OK, I'm sick of all the towel rip-offs (1 Viewer)

[SteelerMurf]

Besides at every football game now, I see it at the Cards game in baseball.

Give it up...fans of other teams don't have the arm strength to keep up the twirl for an entire game. Besides these other fans kinda just shake it, they don't even know what to do with it.

Can we get a new giveaway for the fans, this copy cat is out of hand? Pom-poms, flags, big fingers.....are other organizations too lazy to come up with an original idea?

 

[Rovers]

Yer team is 2-3, yer QB has looked like a deer in the headlights, half the LB corp is hurt, and you want to complain about... towels? :11:

 

[SteelerMurf]

Yer team is 2-3, yer QB has looked like a deer in the headlights, half the LB corp is hurt, and you want to complain about... towels? :11:

Yeah, the perfect passer rating looked real bad last week for Big Ben. The lights you refer to were the scoreboard lighting up for 45 points.2-3, one game out of first place. Baltimore is fading fast, Bengals are 10 times more beat up than the Steelers if you want to talk about a beat up linebacking and Olineman group. Forgive me, I don't have a doom and gloom outlook on the season.

 

[Phokus]

the 'terrible towel' has to be the most idiotic 'invention' ever.

 

[Steve in Minneapolis]

Original idea?

The fan 'towel' concept has been around for years. The Twins did 'Homer Hankies' in the 1987 and 1991.

The Vikings did them for their run in 1998.

Welcome to sports fandom. I'm glad your team won last year, but they certainly didn't 'invent' the idea of a a fan towel...

 

[Rovers]

Yer team is 2-3, yer QB has looked like a deer in the headlights, half the LB corp is hurt, and you want to complain about... towels? :11:

Yeah, the perfect passer rating looked real bad last week for Big Ben. The lights you refer to were the scoreboard lighting up for 45 points.2-3, one game out of first place. Baltimore is fading fast, Bengals are 10 times more beat up than the Steelers if you want to talk about a beat up linebacking and Olineman group. Forgive me, I don't have a doom and gloom outlook on the season.

His QB rating, since you seem to like that silly stat is 60.2 for the year. He has 2 TD's against 7 INT's. Now I know why you are more concerned with towels... what floor of the sanitorium are you on? What, it's like 8 towels for each floor? Are you good at tying knots?

 

[shuke]

Another quality Shark Pool thread.™

 

[shuke]

The 'towel' convept has been around for years. The Twins did 'Homer Hankies' in the mid 90's.The Vikings did them for their run in 1998.Welcome to the sports fandom. I'm glad your team won last year, but they certainly didn't 'invent' the idea of a a fan towel...

You might want to delete this before you're owned.

 

[Capella]

Another quality Shark Pool thread.™

 

[Steve in Minneapolis]

The 'towel' convept has been around for years. The Twins did 'Homer Hankies' in the mid 90's.The Vikings did them for their run in 1998.Welcome to the sports fandom. I'm glad your team won last year, but they certainly didn't 'invent' the idea of a a fan towel...

You might want to delete this before you're owned.

Owned? Call me shuked...?

 

[chris1969]

Besides at every football game now, I see it at the Cards game in baseball.Give it up...fans of other teams don't have the arm strength to keep up the twirl for an entire game. Besides these other fans kinda just shake it, they don't even know what to do with it.Can we get a new giveaway for the fans, this copy cat is out of hand? Pom-poms, flags, big fingers.....are other organizations too lazy to come up with an original idea?

I agree, they are alot more absorbant than regular toilet paper!

 

[Xenopax]

Original idea?

The fan 'towel' concept has been around for years. The Twins did 'Homer Hankies' in the 1987 and 1991.

The Vikings did them for their run in 1998.

Welcome to sports fandom. I'm glad your team won last year, but they certainly didn't 'invent' the idea of a a fan towel...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrible_towel"The Terrible Towel is a gimmick created by Myron Cope, a broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Steelers (an American football team). Needing a way to excite the fans during a 1975 playoff football game against the Baltimore Colts, Cope urged fans to take yellow dish towels to the game and wave them throughout."

