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CHAMPS!!!!! STEELERS WIN SUPERBOWL
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | 2/5/2006 | Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Posted on 02/05/2006 8:19:51 PM PST by serendepitylives

STEELERS WIN SUPERBOWL X-TRA LARGE DETROIT - Mick Jagger moved up and down the field at halftime more easily than the Pittsburgh offense did for most of the game. In the end, though, Jerome Bettis, the Steelers and their thousands of rowdy fans wound up the big winners on Super Bowl Sunday. Save for a few big plays that changed the game, style points were hard to come by on America's annual football holiday. But to Pittsburgh, the 21-10 victory over the Seattle Seahawks was beautiful _ a gritty grind of a game that included just enough flair to transform a blue-collar team playing in a blue-collar city into champions.

In a stadium brimming with thousands of Pittsburgh fans waving Terrible Towels, the Steelers finally captured their fifth title, that "One for the Thumb" they've been chasing since 1980.

"It's almost unreal right now," coach Bill Cowher said.

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: bettis; detriot; fixed; fixedgame; lynnswann; nfl; pittsburgh; seahawks; sports; steelers; superbowl
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To: F. dAnconia

you posted to the wrong person. yea your right, I have only been a football fan for over 25 years, I dont know anything about it.


21 posted on 02/05/2006 8:34:26 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Drango; Mr. Mojo
"Amin. Please correct the headline to STEALERS use 12th man (ref) to win."

Right...

Horrible officiating.

The Seahawks were the victims of crucial questionable calls.

By my count, they lost 2 TDs.

22 posted on 02/05/2006 8:34:27 PM PST by F16Fighter
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To: Number57

LOL, don't you know they were all attached to the wires on the roof with Cheney and Rove in control ? They just had them all pumped up on military stims for the 20 min they had to get out of the wheelchairs.


23 posted on 02/05/2006 8:34:54 PM PST by farlander
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To: Echo Talon
Seattle passed to the 1 yrd line for 1st down and that was taken away from them.

Is that where the reciever caught the ball with his left in bound but he stepped out of bounds with his right? That was a correct call.

24 posted on 02/05/2006 8:35:06 PM PST by Ultra Sonic 007 (Hitler and Stalin have nothing on Abortion)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007
Is that where the reciever caught the ball with his left in bound but he stepped out of bounds with his right? That was a correct call.

No, that was where the refs called holding that wasn't.

25 posted on 02/05/2006 8:36:05 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yea man that was a let down. Soul's allright, but man. There was just no STRENGTH in that performance. It was just... flat. Soft. Too soft.


26 posted on 02/05/2006 8:36:17 PM PST by farlander
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

They made it a tribute to the victims of hurricane Katrina with Aaron Neville and Aretha "Refrigerator" Franklin humming, moaning and mouthing the words to what appeared to be the Star Spangled Banner. Nothing recognizable. Pretty pitiful.


27 posted on 02/05/2006 8:36:52 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (We did not lose in Vietnam. We left.)
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To: serendepitylives
Sentimental Referees Win Super Bowl for Bus
28 posted on 02/05/2006 8:38:04 PM PST by llevrok (I don't know the difference between latter and former - and I don't care !)
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To: Echo Talon
"They lost and had it given to them, sad day for the NFL as a whole."

Wah.

29 posted on 02/05/2006 8:39:53 PM PST by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American (Keep the adults in charge of Congress.)
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To: Echo Talon
Your post says "..they (Pit) had it given to them". If that is what you meant...then you are wrong...regardless of how many years you have been watching football.

25 years has not taught you to objectively look at team's strength. I hate Pittsburg myself. However, they are clearly the better team by every measure.
30 posted on 02/05/2006 8:41:07 PM PST by F. dAnconia (We say: "It is, therefore, I want it. They say: "I want it, therefore it is")
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To: Drango
"Amin. Please correct the headline to STEALERS use 12th man (ref) to win."

But...but...I thought the Seahawks OWN the "12th man"...oh, that's right, they STOLE it from the University of Texas...and are being sued to return what is not theirs according to trademark registration.

Old story for liberals...thinking they should be able to take whatever they want and crying unfairness when they don't get it. You're in good company.

31 posted on 02/05/2006 8:43:57 PM PST by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American (Keep the adults in charge of Congress.)
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To: F. dAnconia
I hate Pittsburg myself. However, they are clearly the better team by every measure.

Yea, Ben Roethlisbergers 22.22 QB rating was AWESOME! give Seattle the 14 points they should have had and take away the 7 that the refs gave pit and then tell we what the score should be

32 posted on 02/05/2006 8:44:43 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: serendepitylives; beyond the sea

Congratulations to the Men of Steel! I'm happy for Cowher, who seesm to be a class act, and I would say the same of Bettis.


33 posted on 02/05/2006 8:48:08 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I can't stand Aaron Neville. Can't he ever sing a song straight without warbling up and down almost continuously. He almost sounds like he's yodeling.

And what's with that big ugly mole on his eyebrow? With his money, you'd think he could afford a little plastic surgery.

Areatha used to be great. Can't she afford a gastric bypass? "Refrigerator" is right. Maybe with a washer and dryer thrown in too.


34 posted on 02/05/2006 8:48:11 PM PST by garyhope (Happy, healthy, prosperous New Year to all good Freepers and our brave military.)
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To: Echo Talon
Oh yes, I often use QB rating to rate whether teams are better than one another. </sarcasm>

Complaining about the refs making SEA lose the game is so ridiculous I won't even respond to it.

I believe your last post proves my original assertion than you know little about football.
35 posted on 02/05/2006 8:50:04 PM PST by F. dAnconia (We say: "It is, therefore, I want it. They say: "I want it, therefore it is")
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To: Rummyfan

ditto


36 posted on 02/05/2006 8:50:21 PM PST by beyond the sea (Cal Thomas: If only Robert Bork had cried ...................)
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To: farlander

Mick must have required two remotes ;)


37 posted on 02/05/2006 8:50:56 PM PST by Number57 (Badly worded, but heartfelt)
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To: serendepitylives

Congrats, Steeler fans - your boys outplayed the Seahawks.

Holgren's incredibly poor clock management comes back to haunt him again. Seahawk fans who want a scapegoat should look at him before whinging about the officials.

You guys enjoy this moment. You deserve it.


38 posted on 02/05/2006 8:51:18 PM PST by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: F. dAnconia
I believe your last post proves my original assertion than you know little about football.

I know Seattle got robbed.

39 posted on 02/05/2006 8:51:28 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: F. dAnconia
" I hate Pittsburg myself."

Pittsburg is in Kansas, and is far too small a town to have a pro team of any sort.

PITTSBURGH,however, although they played poorly, managed, as you attest, to show that even on their worst day they can beat the best the NFC has to offer.

Not to mention showing their coach to be far less than the tactical genius many would have us believe him to be...talk about choking at the end of the halves.

Maybe his team won't be so much like little boys hanging on every word of their hero anymore.

40 posted on 02/05/2006 8:53:08 PM PST by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American (Keep the adults in charge of Congress.)
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