Matt, I just creamed myself.... where the hell are THOSE Steelers fans... Ghetto booties and boobies are always a great thing wrapped in black and gold. And pink as the second picture entails. lol

March Madness people, then baseball season... this is the best time of year!


Then again, my Steelers are in the Superbowl... :)

Man, baseball :(

why cant you beleive baseball is still around? it has a huge following, especially considering the amount of teams and games
arena football was on national tv the other day


anyways, gooooooooooooo seahawks

some towns are just more oriented towards certain sports

boston is a baseball town #1, hockey #2 and football #3

Yeah, Pittsburgh has always been a football town. I think the Pens and Pirates are pretty well tied for the second spot. They both suck, so they're even. Although, PNC Park is arguably the most beautiful ballpark in the nation. I've been to a lot of them and seen most of the rest in a bunch of pictures and videos. I might be a little biased, but I still think PNC is the best. Too bad the team that uses it doesn't do it justice...hasn't since 1992.

Anyway, is this the biggest thread ever?? I've been here for almost three years, and I'm pretty certain it's the biggest I've seen.

I've been here almost 5 years and NO, this is not the biggest. Seems to me I recall several threads that reached over 100 pages before the great crash of '02.

Anyways, getting back to football.... I'm just looking very much forward to plopping down on the couch, watching the Seahawks roll up the Steelers and smoke 'em, munching on a diet of:

Pizza
Chicken wings
Barbeque sauce/crockpot wieners
Chips w/ guacamole dip, ranch, blue cheese
Cheeseburgers
Lasagna
Garlic bread
Beer
Beer
and more focking beer.

You're goddamned right I'm counting down the days.

Wow, Jack, you're a dirty old man reminiscing of days gone by at 20 years old....hahaha! "The Great Crash of '02" lol

That sounds like a pretty damn good menu to me. I won't get quite that extravagant, but I will have some pepperoni rolls, wings, chips, and a mother load of good brew. It's gonna be a western PA brew day for me.... Yuengling (If you've never heard of it or had it, you're missing out on the nectar of the gods), Rolling Rock, and Iron City... GO STEELERS!!!!!!!

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playof...ory?id=2315169



here we gooooooo...first comments made by either team, its gonna get nasty

Werd I'll be at WoW before the SuperBowl as well. They have it here, Indy and someplace else all in the same weekend lol.
My TV is 27'' so I'll watch it here, but next year dads buying us a 60'' HD, woot!

Im trying to find the article, there is a lady in Pitt. that will induce labor today so she can be at home for the Super Bowl. I thought I was a big fan.

you guys actually cheer for porter? :attention :asshat :attention :knob:
lol id never be able to

and why does that comment by stevens upset him? should stevens think the steelers are going to win and bettis will get the ring? that doesnt make much sense

the other comment simply said porter wouldnt have such an easy day against their all pro... and thats not a dig at porter as much as it is at indy's end

either way, i see where he is coming from but those comments dont see as bad as vanderjerks against the pats when he said "the patriots are ripe for the picking" then they got blown up :)

well porter is the heart of the defense, and he will make sure to be the one to respoond to anything said, regardless of what it was....just how he is, and how he will always be

true, but you dont like hearing him talk right?

right???

please agree with me steeler fans, i felt a connection for once

a connection between a patriot and a steeler......nahhhhhh!

Haha, so 1,000s of Seahawk Fans are coming out of the woodwork right these past 2 weeks professing their undieing band-wagon love for their team... So they organized a pep rally on sunday morning for the Seahawk send-off... The turn out? Seattle papers reported between 3,000-5,000, but complained of the timing.

The first Steeler Pep rally = 30,000 fans

Now for a photo of a Pittsburgh 2nd Pep Rally today, at 11am (the middle of the workday), in downtown Pittsburgh...

http://www.pittspeed.com/uploaded/IM003017.JPG


I love this city... :)

Hell yeah, it's gonna get nuts, my friend.

Porter doesn't need much to get fired up for the game. He was just sitting back and waiting for a Seahawks player to say anything the least bit derogatory towards the Steelers so anything he said in return would be retaliation and not billboard material for Seattle as it would be if he said something first. True, saying what the tight end said wasn't much, but it was plenty. You can bet your @$$ that Porter will have the whole defense read those words a few hundred times before gameday. It's on....

well from what i just read here http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/5298106 it seems like his teammates don't give a **** what he is saying about the whole thing :applause:

basically he is a good football player who just likes to trash talk and try and cause trouble, i dont think he will get much success with seattle, they are very poised, and like was said, this is the damn superbowl, who needs motivation?

Hate him all you want, but the man can back up his words. He talks the talk and then walks the walk.

