# Steelers Fan Dies, Body Displayed In Natural State
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 6, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300 "2005-07-06T15:54:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/1 "2005-07-06T15:54:48Z")
> [@](#):
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> [The body of rabid Pittsburgh Steelers fan James Henry Smith, who died Thursday, was laid out this week in what his family said was his favorite spot — a recliner with the Steelers on the television.](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050706/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_fan_s_farewell)
Note to my family members: When it’s my time to go, I’m fine with you doing something similar with my remains if you choose. Just do me one favor? Go light on the Giants’ highlights from the last two seasons, please.
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### Author:  [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/2 "2005-07-06T16:15:44Z")
I love it! I’m going to be cremated after donating organs and don’t want a viewing but that is a marvelous idea. If I was going to have a viewing I would want to be in one of my Cottonmouths gamers.
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### Author:  [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/3 "2005-07-06T16:39:03Z")
Well that’s one way to get through a Madden broadcast.
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### Author:  [@marymargaret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marymargaret)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/4 "2005-07-06T16:46:53Z")
I think it’s hilarious.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/5 "2005-07-06T16:50:06Z")
1950s _Playboy_ cartoon:
Woman in middle of Police Department suspect room, being “grilled” by a set of detectives. Sjhe’s freely confessing:
“I buried his head in the Sports page. He would’ve liked that.”
…
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/6 "2005-07-06T16:55:00Z")
::Looks at her husband… gets idea…::
Robin
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### Author:  [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/7 "2005-07-06T16:59:00Z")
I don’t think you’re actually allowed to _cause_ the dead husband, **Robin**.
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### Author:  [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/8 "2005-07-06T17:16:12Z")
My pal at work and myself were just thinking up all sorts of different Viewing opportunities, and having a bit of a laugh:
Masturbating at the computer (or: making rigor mortis do some _work_ for a change)
Eating, with fork halfway lifted and mouth full of food
On the john, reading
Of course, where I’m from, we call this sort of thing “taxidermy.” 😛
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/9 "2005-07-06T17:24:34Z")
> [@catsix](#):
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> I don’t think you’re actually allowed to _cause_ the dead husband, **Robin**.
Oh, no. He hasn’t done anything to piss me off [sub]recently[/sub]. Besides, he’s worth more alive than dead.
I just think it’s never too soon to start making plans, that’s all. 😃
::Wanders off, whistling innocently, and wonders if she should include footage from the 1996 Super Bowl, specifically the Missed Throw by He Who Shall Not Be Named::
Robin
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### Author:  [@marymargaret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marymargaret)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/10 "2005-07-06T18:27:45Z")
> [@Daithi Lacha](#):
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> Masturbating at the computer 😛
I wonder how my husband’s family would react at the funeral???
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### Author:  [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/11 "2005-07-06T18:48:00Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#):
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> Oh, no. He hasn’t done anything to piss me off [sub]recently[/sub]. Besides, he’s worth more alive than dead.
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> I just think it’s never too soon to start making plans, that’s all. 😃
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> ::Wanders off, whistling innocently, and wonders if she should include footage from the 1996 Super Bowl, specifically the Missed Throw by He Who Shall Not Be Named::
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> Robin
If you ever speak of that travesty of justice ever agin, even in passing, you will pay.
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/12 "2005-07-06T18:52:46Z")
> [@Airman Doors](#):
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> If you ever speak of that travesty of justice ever agin, even in passing, you will pay.
Promise? 😉
Robin
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### Author:  [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/13 "2005-07-06T20:11:15Z")
I’m not dead, just changed my handle.
I could just see **Airman** in a chair in front of his TV, face frozen in a scream, the TV endlessly looping all the Steelers-Ravens games played to this point…
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### Author:  [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/14 "2005-07-06T20:12:45Z")
\*\* sneaks up behind **Airman** … \*\*
O’DONNELL!
::d&r::
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### Author:  [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/15 "2005-07-06T20:15:39Z")
There will come a day when all wrongs done to me will be righted. When that day is nigh you will suffer all the pains of hell and eternal damnation for mentioning the name of the AntiChrist, and I will be there laughing my ass off at you.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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### Author:  [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/16 "2005-07-06T20:18:12Z")
Steelerphan? Is that you?
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### Author:  [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/17 "2005-07-06T20:22:27Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#):
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> Just do me one favor? Go light on the Giants’ highlights from the last two seasons, please.
That’s gonna be a real short funeral.
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### Author:  [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/18 "2005-07-06T20:26:42Z")
[Hijack]
\*\* Airman\*\*, some of us are happily anticipating your [annual](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=270556&highlight=steelers+march) submission of the “third annual Steelers March to the Superbowl” thread.
I plan to do a lot of commentating on my favorite team in red.
[/Hijack]
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### Author:  [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/19 "2005-07-06T20:57:07Z")
> [@marymargaret](#):
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> I wonder how my husband’s family would react at the funeral???
The challenge, of course, would be for the mortician to get the look on your face _just right._ Maybe you could be given a choice of expressions: **Eternal Bliss** , **Vacuous Time-Killing** , or **Surprised Guilt**.
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### Author:  [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steelers-fan-dies-body-displayed-in-natural-state/311300/20 "2005-07-06T21:10:07Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#):
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> [Hijack]
> \*\* Airman\*\*, some of us are happily anticipating your [annual](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=270556&highlight=steelers+march) submission of the “third annual Steelers March to the Superbowl” thread.
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> I plan to do a lot of commentating on my favorite team in red.
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> [/Hijack]
[Hijack]
I am looking forward to it too, though it was more fun to read it while in Pennsylvania. Oh, and **BubbaDog** , three words:
Bring it on!!!
(Hey, at least you’re not a Raiders fan.)
[/hijack]
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