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

[wadegarrett]

I have one just so I can wipe my ### thoroughly.

 

[Godsbrother]

I have one just so I can wipe my ### thoroughly.

I guess they haven't heard of toilet paper in Cleveland yet...

 

[Shrek]

I have one just so I can wipe my ### thoroughly.

As long as it's Personally ™ , you should be good to go.

 

[ALF]

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.

Tells you alot about Myron Cope. I'll never look at those towels the same way again. Thanks for the info.

 

[NinerK]

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???

Uuh; Ben's Stat Line for the SB: C/ATT YDS AVG TD INT B. Roethlisberger 9/21 123 5.9 0 2Looks like he's shaking off some rust from the SB last year no?All Steelers fans sound the same. I love you guys but PIT did not win the SB BECAUSE of Ben. He's a good kid who stepped in to a GREAT situation a couple years ago. He should be able to handoff and throw for 2 bucks a game for many years to come. There's nothing wrong with that. Everybody respects the Steelers and admires their tough, run the ball/stop the run gameplan.As for the original point; again; every one knows that the Terrible Towel "twirl", as you put it had it's original success in PITT.Son, imitation is the sincerest form of respect.That's why my 5 time SB O\/\/ning team has been copied so much with the West Coast. But GB your Steelers; they are still out there trying to play it safe with Big Ben. It worked last year; but where oh where were the Steelers the last 20years???? They certainly weren't winning the SB.....

 

[mudshark]

Another quality Shark Pool thread.™

FFA full? I'm still searching for the FFL/NFL insight...amazing the number of borderline threads that get moved/closed, but a thread about a towel is on its second page in the SP

 

[nortobc]

Immitation is the biggest form of flattery.

 

[CrossEyed]

All Steelers fans sound the same. I love you guys but PIT did not win the SB BECAUSE of Ben. He's a good kid who stepped in to a GREAT situation a couple years ago. He should be able to handoff and throw for 2 bucks a game for many years to come. There's nothing wrong with that. Everybody respects the Steelers and admires their tough, run the ball/stop the run gameplan.

Yes, they did. Ben carried them through the playoffs. And you can't win the SB unless you get there. Ben was the biggest reason they got there.

 

[Mario Kart]

Tomahawk Chop >>>> Terrible Towel

 

[Sheriff66]

Tomahawk Chop >>>> Terrible Towel

 

[Godsbrother]

All Steelers fans sound the same. I love you guys but PIT did not win the SB BECAUSE of Ben. He's a good kid who stepped in to a GREAT situation a couple years ago. He should be able to handoff and throw for 2 bucks a game for many years to come. There's nothing wrong with that. Everybody respects the Steelers and admires their tough, run the ball/stop the run gameplan.

Yes, they did. Ben carried them through the playoffs. And you can't win the SB unless you get there. Ben was the biggest reason they got there.

 

[NinerK]

All Steelers fans sound the same. I love you guys but PIT did not win the SB BECAUSE of Ben. He's a good kid who stepped in to a GREAT situation a couple years ago. He should be able to handoff and throw for 2 bucks a game for many years to come. There's nothing wrong with that. Everybody respects the Steelers and admires their tough, run the ball/stop the run gameplan.

Yes, they did. Ben carried them through the playoffs. And you can't win the SB unless you get there. Ben was the biggest reason they got there.

