Viper Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 After Green Bay's impressive long drive to tie the game, Their special teams just put their team right back behind again.And then Atlanta's CB Owens singlehandedly torpedoes his own team's goal-line stand with two penalties, and we're tied up again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lights Out Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 To be fair though, the Steelers' on-field success has nothing to do with the fanbase. Most Steelers fans are fans due to being from Pittsburgh/western Pennsylvania. So they're not bandwagoners, they're simply fans who's local team has been successful.You're really going to argue that the NFL team with the most Super Bowl wins doesn't have a crapload of bandwagon fans? Sustained success attracts bandwagoners by nature. The Steelers are right up there with the Patriots, Giants, Colts, Cowboys, etc. with bandwagoners.You can say that the NFL has had a hand in making things easy for the team, but really that doesn't hold up. Why would the NFL choose to expend so much effort to constantly make things easy for a team from western Pennsylvania?Because, thanks to their juiced-up dynasty in the '70s and competitiveness in the decades afterwards, the Steelers have become one of the NFL's most marketable teams in spite of their market size. And in the NFL, marketable teams get all the calls, while the Chargers, Bengals, Panthers, Cardinals, Bills, etc. of the world get dumped on. The NFL would have never allowed the Hochuli screwjob of 2008 to happen to the Steelers, for example. And if Calvin Johnson were in the black and yellow, that touchdown against the Bears would have been ruled a catch and gone without questioning. POTD: 2/4/12 3/4/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiddySicks Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 This Packers team looks pretty damn good, and so does Aaron Rodgers. On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said: She’s still half convinced “Chris Creamer” is a porn site.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew22 Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Eagles/Heels/Dawgs/Falcons/Hawks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 What is that Radio Shack decibel meter reading now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Yes, Matt, just keep right on forcing throws past Tramon Williams. He'll take them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JQK Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Someone keep an eye on Demetrius... Stay Tuned Sports Podcast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashcarson15 Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 To be fair though, the Steelers' on-field success has nothing to do with the fanbase. Most Steelers fans are fans due to being from Pittsburgh/western Pennsylvania. So they're not bandwagoners, they're simply fans who's local team has been successful. The fans have nothing to do with that, they're just along for the ride. Not really. In my school of 238 kids, there's at least 10 or 15 Steeler fans. None of whom are from Western PA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianVlietDesign Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 To be fair though, the Steelers' on-field success has nothing to do with the fanbase. Most Steelers fans are fans due to being from Pittsburgh/western Pennsylvania. So they're not bandwagoners, they're simply fans who's local team has been successful. The fans have nothing to do with that, they're just along for the ride. Not really. In my school of 238 kids, there's at least 10 or 15 Steeler fans. None of whom are from Western PA.This is a true statement. Most of the Steelers fans around where I live are bandwagoners. True, some are fans because their family either originally came from that area or they were born there. But, around here, most are bandwagon. NYCFC - MLS CUP CHAMPIONS - 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew22 Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Attention Atlanta: You generally have to play D to win. Eagles/Heels/Dawgs/Falcons/Hawks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Passer ratings so far tonight according to ESPN.com:Aaron Rodgers: 136.1Matt Ryan: 42.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiddySicks Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Welp, so much for the NFC South. Atlanta has planted their heads so far up their a$$es I really doubt they can pull this one off. They look bad in every department right now. On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said: She’s still half convinced “Chris Creamer” is a porn site.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Okay.... Green Bay and Aaron Rodgers are FOR REAL. I would never have imagined a beat down like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianVlietDesign Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Looks like it's going to be another Patriots/Packers Super Bowl. It hasn't happened since like '96/'97? I wouldn't mind that actually. NYCFC - MLS CUP CHAMPIONS - 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJTank Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 The Falcons look like a bunch of frauds www.sportsecyclopedia.com For the best in sports history go to the Sports E-Cyclopedia at http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronChefShark Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Aaron Rodgers should have been wearing red and mettalic gold US state flag concepts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lights Out Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Unlike