The Superbowl this year had an awesome finish. I won’t explain why or what, you all saw it, and every major media outlet has covered it in detail.
As a football fan I thoroughly enjoyed the ending. A fun way to watch the last 8 minutes of meaningful football for 7 months. Just an exciting finish to an overall fun season, even with my team losing in gut wrenching fashion.
But as an impartial observer, I really despise the Superbowl media. It’s sickening.
This year’s obvious “Jerome Bettis is from Detroit” story was about Larry Fitzgerald, Sr. being a sportswriter who has to cover his son. The national media, specifically Rick Reilly and Michael Wilbon slobbered over Fitz Sr.’s ability to objectively cover his son, which Josh Levin of Slate.com was able to point out how much of a fallacy that is.
Yet, after these many points raised by people like Josh Levin, it continued on, even into the game. The story took a life of its own as they showed Fitz Sr. stoically not cheering as his son made some of the most exciting plays by a Wide Receiver in any Superbowl.
Also, let’s not forget the exploits of Media Day, as hard hitting questions were asked of players like:
“Do you enjoy skiing?”
“Does Coach Tomlin ever yell?”
“What’s your favorite ice cream?”
“Are you nervous?”
Probably the most qualified journalist there was the cross-dressing Latino man from Telemundo, who I beleive asked several players out on dates. Three said yes, but he refused to reveal names under threat of lawsuit. If I had to guess, I would say Ben Roethlisberger (something is off about that guy, I don’t care how many Superbowls he wins as a QB), Hines Ward (aren’t him and Big Ben a little too close? And why the hell is he always smiling?), and Terrel Owens, who the world knows is secretly gay, which is why he knows Jeff Garcia is gay. What he was doing at media day however, is a different issue.
One productive thing did come from the media circus. I came to an epiphany about the Steelers. As a result, the Steelers entered into the stratosphere of hatred for me with the media suck-up festival surrounding them and their falsely high-minded attitude they have about their team and organization, which is echoed by the media.
We were treated to this story of Steelers fans and players taunting us because they had made the Superbowl and we didn’t, and we deserved it for stomping on their precious terrible towel.
A quote from Larry Foote: “You see right now we got the last laugh. That’s what they get for trying to humiliate us and rub it in, for not showing any class. We wanted to play them again, but they couldn’t hold up their end of the bargain. That’s what they get for stomping on the towel. We’re stepping on them right now.”
Well, the Steelers last night showed how they are of a higher class of citizen than any player on the Titans when Defensive Player of the Year James Harrison mugged and punched a guy on a punt then flat out knocked him on his ass for no real apparent reason. This amounted into a 6 inch penalty for the Steelers, who have gotten more bullshit homer calls in their past two Superbowl appearances than the Titans have ever gotten in any game EVER. I hate the Steelers.
To suggest we didn’t make it there because we stomped on their Terrible Towel just shows the self-centeredness the Steelers and their fans enjoy.
Another quote from the article: “It’s kind of a sacred symbol of Pittsburgh,” Bates said. “So yeah, people weren’t happy with the Titans for what they did. It was a fuss. It was kind of nasty to see them stepping on it.”
I don’t know who Bates is, but f*#% you. If the symbol of your city is a Sunflower yellow towel you wave at football games, your city sucks. That’s a You Problem.
This video commentary by Rick Reilly really just put it over the top for me. Rick Reilly makes mention that one of the reasons the Steelers deserve to win is because their fans use their vacation time to go to Steelers training camp.
We need to learn to differentiate between a good fan and a retarded moron. I will delve into this deeper at some point in the future but here are a few examples:
1) Going to the Superbowl to support your team – Good fan
2) Taking vacation time to go to Training Camp – Retarded moron
3) Dressing up and wearing face paint to games – Good fan
4) Taking vacation time to go to Training Camp – Retarded moron
Get the point? Just because people are dumb enough to waste their vacation time to go see the most pointless thing for a fan to see doesn’t mean you deserve a Superbowl! If that is your idea of a vacation, chances are you live in an economically destitute city best known for an industry from the late 1800’s where which most of your fans that didn’t travel to Tampa for the game will be watching the Superbowl on TV’s in Circuit City display windows while they throw some more trash on the fire they started in an oil drum.
But hey, they won, so all’s well that ends well for Steelers fans, and they can even rise their mindedness about how great they are, how “family-oriented” their team that cut out Wisenhunt after years of loyal service and cuts guys on a regular basis after years of loyalty, how classy their players are as James Harrison beats people publicly yet gets away with it because he was an undrafted free agent, to even greater levels. It’s going to be a joy to listen to.
Kill me.
This is the first of a monthly series of blog posts labeled “My drunk and pissed off rant”. Enjoy.
Tags: cardinals, Drunk and pissed off rant, Media, post on a titans blog that has very little to do witht the titans, steelers, Super Bowl
