# The 14th Annual Steelers March to the Super Bowl Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 8, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315 "2016-09-08T02:18:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/121 "2017-01-23T03:25:46Z")
Tom Brady needs to send Goodell a thank you basket. Those early season games he missed gave his body much needed rest. A shorter season always benefits a veteran player. Patriots/Steelers was a fun matchup. I hope we get a competitive Superbowl. But, I want to see Goodell hand Brady that trophy at the end. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ennui](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ennui/32/3396_2.png) [@Ennui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ennui)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/122 "2017-01-23T03:43:33Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Tom Brady needs to send Goodell a thank you basket. Those early season games he missed gave his body much needed rest. A shorter season always benefits a veteran player. Just goes to show the genius of Bill Belichick. Deflategate was a false flag operation orchestrated keep Brady rested and healthy enough to beat the Steelers in the conference championship game. Wheels within wheels. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/123 "2017-01-23T03:49:33Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Tom Brady needs to send Goodell a thank you basket. Those early season games he missed gave his body much needed rest. A shorter season always benefits a veteran player. > > Patriots/Steelers was a fun matchup. > > I hope we get a competitive Superbowl. But, I want to see Goodell hand Brady that trophy at the end. 😃 Fuck that. I want to see Green Bay steamroll the Cheatriots. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/124 "2017-01-23T03:56:03Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Fuck that. I want to see Green Bay steamroll the Cheatriots. Thaaaaaaat would be difficult. Except in an alternate universe, after today’s early game… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/125 "2017-01-23T04:31:05Z")
I just became the biggest Falcons fan you ever saw. For a couple of weeks, anyway. OK, so I’m the biggest Pats hater. Same difference. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/126 "2017-01-23T12:15:08Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > Thaaaaaaat would be difficult. Except in an alternate universe, after today’s early game… :smack: It will just be a bit of a wait. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/127 "2017-01-23T15:07:11Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > I just became the biggest Falcons fan you ever saw. For a couple of weeks, anyway. > > OK, so I’m the biggest Pats hater. Same difference. You and me and about 100 million others. My main reason is I don’t want Brady and Belichick to pass Noll and Bradshaw in SB wins. And while we’ve won 2 SB’s in the Big Ben era, no other team has caused me more internal pain than the Pats. Thank god for my local Giants knocking them a few notches. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/128 "2017-01-23T16:46:46Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > A Patriots fan pulled the fire alarm at 3 a.m. today at the Steelers’ hotel. My God, even the fans cheat. This sort of thing has happened several times before in the past, and not the first time a Patriots fan has done it. Maybe NFL teams need to take a different approach: Instead of a hotel, rent several large housing units/AirBNB type places for a game weekend, then having incredibly tight security for them, and also have them in several different locations over the city, so as to prevent mischief of this sort. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/129 "2017-01-23T16:48:50Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > You and me and about 100 million others. My main reason is I don’t want Brady and Belichick to pass Noll and Bradshaw in SB wins. And while we’ve won 2 SB’s in the Big Ben era, no other team has caused me more internal pain than the Pats. Thank god for my local Giants knocking them a few notches. The Patriots are to the Steelers what the Cowboys were to the Packers in the 1990s. Cowboys 3-0 against Packers in the playoffs in the 1990s; Patriots 3-0 against Steelers in the playoffs in the Brady/Belichick era. Cowboys 3 Super Bowl championships to Packers’ 1 in the 1990s; Patriots 4 Super Bowl championships to the Steelers’ 2 in the Brady/Belichick era. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/130 "2017-01-23T17:27:48Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > The Patriots are to the Steelers what the Cowboys were to the Packers in the 1990s. > Cowboys 3-0 against Packers in the playoffs in the 1990s; Patriots 3-0 against Steelers in the playoffs in the Brady/Belichick era. > > Cowboys 3 Super Bowl championships to Packers’ 1 in the 1990s; Patriots 4 Super Bowl championships to the Steelers’ 2 in the Brady/Belichick era. Well, except that the analogy breaks down because the Cowboys eventually broke up and went away, allowing the Packers to break through and play in two Super Bowls. The Pats having done the same thing for the Steelers. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/131 "2017-01-23T19:15:55Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > You and me and about 100 million others. My main reason is I don’t want Brady and Belichick to pass Noll and Bradshaw in SB wins. And while we’ve won 2 SB’s in the Big Ben era, no other team has caused me more internal pain than the Pats. Thank god for my local Giants knocking them a few notches. As a Seattle fan I’m rooting for Dan Quinn to win a SB. And I like watching Julio just dismiss defenders on his way to the end zone. It’s fun. I also wouldn’t mind seeing the Pats get stomped either, that’s a side benefit. I’m just happy to not see two teams I can’t stand unlike last year. