popping my cherry of ennui

I hate the Steelers. There, now I am officially a blogger. I have thrown my hat into the ring and shared a completely unsolicited and doubtlessly inflammatory and opinionated position with the world at large. Or at least with the world at large who regularly tunes in here. But then again, all seven of you probably already knew that I hate the Steelers. The insight contained here is the why. Having never met Terry Bradshaw, Dwight Stone, Kevin Greene or any of the current Steelers, it is actually more accurate to say that I hate Steeler's Fans. (In the interest of full disclosure, I did once meet Mel Blount...he was cool). In the 1970's the Steelers and the Cowboys dominated the landscape of the NFL. As a Raiders fan I would love to say the the Silver and Black made a small mark in that era. All you Dolphins fans will surely crow about a 16-0 team that managed to beat/play exactly ZERO playoff teams that year, (where's Mercury Morris been this year, huh? I can't help but think that Springsteen would've held eye contact a little too long with ol Merc during his halftime rendition of Glory Days, providing he was of course, there). All that being said, anybody who is not a complete homer knows that nobody touched the Steelers or Cowboys in the 1970's, except each other. Now it is has been well documented that this most recent Steelers title is their sixth, and it puts them in a class alone atop the NFL. In this sense, the Steelers are the NFL's Yankees, but that is no reason to hate them. The salary cap has long made a Steinbrenneresque monopoly of the NFL an impossibility. So while it is legit, nee' your patriotic duty to hate the Yankees for attempting to buy every World Series since Deion Sanders departed the Bronx, you can't say the same about the Steelers. You also cannot say that about ANY other team in the NFL, so that's kind of a wash. It is my contention that the Steelers are one of those teams that people who know little to nothing about football seem to consistently choose as their "favorite" team. If you ever have the misfortune of going to a BW3's etc during a televised Steeler game, the only thing that drowns out "Here we go Steelers, here we go" is the din of clueless jackoffs in bargain basement Black and Gold screaming "pass interference" on a tipped ball. Now I must say that it is in no way the fault of the Steelers organization that they draw such disdain from yours truly. Under the leadership of the Rooney family, the Steelers have been model citizens when it comes to running a classy and respectable program. However, I grow extremely tired of hearing pundits talk about Pittsburgh's "Blue Collar" attitude on the football field. Please. I want every dick bag who praises James Harrison for embodying a blue collar work ethic on the football field should also have to tell Patrick Willis to his face that he is a fairy for playing in San Fran.