 

[shuke]

The 'towel' convept has been around for years. The Twins did 'Homer Hankies' in the mid 90's.The Vikings did them for their run in 1998.Welcome to the sports fandom. I'm glad your team won last year, but they certainly didn't 'invent' the idea of a a fan towel...

You might want to delete this before you're owned.

Owned? Call me shuked...?

You're claiming the towel concept has been around for "years" and gave examples only going back a decade.Pittsburgh's been doing it for 30 years at a minimum.

 

[Steve in Minneapolis]

The 'towel' convept has been around for years. The Twins did 'Homer Hankies' in the mid 90's.The Vikings did them for their run in 1998.Welcome to the sports fandom. I'm glad your team won last year, but they certainly didn't 'invent' the idea of a a fan towel...

You might want to delete this before you're owned.

Owned? Call me shuked...?

You're claiming the towel concept has been around for "years" and gave examples only going back a decade.Pittsburgh's been doing it for 30 years at a minimum.

Like I said... I was shuked.Not a steelers fan and have no knowledge of the history of their towel... But the thought that they 'own' that is still ridiculous.

 

[SteelerMurf]

Original idea?

The fan 'towel' concept has been around for years. The Twins did 'Homer Hankies' in the 1987 and 1991.

The Vikings did them for their run in 1998.

Welcome to sports fandom. I'm glad your team won last year, but they certainly didn't 'invent' the idea of a a fan towel...

Dude , how old are you?Guess you were not alive during the 1970's Steeler Dynasty when the Terrible Towel was created.

1987....are you kidding me????

Son, the Terrible Towel has been around since 1975, Super Bowl X (yes that is 30 years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrible_Towel

Highly doubt anyone else was bringing dish towels to sports events before Myrone Cope

 

[Xenopax]

I would also like to point out that every true Steeler fan own their own Terrible Towel. At training camp this year I saw more people trying to get towels signed than anything else.

 

[Blick]

Original idea?

The fan 'towel' concept has been around for years. The Twins did 'Homer Hankies' in the 1987 and 1991.

The Vikings did them for their run in 1998.

Welcome to sports fandom. I'm glad your team won last year, but they certainly didn't 'invent' the idea of a a fan towel...

Myron Cope's Terrible Towel

One towel wave for each of our rings!

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

Original idea? The fan 'towel' concept has been around for years. The Twins did 'Homer Hankies' in the 1987 and 1991.The Vikings did them for their run in 1998.Welcome to sports fandom. I'm glad your team won last year, but they certainly didn't 'invent' the idea of a a fan towel...

The Chargers did it during the Dan Fouts to John Jefferson years -- late 1970s. (Although they were handkerchiefs instead of towels, but same idea.)

 

[SteelerMurf]

I would also like to point out that every true Steeler fan own their own Terrible Towel. At training camp this year I saw more people trying to get towels signed than anything else.

To expand on that point a little, they don't give these Terrible Towels out the games like these other copy cats.The tens of thousands you see in the stands at Steeler home games are all personally owned towels. Some of them decades old. No giveways with some grocery store name printed on the back.

 

[SproutDaddy]

Yer team is 2-3, yer QB has looked like a deer in the headlights, half the LB corp is hurt, and you want to complain about... towels? :11:

Yeah, the perfect passer rating looked real bad last week for Big Ben. The lights you refer to were the scoreboard lighting up for 45 points.2-3, one game out of first place. Baltimore is fading fast, Bengals are 10 times more beat up than the Steelers if you want to talk about a beat up linebacking and Olineman group. Forgive me, I don't have a doom and gloom outlook on the season.

His QB rating, since you seem to like that silly stat is 60.2 for the year. He has 2 TD's against 7 INT's. Now I know why you are more concerned with towels... what floor of the sanitorium are you on? What, it's like 8 towels for each floor? Are you good at tying knots?

