Tired of Certain Fans

To be fair, I’ve run into plenty of steelers fans who do not know too much about their team. I think the percentages are probably different, but fairweather steelers fans do exist, though the forecast is usually sunny.

I grew up down in the Toronto area (still miss Iggy’s pizza- best pizza in the wold FYI) but my mother and several family live up by Youngstown/Lowellville area.

I’ve never met a stupid fan yet up here in VT- this is one of the reasons I was in a hurry to leave ohio- I couldn’t stand the village idiots, of which there were many where I grew up.

… and carry a big defense.

has represented well here on BTSC. I’m a Canton guy, via Y-town and Akron as a kid. I have lived lots of other places outside of Ohio, but came back because my family is here, and when I had kids of my own I liked the idea of having “the village to raise a child.” Putting up with Clowns fans is annoying at best, sometimes funny, and occasionally dangerous. Desperate fans are not level headed thinkers….this might be the third or fourth time I have mentioned that line in one of these posts. The agony of backing a substandard organization year after year is only worsened when the team you hate the most succeeds year after year….the nerves get raw..then the name calling starts, and eventually fists fly…or worse. Getting a Clowns fan to talk intelligently about football is like finding life on Mars. There are those that claim it’s there..but no one has ever produced evidence. So, in order to not sink to the level of the typical barking and sniveling Stains fan, I do what any rational member of Steeler Nation would do..I let the jawing wait until all the games are played, the votes tallied, trophies handed out and trips to the White House are booked, then I let’em have it!

by Steeler fans must be nice. I envy living in Pittsburgh. Where I am is hostile every day I walk out of my house with a Steeler hat or lanyard on. Sunny San Diego welcomes a Steeler fan just about as much as they welcome a rain cloud. It was pure bliss watching Willie continually pound the Chargers defense to nothing more than a pulp. It sickens me how many fair-weathered Charger fans there are but when you’ve been to the big game twice and lost both times I can somewhat understand. So now that we’re going to Tampa, there seems to be this surge of Cardinal fans in SD. I think it’s a great thing what the Cardinals have done. Getting that team to Tampa with that record was a feat in intself. But, the whole “heckle the Steelers fan” thing is getting a little annoying. Trying to convince me that some above average offense will “pick-apart” our elite D is like trying to convince the Steeler locker room that Ed Reed is a better Safety than Troy. When the discussion comes up and I’m ready to talk football, and I do, the argument always seems to be juvenile and thoughtless. It goes something like this: “Dude, there’s no way the Steelers can cover Fitz! He’s way too good. And the Cardinal’s D is completely different than the beginning of the season.” Great. I’m glad that the Cardinals have finally got their act together at the right time. But, guess who has had their act together all year long? Guess who has shadowed some of the best receivers in the league this year? Guess what the rankings of some D’s our O has had victories over this year? So go ahead and flatter yourself for the next week, you fans of the Browns, Ravens, Pats, Colts, and Chargers. We all know who the better team is and on Sunday we will prove it. Then BTSC, we can all give that little Hines Ward smile when we pass those people on the street.