everyone else, I'm thinking it's going to be a Super Bowl XL rematch... Pittsburgh vs. Seattle. If that happens, hopefully the refs don't step in once again on the Steelers' behalf. POTD: 2/4/12 3/4/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceCap Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 To be fair though, the Steelers' on-field success has nothing to do with the fanbase. Most Steelers fans are fans due to being from Pittsburgh/western Pennsylvania. So they're not bandwagoners, they're simply fans who's local team has been successful.You're really going to argue that the NFL team with the most Super Bowl wins doesn't have a crapload of bandwagon fans? Sustained success attracts bandwagoners by nature. The Steelers are right up there with the Patriots, Giants, Colts, Cowboys, etc. with bandwagoners.I would disagree with the Cowboys/bandwagoners assertion, but that's another topic for another time. The Steelers? Of course they have bandwagon fans. Any successful team has them. Had the Chargers managed to pull off a Super Bowl win or two when they were at their peak in the previous four seasons they would have 'em. Saying a team has bandwagon fans is a very lame way to insult the team. If anything it's a mark of the team's on-field success. You cannot, even on your most homer-ish day, however, claim that there aren't real Steelers fans out there. I would say the core of today's "Steelers nation" would qualify as "true fans." And I won't hold a team's success against the people who are real fans of the team. Being a sports fan, at the end of the day, is about enjoying yourself. If someone cannot enjoy their team's success because of a loud minority of jealous fans, then something's wrong. Ok maybe McCarthy has a case, 'cause he's a fan of a divisional rival. Everyone else though? Come on. There's sports hate and then there's craziness. You can say that the NFL has had a hand in making things easy for the team, but really that doesn't hold up. Why would the NFL choose to expend so much effort to constantly make things easy for a team from western Pennsylvania?Because, thanks to their juiced-up dynasty in the '70s and competitiveness in the decades afterwards, the Steelers have become one of the NFL's most marketable teams in spite of their market size. And in the NFL, marketable teams get all the calls, while the Chargers, Bengals, Panthers, Cardinals, Bills, etc. of the world get dumped on. The NFL would have never allowed the Hochuli screwjob of 2008 to happen to the Steelers, for example. And if Calvin Johnson were in the black and yellow, that touchdown against the Bears would have been ruled a catch and gone without questioning.I'm wondering where these juicing claims come from. I'm sure the accusation's been floating around for a while, but there's nothing like a "Barry Bonds going from a beansprout to a comic book proportioned muscle man" example to prove the point without actual evidence. Unless you have proof or an example like Barry Bonds that's so obvious it has to be true, you're just spouting homer-fuelled nonsense. Even if it is true, then what? The NFL was clearly ignorant of or wilfully ignoring the issue at the time. Other teams should have taken advantage of it.As for being one of the NFL's "most marketable teams"? The Steelers didn't win a Super Bowl from 1979 to 2005. Kind of blows that "the NFL decided to rig things for the Steelers forever and ever after they cheated to win in the 70s" theory right of the water doesn't it? As for Hochuli? Please. It was one NFL referee's mistake. Yeah I was pissed to. It didn't change my life in any fundamental way, however. And it certainly wasn't a screw job. Just one man's honest professional mistake. If you as a Chargers fan are still upset over that one then I really need to say you need to re-evaluate some things (I mean come on, the Chargers got their revenge against Denver and everything!). And your assertion that Calvin Johnson's Week 1 catch would have been ruled a TD if he was a Steeler? Well I have a question for you. Do you own a device that allows you to hop between alternate realities to confirm this claim? No? Ok then. I lay that one on the feet of the NFL's own idiocy in general. Not a league spanning conspiracy.Look, I don't like the Steelers. They always beat my favourite team, they beat one of my favourite quarterbacks and my "second team" in the Super Bowl a few years ago, and their QB, while not a rapist, is an idiot. There's "sports hate" and then there's "overzealous fan rage fuelled homer hate." It's the later that allows someone to invent an asinine fantasy where the teams they dislike never win honestly. The Broncos cheated to win their two Super Bowls. The Steelers have the NFL in their back pocket. Auburn's QB is a cheating scum-bag. Does any team you dislike ever win just because they earned it?I'd hate to have a mindset like that. As a Leafs fan I'd have driven myself mad years ago. PotD 26/2/12 1/7/15 2020 BASS Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal Regular Season Champion 2021 BASS NFL Pick'em Regular Season Champion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 The obligatory final nail in the coffin of the Vikings' Brett Favre era:Number of playoff wins, last two seasonsVikings w/ Brett Favre: One, and donePackers w/ Aaron Rodgers: Two, and counting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFoA Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Good grief, the Packers are good. I mean, really good.But this is a hot mess. What a way for a great season to end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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