Glad I traded him for Brees before the season began!!

 

[Rovers]

I would also like to point out that every true Steeler fan own their own Terrible Towel. At training camp this year I saw more people trying to get towels signed than anything else.

To expand on that point a little, they don't give these Terrible Towels out the games like these other copy cats.The tens of thousands you see in the stands at Steeler home games are all personally owned towels. Some of them decades old. No giveways with some grocery store name printed on the back.

Personally owned? Geeze, I'm sorry, I had no idea.

 

[Sea Bass]

Another quality Shark Pool thread.™

 

[netnalp]

The terrible towel is also a Hojo bathroom item used by Charles Alden to take care of his bowel problems in Athens, GA.

 

[Sea Bass]

The terrible towel is also a Hojo bathroom item used by Charles Alden to take care of his bowel problems in Athens, GA.

 

[SteelerMurf]

Yer team is 2-3, yer QB has looked like a deer in the headlights, half the LB corp is hurt, and you want to complain about... towels? :11:

Yeah, the perfect passer rating looked real bad last week for Big Ben. The lights you refer to were the scoreboard lighting up for 45 points.2-3, one game out of first place. Baltimore is fading fast, Bengals are 10 times more beat up than the Steelers if you want to talk about a beat up linebacking and Olineman group. Forgive me, I don't have a doom and gloom outlook on the season.

His QB rating, since you seem to like that silly stat is 60.2 for the year. He has 2 TD's against 7 INT's. Now I know why you are more concerned with towels... what floor of the sanitorium are you on? What, it's like 8 towels for each floor? Are you good at tying knots?

Check Ben's QB rating by the end of the year. The last 2 years it has been probably around top 3 in the league. As is his winning percentage. I guess you will get that with a Superbowl Winning QB.May I ask who your team is so I may debate in 2 directions? Your Ben bashing is stupid, considering everything he has gone thru, I will give him 3 games to knock off rust, etc. Not many QBs could have put their head thru a windshield in the summer, lost 25 lbs, then had their appendix removed and come back and played sharp right away. Your doom and gloom is extremely premature. 1 game out of first place with 11 games to play...oh what will we do???

 

[bryhamm]

Yer team is 2-3, yer QB has looked like a deer in the headlights, half the LB corp is hurt, and you want to complain about... towels? :11:

Yeah, the perfect passer rating looked real bad last week for Big Ben. The lights you refer to were the scoreboard lighting up for 45 points.2-3, one game out of first place. Baltimore is fading fast, Bengals are 10 times more beat up than the Steelers if you want to talk about a beat up linebacking and Olineman group. Forgive me, I don't have a doom and gloom outlook on the season.

His QB rating, since you seem to like that silly stat is 60.2 for the year. He has 2 TD's against 7 INT's. Now I know why you are more concerned with towels... what floor of the sanitorium are you on? What, it's like 8 towels for each floor? Are you good at tying knots?

At least the Steelers did not lose to an 0-4 team.

 

[CrossEyed]

 

[Raider Nation]

Original idea?

The fan 'towel' concept has been around for years. The Twins did 'Homer Hankies' in the 1987 and 1991.

The Vikings did them for their run in 1998.

Welcome to sports fandom. I'm glad your team won last year, but they certainly didn't 'invent' the idea of a a fan towel...

Dude , how old are you?Guess you were not alive during the 1970's Steeler Dynasty when the Terrible Towel was created.

1987....are you kidding me????

Son, the Terrible Towel has been around since 1975, Super Bowl X (yes that is 30 years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrible_Towel

Highly doubt anyone else was bringing dish towels to sports events before Myrone Cope

The towel waving actually started with Lombardi's Packers of the 60s.All of the women of Green Bay would remove their panties during critical drives in the 4th quarter. Nobody ever gives Green Bay credit for being the first to do this, however, because the panties were more the size of a car cover than a dish towel.

