Terrible Towel Curse Chronicle
by Scribe of the TTC on Oct 21, 2009 9:40 AM EDT
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Terrible Towel Curse Chronicles
Vol. 1 Number 1. Fall 2009
How can the Titans go from a 13-0 start to a 0-4 start in just one year? Probably major changes in players: major loses to free agency...there were some loses but not enough to cause that big of a turn around. Perhaps the coaching staff has been turned up-side-down, no that really didn't happen. I know lots of early season injuries - no not really normal NFL early season injuries. Last guess terrible officiating - get real.
No, the answer for this massive decline in the proud Titans of 2008 comes from a source several states way. From Pittsburgh! It's ok to out muscle the Steelers. It's ok to beat them on the score board. But what's not ok is to disrespect and denigrate the Terrible Towel. Yes to most opponents the Terrible Towel looks like a piece of gold colored terry cloth; but it is much more! As a result of the thoughtless treatment of a Terrible Towel by a few misguided Titans the team and the whole state of Tennessee has to live with the Curse of the Terrible Towel!
There is no real cure. It's no telling how long the Curse will last. However, there are a few things that may help: first and foremost the players responsible must publically apologize and make a sizable donation to the Allegheny Valley School (proceeds from the sale of Terrible Towels helps support this school for mentally and physically handicapped); second Titan fans must join the Steeler Nation. The Titans can (and should) be first in their hearts, but the Steelers should be second.
If those things are accomplished the curse will pass. Delay will only prolong the effects of the Curse of the Terrible Towel. As Myron Cope (beloved creator of the Terrible Towel) would say: "Double Yoi."
Scribe of the Terrible Towel Curse.
October 6, 2009
Terrible Towel Curse Chronicles
Vol. 1 Number 2. Fall 2009
The Tennessee Titans remain under the dark shadow of the Terrible Towel Curse. Once feared (2008) at 13-0, this team, burdened with the Curse of the Terrible Towel, has fallen to a 2009 start of 0-5. In fact, in the case of the Titans, the losses started at the end of the 2008 season. They lost the game the following the affront to the Terrible Towel - the playoff game against the Baltimore Ravens. While the start for the 2009 season is now no wins in 5 starts, the streak of the Curse is really no wins in 6 games!
At what point will the Titans look for relief? There is no real cure. It's no telling how long the Curse will last. However, there are a few things that may help: first and foremost the players (persons) responsible must publically apologize and make a sizable donation to the Allegheny Valley School (proceeds from the sale of Terrible Towels helps support this school for mentally and physically handicapped); second Titan fans must join the Steelers Nation. The Titans can (and should) be first in their hearts, but the Steelers should be second.
In this month of October 2009 another NFL team has fallen victim to the Terrible Towel Curse. I was a witness (and now the scribe) of this latest demonstration of the power of the Terrible Towel. The Detroit Lions had played an excellent game on that day. They were in a position to tie the score in the final 2 minutes (a touchdown and a two point conversion). Their offence marches steadily down the field. The powerful Black and Gold defense looked powerless to stop them.
Then the desecration occurred! Miss guided, the Mascot of the Lions (looks like an extra from the Lion King), in a public display of disrespect, proceed to miss-treat a Terrible Towel in a variety of ways. The long suffering Lion's Fans Cheered, while the sea of Gold Terrible Towels in the stands waved an awesome warning. The roof of that great stadium opened up and the Curse of the Terrible Towel descended - like the parting of the Red Sea, on three consecutive plays, the offensive line was breached. The defense that was unable to stop the drive to that point, thrice sacked the quarterback!
The victory was secured. Joining the Titans, now the Lions are under a black shadow. Their path to the light has been stated above. How long before the Titans come to grip with their plight (6 loses this season...7...8...9...10)? When the remedy is so easy, why suffer? Will the Lions act quickly to atone for the desecration? Will other NFL teams follow the popular path to defeat, or will they give the Terrible Towel the respect it deserves.
As Myron Cope (beloved creator of the Terrible Towel) would say: "Bring on the Brownies."
Scribe of the Terrible Towel Curse
October 12, 2009
Terrible Towel Curse Chronicles
Vol. 1 Number 3. Fall 2009
Number 3 of this Chronicle is for cause brief. What can be said when the two teams bearing the Curse lose by a combined score of 85-0?
The once feared Tennessee Titans lost by an unimaginable score of 59-0! Oh, how long will this team suffer, before the reality of the Curse is evident? The remedy is easy as presented in Vol. 1 Number 1 of this Chronicle. This team is now 0 and 7 since the dastardly deed. How long will they search elsewhere for the answer? The Steelers Nation will watch with interest as their search continues.
Detroit Lions were about to turn a great corner. They had eliminated the possibility of being the only team in NFL history to have no wins in two consecutive seasons; and they were on their way to a make a statement to the defending Super Bowl Champions. It would be nice if Detroit embraced the cure and moved on without the shadow of the Curse.
