TeeJay
02-17-2008, 01:41 PM
In my case, it's kinda like an internet chatroom I guess. You've never actually seen/met the person, yet you know them! :wink02:
So, yep.....I've never been to Pittsburgh, hell, I've never been to The States (gasps) but back in the early 80's on a fledgling channel in the UK, they started broadcasting American Football. From the first game I, like a lot of my fellow countrymen and women was hooked. Now they say, you don't actually pick you team, the team picks you. I guess that was the case for me....
I could have gone for The Redskins, The Raiders (apparently that was the team all the cool kids supported!!!) or the ever popular Dolphins.....but there was just something about the name, The Pittsburgh Steelers...............so in January 1985 they became my official American Football Team. Excuse my ignorance, but back then, I'd never heard of Bradshaw, Swan, Stallworth, Lambert, Ham, Harris, Greene, Noll et all, and at the mention of a Steel Curtain I assumed someone was talking about the cold war........I didn't even know where Pittsburgh was, just somewhere in the USA!! All I knew they played in Black and Gold.........and that beats Black and Silver (in your face Raiders fans:wink02:) any day! It was just something about that name...The Steelers.
So each year, I'd watch Channel 4 and their coverage of the games (an hour each week) with the only live game being the superbowl. As such, during those years, it seemed the only times The Steelers were ever shown they lost! *sighs*. And the chance of actually seeing The Steelers 'live' in a Super Bowl just seemed one step too far. But each year I was back, and still urging 'my boys' on - Even set my alarm a few times to listen in to the AFN radio broadcasts - which were fun!!! Intermitent commentary and static provided entertainment in the wee hours back then.
So here I am, 23 years later...loving The Steelers more than ever, and thanks to the internet and especially the Pittsburgh Steelers Radio Network, being able to bore you good people with stuff like this, and listen to live coverage without the squaking static that was the AFN...although I do look back on that with a certain nostalgia!. So what I'm really trying to say is.....a BIG Thanks to The Steelers......you don't know how happy I was after Super Bowl XL..No need for coffee at work that week..the ultimate buzz! To Pittsburgh, for letting me in join in the ride and openning my eyes to the Penguins and Pirates as well, and for sites like these. If only they had the internet when I was young!!! :dang: Win or lose, you know a Steeler is a Steeler for life, not just a SuperBowl *looks towards New England with a smug Tom Brady grin*
When I tell people at work that next year I'm going to the States for a holiday, and they ask where...Florida, New York, Los Angeles?, they kinda look at me funny when I say "No, Pittsburgh".
I can't think of a better place to go! :tt02::thumbsup:
Editted, in a sudo Jack Lambert voice :- And you damn well better believe I'm going to Heinz Field!
So, yep.....I've never been to Pittsburgh, hell, I've never been to The States (gasps) but back in the early 80's on a fledgling channel in the UK, they started broadcasting American Football. From the first game I, like a lot of my fellow countrymen and women was hooked. Now they say, you don't actually pick you team, the team picks you. I guess that was the case for me....
I could have gone for The Redskins, The Raiders (apparently that was the team all the cool kids supported!!!) or the ever popular Dolphins.....but there was just something about the name, The Pittsburgh Steelers...............so in January 1985 they became my official American Football Team. Excuse my ignorance, but back then, I'd never heard of Bradshaw, Swan, Stallworth, Lambert, Ham, Harris, Greene, Noll et all, and at the mention of a Steel Curtain I assumed someone was talking about the cold war........I didn't even know where Pittsburgh was, just somewhere in the USA!! All I knew they played in Black and Gold.........and that beats Black and Silver (in your face Raiders fans:wink02:) any day! It was just something about that name...The Steelers.
So each year, I'd watch Channel 4 and their coverage of the games (an hour each week) with the only live game being the superbowl. As such, during those years, it seemed the only times The Steelers were ever shown they lost! *sighs*. And the chance of actually seeing The Steelers 'live' in a Super Bowl just seemed one step too far. But each year I was back, and still urging 'my boys' on - Even set my alarm a few times to listen in to the AFN radio broadcasts - which were fun!!! Intermitent commentary and static provided entertainment in the wee hours back then.
So here I am, 23 years later...loving The Steelers more than ever, and thanks to the internet and especially the Pittsburgh Steelers Radio Network, being able to bore you good people with stuff like this, and listen to live coverage without the squaking static that was the AFN...although I do look back on that with a certain nostalgia!. So what I'm really trying to say is.....a BIG Thanks to The Steelers......you don't know how happy I was after Super Bowl XL..No need for coffee at work that week..the ultimate buzz! To Pittsburgh, for letting me in join in the ride and openning my eyes to the Penguins and Pirates as well, and for sites like these. If only they had the internet when I was young!!! :dang: Win or lose, you know a Steeler is a Steeler for life, not just a SuperBowl *looks towards New England with a smug Tom Brady grin*
When I tell people at work that next year I'm going to the States for a holiday, and they ask where...Florida, New York, Los Angeles?, they kinda look at me funny when I say "No, Pittsburgh".
I can't think of a better place to go! :tt02::thumbsup:
Editted, in a sudo Jack Lambert voice :- And you damn well better believe I'm going to Heinz Field!