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 By now you’ve probably chatted with a Steelers fan or two who is just oh-so-super-happy that Pittsburgh has won its (count it!) sixth Super Bowl.
Eh.
Yeah, I’m a little conflicted. On one hand, the Steelers are a good team, and they’re in Pennsylvania, and their fans are pretty good. On the other hand, it’s Pittsburgh! How can that city be so awesome in a sport? KYW 1060 even found a fan who, after the game, was talking about how he thought the Steelers would win big!
(Steelers fan): “That is insane! Wow! Unbelievable! I have no voice!”
(Kim Glovas): “Did you ever think it was going to end like this?”
(Steelers fan): “No, I thought Pittsburgh was going to blow them out so it’s been a great game, I have to say that.”
Ahh, whatever. The Steelers didn’t win a title from their founding until Super Bowl IX! It’s pretty amazing they’re now viewed as one of the best franchises of the modern era after their first 42 years didn’t produce a single title. We can let them have this thing. Congrats, Pittsburgh fans.
Photo by daveynin used under a Creative Commons license
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dmac | 4:46 PM | 1 Comment
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Jun
19
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From Pittsburgh Craigslist: “I saw you couched down with your pants around your ankles. I asked “Hey, what are you doing?”. Your reply was ‘Pooping in a groundhog hole! I read about it online. It’s suppose to trick the groundhog into thinking another animal has moved into it’s lair.’” Let’s remind ourselves it’s not a good idea to do everything the Internet tells us. And also that it’s probably not a good idea to do everything people from Pittsburgh tell us as well. Thanks, Emily.
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dmac | 1:24 PM | 0 Comments
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May
13
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Guys, get this! Sometime “a generation or so ago” something simply horrendous happened in Philadelphia, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Dave Molinari:
He might have a valid point, but in a city that celebrates the hostility of its sports fans — remember, these are the folks who, a generation or so ago, generated national headlines by booing Santa Claus — chucking popcorn hardly seems to constitute an act of wanton violence.
OMGZ! Who knew?! It’s amazing that his column also references The O’Jays, whose only #1 hit was five years after Eagles fans threw snowballs at Santa. “Love Train,” I will note, was on Philadelphia International records.
Malkin not a fan of free popcorn provided to bench [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
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dmac | 3:28 PM | 1 Comment
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May
13
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The only thing that’s cool about the Rocky statue is that it makes people really upset for some reason; nonetheless, the trend of fans of opposing teams putting their favorite team’s jersey on the statue was kind of too WIP for me to even think about. (Unless I did write about it and forgot about it.)
But, hey, this is pretty good: Some Flyers fan in Pittsburgh went and showed up all those dudes in the ‘Burgh by putting a Flyers jersey on Pittsburgh’s famous statue of a dinosaur at Carnegie Mellon. Ha ha, our most famous things might be a fictional boxer and a cracked bell, but at least those things aren’t extinct.
Oh yeah the Flyers are down like 45 games to none already despite having only played two games; Game 3 is tonight at the Wachovia Center.
Flyers Fans in the Burgh Dress Statue in Giant Flyers Jersey [The 700 Level]
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dmac | 2:39 PM | 0 Comments
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May
6
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Time to pick on Pittsburgh, who the Flyers are playing in the Stanley Cup semifinals starting Friday. In another in a long line of meaningless rankings — this one rating “kinda meaningless” as opposed to “completely meaningless” — Pittsburgh has ranked #1 in the American Lung Association’s list of America’s Sootiest Cities.
Not that Philly is doing any better. Philly got a 6.3 from stateoftheair.org and had 19 “orange days.” Shit! 19 orange days! a six-point-three! And, look, Philly is #11 in ozone and 22nd in short-term partical pollution.
The State of the Air 2008 blog says it, uh, well:
When I found out that this year’s report card reveals that that one in 10 people in the U.S. live in areas with unhealthy levels of all three types of pollution: ozone, short-term and year-round particle pollution, I immediately went online to check the levels in my own state to see how this affected me and my family.
Me, too! Anyway, where were we? Oh, yeah, Pittsburgh. Those sootmongers!