That's the truth, though.....
Don't take that the wrong way, because the colts have been successful with it, but they are not a run first, fight it out in the trenches, bone crushing team.

he cant back up what he said about making the seahawks tap out

he needs a new argument, he used the smashmouth thing against the colts, ive heard it before from the steelers too

the seahawks are small, but they dont shy away from popping someone

lofa tatupu got a concussion last game and still played a couple plays after

tap out is just a figure of speech....he dint say anything about the seahawks being smashmouth, just simply said that is what it is commin come down to

by tap out he meant ask to be taken out for a play or two.

when players need a sub they tap there heads.

i know what he meant, i thought u were taking it as in he wanted to actually make them not wanna play.....

Ah interesting, thought it was a wrestling analogy.

In all honesty, the Seahawks minus Alexander are a tough team overall, Alexanders a wimp though.

best wimp in the league

Look at any of his game tape, how many yards does he get after contact?
Is he a great running back? Yes, he's quick, can make great cuts and has a great sense of where people are on the field, but he is NOT a tough running back.

he didnt mean that at all

he said they were going to play so tough and hit so hard that seahawks players would be begging to leave the game basically

and msjhwt, he gets more yards after contact that some others, but at the same time he obviously doesnt need to run people over, what he is doing works damn well.

just because he doesnt plow people over doesnt make him a wimp. he played a week after getting a concussion. im pretty sure i wouldnt be able to do that. i know many atheletes do, and they are all tough in my book

plus alexander can still run some chumps over if he has to, theres a reason he has so many yards and touchdowns the last couple of years. and a good o-line is only part of it

Playing St. Louis twice, Arizone twice, and San Fransisco twice certainly was part of it, too. Houstan and Tennesee didn't hurt, either. Look at the 4 games the Hawks played against a top 10 defense and watch his YPC drop to 2.1.
Hutch is gone after this season, I beleive thier LOT is also gone (UFAs, both want to get paaaid, Seattle can't pay them). We'll see how he does with a new left side of his line, or against Pitt this weekend for that reason, I don't see it being a whole hell of a lot.

And the way he got that 'concussion', running into your own lineman concusses you? Weak.

Neither was Barry Sanders. He was so fast and so quick that he didnt need to break tackles. AS a back would u rather get hit n break the tackle or not get hit at all? pretty simple answer. YEs u can argue all day that a GOOD running back encompases all of that but it really doesnt. Thats just his run type,he wasnt trained or built to break tackles, he was built to evade them and thats just what he does. Im sure hes doing osmething right, he won the rushing title. If you want a back that can evade, cut, speed, break tackles, and mow people, LaDanian Tomlinson.

In closing, The steelers will still dominate the game and win 27-10.

Read my post one above yours also, this post is mostly in reference to the bolded part of your quote.
Alexander was also against powder puff teams, lets look at Portis vs Alexanders stats vs the same teams. Portis who many say isnt even a top 5 back.

They'll be formatted attempt, yds, ypc.

Arizona 102 yds allowed average
Alexander 22 140 6.4 and 23 173 7.5
combined 45 313 6.95
Portis 26 105 4.0

San Fran: 114.5 yds allowed avg
Alexander 24 115 4.8 and 21 108 5.1
For an overall 45 223 4.95
Portis 19 101 5.3 and L. Betts 12 92 7.7
combined 31 193 6.23

St. Louis 136 allowed avg
Alexander 25 119 4.8 and 33 165 5.0
combined 58 284 4.89
Portis 27 136 5.0 oh, and Rock Cartwright, our #3 back who had 27 carrier all year 9 118 13.1
combined 36 254 7.05 (one game)

Dallas: 108 allowed avg
Alexander 21 61 ypc 2.9
Portis 17 52 ypc 3.1 and 27 112 ypc 4.1
For an overall 44 164 ypc 3.72

NYG 103 allowed avg
Alexander 31 110 3.5
Portis 4 9 2.3 and 23 112 4.9
combined 27 121 4.48

Philly 117 allowed avg
Alexander 19 49 2.6
Portis 21 67 3.2 and 27 112 4.1
combined 48 179 3.73

Portis had more YPC against any opponent save Arizona, and more yards in all but Arizona.

Then Portis played team like Chi, 102 rushing yds allowed avg, gaining 121 on 21 carriers (5.8 ypc), Den, allowing 85 avg, gaining 103 on 20 carriers (5.2 ypc), Kansas, with thier 98 avg where Portis put up 77 on 21 carriers (3.1 ypc), Tampa Bay, allowing 94 avg where Portis had 144 on 23 carriers, a 6.3 ypc, and Alexanders own Seahawks, who allowed 94 avg and Portis gained 90 on 25 for a 3.6 ypc, and 17 for 41 yds and a 2.4 ypc.

While Alexander then went on to play the mighty Texans, allowing 144 yds avg, where he put up 141 on 22 (6.4 ypc), and Morris did take some of his carriers here, where Morris had 8 carrier for 104 yds, and the Titans, allowing 128 avg, where he put up 172 on 26 for a 6.6 ypc. He also face the Falcons, who give up 129 avg, he got 144, The Jags who give up 116, he got 77. Against Wash he had 98 on 20 for a 4.9 ypc and 6 for 9 with a 1.5 ypc after running into his own linemen. We give up a norm of 106. I'm not going to count the GB game where he rested against him, nor the Indy game where they didn't play starters for him.