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/132 "2017-01-24T00:44:14Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > And if it had been a Steeler fan waking the Patriots? Your partisanship is showing. Yes, if the facts were the opposite of what they are, you’d have a good point. No disagreement with that at all. 😉 Maybe if your team were a lot more self-disciplined, they’d have been able to make a game of it. But they’re not, and they didn’t. As always, right? Looks like your rapist QB has trouble with [fully inflated balls](http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/new-york-giants-pittsburgh-steelers-deflated-footballs-sunday-alert-nfl-121116), doesn’t it? 😉 This constant whining and excuse-making about the other guys cheating is really pretty damn sad. But it’s all we can expect. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/133 "2017-01-24T22:01:00Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Yes, if the facts were the opposite of what they are, you’d have a good point. No disagreement with that at all. 😉 > > Maybe if your team were a lot more self-disciplined, they’d have been able to make a game of it. But they’re not, and they didn’t. As always, right? > > Looks like your rapist QB has trouble with [fully inflated balls](http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/new-york-giants-pittsburgh-steelers-deflated-footballs-sunday-alert-nfl-121116), doesn’t it? 😉 This constant whining and excuse-making about the other guys cheating is really pretty damn sad. But it’s all we can expect. You sure make a lot of assumptions. The Steelers are in no way ‘my team.’ If any team is, it’d be the Bolts, as they’re the only local pro team that didn’t desert me as a football fan, and the only one I’ve actually supported for my entire football life. (Actually, it’s the Trojans. I bleed crimson and gold. But that’s another story.) I couldn’t care less about Big Ben personally. It’s not an active hate like with Brady, but attempts to goad me by denigrating Ben are bound for failure. I actually used to like the Patriots, back when they had Pat on the helmet and guys named Grogan, Morgan, Fryar, and James played. They were one of those teams that you hoped would get over the hump but could never quite put it together, much like the Iggles. Those days are gone forever. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/134 "2017-01-25T01:38:28Z")
The Steelers demonstrate [“alternative sportsmanship”](http://www.csnne.com/new-england-patriots/steelers-descending-disarray), like their whiny fans. Yep, Rapistberger blamed his teammates and his coaches, then didn’t have the courage to say he was quitting. Come to think of it, the pre-game excuse-making started with Tomlin, setting the tone by whining in Brown’s video (another example of poor self-discipline) by bitching about having one less day to prepare. A \*winning \*coach would have been worried about how to win. He also wouldn’t have to worry about one of his assistants getting drunk and arrested instead of preparing for the game. The way the Steelers were so fucking surprised at everything they’ve seen a jillion times before, and had no backup plan they could adjust to, were really just symptoms of the disease that afflicts seemingly everyone out there in Loserland. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/135 "2017-01-26T20:44:00Z")
Elvisl1ves, remind me, please, which is your team again, and how’d they do? Just curious, but not quite curious to dig through old posts. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/136 "2017-01-27T23:49:56Z")
> [@Isosleepy](#): > > Elvisl1ves, remind me, please, which is your team again, and how’d they do? Just curious, but not quite curious to dig through old posts. The Patsies. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/137 "2017-01-28T01:41:09Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The Steelers demonstrate [“alternative sportsmanship”](http://www.csnne.com/new-england-patriots/steelers-descending-disarray), like their whiny fans. > > Yep, Rapistberger blamed his teammates and his coaches, then didn’t have the courage to say he was quitting. > > Come to think of it, the pre-game excuse-making started with Tomlin, setting the tone by whining in Brown’s video (another example of poor self-discipline) by bitching about having one less day to prepare. A \*winning \*coach would have been worried about how to win. He also wouldn’t have to worry about one of his assistants getting drunk and arrested instead of preparing for the game. The way the Steelers were so fucking surprised at everything they’ve seen a jillion times before, and had no backup plan they could adjust to, were really just symptoms of the disease that afflicts seemingly everyone out there in Loserland. Please, please stop being a Patriots fan. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/138 "2017-01-28T03:14:37Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > Please, please stop being a Patriots fan. Thank you. He’s really not helping. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/139 "2017-01-28T03:23:41Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > Thaaaaaaat would be difficult. Except in an alternate universe, after today’s early game… :smack: :smack: Change that to the Falcons. (Sorry, I swear I read that Green Bay won. Dammit!) Oh well, just make sure the Patriots get their asses pounded into dust. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/140 "2017-01-30T14:34:55Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Thank you. He’s really not helping. Thirded. Hey **ElvisL1ves** , didn’t you relocate to Orlando? Florida’s got some very nice NFL teams of its own, you know. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315.md?page=6)