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dmac | 12:25 PM | 5 Comments
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May
5
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Well, well! The Flyers polished off the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night and will take on the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Eastern Conference Finals. It’s the closest a Philadelphia sports team has been to a championship since the Eagles lost the Super Bowl in 2005.
The Flyers have already beaten the game’s one young superstar, Alex “Blowback Chicken” Ovechkin, and beat Canada’s team of destiny in Montreal. What’s one more superstar — Sidney Crosby, aka the whining brat (note: I don’t know anything about Crosby I’m just assuming he’s a whiner because he’s a star hockey player in 2008) — to take down in a seven-game series?
The leader of the Flyers this series was none other than R.J. Umberger, who had two goals in the clinching game Saturday night. Archie Hamburger had eight goals in five games against Montreal; he only had 13 goals all season.
The series begins Friday out in Pittsburgh. Starting tomorrow, Philadelphia Will Do will be relentlessly bashing Pittsburgh all week in advance of the Flyers’ trip to the Stanley Cup Semifinals. Oh, this is going to be fun.
Flyers-Pens: Expect a punishing contest [Inquirer]
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dmac | 3:05 PM | 4 Comments
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Apr
28
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Since the Pirates beat the Phillies yesterday, let’s make fun of Western Pennsylvania! The ravishing bride at left is the former Christa Vattimo, who was married to David M. Wielechowski on Saturday.
Then they went to the Holiday Inn — the Motel 6 was completely booked — dafter their wedding, got into a fight and were both arrested:
According to a criminal complaint, the Wielechowskis had just checked into the Holiday Inn-McKnight Road in Ross and were ready to enter their room on the seventh floor when they began arguing. Dr. Wielechowski “then used a karate-style kick with his leg to kick Christa, knocking her to the floor,” the complaint reads.
Upon hearing her screams, two guests of the hotel who had been attending another wedding reception ran to Mrs. Wielechowski’s aid. But when they attempted to restrain Dr. Wielechowski, he began fighting the would-be rescuers only to have Mrs. Wielechowski “turn against [them] and also begin to assault them,” according to the complaint.
The fight moved from the hallway into an elevator, then spilled out onto the floor of the lobby, where Dr. and Mrs. Wielechowski picked up metal planters containing live plants and threw them into the elevator at the two rescuers, the complaint says.
Oh, yes, Mr. Wielechowski is a dentist, of course.
Meanwhile, in Bridgeville (also in Allegheny County), a man was arrested for annoying government officials by calling them and telling them they suck. The police chief said: “In section 2709 of the Pennsylvania crimes code, dealing with harassment, it specifically states that when a person, they harass, annoy or alarm an individual based upon the conduct, then it’s harassment.” Watch it, commenters, or I’m going to have you all arrested.
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dmac | 1:08 PM | 11 Comments
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Apr
7
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By now you’re probably familiar with Google Street View, the totally neat-o Google Maps add on that allows us to see hilarious street drug deals captured by Google’s roving camera van.
In the Philadelphia area, Google Street View contains most of Center City — with strange gaps, such as the 1500 block of Sansom Street1– as well as suburbs as far as Bristol, Wilmington and Newark.
Well, enjoy it while you can, suckers! A Pittsburgh couple is suing Google, claiming Street View “violated their privacy, devalued their property and caused them mental suffering.”
Fair enough. But, whoops, Google says apparently you can get your house off Google Street View if you want to, meaning that if this thing is publicized enough a ton of streets will be removed and the tool will be worthless. “There’s no merit to this action,” Google spokesman Larry Yu said. “It is unfortunate litigation was chosen to address the concern because we have visible tools, such as a YouTube video, to help people learn about imagery removal and an easy-to-use process to facilitate image removal.” Still, no one has explained why Google Street View was done in Pittsburgh.
Oh, and that YouTube video? Right here.
1 They also have my parents’ street, a horseshoe street near Franklin Mills, and don’t have mine, which is in Center City.
Lawsuit Claims Google Maps Violates Privacy [AP/CBS 3]
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dmac | 10:22 AM | 3 Comments
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