*All Steelers fans sound the same.* *Edit: These are the 2005 stats*

1 Carson Palmer CIN 3836 509 345 32 12 70 101.1

2 Peyton Manning IND 3747 453 305 28 10 80 104.1

3 Tom Brady NE 4110 530 334 26 14 71 92.3

4 Drew Brees SD 3576 500 323 24 15 54 89.2

5 Matt Hasselbeck SEA 3459 449 294 24 9 56 98.2

6 Eli Manning NYG 3762 557 294 24 17 78 75.9

7 Jake Delhomme CAR 3421 435 262 24 16 80 88.1

8 Drew Bledsoe DAL 3639 499 300 23 17 71 83.7

9 Mark Brunell WAS 3050 454 262 23 10 78 85.9

10 Kerry Collins OAK 3759 565 302 20 12 79 77.3

11 Brett Favre GB 3881 607 372 20 29 59 70.9

12 Gus Frerotte MIA 2996 494 257 18 13 60 71.9

13 Jake Plummer DEN 3366 456 277 18 7 72 90.2

14 Ben Roethlisberger PIT 2385 268 168 17 9 85 98.6

That's Ben #14. Gus Frerotte is #12.

Please explain how he carried the team? Dude, as a PIT fan you can't admit that your defense and running game carry this team?

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

Before that of course were penants, everybody had them.

We're talking Pittsburgh here. You're going to have to spell that out in a lot more detail to have any hope of getting through.Or a good pic from a 1920 college football game might do the trick -- reading isn't their strong suit.

 

[NinerK]

Tomahawk Chop >>>> Terrible Towel

Agreed; the Tomahawk Chop has that ANNOYING song to it. GDB ATL for making the playoffs EVERY YEAR in the 1990's :X

 

[NinerK]

All Steelers fans sound the same. I love you guys but PIT did not win the SB BECAUSE of Ben. He's a good kid who stepped in to a GREAT situation a couple years ago. He should be able to handoff and throw for 2 bucks a game for many years to come. There's nothing wrong with that. Everybody respects the Steelers and admires their tough, run the ball/stop the run gameplan.

Yes, they did. Ben carried them through the playoffs. And you can't win the SB unless you get there. Ben was the biggest reason they got there.

How is Ben "the biggest reason they got there"? Seriously; PITT had the #4 Defense last year; the passing game was middle of the pack.....Logic is all I'm asking for here

 

[Mungo Burrows]

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."

And how freakin' lame is it that they needed "a way to excite the fans" during a playoff game?

 

[Stillers Jr.]

I cringed when I saw this original post.

All it did was give every Steeler basher carte blanche to fire salvos at our team.

- Ben Sux posts...check

- Steelers didn't deserve to win SB posts...check

- Steelers fans are lame posts...check

- All kinds of obscure stats to support the above posts....check

Yup, all the bashers are present and accounted for. Good work men.

 

[NinerK]

I cringed when I saw this original post.All it did was give every Steeler basher carte blanche to fire salvos at our team.- Ben Sux posts...check- Steelers didn't deserve to win SB posts...check- Steelers fans are lame posts...check- All kinds of obscure stats to support the above posts....checkYup, all the bashers are present and accounted for. Good work men.

Steeler Homers represented also:-Steelers are the most OG team in the legue.....check-Ben carried the team......................................check-Five Rings.....................................................check-Chip on shoulder...........................................checkGood work men.

 

[NinerK]

I cringed when I saw this original post.

All it did was give every Steeler basher carte blanche to fire salvos at our team.

- Ben Sux posts...check

- Steelers didn't deserve to win SB posts...check

- Steelers fans are lame posts...check

- All kinds of obscure stats to support the above posts....check

Yup, all the bashers are present and accounted for. Good work men.

Really? I went to NFL.com and copy and pasted the top 14 QB stat lines

 

[Legion of Doom]

@ the stiller staking claim to the towel concept

Yep I remember watching footage of Pele from the late 50's early 60's and the crowd was waving white towels or something....I doubt it was original then so

 

[posty]

BFD... The Terrible Towel is just as stupid as those Thunder Sticks...

One unknown nugget was that the Terrible Towel was actually invented to move the air stench of Pittsburgh...

 

[TheLaw]

All Steelers fans sound the same. I love you guys but PIT did not win the SB BECAUSE of Ben. He's a good kid who stepped in to a GREAT situation a couple years ago. He should be able to handoff and throw for 2 bucks a game for many years to come. There's nothing wrong with that. Everybody respects the Steelers and admires their tough, run the ball/stop the run gameplan.

