Steelers Loss Means Boost to Local Economy, Pittsburgh Officials Say
by trotanoy on Dec 12, 2009 7:03 PM EST
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December 11, 2009 – As Steelers’ playoff hopes essentially died Thursday in Cleveland, Pittsburgh-area officials were quick to report an expected bump to its local economy, as millions of jobless Steelers fans will soon return to vacated drive-thru jobs.
“Our economy is built around the fast-food drive-thru industry,” said Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce president Black Lungston. “Each year millions of Steelers fans leave their drive-thru jobs to blog 20 hours a day about the Steelers.”
According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, nearly 92 percent of all Pittsburgh drive-thru positions have gone unfilled since the first 2009 pre-season game.
Byron Krunk, known on NFL blogs as 2-4-Da-Thumb, and who still owns the blogosphere record for most usage of the word “Bungles” (27,546,712), is already looking to the 2010 season.
“No way I’m going back to Wendy’s,” Krunk said. “No F---ing way. Sure, I had a highly challenging job there, but we can’t give Cincinnati one moment’s peace. They Bungles. Bungles suck, Bungles blow, Bungles bite me, Bungles eat me, Bungles are Bungles!” Krunk spent 12 years as drive-thru trainee at a Pittsburgh-area ButtyBurger.
Pittsburgh resident Spike Turner sees it differently. “Sure, I’m a Steelers fan and hate to see them lose ... but having to park and actually go inside for a burger? Hell no, me and my family just stay home. Oh yeah, Bungles suck, Bungles blow.”
Google Search spokesperson Terri Gradshaw said her company each year must reinforce server capacity due to heavy keyword traffic coming from Pittsburgh zip codes.
“When the Steelers get eliminated,” Gradshaw said, “we start seeing heavy blog use of keywords like Bungles, Bungles suck, Bungles blow, Bungles bite me, Bungles eat me, Bungles are Bungles ... even some ‘Bungles are dumbherds’, but we think they mean ‘dumbheads.’ They’re bad spellers in Pittsburgh.”
When informed of the Steelers loss, the Pittsburgh Fast-Food Drive-Thru Association said, “Bungles suck, Bungles blow, Bungles bite me, Bungles eat me, Bungles are Bungles ... Bungles are dumbherds.
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*Yawn*
Unfortunately for you, when you get knocked out of the playoffs, we will still have six lomardi trophies and you will still have zero. We will also have a better conference record.
I love being the most-hated guy here. I love beating them while [their fans] are flicking me off. --Hines Ward
Make that Lombardi
And you still have zero
I love being the most-hated guy here. I love beating them while [their fans] are flicking me off. --Hines Ward
Me too.
Also illuminating to know they think all our anger is directed at them.
A Steelers fan would have been sure to include Bruce Arians.
Bengals better win the SuperBowl this year
Or else I am going to troll the eff out of your boards when you will most likely fail. And your season will have been worthless.
The Hell that Tomlin & the Steelers have unleashed on me this December is indescribable.
by John Stephens on Dec 12, 2009 7:46 PM EST reply actions 5 recs
I'm already getting my posts ready
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
Only one team is remembered at the end of each season.
And it won’t be the guys wearing the Halloween costumes.
Let Him Have At It
Between this yahoo and the other one, Bengals-Fan, they’ve been having a grand old time the last few days. I find it rather pathetic that with the Bengals playing so well this year, these guys would prefer to spend their time HERE than on their own site.
The only thing I would ask this guy is that he at least have enough stones to come back and take his medicine when the Bengals get bumped in the play-offs and/or the next season the fall off the wagon.
It only takes me about 5 minutes to come in here and give you a little dose of your own medicine.
If you don't live like you wanna, you live like you shouldn't
YOU'RE A FUCKING COWARD!
Every day brings future to past, every breath leaves me one less to my last. DT
Dude
I appreciate your distaste for this jerk, but it seems like you go out of your way to drop ‘F’ bombs in his direction. A little discretion goes a long way. Don’t stoop to his moronic, childish behavior.
The Hell that Tomlin & the Steelers have unleashed on me this December is indescribable.
by John Stephens on Dec 13, 2009 1:06 PM EST up reply actions
Call 'em as I see 'em. Thanks for your concern
Every day brings future to past, every breath leaves me one less to my last. DT
Well Blitz will call it as he sees it
As he has said in the rules unnecessary cursing is prohibited. Just giving you forewarning.
