Posted on 02/09/2006 8:30:25 AM PST by beyond the sea
Dear Mr. Tagliabue,
I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize to you and the league for my intemperate remarks at our ceremony at Qwest Field concerning the officiating during the Superbowl.
On Monday, just one short day after “losing” (oops) the game, I was still burned about the outcome, and I had consumed about a pound of bad jumbo shrimp for lunch, my stomach was churning, and it was just a bad day all around. I came home from Detroit, our cat was missing from the house, the Governor’s dog was hit by a car, and she was blaming me for that. Just real bad all around, Paul.
Paul, I was still stinging from calls that went against our team. It seemed like the bad calls were stacking up as high as the Space Needle.
I’ve always been known as a good and decent man in the community. Well, perhaps except for the time I borrowed my neighbor’s Rototiller to do that work on the Church rose garden .................. heck I didn’t see that rock ............. like I didn’t see that sneaky Steeler trick play coming. My neighbor told me he wouldn’t be using that Rototiller for a good long time, I thought he’d never noticed it was broken. Wosrt thing I ever did, Paul......... until now.
I feel as badly about my comment to the fans, “ "I didn't know we were going to have to play the guys in the striped shirts as well”, as I did about giving my neighbor back his mangled Rototiller. Come to think about it, that Rototiller was as busted as our defense on that Willie Parker blast right through our defense.
In closing, you must know that I’m still crushed about the loss and my words, but if you and the league are going to fine me for my perverse and untoward words, I ask you to please take into consideration that at least I didn’t refer to the officials as zebras. That should count for something.......................... and, Paul, am I off the competition committee?
Regards,
Mike Holmgren
Are you in PGH? I'm out by Harrisburg and in today's Patriot News there was an editorial by a writer in the Miami Herald who spoke negatively of Holmgren's comment. will try to find it for you. It was at the back of the sports section.
You can't un-ring a bell Mike........
Will you get over it already. You've been pulling me into your arguments on another thread since Sunday. This obsession you have isn't normal. It's a football game. The game has been over for four days. And the STEELERS won! Your team WON! What do you expect folks to do? KYA! Move along, little doggy, move along.
I know plenty about football. I live in the state that is home to the team that got to five Super Bowl victories an entire decade before the Stealers. It is also home to the National Champions of College football, something Penn State can only dream about.
Next time (if there ever is a next time) you get to the Super Bowl, act like you've been there before.
Now that is funny. A much better attempt at humor than the original post.
And the beat goes on.
ROFLMAO!
I'm learing, jj.
How to get their goat in three easy lessons. LOL
Talk about giving it a rest. Give it a rest.
(you've got two more days to cease and desist!) ;^)
HUH?
Foul and rectangular?
They just don't get it, do they? ROFL!
------------------ Yes..... in the woods north of the city with a case of Iron City (well, a half of a case) and this computer.............. oh, and some sweet pets.
;-)
But he, as a coach of so many years in the league, should never have said what he did in public.
But it has no affect whatsoever on my admiration for Dan Rooney, Bill Cowher, or the Pittsburgh Steelers.
This disappointment on the part of Seahawks fans and football "purists" will pass, at least in the minds of the reasonable.
Now that is funny.
You are right, it's not normal, I agree. But, it's not just a football game, it's about fairness and truth. I am obsessed with losers or weak folks lashing out at the winners or those that come out on top, and come out top for good reason. (Read Demian by Hermann Hesse - look at the three pages where Demian gives his interpretation of the Cain and Abel Biblical story) ........ you will see what I mean. ----- some people ( in this book, Cain) are "marked" not because they are evil but because they are superior and are feared by others.
It's a stretch, but whatever.
;-)
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