By most accounts the Curse is only activated when a player or a team representative disrespects the Terrible Towel. However, there have been some strange outcomes of resent Raven's Games. Could it be that there was a defamation that was not Chronicled? Or has the thoughtless action of a lone Raven's fan who for some time has used the Terrible Towel (given to him in good faith) as a rag to wash his boat, cause the activation of the
Curse on the Baltimore Ravens? If so, when referring to the next win of this Baltimore team, "Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore'" may be a true statement."
If this seem harsh from a viewpoint outside of the Steelers Nation, why do you think Myron Cope called those towels Terrible?
Scribe of the Terrible Towel Curse
October 20, 2009
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Beautiful
It’s truly amazing the powers of that Towel. Look at how low the Titans are now. Losing 59-0 and having the coach wearing a Peyton Manning jersey!!! WOW
by Freddyd on Oct 21, 2009 1:42 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Love it.
When I say who dey, you say we dey.
Follow me @Sn0w13allz
by sn0wballz on Oct 21, 2009 1:43 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
don't forget TJ Whoseyourmama shining his shoes with it back in 2005???
i think that was the year, you all remember it well as i do and then after the game, Chad Ochodumbass said “there is a new shefiff in the AFC North” and we all know they haven’t won a meaningfull game since. nice job, SHUT YOUR MOUTH 85
by WARDANE33 on Oct 21, 2009 3:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, Johnson missed that one
Another part of Johnson’s rambling was him saying that it’s a new era: like going from black and white to color.
It’s been pretty much black and gold since that brief moment of Cincy glory in 2005.
by upabob on Oct 21, 2009 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It took them till.... oh wait
"Polamalu’s lineage can be traced through several roots. Chuck Norris mated with an Amazon Queen, and on the other side, Tony Hawk mated with Mother Nature. The two children of these spawned and fused in a tantric love session to create Troy Polamalu. The mother however died as he tore through the birth canal with a spin move."
Mechem on the roots of Troy Polamalu
by WVPiratesfan on Oct 21, 2009 10:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
you're on it
i don’t hate people, but i dislike him as much as any player in the league or pro sports for that matter. i don’t think he has ever WON at any level including college and jc
by WARDANE33 on Oct 22, 2009 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Towel has Cursed the Ravens
The Ravens suprised the NFL last year with their AFC Championship game season, pushing the Steelers to the brink.
However, in January, a YouTube video was posted, showing Ravens fans burning a Terrible Towel. And so, by glorying in this flagrant disrespect, brought down the CURSE of the TOWEL.
After not allowing a hundred yard runner for over two years, they do so in back to back games this season, and the defense is actually being carried by the offense. The power of the Curse even managed to destroy the Ravens defense: something NFL teams have failed to do for most of a decade.
by upabob on Oct 21, 2009 4:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Great post!! And concept
Any way that this information can be transmitted to Nashville so the Titans can properly repent?
An investigation may have to be commenced in St. Louis as well.
And Cleveland!! Someone must have taken a Terrible Towel with them to the toilet years ago.
by RickVa on Oct 21, 2009 5:47 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Tried...
I posted this chronicle on a Titan’s Blog…Thinking I was giving the way out from the Curse. The removed the posting and banned me from the blog for spreading “the Curse garbage.”
by Scribe of the TTC on Oct 22, 2009 11:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
If they make 0-9
We might want to try again.
by RickVa on Oct 23, 2009 4:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
"Thinking I was giving the way out from the Curse"
Bullshit. You were rubbing it in. I would have banned you too.
by worldtrip on Oct 24, 2009 9:46 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Of course...
Of course I was rubbing it in…they deserve it. Just listen to the comment of their coach. Asking that the curse be lifted! But at the same time, if you read the carefully, you will see there is a positive way out from the Curse.
by Scribe of the TTC on Oct 24, 2009 10:11 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Believe it or not
there are even some Steeler fans who find talk of a “curse” annoying.
smacks hands together
I’m out.
by worldtrip on Oct 24, 2009 10:41 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Lets not forget
It has amazing benefits when applied as a medical wrap…
Hines Ward comes to play in the SB43 with a 4-6 week injury, in just 2 weeks.
The Great Troy Polamalu returns to action relatively quickly and performed well.
Roethlisberger likely had one as a bandanna when crashing his motorcycle, and it saved his life and let him return to the game for the preseason.
I hear it cures cancer if rubbed on a tumor.
by Mechem on Oct 21, 2009 5:51 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I didn't know that but thanks for the info
"Polamalu’s lineage can be traced through several roots. Chuck Norris mated with an Amazon Queen, and on the other side, Tony Hawk mated with Mother Nature. The two children of these spawned and fused in a tantric love session to create Troy Polamalu. The mother however died as he tore through the birth canal with a spin move."
Mechem on the roots of Troy Polamalu
by WVPiratesfan on Oct 21, 2009 10:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
What about San Diego?
San Diego dissed us after beating Pittsburgh in the AFC Championship. They went on the get their butts handed to them in the Super Bowl and haven’t been back. Despite having more talent than most other teams and being named as a perrenial playoff contender, they perform horribly in the playoffs.
