Looking at our remaining games, I'd say this Sunday's matchup against the Dallas Cowgirls is no more than the 3rd most important of our remaining 4 games. Baltimore, breathing down our neck is a division rival and is by far the most important of the 4. Tennessee leading the Conference would be second. And Dallas third simply by virtue of the fact that the Cleveland Browns are, well, the Cleveland Browns. Except for one very important thing...
My grandson, we'll call him "Little Dog" (pictured), lives in the Greater Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex. Little Dog will be celebrating his second Christmas. And already his dad is telling me, "It's going to be hard to keep him from being a Cowboys fan. There's a lot of them down here." Well, that's like saying there's a lot of retards in Special Ed. In fact that's pretty much exactly what he's saying!
Anyway, last year for Little Dog's first Christmas, me & Mrs. Dog got him his very own Ben Roethlisberger jersey. And I am going to make damn sure his mama puts it on him Sunday. He got a couple Stiller bibs too which Fan and I picked up at a shop in Market Square during our visit to the 'burgh for the 75th Anniversary Team beatdown of the Shitbirds last November.
On top of that, I'm spending Christmas with Little Dog and I want to be able to wear my Big Daddy Lipscomb "76" throwback jersey in the DFW Airport when I arrive!
In addition I have a good friend who is pregnant with twins who is a natural born Cowgirl having lived her whole life in Ft. Worth. She got Stiller bibs as baby shower gifts for her girls too courtesy of Stilladog. She's due any day now. I told her if the Stillers win on Sunday and she delivers on Sunday she must name her twin girls, Benita and Hinesella.
This folks, is the strength of Steeler Nation. This is why we can take 10,000 seats in any stadium in America. We pass the privilege of being Stiller fans down from generation to generation. That is why young men and women who have never set foot in Allegheny County, let alone the city of Pittsburgh will be roaring and yelling Here We Go! at the top of their lungs, Terrible Towels waving at every NFL Stadium from Seattle to Miami, New England to San Diego. They are descendants of Pittsburghers and Western Pennsylvanians. Oh, we do travel well. But most of us are already there.
So we got to beat the Cowgirls this weekend to really plant the seed. For my family's sake. We got to do it. Teach the children. Convert the non-believers.
Snow and 28 degrees predicted for Heinz at game time. Tony Homo has played like 4 games in below 40 his whole life. Silverback not like Homo. Silverback kill Homo. And if you think T.O. is coming over the middle, you're nuts. He saw what happened to Welker.
I like our chances. Last three weeks, snow, snow and torrential downpour = 3 wins. More snow is good. HERE WE GO!!
3 comments:
Dog I love your thought of wearing the gear in the dallas airport. This past Sat we took Coll.and the grand kids back to Sterbridge MA, after seeing them off the Mrs and I went to Friendlies for some lunch and as i was preparing to pay the bill, in all my glory wit my bright yellow Steelers windbreaker on in walks this dude with a Pats. jersey on and he is giving me a dirty look so i said to him " we'll find out tomorrow won't we?" Enough to say he'll probably remember me everytime he sees a championship teams sprotswear. Still an Unc
he looks good in black-n-gold. hannah and i were at the mall a few weeks ago. i was in my polamalu jersey. the worker came up to us and said he was a big steelers fan. hannah had a coupon that if she bought something over $10, she got another item up to $10 free. She picked out a pair of really fluffy soft socks for the free item at $5.99. The guy told her she was "wasting" $4 to go get something more expensive. When she didnt see anything she wanted for $10, he told her to go get another pair of the socks in a different color and that she could have 2.....because she was a steeler fan. and that is deep into eagles territory.
I'm chuckling here over the names of Benita and Hinesella.
Even though we live here in Western PA, Edward has already outgrown one Polamalu jersey and it has of course, been replaced.
We're doing our part to make sure Steeler Nation is alive and well in Oxford, Connecticut, too, because we get Gary's son Steeler wear at every opportunity.
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