CITY OF CHAMPIONS

Pittsburgh, as has been suggested on some t-shirt and bumper stickers, is a “…drinking town with a football problem.”

We have other sports in Pittsburgh, too, as has been noted in this essay. The baseball Pirates, despite their having amassed 17 consecutive losing seasons, have a long, illustrious history. The hockey Penguins, despite flirting with dissolution and then relocation during the past decade, have carried the Stanley Cup, and raised...

By Swissvale72

(Excerpted from We're From the Town with the Great Football Team: A Pittsburgh Steelers Manifesto

FORBES FIELD MEMORIES
In addition to being a football treatise, certain other aspects of Pittsburgh life merit comment. The old ballyard, located in Oakland on Forbes Avenue, within the “campus” of the University of Pittsburgh, named for the British general of French & Indian War fame, who is credited with naming our City, was a fan’s delight. Babe...

(Excertped from: "We're from the Town with the Great Football Team: A Pittsburgh Steelers Manifesto")

1970s: UNPARALLELLED
The decade in which I was introduced to the joys of sex, spent my 4 college years (best years of our lives, as it were), and eventually met Mrs. Swiss, also brought us the best professional football team of all time, and it was ours!!
The ‘70s started quietly enough. There was the move to the new stadium, but the Nollman followed up their ’69...

As we sift through the carnage of rule changes and "adjustments" from yesterday's NFL Meetings, several thoughts come to mind, not the least of which is my needing to go back to the drawing board, revise the selection posted herein from the "Recycled Bullshit" file last week on "Shit I Hate about the NFL." Recylced Bullshit is one things, but REVISED Recycled Bullshit? Anyway, Everyone's Entitled to My Opinion, and here it is:

1. The Top:
*We have Roger Goodel's Eddie...

Title of this piece has nothing to with the content. always laugh though when Ike Taylor, announces himself this way, rather than Louisiana-Lafayette. Didn't Alabama lose to Ike's alma mater a couple years ago? One more question. Is it still one's "alma mater" if one doesn't graduate?

Anyway, y'know how the righties are always "pro-life," meaning "anti-choice," but the true conservatives, we're told, favor minimalist governmental intervention?

So it is with our...