What I’ve got you’ve got to give it to your mamma.  What I’ve got you’ve got to give it to your pappa.  Give it away, give it away, give it away, give it away now.  -Red Hot Chili Peppers 

From Pop Warner to the NFL, football coaches everywhere stress turnover avoidance.  Nobody wants to have happen what happeneed to Joe Theismann.  Theisman floated the ball in the direction of running back Joe Washington.  Unfortunately, he didn’t account for unheralded linebacker Jack Squirek.  Squirek returned the ball to the hizzy for a touchdown in Super Bowl XVIII.  Nobody wants to have happen what happened to Peyton Manning.  Faced with a third and five, Manning targeted his favorite receiver, Reggie Wayne.  Unfortunatley, Tracy Porter was targeting Manning.  At the 26 yard line, Porter returned it to the hizzy for a game-changing touchdown in Super Bowl XLIV.  From Pop Warner to the NFL, football coaches everywhere stress turnover avoidance because nobody wants to have happen what done happened to the Steelers yesterday.       Read More »

Here you come again, just when I’ve begun to get myself together.  You waltz right in the door, just like you’ve done before, and wrap my heart ’round your little finger.  -Dolly Parton

 It was third down.  The Steelers needed six yards for the first down.  Two minutes left to play.  Up five.  “One more stop,” Darrelle Revis said.  “One lousy stop.  That’s all we needed.”  Nothing doing.  Not on Big Ben’s watch.  Not this time of year.  This time of year, when the air is a little bit crisper.  This time of year, when the air is a little bit cooler.  This time of year,when the air is crisper and cooler, and the Pittsburgh Steelers are making yet another run at the NFL Championship.  The NFL.  This is what it’s all about.  Ben Roethlisberger is what it’s all about.  You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out.  You put your right foot in and you shake it all about.  You do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around, that’s what it’s all about!           Read More »

Winter is in the air and excitement is building for the big day! Join a couple of the actors from Silver Circle as they get pumped for the Super Bowl:

Peace out homies. Six two and even!

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!  Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious!  If you say it loud enough, you’ll always sound precocious.  Um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye.  -Mary Poppins

It’s almost here!  Super Sunday.  Super fun day.  More fun than Plaxico Burress gun day.  It’s a quest for fun.  I’m gonna have fun and you’re gonna have fun.  We’re all gonna have so much f**king fun we’ll need plastic surgery to remove our godamn smiles.  You’ll be whistling ‘Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah’ out of you’re assholes!  Now that’s fun.  You know what else is fun?  Huh?  Do ya?  Sure you do.  Making up All Star teams is fun.  I know, I know, you wanted chicks and guns and fire trucks and hookers and drugs and booze!  Do that on your own time.  This my time.  This my damn blog.  And now without further ado, my damn Super Bowl All Star team:    Read More »

It’s a wonderful night, you’ve gotta take it from me.  It’s a wonderful night, come on and break it on down.  -Fatboy Slim

Just a short little quick one.  Quick like a licorice stick one.  Just to throw a brick one.  As much as I’d like to say, Same Old Jets, I cannot.  As much as I’d like to say, Ha ha Jets, I cannot.  For as much as I’d like to say those things, it’d be those Same Old Jets that beat my beloved Patriots last weekend and what would that say for my beloved Patriots?  All I know is the Jets made Rashard Mendenhall look like Franco Harris last night. It was if Mike Tomlin took a page from an old Chuck Noll playbook, calling on Rashard Mendenhall early and often in the Steelers’ 24-19 victory. Mendenhall carried the ball 10 times in the first quarter, something no Steelers running back had done in a postseason game in more than 30 years.  But Franco Harris did it three times for Noll’s teams during the 1970s.  Awww to heck with it.  I’m gonna say it.  Same Old J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets!  The Jets failed to score on a 17-play, 80-yard drive in the fourth quarter.  That was the longest drive (that is, most plays) resulting in no points in a postseason game since the Giants came up empty on a 19-play drive against the Vikings in January 2001.  Not to worry, the Giants were winning 41-0 in the NFC title game at the time.  Unfortunately for the Jets, they weren’t winning, and now order has been restored in the world.

Peace out Jets. Six two and even!