 

[HULLOBUDMAN]

Besides at every football game now, I see it at the Cards game in baseball.Give it up...fans of other teams don't have the arm strength to keep up the twirl for an entire game. Besides these other fans kinda just shake it, they don't even know what to do with it.Can we get a new giveaway for the fans, this copy cat is out of hand? Pom-poms, flags, big fingers.....are other organizations too lazy to come up with an original idea?

I went to the Cards(baseball) game. There was no grocery store name on the back of the towel....but I do agree with you, it is idiotic to think of thousands of people spending 3+ hours at a sporting event waiving a towel.

 

[Rovers]

Yer team is 2-3, yer QB has looked like a deer in the headlights, half the LB corp is hurt, and you want to complain about... towels? :11:

Yeah, the perfect passer rating looked real bad last week for Big Ben. The lights you refer to were the scoreboard lighting up for 45 points.2-3, one game out of first place. Baltimore is fading fast, Bengals are 10 times more beat up than the Steelers if you want to talk about a beat up linebacking and Olineman group. Forgive me, I don't have a doom and gloom outlook on the season.

His QB rating, since you seem to like that silly stat is 60.2 for the year. He has 2 TD's against 7 INT's. Now I know why you are more concerned with towels... what floor of the sanitorium are you on? What, it's like 8 towels for each floor? Are you good at tying knots?

Check Ben's QB rating by the end of the year. The last 2 years it has been probably around top 3 in the league. As is his winning percentage. I guess you will get that with a Superbowl Winning QB.May I ask who your team is so I may debate in 2 directions? Your Ben bashing is stupid, considering everything he has gone thru, I will give him 3 games to knock off rust, etc. Not many QBs could have put their head thru a windshield in the summer, lost 25 lbs, then had their appendix removed and come back and played sharp right away. Your doom and gloom is extremely premature. 1 game out of first place with 11 games to play...oh what will we do???

Um... bashing Ben? No. I'm bashing you. Your team does have some issues, but you are whining about towels. Maybe there are animal fibers in these towels you speak of (of course, not the dreaded terrible towels, which I now know are persoanlly owned) and you are a memeber of PETA? Yer whining about towels on a FF message board. for that reason, yes, I am taking shots at you, because this is an idiotic thread, but it's always fun to talk to imbeciles, it makes me feel smart. Yer stinking QB is costing me big time in my most important dynasty league to boot. Tell me all about his 2 TD, 7 INT, 60 QB rating. I'm all ears.... if you say he's great he must be. Wave that special personally ownd towel. It doesn't make Rothlisberger any better than the turd he has been so far. Oh, if you want to know what team I follow, try a search. they have an FAQ for that if you don't know how.

 

[JohnnyU]

I'm sick of seeing players jump into the stands after a TD. When some nut job stabs one of them (see Monica Seles), maybe that will be the last of the lambeau leap.

 

[Godsbrother]

Another quality Shark Pool thread.™

 

[lord_helmet]

Greatest post.... ever.....

 

[10gDBA]

Original idea?

The fan 'towel' concept has been around for years. The Twins did 'Homer Hankies' in the 1987 and 1991.

The Vikings did them for their run in 1998.

Welcome to sports fandom. I'm glad your team won last year, but they certainly didn't 'invent' the idea of a a fan towel...

Dude , how old are you?Guess you were not alive during the 1970's Steeler Dynasty when the Terrible Towel was created.

1987....are you kidding me????

Son, the Terrible Towel has been around since 1975, Super Bowl X (yes that is 30 years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrible_Towel

Highly doubt anyone else was bringing dish towels to sports events before Myrone Cope

The towel waving actually started with Lombardi's Packers of the 60s.All of the women of Green Bay would remove their panties during critical drives in the 4th quarter. Nobody ever gives Green Bay credit for being the first to do this, however, because the panties were more the size of a car cover than a dish towel.

