Tonight the Pittsburgh Celebrity Fantasy Football League holds its draft, which means I’m heading to meet up with fellow team owners, lists of favored players in hand. I didn’t field a team in any league last year, and because I had no special incentive to follow any team but the Steelers, I paid zero attention …
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Miracle at the Hard Rock Cafe
The most amazing thing happened to me this evening. I attended a business event in Pittsburgh, at the Hard Rock Cafe in Station Square. It was a networking happy hour, hosted by the local chapter of the American Marketing Association and sponsored by Yuengling. (All the beer was lagers and black-and-tans. Why no ale? That …
Bug Ben
The highly stylish item you see to the left is my own personal motorcycle helmet. Pretty, ain’t it? I can’t think of any reason not to wear a helmet while riding. A helmet is most useful when traveling at the slower speeds required on city streets: On a highway you’re riding fast enough that if …
Going to Disney World!
Yo, Hines Ward! You and the Pittsburgh Steelers just won the Super Bowl — what are you going to do next?
Filling the time until kickoff
To help you while away the final hours until Super Bowl XL finally gets underway, some reading material: Ben Roethlisberger has been updating his blog regularly all week, showing the media blitz and hype from the perspective of the other side. As you can imagine, my schedule has been crazy out here in Detroit. So …
Drink of the Super Bowl: No. 43 Trophy Cup (aka The Polamalu)
My official drink of Super Bowl XL.
The very best Steelers song EVER
Do do de oo do.
First and goal to go
I have full confidence in the Steelers winning at Mile High Stadium this weekend. Or rather, I did until I read the championship picks from Bill Simmons, The Sports Guy on ESPN.com. He’s taking the Steelers over the Broncos (scroll past the mailbag for the predictions). I dislike The Sports Guy, mostly because he’s a …
Waa hey!
It seemed to be touch and go there for weeks, but I will be able to watch Steelers football this season after all: the Post-Gazette is saying that Hines Ward has ended his holdout. Press conference at 6:45.
“We tried everything to give that game away, but they darn well wouldn’t take it”
Things I lost at the Steelers game against the Jets last night: 1. My Terrible Towel 2. My voice 3. My sense of the inevitability of Steeler wins The towel was no big loss. I bought it at the Pittsburgh airport in January 1996, when I was traveling around the country with my grad school …
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