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ShitBird (Suckus Cockus Footballus) A football game is 60 minutes long. It is not 58:45. I suggest that someone remind Mike Tomlin of this fact so he can instruct himself, his staff, and team accordingly. What we saw yesterday was a team so elated to have stopped the Shitbirds 4 times inside their 10 yard line that they forgot to play the rest of the game. The offense committed two penalties and could only gain 3 yards in 3 tries when a first down would have sealed the game. Then the defense... Read Full Story

Batch Processing in Real Time! 3 and 0 without Big Ben. Homestead Charlie got off to a rocky start only to have one of his best days as a Steeler today. Among a whole bunch of guys who were outstanding, I'm picking Charlie Batch as my feature player this week. But there's lots to mention this week and most of it is good, as it tends to be during wins. Here We Go: Rashard Mendenhall has answered the bell. With defenses knowing we're going to run, Mendenhall has been putting up some very... Read Full Story

Where In The World is Troy Polamalu? Were is Troy? That has to be the question Vince Young was asking himself all day. Troy was where Troy wanted to be. That is, EVERWHERE! In the backfield sacking the QB. In the end zone intercepting passes. Rushing the passer. Dropping into coverage. In the backfield making tackles and disrupting plays. All the above. I'm pretty sure LeBeau was not certain of where Troy was going, so Tennessee QBs had absolutely no clue. They'd have had an easier time... Read Full Story

Fantasy football sucks, because it is not football, it is a fantasy. Like a wet dream. Like jacking off to Pamela Anderson in US magazine. It ain't real. Fantasy football is absolutely huge in this country these days. And it has completely distorted and undermined our understanding of the game of football. It is a game of numbers and statistics. To which I retort an old saying, "Figures don't lie, but liars can figure." My case was made by Steeler CB Bryant McFadden this past weekend... Read Full Story

I am becoming one of the people I used to think were crazy, loco, you know, flip-city. Those who took great delight in eating hot peppers. I used to think it was pure insanity. I slowly have been adding more and more hot pepper spice in everything I cook beginning with my patented Firedog Chili. Last October I made the best batch ever using 11 different kinds of peppers, 3 different kinds of groud meat (bison, beef, & venison), and a bunch of different kinds of beans including light & dark... Read Full Story

Mendenhall Saves The Day Stillers looked just like I thought they'd look and got exactly the result I thought they'd get in another hard fought OT victory over the Dirty Birds of Atlanta. Arians, much to the surprise of many including myself, put together a nice gameplan and called a decent game for Dennis Dixon. DD was pretty shaky at times but also had his moments. He managed the game, did not make critical errors, and allowed Rashard Mendenhall to finally break one to put a W up on the... Read Full Story

Now that I have your attention! Nah man, not that kind of DD. Although I sure do loves me some a dat DD meat!! I'm talking about a different kind of DD. Like this here: Yeah DD as in Dennis Dixon. The starting QB for the Pittsburgh Stillers on Sunday. Lots of people are skeptical about how DD is going to play for us. But I'm not worried at all. In fact I hope Dennis has as much confidence in himself as I do. Ben Roethlisberger he is not. So get that shit out of your heads right now. He is far... Read Full Story

Growing up in Western Pennsylvania, I've always called all soft drinks "pop." When I was little we used to visit my aunts who lived in Cleveland and Toledo and the people there called it "pop" too. But then I moved East. First to a farm on the Mason-Dixon line in Franklin County, PA to take a job in Hagerstown, MD. Then later I moved to my present home in a rural area outside Baltimore. And people in all those places call it "soda." I laughed my ass off the first time I heard someone order a... Read Full Story

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Stilladog @ Pork Chop Downs I could have titled this story several other things. Among them are, "A Weekend With The In-Laws" and "A Day At The Maryland State Un-fair." But I'm trying to focus on the positive here folks. The most fun I had all weekend was at the Pig Races (and pig swimming demonstration). So I'm going with that. Yes I entertained my mother-in-law, brother-in-law, nephew, grandson, step-son, and daughter-in-law over the weekend. The only one missing was my sister-in-law (known... Read Full Story