The Poopsburgh Suckers

[reminisco]

It has recently been brought to my attention that there are those among us who seem to think that the Philadelphia Eagles are the second best football team in Pennsylvania.

behind the Pittsburgh Steelers.

this is completely false, just in case any of you were wondering.

also, if you were going to try and use your Devil Wizardy Spells (like statistics, number of Super Bowls won, etc) know that in Philadelphia, the Rocky Underdog-Factor Counterspell negates any and all such influence upon our knowledge that the Philadelphia Eagles are indeed not only the best football team in the state, but also in the galaxy.

anyone who contradicts what i'm saying here does not understand what Philadelphia has contributed to the world of sports.

remember, it was Philadelphia fans who:

*invented the "boo" (they call em the Boo Birds for a reason).

*booed Santa Claus.

*started the now time honored tradition of sneaking batteries into the stadium so as to make snowballs around them, and aim for the opposing team's helmets (especially important when playing the Dallas Cowboys).

*Fly, Eagles, Fly is a badass fight song and is appropriately sung at any time, like dinner, church, temple, mosque, or during mock ritualistic human sacrifice of Cowboys, Giants, or Redskins fans.

therefore, and in conclusion, E-A-G-L-E-S, Eagles Eagles Eagles!



(ps. Steelers suck)

[Strife]

Wow. I think this is too "Intelleegent" for this forum. Absolutely brilliant...

[autoload]

I like it.

[Curmudgeonx]

This initially belongs in IK, but I am also sure that it would find its way back to flame wars very shortly thereafter.

And both Pennslyvania football teams suck, Steelers were okay with "Ground" Chuck Knox, but Eagles haven't been worthy since Ryan and Randall, although the fog bowl in Chicago was a great game to be at although I couldn't see shit.

And Remi, to keep this in FW, all people from Philly since the 1700's, including you, take the concept of brotherly love a little too far, if you catch my drift.

[wicked]

You guys hit the nail on the head, it's been moved to IK and will be unlocked in a few minutes in case anyone was responding to it in FW with a flame of remi for posting in the wrong place.

[reminisco]

sorry. an oversight on my part. meant to post this in IK.

and CurmudgeonX, when you say that people in Philly take the concept of Brotherly Love too far, in some ways (but not yours), i agree. we are, in many cases, the only ones allowed to kill each other in proud rememberance of the world's first brothers, Cain and Abel (check out our awesome murder rate! sweet!).

however, when other people come in and try to start something, we seem to "rally round the family, with a pocket full of shells", if you catch my drift.

[DaGip]

(check out our awesome murder rate! sweet!).

Does that have anything to do with gun ban legislature? Like in SouthDakota, we don't have a professional Football team. We have to either go to Minneappolis or Green Bay (I am a Vikings fan), and just by coincedence, both of those cities have higher murder rates than SouthDakota. So there might be a link to having a professional football team in your city and murder rates. Therefore, legislature should be passed in banning all professional footaball...just my thoughts.

[reminisco]

Does that have anything to do with gun ban legislature?

you're probably right. the problem isn't that there are too many AK-47s on the street but that there aren't any AK-47s in the stadium.

that would probably work a lot better than throwing batteries and booing everything and everyone who does not make us want to cheer or with whom we disagree.

[DaGip]

Does that have anything to do with gun ban legislature?

you're probably right. the problem isn't that there are too many AK-47s on the street but that there aren't any AK-47s in the stadium.

that would probably work a lot better than throwing batteries and booing everything and everyone who does not make us want to cheer or with whom we disagree.

If I had an AK, I'd go pheasant huntin'.

[autoload]

If I had an AK I'd make him steal me some internet.

[jbrettlip]

You could have the free safety armed with an AK-47 adn your defense still couldn't stop anyone. the Philly sports teams are truly a dissapointment year in adn year out. You did have half a good team at least during WW2, when you were the Steagles. But the good half were the Steeler players!

Although Philly fans will always hold a special place in my heart, for cheering a possibly paralyzed Michael Irvin. Your teams may suck, but that was funny.

[reminisco]

Although Philly fans will always hold a special place in my heart, for cheering a possibly paralyzed Michael Irvin. Your teams may suck, but that was funny.

oh yeah, i forgot to include that in the list of bullet points.

[DaGip]

Football might not be up Philly's alley, but they sure do know how to make a fucking CheezSteak! (And break bells...)

[reminisco]

FYI:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/ea ... three_week


and, in the news again, but a bit older:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/55654

[DaGip]

FYI:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/ea ... three_week


and, in the news again, but a bit older:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/55654

Some things are more important than football. The Philly fans need to take a chill pill, in my opinion. Let the guy heal up, for crying out loud.

[spurgistan]

The Onion is a satirical newspaper. No Philly fans actually said that. Satire.

[heavycola]

You guys hit the nail on the head, it's been moved to IK and will be unlocked in a few minutes in case anyone was responding to it in FW with a flame of remi for posting in the wrong place.

I couldn't give a toss about whatever the OP was on about - but look at this modding.

All future mods and wannabes - watch and learn.
Wicked moved a thread from one forum to another because she felt, no matter how wrongly, that it belonged somewhere else. But then - and this is the genius here:
She locked it - just for a minute or two, while it was in transit - to prevent inappropriate posts being tacked on the end.

Personally, i believe the subject matter didn't warrant a second post, let alone a second page. I have no idea what a 'steeler' is. Something to do with steroid-soakedl neanderthals running into each other, no doubt. But the modding here was exceptional. Job done. Couldn't have done better myself, except i probably could have. HC '08.

[reminisco]

I have no idea what a 'steeler' is.

'Steeler' is a reference to Pittsburgh's prominence in the US as a center for the production and refinement of Steel. hence the nickname, Steelers. something of a weak nickname, according to some, but references a point of pride and history for the city.