So whats my point with all this?
That many point to Alexanders rushing title as his ability as a running back, when thats not the whole story. He constantly rushed under teams allowed average (See: SF, StL, Dal, Phil, Hou, Jag, Wash*2), while Portis constantly outgains harder defenses avgs (See: Air, StL, Dal, NYG, Chi, Den, Tampa Bay*2), many of the same defenses Alexander couldn't rush over thier averages. If the skins had played the same schedual as the Seahawks, do you think Alexander would have had 300 yds more than Portis? Playing three cupcake divisional opponents twice, and the Texans and Titans?
They both had similar #2 RBs, Betts had 89 carriers for 338 on the season for a YPC of 3.8, while Morris had 71 for 288 yds for a 4.05 YPC, however, at #3 Josh Scobey had 0 carriers, while Rock Cartwright had 27 carriers for 199 yards with a 7.4 YPC.
Now remember, many don't even see Portis top 5. If you were to do the same comparison to teams for guys like LT, Tiki Barber, Edge, Willie Parker, Cadillac Williams would Alexander still seem like the NFLs premier RB?

IMO, top guys in the league and thier 2005 yds:
Tiki Barber 1860
Clinton Portis 1516
tie LaDainian Tholminson 1462
tie Edgerrin James 1506
Shaun Alexander 1880
Willie Parker 1202
Caddilac 1178

Holy huge post! lol

All the talk about Porter and all that is just flack. It all doesn't amount to anything. Porter can back up his words. I believe he will do just that. If anything, his statements are going to give Pittsburgh even more motivation than before. Both teams will be pumped. It will be a battle. I'm off for the weekend, so I won't get a chance to check back in til Monday. Best of luck to both teams and all of you be safe in your drunken rampages... lol

Im glad you posted that. All this rave about awsome Rb's and we forgot the best and most underated back of them all, Tiki Barber. In all aspect i think Tiki should have won the title. No he didnt get as many yards but he was better overall than alexander. He played harder teams like you stated in your NFL autobiography up there :-P. If your comparing CLinton Portis to Alexander then Alexander is better. I definately think Portis is at least top 10 back. i wouldnt say top 5 because ide prolly place him 6,7th. Alexander is definately top 5material. If i had to remake your list:(based on yards & overall "goodness" as i see it)

Tiki Barber 1860
Shaun Alexander 1880
Clinton Portis 1516
LaDanian Tomlinson 1462
Edgerrin James 1506
Willie Parker 1202
Caddilac Williams 1178
Pretty much the same. If you wanna get on a LaDanian Tomlinson dicussion dont evne get me started, such BS comming out of him. I love him hes a great player but hes too unpredictable. The first 3-4games he SUCKED horribly, didnt rush for over 120yrds, then vs the giants he has a rediculous breakout game 200something yrds all sorts of crap, continues this for 3-4games then BOOM slump again and his team loses the playoff race.

edit: like someone posted earlier, the moral that the steelers have is just too much for the seahawks. Its their first time ever in the bowl and they will choke imo. The steelers have a lot riding. the bus retiring, Big Ben ect...plus after the rediculous stuff that happened in the last game, fumble at the 5 ect they are pumped and pulling out all the stops. like i said earlier 27-10 steelers

I see more of a shootout, 34-24 Steelers.

And Portis vs Alexander, eh, I'm a homer, what can I say? haha

But as you and I agree on....Tiki should have been #1 this year.

haha yea i just beter let my G men know to watch out for the skins in the next 2 seasons, they gonna be kicking some serious tail..

haha yea i just beter let my G men know to watch out for the skins in the next 2 seasons, they gonna be kicking some serious tail..

it really seems like porter isnt firing his team up at all and they are mostly just saying "eh thats porter for you"

so what good is making an ass of yourself if its not helping anyone?

my squares are

seattle 6, pitt 3
seattle 0, pitt 4
seattle 8, pitt 8
seattle 5, pitt 2
seattle 7, pitt 2

the 7,2 and the 5,2 are terrible, but the other ones arent bad

say its 6 to 3 seattle after 1qtr i win 300 bucks
or maybe 14 to 10 seattle after the half, thats 600 bucks
or 20 to 14 pitt, whatever works lol i just wanna win!

haha check out collegehumor.com's odds for superbowl sunday
http://www.collegehumor.com/articles/1657397/

Best ones:
25:1 - WR and 3rd-string QB Antwan Randle El throws a trick-play touchdown pass, causing Kordell Stewart to weep softly somewhere.

9:1 - In a pro-wrestling-style twist, Joe Jurevicius will hit Shaun Alexander with a steel chair and remove his shirt to reveal a Steelers jersey underneath.

3:1 - The reel of past Steelers Super Bowl highlights will be much longer than the Seahawks' one.

More of a defensive struggle... 27-21 Steelers.