Why Are Steelers Fans Such Hypocrites?
by LooseCannon on Jan 3, 2010 1:24 AM EST
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With their incessant whining, echoing LaMarr Woodley, I've been viewing Steelers fans less favorably than Al-Qaeda these days. If the Bengals sit their starters, they'll be doing something that Pittsburgh has done in the past. Let's look back to the end of the 2004-2005 season.
By Week 17, the Steelers had clinched home field advantage in the ACF playoffs. Denver and the New York Jets faced win-and-you're-in scenarios. The Bills needed to win or tie the Steelers and have one of those two teams falter. The Jets would get in and the Broncos still had a chance if either lost but the Bills also lost. The Ravens and Jaguars needed help, including for the Steelers to beat the Bills.
What happened in that Pittsburgh-Buffalo game? Pittsburgh rested several starters including rookie QB Ben Roethlisberger, Jerome Bettis, Plaxico Burress. Remember Tommy Maddox? He started at quarterback. Then-unknown rookie free agent Willie Parker started instead of Bettis. Ironically, the Pittsburgh scrubs beat the Bills 29-24. More heartbreaking for Bills fans was that the Jets lost, so that a win would have put Buffalo in the playoffs.
By possibly not playing starters, Cincinnati is just doing what PIttsburgh has, wisely, done in the past.
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I believe we won that game.
Parker was a back up and Ben was hurt.
You may recall that last year, we had the 2 seed wrapped up before our week 17 match up against Cleveland. Our starters played, and Ben proceeded to get hurt. We also won that game 31-0. Have fun getting bounced from the playoffs in the first round.
You mean just like you guys have been each of the last 20 years...
save one ass-kicking at the hands of Pittsburgh?
typical steelers fan. can’t deal with current reality (your team sucks and won’t play this year in the playoffs), so turn to things that happened before. here’s an idea: come up with an original thought, then troll another team’s blog. how many times did the steelers beat the bengals this year? zero. you can eat shit and die, loser.
i'm going to go america all over your ass!
Typical Bengals fan
I make a legitimate point and you jump to a false conclusion and try to deflect your teams history of suckiness. How’s that for original?
my conclusion was valid, your point was not. what do any years previous to this one have to do with this year? absolutely nothing, unless you’re a fan of a team that has nothing left to play for this year, and you’re looking for something to use as smack talk against a rival team. you lose, just like your team lost to the bengals twice this year. enjoy watching the steelers next week. oh, wait, you don’t get to do that. therefore, you can eat shit and die.
i'm going to go america all over your ass!
Easy for you guys to write-off history
when you don’t have one…or at least one to speak of
Bad Andy, Good Pizza.
Anyway...trash talk aside
Yes, us Steelers fans are bitter and yes, hanging onto the past is somewhat therapeutic, but the facts is the facts. You guys put together a nice season so hats off to you. Good luck in the playoffs. Looking forward to meeting next year.
Bad Andy, Good Pizza.
I was curious to read what Ravens and Bengals fans are talking about today,
so I visited Baltimore Beatdown and saw a bunch of new Fan Posts discussing the playoff matchups, scenarios, strategies, etc. Lots of good football talk going into the first weekend of the playoffs.
Then I come here, and of the 4 most recent Fan Posts, 2 of them are written solely to bash the Steelers and their fans. It’s kind of sad that you’re in the playoffs with a legitimate shot at going somewhere, but the most popular thing to post about is the Steelers. Do all Bengals fans have this much of an inferiority complex, or is this just a small sample size?
And yes, you beat us twice this year. And yes, we missed the playoffs. And yes, LaMarr Woodley ran his mouth…something that exactly 1 person in the world could prevent from happening. Move on.
the fanposts were written in response to the inordinate amount of steelers fans who came here to talk trash about the bengals. it’s sad that steelers fans are that obsessed with the bengals that they feel the need to do so. the thing is, after we won the two games and the division, we did move on. steelers fans are the ones that need to move on.
i'm going to go america all over your ass!
Look at the dates and times on those posts
It was before the playoffs were set, when the Steelers still had a chance, when certain Steelers players were blaming Cincy for laying down because they “were afraid to play the Steelers in the playoffs.” That got people riled up and talking, and some Steelers fans were coming here and saying Woodley was right and we were afraid because of Pittsburghs 6 rings, blah blah blah. Had Pittsburgh not needed Cincy to win and/or Woodley not said what he did, you probably wouldn’t have seen much Steeler hate. Come back in a day or two once we’ve had a chance to recover and process last night’s (planned?) debacle and you will surely see some interesting playoffs-related content rather than petty Steelers-bashing.
Tommy Maddox was the starting QB going into that season so it's not like a chris painter started that game
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