The Hell that Tomlin & the Steelers have unleashed on me this December is indescribable.
by John Stephens on Dec 13, 2009 4:58 PM EST up reply actions
And I don't give a flying rats tail son. Have a cup of STFU too punk!
Every day brings future to past, every breath leaves me one less to my last. DT
And you are enlisted in our armed forces? That is quite unsettling.
The Hell that Tomlin & the Steelers have unleashed on me this December is indescribable.
by John Stephens on Dec 13, 2009 6:15 PM EST up reply actions
87-97
I did my time for my country. I like how you sided with that fucking cowardice bungles fan talking shit on here.
That’s bullshit!
Every day brings future to past, every breath leaves me one less to my last. DT
Are you honestly that dense?
Read back over my comments. This is what I lead off with:
I appreciate your distaste for this jerk
Is that me siding with the Bengals fan? Clearly not. Also read where I said:
Bengals better win the SB this year or else I am going to troll the eff out of your boards when you will most likely fail. And your season will have been worthless.
I’d expect they’d have better schooling for our nation’s marines.
The Hell that Tomlin & the Steelers have unleashed on me this December is indescribable.
by John Stephens on Dec 13, 2009 7:19 PM EST up reply actions
Did you even read the comment?
Come back when you’ve won in the play-offs, then we’ll talk. Until then, you haven’t proved anything outside of having nothing better to do then come here and talk shit.
I was talking to a Bengals fan the other day
And he was of course making fun of our loss in Cleveland. I basically told him that they had better win the Super BowI or this season wasn’t a success. He told me that he didn’t care if they won the Super Bowl as long as they beat us twice.
I just shook my head and didn’t say anything else. That comment stuck with me for the rest of the day. What kind of fan doesn’t care if their team wins the Super Bowl?
I hope the guy who put this post up responds to my question, but he probably won’t.
A Bengals fan
What kind of fan doesn’t care if their team wins the Super Bowl?
BTSC Obituaries
OldManSteeler, ominously died two days before Superbowl 123 where the Ravens are set to attempt their 7th superbowl win, facing the Detroit Lions on Sunday. He was 86. His last words are believed to be "MALOR CAN SUCK IT!!!". Like friends and family, we can only guess what this could mean.
by Tim Mullhaupt (HSS) on Dec 13, 2009 10:46 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Apparently Browns fans too....
I love being the most-hated guy here. I love beating them while [their fans] are flicking me off. --Hines Ward
You should try writing your own material.... you took this from another author
I love being the most-hated guy here. I love beating them while [their fans] are flicking me off. --Hines Ward
I will root for the Bengals
in the post-season.
We Steelers fans have had great luck these past few years. One of those years that luck came expressly through Cincinnati. It makes me glad to see Carson, as a player, back at his best.
Marvin Lewis, a Pittsburgher by birth and former Steelers coach, has done the miraculous in twice building monster teams in what was once “Bungle Country”.
And, as divisional rivals in the AFC North, it only strengthens the reputation of our division if another AFCN team were to go all the way.
Finally, the NFL experience only benefits when new teams and regions enter the Great Stage of SB Victors.
Personally, i’m a big enough person to wish them the best.
Yeah, no.
The Hell that Tomlin & the Steelers have unleashed on me this December is indescribable.
by John Stephens on Dec 13, 2009 1:07 PM EST up reply actions
No way on that one
I’d rather the NFL shut down
The Hell that Tomlin & the Steelers have unleashed on me this December is indescribable.
by John Stephens on Dec 13, 2009 1:18 PM EST up reply actions
It’d be Bengals for me. But I live near Baltimore and have to deal with these jackals a lot more than Bengals fans. However, to me this is like choosing between death by fire or death by hanging.
The Hell that Tomlin & the Steelers have unleashed on me this December is indescribable.
by John Stephens on Dec 13, 2009 1:29 PM EST up reply actions
I shoulda pointed out
that this is an ugly, disappointing and shitty choice to have to make.
I’d rather root for the Steelers, but that doesn’t seem to be an option come January.
Of course, i could be wrong….
I don’t think you have to worry about that.
by SteelerFanInPatsieLand on Dec 14, 2009 9:48 AM EST up reply actions
Not Me. AFC, Colts NFC, Giants (then Vikes)
I love being the most-hated guy here. I love beating them while [their fans] are flicking me off. --Hines Ward
Unfortunately, i am serious-
As much as i hate the way Chad Johnson runs his mouth, and how classless some Bengals fans are, i’m always on the side of the underdog if the Steelers aren’t an option.