Yes, they did. Ben carried them through the playoffs. And you can't win the SB unless you get there. Ben was the biggest reason they got there.

*All Steelers fans sound the same.* *Edit: These are the 2005 stats*

1 Carson Palmer CIN 3836 509 345 32 12 70 101.1

2 Peyton Manning IND 3747 453 305 28 10 80 104.1

3 Tom Brady NE 4110 530 334 26 14 71 92.3

4 Drew Brees SD 3576 500 323 24 15 54 89.2

5 Matt Hasselbeck SEA 3459 449 294 24 9 56 98.2

6 Eli Manning NYG 3762 557 294 24 17 78 75.9

7 Jake Delhomme CAR 3421 435 262 24 16 80 88.1

8 Drew Bledsoe DAL 3639 499 300 23 17 71 83.7

9 Mark Brunell WAS 3050 454 262 23 10 78 85.9

10 Kerry Collins OAK 3759 565 302 20 12 79 77.3

11 Brett Favre GB 3881 607 372 20 29 59 70.9

12 Gus Frerotte MIA 2996 494 257 18 13 60 71.9

13 Jake Plummer DEN 3366 456 277 18 7 72 90.2

14 Ben Roethlisberger PIT 2385 268 168 17 9 85 98.6

That's Ben #14. Gus Frerotte is #12.

Please explain how he carried the team? Dude, as a PIT fan you can't admit that your defense and running game carry this team?

#14 what?? What is that supposed to be a ranking of exactly??? From the looks of the numbers Ben has the #3 Passer Rating behind only Manning and Palmer.

 

[NinerK]

All Steelers fans sound the same. I love you guys but PIT did not win the SB BECAUSE of Ben. He's a good kid who stepped in to a GREAT situation a couple years ago. He should be able to handoff and throw for 2 bucks a game for many years to come. There's nothing wrong with that. Everybody respects the Steelers and admires their tough, run the ball/stop the run gameplan.

Yes, they did. Ben carried them through the playoffs. And you can't win the SB unless you get there. Ben was the biggest reason they got there.

*All Steelers fans sound the same.* *Edit: These are the 2005 stats*

1 Carson Palmer CIN 3836 509 345 32 12 70 101.1

2 Peyton Manning IND 3747 453 305 28 10 80 104.1

3 Tom Brady NE 4110 530 334 26 14 71 92.3

4 Drew Brees SD 3576 500 323 24 15 54 89.2

5 Matt Hasselbeck SEA 3459 449 294 24 9 56 98.2

6 Eli Manning NYG 3762 557 294 24 17 78 75.9

7 Jake Delhomme CAR 3421 435 262 24 16 80 88.1

8 Drew Bledsoe DAL 3639 499 300 23 17 71 83.7

9 Mark Brunell WAS 3050 454 262 23 10 78 85.9

10 Kerry Collins OAK 3759 565 302 20 12 79 77.3

11 Brett Favre GB 3881 607 372 20 29 59 70.9

12 Gus Frerotte MIA 2996 494 257 18 13 60 71.9

13 Jake Plummer DEN 3366 456 277 18 7 72 90.2

14 Ben Roethlisberger PIT 2385 268 168 17 9 85 98.6

That's Ben #14. Gus Frerotte is #12.

Please explain how he carried the team? Dude, as a PIT fan you can't admit that your defense and running game carry this team?

#14 what?? What is that supposed to be a ranking of exactly??? From the looks of the numbers Ben has the #3 Passer Rating behind only Manning and Palmer.

Dude, I just went to NFL.com and asked for Passer rankings. Ok, so he has the 3rd best passer rating. He had less than 300 pass att last year. PITT is a running offense and ran 60% of the time last year. Ben did not carry the team. There is no question he helped stabilize the position but he was not asked nor did he carry that team.

