, and my comments were meant to be taken in that context. I am a big time smack talker, and my FIRST PLACE Pittsburgh Steelers (ahem ;)) are making me even worse this year.
I’m sorry, and I got you down for a beer if we ever run into each other. By the way, cool name. 
FWIW, you haven’t eaten until you’ve had a sammitch at Primanti Brothers. The only thing I’ve ever had that was better was my own personal cheesesteaks.
My brother took me to Primanti Brothers last time I was in Pittsburgh, about 3 months ago. I was underwhelmed, an interesting twist on an old theme, but I’ve had much better sandwiches in many other places.
That said, they brought some ice cream from some local place that was probably the best ice cream I have ever had, it was a raspberry chocolate with nice, melty chunks of chocolate. Between these two and the beer I can see how Steelers fans get to the sizes they do.
And the new stadia seem very nice, as well. It’s definitely looking up from the first time I was there, about 12-13 years ago.
Oh, and the desserts at Gullifteys (sp?) are pretty mindboggling as well.
My understanding of the rules is that a player can come back in from out of bounds and touch the ball, he just can’t be the first player to touch the ball. I think the call was correct after review, but it was certainly a bizarro 5 minutes before the final call. The replays clearly showed that the man never had clear posession. The call was a cakewalk.
Need I point out that earlier there was a similar play where famous Amos fumbled. The ball was shortly posessed by a Steeler lineman who was being touched, thus the play should have been dead at that moment. Warren Sapp then reached in and knocked the ball loose. Tampa Bay recovered. If that play had been reviewed, IMO, it would have been Steelers ball.
I should point out that, being a Steeler fan, I was hoping TB would have recovered the onside kick so the Steelers could have broken their all time sack record instead of just tying it.
Dave and Andy’s in Oakland? Best home-made ice-cream in town IMO. I ususally stick to vanilla.
Is anybody else amused at the ironic turn this thread has taken?
WHAT?!?
I’m sorry, but since when does referencing more than one instance mean that I am indicating a conspiracy?
Leads you to believe, maybe, but I don’t think that anyone else will make the same mistake.
Seriously, I think you’re reading way too much into this, take a step back, a deep breath, and then try again.
:::Taps her head::
think before you post.
As you seem completely unable to grasp the concept of sarcasm, I’ll take that proverbial step back and leave you to your refs-hate-the-Bucs life.
Enjoy.
Although I was born into rooting for the Lions (an unfortunate malady that I have discussed at length in this very forum), as a child, I was also very much a Steeler fan.
Back in the '70s, when it was Steelers or Cowboys, and you had to choose one.
I think at one point in time I had all of the Steelers’ football cards. Wish I could find them, as more than half of that team is in the Hall of Fame now.
And as for the Bucs, sure, my Lions suck, and possibly always will. But here’s a clue, Bucs fans: Your team, its quarterback, its deified coach, and that defense you are so orgasmic about, really aren’t all that great.
No, really.
They’re not.
I really don’t want to know what this means, Dave . . .
[sub]You know I do, though. Same place, same time?[/sub]
THE location of the first ever Pittsburgh Dopefest!
The best place for ice cream is Klavon’s, on the edge of the Strip and Lawrenceville-it’s an old fashioned soda fountain. YUM! They make the BEST ice cream sodas.
Ahh, sweet Lawrenceville.
Where else can you buy meth, hear racist comments every 17th step you take, and view a popluation who has nearly nine times the national average of inbreeding?
Sometimes I really miss Pittsburgh. Sometimes I don’t. I lived in shitty Lawrenceville for 6 months and I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy.
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So ladyfoxfyre you don’t like Brad Johnson huh? Wellllll the bad news is that you don’t play the Bears until week ten. See, on week ten Brad Johnson and Brian Urlacher are going to meet, and when Urlacher tears Johnson’s arm off you won’t have to worry about him any more.
Let’s hear it for your FIRST PLACE CHICAGO BEARS.
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[SUB] sorry, its been awhile since I could say that. Oh how I long for the days when we were kings and the bucs were perenial doormats[/SUB]
Your problem isn’t the QB, its the inconsistency of personell (especially coaches) on the offensive side of the football, and your defense just isn’t what it used to be.