If, by some miraculous event, our Steelers make it into the playoffs, all bets are off and i hate everybody except my home team. But i’ve watched enough football in this division to know how loyal Bengal/Bungles fans have been through some terrible years and i think there are a few in that bunch who deserve some success if the Steelers play themselves out of contention. Which they have at this point.
And, finally, it only strengthens the AFC North to have a 3-way rivalry between CIN/PIT/BAL.
I'm going with the Saints a team that has been that bad for that long deserves a chance to win it all
Players who should be in the Hall of Fame
DIck Lebeau, Pat TIllman, Dwight White, Donnie Shell, L.C. Greenwood, Ray Guy, Steve Tasker, Greg Llyod, Andy Russel and Chris Carter
by WVPiratesfan on Dec 13, 2009 6:33 PM EST up reply actions
I'd be cool with a Saints SB too
or even The Wizard of AZ and his Magical Flying Angry Redbirds….lol
If it hadn’t been our Stillers playing against them lat year i’da been rooting for ’em.
I'm all for the underdog unless they happen to be playing us
Players who should be in the Hall of Fame
DIck Lebeau, Pat TIllman, Dwight White, Donnie Shell, L.C. Greenwood, Ray Guy, Steve Tasker, Greg Llyod, Andy Russel and Chris Carter
by WVPiratesfan on Dec 13, 2009 10:31 PM EST up reply actions
HOW ABOUT THOSE BENGALS NOW YOU PIECE OF SHIT?
Even the lowly Steelers beat the Viqueens.
Every day brings future to past, every breath leaves me one less to my last. DT
by usmcsdi69 on Dec 13, 2009 4:35 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
They beat us twice
So the translational property is irrelevant.
The Hell that Tomlin & the Steelers have unleashed on me this December is indescribable.
by John Stephens on Dec 13, 2009 4:59 PM EST up reply actions
You're a stinking liberal aren't you?
Every day brings future to past, every breath leaves me one less to my last. DT
Were you often dropped as a baby?
The Hell that Tomlin & the Steelers have unleashed on me this December is indescribable.
by John Stephens on Dec 13, 2009 6:16 PM EST up reply actions
Are you calling ME a POS?
What’re you? 12?
’Cause no self-respecting leatherneck would embarrass the Corps by posting the trash you do.
You better put your daddy’s DI hat back in the attic and act your hairless-nutted age, son.
You are NOT a Marine
Not with the obvious complete lack of discipline, intelligence and self-control you have displayed here so far.
Most likely you’ve either flat-out stolen some REAL Marine Drill Instructors photo, or illegally used a family members; either way you’re still a fraud, a fake, and a criminal.
As a former Army paratrooper I know REAL Marines, and you aren’t one.
It takes a helluva lot more that a filthy mouth and pretend-tough talk to be a military member. If you’d ever earned the right to wear any uniform you’d never disgrace it by associating it with the garbage you’ve posted on BTSC. Had you ever earned the right to face combat you’d have learned how to have much, much more respect for the privilege of displaying that uniform while participating in any activity in your non-military life. And, finally, you would know that having earned that uniform and the right to wear would mean that you know the value of freedom, for which you wear that hard-earned uniform.
No- you’re no Marine. You’re a pre-pubescent turd who has stolen an image of respect in a desperate attempt to become something more than the nobody you really are.
+1
Now, usmcsdi69 stand down. This is unnecessary and unbecoming. You have written some things that were well worth reading. I encourage you to rethink your recent trend.
When the tailgate drops, the BS stops. Shut up and play!
YOU FUCKING COWARD!
Any day you are ready you piece of shit scumbag!
Every day brings future to past, every breath leaves me one less to my last. DT
Jackass
"Chris! That's a terrible word! Pussywillows..."
-Lois Griffin
by Steel Spike on Dec 13, 2009 8:32 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Check this out
I don’t need to listen to that from you punk. You come on these boards to stir up shit. Keep your nasty ass in Mexico you worthless fuck!
Every day brings future to past, every breath leaves me one less to my last. DT
You've gone so far past moronic
I cannot even tell who you are talking to anymore.
The Hell that Tomlin & the Steelers have unleashed on me this December is indescribable.
by John Stephens on Dec 13, 2009 7:21 PM EST up reply actions
lol
FACE! haha
I drank before the game cause I was excited
I drank during the game cause I was confused
I drank after the game cause, well, I was already drinking. why not?
by Steelchamps !! on Dec 13, 2009 9:55 PM EST up reply actions
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