 

[bryhamm]

All Steelers fans sound the same. I love you guys but PIT did not win the SB BECAUSE of Ben. He's a good kid who stepped in to a GREAT situation a couple years ago. He should be able to handoff and throw for 2 bucks a game for many years to come. There's nothing wrong with that. Everybody respects the Steelers and admires their tough, run the ball/stop the run gameplan.

Yes, they did. Ben carried them through the playoffs. And you can't win the SB unless you get there. Ben was the biggest reason they got there.

*All Steelers fans sound the same.* *Edit: These are the 2005 stats*

1 Carson Palmer CIN 3836 509 345 32 12 70 101.1

2 Peyton Manning IND 3747 453 305 28 10 80 104.1

3 Tom Brady NE 4110 530 334 26 14 71 92.3

4 Drew Brees SD 3576 500 323 24 15 54 89.2

5 Matt Hasselbeck SEA 3459 449 294 24 9 56 98.2

6 Eli Manning NYG 3762 557 294 24 17 78 75.9

7 Jake Delhomme CAR 3421 435 262 24 16 80 88.1

8 Drew Bledsoe DAL 3639 499 300 23 17 71 83.7

9 Mark Brunell WAS 3050 454 262 23 10 78 85.9

10 Kerry Collins OAK 3759 565 302 20 12 79 77.3

11 Brett Favre GB 3881 607 372 20 29 59 70.9

12 Gus Frerotte MIA 2996 494 257 18 13 60 71.9

13 Jake Plummer DEN 3366 456 277 18 7 72 90.2

14 Ben Roethlisberger PIT 2385 268 168 17 9 85 98.6

That's Ben #14. Gus Frerotte is #12.

Please explain how he carried the team? Dude, as a PIT fan you can't admit that your defense and running game carry this team?

That's ranked by total passing yards. Sort it by the last stat (QB rating) and Ben is #3 behind only Palmer and Manning.

 

[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?

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???

Uuh; Ben's Stat Line for the SB: C/ATT YDS AVG TD INT B. Roethlisberger 9/21 123 5.9 0 2Looks like he's shaking off some rust from the SB last year no?All Steelers fans sound the same. I love you guys but PIT did not win the SB BECAUSE of Ben. He's a good kid who stepped in to a GREAT situation a couple years ago. He should be able to handoff and throw for 2 bucks a game for many years to come. There's nothing wrong with that. Everybody respects the Steelers and admires their tough, run the ball/stop the run gameplan.As for the original point; again; every one knows that the Terrible Towel "twirl", as you put it had it's original success in PITT.Son, imitation is the sincerest form of respect.That's why my 5 time SB O\/\/ning team has been copied so much with the West Coast. But GB your Steelers; they are still out there trying to play it safe with Big Ben. It worked last year; but where oh where were the Steelers the last 20years???? They certainly weren't winning the SB.....

Way to go back 20 years to cover the Niners.

 

[TheLaw]

All Steelers fans sound the same. I love you guys but PIT did not win the SB BECAUSE of Ben. He's a good kid who stepped in to a GREAT situation a couple years ago. He should be able to handoff and throw for 2 bucks a game for many years to come. There's nothing wrong with that. Everybody respects the Steelers and admires their tough, run the ball/stop the run gameplan.

Yes, they did. Ben carried them through the playoffs. And you can't win the SB unless you get there. Ben was the biggest reason they got there.