 

[Delusions Of Adequacy]

Original idea? The fan 'towel' concept has been around for years. The Twins did 'Homer Hankies' in the 1987 and 1991.The Vikings did them for their run in 1998.Welcome to sports fandom. I'm glad your team won last year, but they certainly didn't 'invent' the idea of a a fan towel...

Dude, I'm no steeler fan, but they did invent the 'terrible towel', back in the 1970s.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

Besides at every football game now, I see it at the Cards game in baseball.

Praise be for the genius that is the Pittsburgh Steelers fan. In the history of mankind, no one had ever thought of waving a colored piece of cloth over their heads until the leading lights of Three Rivers created the Towel.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

Original idea? The fan 'towel' concept has been around for years. The Twins did 'Homer Hankies' in the 1987 and 1991.The Vikings did them for their run in 1998.Welcome to sports fandom. I'm glad your team won last year, but they certainly didn't 'invent' the idea of a a fan towel...

Dude, I'm no steeler fan, but they did invent the 'terrible towel', back in the 1970s.

All they invented was the illiteration of calling it a "terrible towel" and the sad shtick of trying to claim an idea in the sporting public domain for their own. (Really this culminated when Pat Riley copyrighted "threepeat"). For those that don't know, or for the Steeler fans who refuse to find out because they think they invented the idea, I suggest you watch footage of the undefeated Dolphins season. You will see a sea of white hankies and hand towels being waived in the stands. My School adopted this Shtick in 1973, long before the Steelers. We did so ripping off the Dolfins. For all I know the Dolphins ripped it off as well, but the Steelers, well aware of the Dolphins actions two years earlier, most definately did not invent this. For claims to fame the Steelers would be far better off simply pointing to their Championships.

 

[belljr]

just to add a small piece of useless info

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of The Terrible Towel benefits Allegheny Valley School in Pittsburgh, one of the largest providers of care for people with mental ######ation in the state of Pennsylvania.

 

[Softball 3:16]

Terriable Towel is a rip-off of the Twins Homer Hankey anyway.

 

[gman74]

Yer team is 2-3, yer QB has looked like a deer in the headlights, half the LB corp is hurt, and you want to complain about... towels? :11:

Yeah, the perfect passer rating looked real bad last week for Big Ben. The lights you refer to were the scoreboard lighting up for 45 points.2-3, one game out of first place. Baltimore is fading fast, Bengals are 10 times more beat up than the Steelers if you want to talk about a beat up linebacking and Olineman group. Forgive me, I don't have a doom and gloom outlook on the season.

His QB rating, since you seem to like that silly stat is 60.2 for the year. He has 2 TD's against 7 INT's. Now I know why you are more concerned with towels... what floor of the sanitorium are you on? What, it's like 8 towels for each floor? Are you good at tying knots?

stinkyburger= harrington

 

[Shrek]

I would also like to point out that every true Steeler fan own their own Terrible Towel. At training camp this year I saw more people trying to get towels signed than anything else.

To expand on that point a little, they don't give these Terrible Towels out the games like these other copy cats.The tens of thousands you see in the stands at Steeler home games are all personally owned towels. Some of them decades old. No giveways with some grocery store name printed on the back.

Personally owned? Geeze, I'm sorry, I had no idea.

Mods- please, please pin this thread.

 

[BlueOnion]

And what about those teams who are putting logos on their helmets? Everybody knows the Rams were the first in 1948 and everybody else is just copying them. Even worse, some of those copy-catters even got their copy-cat wrong and could only muster one logo for one side.

 

[Shrek]

Yer team is 2-3, yer QB has looked like a deer in the headlights, half the LB corp is hurt, and you want to complain about... towels? :11:

Yeah, the perfect passer rating looked real bad last week for Big Ben. The lights you refer to were the scoreboard lighting up for 45 points.2-3, one game out of first place. Baltimore is fading fast, Bengals are 10 times more beat up than the Steelers if you want to talk about a beat up linebacking and Olineman group. Forgive me, I don't have a doom and gloom outlook on the season.