(which also, sadly, can serve as a point of shame since US Steel, the company based in Pittsburgh and Bethlehem Steel based in Bethlehem on the other side of Pennsylvania -- the two largest steel producing companies in the nation at their peak -- supplied the Germans with the steel they used in their Tiger and Panzer tanks during the buildup prior to the outbreak of WWII)

Similar examples are abundant in American professional sports teams.

Philadelphia's basketball team, the 76ers, which refers to Philadelphia's importance in 1776, when the then colonies declared independence from the tyranny of King George III, signing that awesome document in Philadelphia on July 4th of that year.

San Francisco's football team, the 49ers refers to the 1849 gold rush.

the New England Patriots (CHEATERS! stole the Superbowl from the Eagles by CHEATING!) refers to those Patriots from the American Revolution from Boston -- as in the Tea Party, and the battles of Lexington and Concord.

and of course, the coolest, most appropriate mascot in all of professional sports anywhere in the known universe, the New Jersey Devils, which of course refers to the New Jersey Devil, a close personal friend of mine who lives in the Pine Barrens.

(also the setting of that famous episode of The Sopranos when Paulie Walnuts and Christopher Moltisanti get lost in the snow covered woods chasing that Russian who simply wouldn't die -- and was, unfortunately, not shot in the Pine Barrens, but someplace in New York, which sucked, cause everyone from Jersey who ever went out in search of the Jersey Devil immediately recognized that it wasn't the fucking Pine Barrens)

anyway, for more information on the Jersey Devil, here's an excellent article from the greatest magazine to ever exist, Weird NJ (and which has spawned a plethora of spinoffs of inferior quality to the original):

http://www.weirdnj.com/stories/_unexplained05.asp

[heavycola]

a) I know what a steeler is really
2) Pine Barrens was one of the best episodes, definitely
3) I read somewhere recently that the pine barrens are actually full of dwarfy trees, not the big 'uns in the Sops ep. Is this true?
4) This was really all about threadjacking so we could sit back and admire wicked's modding heroics. The intuitiveness and quick-wittedness with which she locked it down en route to prevent the wrong sorts of comments being attached still makes me soil myself every time i think on it. i am goign to start a new thread just to be more worshipful.

[reminisco]

a) I know what a steeler is really
2) Pine Barrens was one of the best episodes, definitely
3) I read somewhere recently that the pine barrens are actually full of dwarfy trees, not the big 'uns in the Sops ep. Is this true?
4) This was really all about threadjacking so we could sit back and admire wicked's modding heroics. The intuitiveness and quick-wittedness with which she locked it down en route to prevent the wrong sorts of comments being attached still makes me soil myself every time i think on it. i am goign to start a new thread just to be more worshipful.

3) yeah, it's on sandy ground, so the trees don't grow very tall and very, very flat. and the Pine Barrens just go on and on and on. barren, as their name describes. they are creepy, and remind me of the desert. if you've ever been in the desert for an extended period of time, then you know how you can just sort of see things after awhile. the same thing happens in the Pine Barrens.

in the episode there were tall trees, a mountain... complete bullshit. they got all of the turnpike exits correct, that was all legit, but it simply did not look like the real place. it looked like Bear Mountain, in New York State, to be honest. not sure if it was shot there exactly, but i've been to Bear Mountain a number of times, and it looked just like it.

[Ar-Adûnakhôr]

german tigers tanks not until 1943, after day infamy

[heavycola]

a) I know what a steeler is really
2) Pine Barrens was one of the best episodes, definitely
3) I read somewhere recently that the pine barrens are actually full of dwarfy trees, not the big 'uns in the Sops ep. Is this true?
4) This was really all about threadjacking so we could sit back and admire wicked's modding heroics. The intuitiveness and quick-wittedness with which she locked it down en route to prevent the wrong sorts of comments being attached still makes me soil myself every time i think on it. i am goign to start a new thread just to be more worshipful.

3) yeah, it's on sandy ground, so the trees don't grow very tall and very, very flat. and the Pine Barrens just go on and on and on. barren, as their name describes. they are creepy, and remind me of the desert. if you've ever been in the desert for an extended period of time, then you know how you can just sort of see things after awhile. the same thing happens in the Pine Barrens.

in the episode there were tall trees, a mountain... complete bullshit. they got all of the turnpike exits correct, that was all legit, but it simply did not look like the real place. it looked like Bear Mountain, in New York State, to be honest. not sure if it was shot there exactly, but i've been to Bear Mountain a number of times, and it looked just like it.

Bear Mountain of Picnic Massacre fame?

[whitestazn88]

f*ck the eagles. you are by far the dirtiest fans of all time.

one time in philadelphia, a new york giants fan who happened to be in a wheelchair tried to take his seat in the upper sections. the philly fans decided they wouldn't let him take his seat. on top of that, they pushed him all the day down the ramp backwards...

scum of the earth

[reminisco]

f*ck the eagles. you are by far the dirtiest fans of all time.

one time in philadelphia, a new york giants fan who happened to be in a wheelchair tried to take his seat in the upper sections. the philly fans decided they wouldn't let him take his seat. on top of that, they pushed him all the day down the ramp backwards...

scum of the earth

citation please.

ps. you're a racist. and your name even says so.

[reminisco]

german tigers tanks not until 1943, after day infamy

i asked my brother about that, cause he's the one who told me about the US connection with steel... US Steel was too busy with US military buildup after war was declared to bother doing business with Germany.

Apparently Bethlehem Steel either continued doing business with the Nazi regime after the start of the war, or else it's alloys were reverse engineered or the formulas sold to the Germans when war was declared on the US.

i'll see if i can find a citation for it, but it may only be a rumor.