*All Steelers fans sound the same.* *Edit: These are the 2005 stats*

1 Carson Palmer CIN 3836 509 345 32 12 70 101.1

2 Peyton Manning IND 3747 453 305 28 10 80 104.1

3 Tom Brady NE 4110 530 334 26 14 71 92.3

4 Drew Brees SD 3576 500 323 24 15 54 89.2

5 Matt Hasselbeck SEA 3459 449 294 24 9 56 98.2

6 Eli Manning NYG 3762 557 294 24 17 78 75.9

7 Jake Delhomme CAR 3421 435 262 24 16 80 88.1

8 Drew Bledsoe DAL 3639 499 300 23 17 71 83.7

9 Mark Brunell WAS 3050 454 262 23 10 78 85.9

10 Kerry Collins OAK 3759 565 302 20 12 79 77.3

11 Brett Favre GB 3881 607 372 20 29 59 70.9

12 Gus Frerotte MIA 2996 494 257 18 13 60 71.9

13 Jake Plummer DEN 3366 456 277 18 7 72 90.2

14 Ben Roethlisberger PIT 2385 268 168 17 9 85 98.6

That's Ben #14. Gus Frerotte is #12.

Please explain how he carried the team? Dude, as a PIT fan you can't admit that your defense and running game carry this team?

#14 what?? What is that supposed to be a ranking of exactly??? From the looks of the numbers Ben has the #3 Passer Rating behind only Manning and Palmer.

Dude, I just went to NFL.com and asked for Passer rankings. Ok, so he has the 3rd best passer rating. He had less than 300 pass att last year. PITT is a running offense and ran 60% of the time last year. Ben did not carry the team. There is no question he helped stabilize the position but he was not asked nor did he carry that team.

Do Playoffs count??

WILD CARD @CIN W 31-17  14-19 208yds 73.7% 10.95YPA 3TD 0 INT 148.7 ratingDIVISIONAL @IND W 21-18  14-24 197yds 58.3% 8.21YPA   2 TD 1INT 95.3 ratingCONFERENCE @DEN W 34-17  21-29 275yds 72.4% 9.48YPA 2TD 0 INT 124.9 rating SUBERBOWL SEA W 21-10  9-21 123yds 42.9 % 5.86YPA  0TD 2 INT1. 22.6 rating

Fully admitted super bowl was a poor showing but he still made plays like running for a TD and that huge scramble and 37yd pass to Ward on third down.

 

[NinerK]

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Way to go back 20 years to cover the Niners.

Right; both teams have 5 rings. The Niners had 20 years of consistent success. Where did the Steelers go from 1980 their 1996 SB appearance?

Seriously though; congrats on the championship last year. Like I have said many times; everybody including myself respects the Steelers and their game. It is just absurd to say that Ben carried the team to/in the Super Bowl. PITT is a RUNNING team that relies on their defense. It's a great formula; I don't understand why Steelers fans here keep insisting that Ben carries the team.

 

[NinerK]

Do Playoffs count??

WILD CARD @CIN W 31-17 14-19 208yds 73.7% 10.95YPA 3TD 0 INT 148.7 ratingDIVISIONAL @IND W 21-18 14-24 197yds 58.3% 8.21YPA 2 TD 1INT 95.3 ratingCONFERENCE @DEN W 34-17 21-29 275yds 72.4% 9.48YPA 2TD 0 INT 124.9 rating SUBERBOWL SEA W 21-10 9-21 123yds 42.9 % 5.86YPA 0TD 2 INT1. 22.6 ratingFully admitted super bowl was a poor showing but he still made plays like running for a TD and that huge scramble and 37yd pass to Ward on third down.
Heck ya playoffs count Law; Ben is a good QB. He manages the game well. But in the stats above there was only 1 game where he passed for more than 250 yds. It could all change this year if they ask him to do more but they have not asked him to carry the team.

Sheesh; I never said he was a bad QB; I just said he did not carry the team and that PITT did not win the game BECAUSE of Ben.

 

[CrossEyed]

All Steelers fans sound the same. I love you guys but PIT did not win the SB BECAUSE of Ben. He's a good kid who stepped in to a GREAT situation a couple years ago. He should be able to handoff and throw for 2 bucks a game for many years to come. There's nothing wrong with that. Everybody respects the Steelers and admires their tough, run the ball/stop the run gameplan.

Yes, they did. Ben carried them through the playoffs. And you can't win the SB unless you get there. Ben was the biggest reason they got there.