Don’t you forget about me. Don’t don’t don’t don’t don’t you forget about me. -Simple Minds

If you’re like me, you’re rooting for the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. If you’re like me, you’d like to see them crush the Jets like little tiny ants. Like Kids in the Hall, “I’m crushing your head. I’m crushing your head.” But before the Steelers crush any heads on Sunday, I’d like you to do one thing for me, can you do that? Sure you can. Before the Steelers crush any heads on Sunday, I want you to remember Myron Cope. Yoi! Before you start waving your Terrible Towels on Sunday, remember Myron Cope. Double yoi! With his unique nasal voice and distinctive Pittsburgh area accent, Cope was a part of the Steelers’ landscape for almost forty years. Heck, Dr. Cope was the Pittsburgh Steelers. Myron said stuff like, Mmm-Hah! Stuff like, Okel Dokel. Stuff like, feh, yoi, double yoi and if you were really really lucky, triple Yoi! He was an innovator. A sports creator. This is a story about a brother I know. Cut Creator on the fader now watch him go. Go, go, Cut Creator go! Go, go, Myron Cope, go! He was Chris Berman before there was a Chris Berman. Made up nicknames. Very peculiar names. Funny names. Strange names. Pet names. Names like the Bus, Jack Splat and Slash. But Myron’s Cope’s proudest achievement was the creation of the Terrible Towel. So when you’re singing your Pittsburgh Steeler Polka and wavin’ that Terrible Towel, please, please, remember Myron Cope. He’d do it for you.

Peace out homies. Six two and Even!

We’re from the town with that great football team.  We cheer the Pittsburgh Steelers.  Winning’s a habit, not only a dream.  Go out and get them Steelers!  -Jimmy Psihoulis

In all fairness, I don’t think I can do this one straight.  In all fairness, I hate the New York Jets.  In all fairness, that game last week messed up my head a little bit. In all fairness, I’m not thinking straight. This is what I’m thinking:

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Round two, I’m down to, do, what it takes to make you understand I’m the Candyman and I melt in your mouth, not in your hands.  -Candyman

Ok, here we go!  The NFL Playoffs.  The NFL hip-hip-hoorayoffs.  The judgement dayoffs.  Win or go home!  Who lives to play another week?  Who goes home?  Like Southside Johnny always says, “Oh, I know that it’s getting late, but I don’t want to go home.  I’m in no hurry, baby, time can wait. ‘Cause I don’t want to go home.”  Lets have a look-see at who’s who, shall we?  Sure we shall!             Read More »

Yo it’s my turn, I demand my respect.  Give me my burn, or get slammed in your neck.  ‘Cause it’s my turn, I’ma reach to the top.  Gimme my burn, I’ma speak with the glock.  -Big Pun

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  What’s quack-a-lacking sports fans?  Word has it, Steelers quarterback, Byron Leftwich’s strained his left knee ligament in Thursday night’s preseason game.  Word has it, the injury could sideline him for most or all of the first month of the season.  You know what that means boys and girls?  That means the Steelers are left with only two healthy quarterbacks.  That means the Steelers are left with just Dennis Dixon and Charlie Batch for their September 12 opener against the mighty mighty Atlanta Falcons.  However, word also has it that it will be Dennis Dixon who gets the nod in the opener.  Apparently, after the Steelers learned the nature of Leftwich’s injury, Dixon was immediately taken out of Thursday’s game against Carolina.  Apparently, that’s a strong indication that Dixon was being protected.  Hooray Dennis Dixon.  I’ve always loved this cat.  Top Cat!  The indisputable leader of the gang.  He’s the boss, he’s a pip, he’s the championship.  He’s the most tip top, Top Cat.           Read More »

So you wanna be a rap/rock superstar, and live large.  A big house, 5 cars, you’re in charge.  -Cypress Hill

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  I know, I know.  I know I’m a day late and a dollar short.  I know yesterday was all Big Ben all the time.  I wasn’t around yesterday.  I was doing things.  Big things.  Important things.  Things you wouldn’t understand.  Not today.  Today I’m weighing in.  First things first.  First thing is, I agree with everything Roger Goodell and the Pittsburgh Steelers have said and done.  Like Crash Davis, I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.  I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter.  I also believe Big Ben acted like a real creep.  But why are we so surprised?  Why all the outrage?  It’s our own damn falts.       Read More »