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PittsburghTiger

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  1. I made it three seconds into that video. I should get a prize for that brave accomplishment.
  2. I see that K. Plum went on the Sue Bird podcast to clarify her “joke” that was directed at “Team Clark” after the all star game. Saying it was a bad joke and that it was just because Clark and her team were hungover, and I reckon that’s why they were not at the aforementioned meeting which I guess led to the Pay Us What You Owe Us shirts
  3. Yeah, a real “slap in the face”. Holy cow
  4. it was nice to see, in the final frame of that video, that the little kid on the boat was wearing a life preserver.
  5. One of the best, if not the best, horrible movie ever put out by Hollywood. Also, I think I have read over the years that this movie was filmed near too much radioactivity and so many of the cast got cancer.
  6. Just watched the highlights from PSG v Tottenham. On PKs, just kick the fucking ball. Stop with the stutter-step.
  7. I absolutely HATE the Steelers numbers/font as they are now. There was no sane reason to change the numbers. They were perfect. And I agree about the Raiders uniforms. Perfect. Although, I am not sure which I prefer more, the aways or homes. I think the away uniforms when they are a bit dirty are just awesome.
  8. None other than Program-Killer, Steve Pederson. We used to call him Guy Smiley, from Sesame Street.
  9. That was amazing. So awesome
  10. I agree, of course I am partial to our uniforms. I think if Miami went full-time back to their really nice ones from when they first became, The U, they'd be fantastic.
  11. Billy Fralic was also a friend of mine. Great guy with a wickedly dry sense of humor. The term “pancake block” originated with him. He played in a high school playoff game, while at Penn Hills H.S., also Aaron Donald’s school, and it was against Central Catholic. My cousin was the biggest kid on the Central line that game and he said that Fralic, then a sophomore, told the Central offensive line, “If you don’t try too hard I won’t have to hurt you”. Which is pretty damned funny. I loved our uniforms back then. I wish they would tone-down the colors a bit but, I’ll take what I can get after the shit they had in the 90s and onward. Billy died of cancer a couple years ago. Steve Pederson was one of the biggest jagoff assholes I have ever dealt with. Ralph Willard being another. Dan Devine, too.
  12. I have interviewed both Tony Dorsett and Hugh Green. Both great guys. Great football players. Great Pitt Men. That middle picture I believe is from the 1975 game v Notre Dame. Dorsett had 303 yards. It was the greatest game, in person, I saw, until Izzy Abanikanda had 320 and 6 TDs against Va. Tech. My cousin was Danny's tight end in high school and teammate & roomie at Pitt. After CYO basketball games we used to go eat meatballs with Danny at my cousin's grandma's, on his father's side. They were all Italians. Danny was such a great passer. You really could see it in high school. We used to go every Friday night to the Central Catholic games to watch them. Those were great uniforms. I have a picture of Green, as a freshman, as one of my screen savers. 👇
  13. Yeah, that was fucking stupid as well. We call that one PatherSeal. Otter works as well.
  14. The day they had the press conference to reveal the stupid uniforms in 1997 I was in the front row at the Student Union and I leaned over to a friend who covered Pitt for one of the papers and my quote was, “those are fucking awful”. They were indeed awful. Horrible. I had to be careful around people because i help out at games but, whenever i was within earshot of Pederson I had Tourette’s and I would scream “stripes on pants” “stripes on helmet”, etc. Tyler Palio got reamed out because he put a Script Pitt on his helmet of the Senior Bowl. I said many other things to anyone who would listen. Thankfully, we eventually found our way back from the shittiest uniforms ever.
  15. Script Pitt, as we call it, is actually based on the signature of William Pitt, The Younger. He was the Prime Minister of England in the years following the Revolutionary War. Pittsburgh though, is named for his father William Pitt, The Elder. The basketball team used to have a closer representative of Pitt's signature on the jersey until 1985, I think. Then they adopted the one from the helmet. That softer version was designed by Johnny Major when he came in 1973. He also designed the football uniform. Majors hated the uniform change to DinoCat in 1997. That was courtesy of Idiot Steve Pederson.
  16. That’s sharp
  17. 1. Pitt (homes) 2. UNC (homes) 3. SMU (homes) 4. Miami (homes) 5. Clemson (homes) Syracuse and Virginia Tech would be in contention if they went back to their 25-years ago uniforms.
  18. Went down to the World Trade Center yesterday
  19. Just drove past the exit on my way to NYC
  20. From that link: He was then asked whether he still had the passion to continue racing and Hamilton was more emphatic. “No, I still love it, I still love the team,” the 40-year-old said. ----------------------------------------- Of course he still loves it/the team. They are paying him a very large amount of money, and from reports, a lot of it not tied to racing, rather his off-track projects. Some, including this website link, have put the deal worth over $400,000,000. Kudos for him being able to get that deal. https://www.planetf1.com/news/lewis-hamilton-ferrari-salary-details
  21. I'm not trying to be argumentative as I agree on the fantastic ball of confusion that surrounds Ferrari. It's astounding that they shoot themselves in the foot so often. Even with all of the dramatic fuck-ups Ferrari has finished second in the constructor's championship seven times, since and including 2012 and are currently second. They have also finished third five times, since and including 2010. Obviously the third-place finishes are much, much less impressive than the seconds, and they have not won a driver's title since 2007. Hamilton has two victories in his last 82 races. I just think at 40 years old he isn't up to snuff. I think the same about Alonso, who has not won in 203 races. I think LeClerc has six wins in his last 80 races. And yes, there are a ton of factors that go into it all. I agree with your son
  22. That was baffling by Ferrari but, on par for recent history. I felt a bit bad for LeClerc cuz he seems like a good guy. As for Hamilton, I've said it before, I think he's done. His car at Mercedes was light years ahead of the competition. He still drove so very well but, I rate Schumacher above Hamilton is the greatest-ever discussion. I think Schumacher had more to do with building teams and making teams & cars better. That's just my opinion. Schumacher's winning % is 29.7 and Hamilton is now at 28.37. That was a great job by Lando running so many laps on those tires, and holding off a couple of dives by Piastri. I was pretty certain that in those final four laps, or so, that Lando would lock up in a turn and lose position. Well done. The top-10 from today is kind of nuts too. Alonso is 5th, Bortoleto in 6th, Stroll in 7th and Lawson in 8th; all in front of Max. Now we have to wait until the 29th for P1 at Zandvoort.
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