TJ Hoosyourmama shined his cleats with a Towel in the year the Bungles “took over the AFC North” and haven’t been heard from since.
And when was the last time B-more won a Super Bowl?
by mantho on Oct 21, 2009 10:55 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
They're having a fit in Nashville
Fisher’s recent folly at a charity event here in Nashville (which was hysterical…probably more so because he’s not the coach of MY team..) is sending Titan’s fans into seizures. Fisher asked Tony Dungy exactly what he needed to do to break the curse of the Terrible Towel…. If you haven’t seen it, oh please take the time to view it! 0-6 looks really good on the Titans. They were warned…but they refused to listen… The Terrible Towel doesn’t play…
by 1BlkGldFan on Oct 21, 2009 11:59 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Any ideas?
Any idea of how I could get The Chronicle to Jeff Fisher?
by Scribe of the TTC on Oct 22, 2009 11:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I want to say something crappy about Towely but you still our @#%$!* daddy.
Curious, didn’t officials annex the Allegheny Valley School into the Pittsburgh School district to increase test scores and start 4A sports?
by raven on Oct 22, 2009 1:26 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
" you still our @#%$!* daddy."
I wish there were more sensible ravens fans like yourself
"It was an attrition football game and you know we like that."
by showtime on Oct 22, 2009 11:32 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Like my new Picture. It’s Troy in the trainers room.
by raven on Oct 22, 2009 1:27 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
looks lie a cherokee indian chief
who just got the hell………
by WARDANE33 on Oct 22, 2009 4:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
lol. your good. it is a cherokee indian. i was down in the nation (a real nation unlike steeler nation) in the Smokey Mountains. it was nice visiting their casino and fast food joints. oh yeah, with a backdrop of beautiful scenery and native customs. Tutonka uwana oo wachee.
i thought you might say it was the evil idol from the Hawaiian cave on the Brady Bunch.
by raven on Oct 22, 2009 11:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
the steeler nation is not real?
it has to be, my parents told me when i was 3 years old
by WARDANE33 on Oct 23, 2009 11:09 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
your tradition is pretty awsome. put i can’t admit that.
by raven on Oct 24, 2009 11:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Your secret is safe here..
Don’t worry raven… we won’t tell.
by 1BlkGldFan on Oct 25, 2009 5:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
This instance is nowhere near as infamous as the aforementioned curses, but I thought it was hilarious at the time. I was at the Detroit game. Final Detroit drive. They’re like at our 20 or something really close. Their mascot comes up on the big screen, stomping the Terrible Towel. What happens next? Three sacks in a row and an incompletion to turn the ball over, game over. Me and my friends (before the three sacks happened) were laughing at the goofy lion mascot who just doomed his team…
by BlueSquared on Oct 23, 2009 9:18 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
And then they got shut out the next week
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
by PixburghArn on Oct 23, 2009 9:27 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
nice post
the identical article was written on 22nd of october in bleacherreport.com
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/276692-beware-the-terrible-towel
by the way the Titans are NOT 0-7. They are 0-8. U missed Colts game on week 17.
by Bonek on Oct 23, 2009 10:25 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Since we're on the topic...
I’d like to share a poem I recently found on one of my google sprees while trying to explain exactly what happened/what will continue to happen to the Titans to a friend who didn’t understand the towel’s magical and mystical powers…
Curse Of The Terrible Towel
A Poem By Dave Crawley
There is power, they say, in the towels that wave.
Like black and gold shrouds on the visitor’s grave.
It’s a mojo opponents should never neglect.
The Terrible Towel requires respect.
Then this! A deed unspeakably foul!
The Tennessee Titans defiles the towel!
Although their crass actions made Steeler fans wince,
You’ll notice that Titan team hasn’t won since.
They lost to the Colts. Then the Ravens came in,
A game Tennessee was expected to win.
But the curse of the towel gave Tennessee shakes,
As they sank in a series of stunning mistakes.
Our Black and Gold guys had a much different story.
Santonio Holmes led the gallop to glory.
Fast Willie scored, and the Steelers were winning.
For the Chargers the torment was only beginning.
Third quarter. Alas, on the Bolts’ only play,
Foote gives them the boot, and he takes it away.
The towels were twirling as Ben let it go,
And the much maligned offense was starting to flow.
That towel brings sorcery into the fray.
If you don’t believe it, well, check out this play.
To add to the Chargers’ grim feelings of dread,
A punt that careened off this poor fellow’s head.
The message, of course, as we hooted with glee,
From the Terrible Towel: Do not tread on me.
A word to the Ravens. The moment draws nigh.
This is the reason you’re still flying high.
The Titans besmirched it, and now to our glee
They will be watching this game on TV.
As you enter the confines where Steeler fans howl:
Beware of the curse of the Terrible Towel.
by Mr 412 on Oct 23, 2009 1:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Like the poem, thank you for sharing it.
"I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest. If you can't take it, you shouldn't play." Jack Lambert
by LongTimeSteelersFan on Oct 25, 2009 10:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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