*All Steelers fans sound the same.* *Edit: These are the 2005 stats*

1 Carson Palmer CIN 3836 509 345 32 12 70 101.1

2 Peyton Manning IND 3747 453 305 28 10 80 104.1

3 Tom Brady NE 4110 530 334 26 14 71 92.3

4 Drew Brees SD 3576 500 323 24 15 54 89.2

5 Matt Hasselbeck SEA 3459 449 294 24 9 56 98.2

6 Eli Manning NYG 3762 557 294 24 17 78 75.9

7 Jake Delhomme CAR 3421 435 262 24 16 80 88.1

8 Drew Bledsoe DAL 3639 499 300 23 17 71 83.7

9 Mark Brunell WAS 3050 454 262 23 10 78 85.9

10 Kerry Collins OAK 3759 565 302 20 12 79 77.3

11 Brett Favre GB 3881 607 372 20 29 59 70.9

12 Gus Frerotte MIA 2996 494 257 18 13 60 71.9

13 Jake Plummer DEN 3366 456 277 18 7 72 90.2

14 Ben Roethlisberger PIT 2385 268 168 17 9 85 98.6

That's Ben #14. Gus Frerotte is #12.

Please explain how he carried the team? Dude, as a PIT fan you can't admit that your defense and running game carry this team?

I have an idea. Put down your stats and fantasy magazines and watch the games. Ben carried the Steelers through the playoffs. Period.

 

[Godsbrother]

Do Playoffs count??

WILD CARD @CIN W 31-17 14-19 208yds 73.7% 10.95YPA 3TD 0 INT 148.7 ratingDIVISIONAL @IND W 21-18 14-24 197yds 58.3% 8.21YPA 2 TD 1INT 95.3 ratingCONFERENCE @DEN W 34-17 21-29 275yds 72.4% 9.48YPA 2TD 0 INT 124.9 rating SUBERBOWL SEA W 21-10 9-21 123yds 42.9 % 5.86YPA 0TD 2 INT1. 22.6 ratingFully admitted super bowl was a poor showing but he still made plays like running for a TD and that huge scramble and 37yd pass to Ward on third down.
Heck ya playoffs count Law; Ben is a good QB. He manages the game well. But in the stats above there was only 1 game where he passed for more than 250 yds. It could all change this year if they ask him to do more but they have not asked him to carry the team.

Sheesh; I never said he was a bad QB; I just said he did not carry the team and that PITT did not win the game BECAUSE of Ben.

Go back and watch the playoff games before the Super Bowl and tell me he wasn't the best player on the offense. Now admittedly he didn't do much on defense but he DID make the biggest tackle of the playoffs.

 

[NinerK]

Go back and watch the playoff games before the Super Bowl and tell me he wasn't the best player on the offense. Now admittedly he didn't do much on defense but he DID make the biggest tackle of the playoffs.

You got that right; ok, he won the super bowl for them on that play. He is the best tackling QB in the history of the SB.

 

[NinerK]

I have an idea. Put down your stats and fantasy magazines and watch the games. Ben carried the Steelers through the playoffs. Period.

Ok, you win. I will now put down the stats and fantasy mags. There's no convincing Steelers fans that Ben was not the reason they won. It's cool. No point in bumping this Towel Twirling thread anymore.

 

[Godsbrother]

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."

And how freakin' lame is it that they needed "a way to excite the fans" during a playoff game?

I don't know who wrote this article but they obviously weren't in Pittsburgh in 1975.

 

[Defending Champs]

I hate the damn towel.

With that said, I live in the suburbs of Atlanta and every time I see one of those things, I think of the local idiot that HAS to carry it up to the sports bar while watching the Steelers game on Sundays.

He looks like the biggest tool I have ever come across, I think he's the only one that has not realized it just yet.

He sits there and bites the damn thing when the Steelers are on the 50 yard line...not exaclty a crucial moment.

Anyhow, tools like this don't give the rag a good name.