His QB rating, since you seem to like that silly stat is 60.2 for the year. He has 2 TD's against 7 INT's. Now I know why you are more concerned with towels... what floor of the sanitorium are you on? What, it's like 8 towels for each floor? Are you good at tying knots?

Check Ben's QB rating by the end of the year. The last 2 years it has been probably around top 3 in the league. As is his winning percentage. I guess you will get that with a Superbowl Winning QB.May I ask who your team is so I may debate in 2 directions? Your Ben bashing is stupid, considering everything he has gone thru, I will give him 3 games to knock off rust, etc. Not many QBs could have put their head thru a windshield in the summer, lost 25 lbs, then had their appendix removed and come back and played sharp right away.

Your doom and gloom is extremely premature. 1 game out of first place with 11 games to play...oh what will we do???

But your rosy outlook and cavalier dismissal of his crappy play isn't.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

Terriable Towel is a rip-off of the Twins Homer Hankey anyway.

Terrible Towel = circa '75Homer Hanky = circa 87Dolphins hankies = circa '72Before that of course were penants, everybody had them.

 

[CrossEyed]

just to add a small piece of useless info

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of The Terrible Towel benefits Allegheny Valley School in Pittsburgh, one of the largest providers of care for people with mental ######ation in the state of Pennsylvania.

Actually this is great information that should be known by more folks out there. Myron Cope's son, Danny, was born brain damaged. He cannot speak or function normally. He has been a resident at the Allegheny Valley School for quite some time. In 1996 Myron signed over the rights to the Terrible Towel to the school as a way of supporting them and thanking them for the care that his son has received there. The last figure I had read was that the school had received over $1 million from the sale of Terrible Towels and Terrible Towel related items (keychains, beach towels, t-shirts, etc.). Thanks to the SBXL win, the school expects to make another $900,000 in 2006 alone. Myron could be a very wealthy man, but instead chose to give this money to a very worthy organization. Nice to see these kinds of things happen.

 

[nightshift]

Besides at every football game now, I see it at the Cards game in baseball.

Give it up...fans of other teams don't have the arm strength to keep up the twirl for an entire game. Besides these other fans kinda just shake it, they don't even know what to do with it.

Can we get a new giveaway for the fans, this copy cat is out of hand? Pom-poms, flags, big fingers.....are other organizations too lazy to come up with an original idea?

I went to the Cards(baseball) game. There was no grocery store name on the back of the towel....but I do agree with you, it is idiotic to think of thousands of people spending 3+ hours at a sporting event waiving a towel.

Here's a suggestion: DON'T GO! Stay home and knit a sweater. Sports ain't your thing!

 

[Franknbeans]

And what about those teams who are putting logos on their helmets? Everybody knows the Rams were the first in 1948 and everybody else is just copying them. Even worse, some of those copy-catters even got their copy-cat wrong and could only muster one logo for one side.

someone gets it

 

[nightshift]

just to add a small piece of useless info

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of The Terrible Towel benefits Allegheny Valley School in Pittsburgh, one of the largest providers of care for people with mental ######ation in the state of Pennsylvania.

Actually this is great information that should be known by more folks out there. Myron Cope's son, Danny, was born brain damaged. He cannot speak or function normally. He has been a resident at the Allegheny Valley School for quite some time. In 1996 Myron signed over the rights to the Terrible Towel to the school as a way of supporting them and thanking them for the care that his son has received there. The last figure I had read was that the school had received over $1 million from the sale of Terrible Towels and Terrible Towel related items (keychains, beach towels, t-shirts, etc.). Thanks to the SBXL win, the school expects to make another $900,000 in 2006 alone. Myron could be a very wealthy man, but instead chose to give this money to a very worthy organization. Nice to see these kinds of things happen.

Another great reason why STEELERS fans are the best sports fans in the world!HERE WE GO STEELERS, HERE WE GO!

 

[JAA]

@ the stiller staking claim to the towel concept

 

[CowboyFan]

WHO GIVES A