2008-09 Championship Round

[rjs246]

I'd like to counter with a request that you add my post count to FF's number.

[General_Failure]

Oh damn, I forgot that it stops counting after a certain number.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Oh damn, I forgot that it stops counting after a certain number.

Hahaha.  Well played.

[shorebird]

Geez, FF broke the post counter.

[Eagles_Legendz]

I honestly think the Eagles would beat the Ravens fairly easily in the SB if that's what it came down to.  The difference between the Eagles O and the Ravens O is >>>>>> than the difference between the Ravens D and Eagles D.  And don't give me the bullshtein about the game earlier this year.  If the Eagles offense doesn't giftwrap points for the Ravens, they aren't scoring against this defense right now.

Even though they were ranked 18th offensively and the Steelers 22nd, I fear Ben and the Steelers O a great deal more.

[reese125]

keep in mind though, Big Ben was sacked 4th most in the NFL

although he is a tough bitch to bring down....I think the Birds get to him with their blitz schemes

[Tomahawk]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Pittsburgh-mayor-Luke-Ravenstahl-is-now-Luke-Ste?urn=nfl,134346

Pittsburgh's mayor changed his name from Ravenstahl to Steelerstahl. I think that's farging awesome

[QB Eagles]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Pittsburgh-mayor-Luke-Ravenstahl-is-now-Luke-Ste?urn=nfl,134346

Pittsburgh's mayor changed his name from Ravenstahl to Steelerstahl. I think that's farging awesome

Kinda repetitive. "Stahl" is German for "steel".

[Tomahawk]

Regardless, you gotta love the guys gumption

[Diomedes]

well since we're talking politicians...NYTimes article on Rendell and the PA teams:

January 13, 2009
Pennsylvania Governor Takes a Rooting Interest
By LYNN ZINSER

Gov. Edward G. Rendell of Pennsylvania will be rooting hard for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers in their N.F.L. conference championship games Sunday. But if both of them win and advance to the Super Bowl, he will not pretend to be neutral. After all, he has been an Eagles season-ticket holder for more than 30 years and even has a postgame television show. People in Philadelphia still call him Mayor.

"I'm not going to change," he said in a telephone interview Monday. "I told the people of Pittsburgh this when I was running for re-election. If they had a longtime Pittsburgh mayor and the Steelers were in the Super Bowl and he said he was rooting for anyone other than the Steelers, they would skin him alive.

"I have to be loyal. If it costs me some political points, that's life."

Rendell would be thrilled to run that risk because it would mean the teams from both sides of his state would have reached the Super Bowl. That would require an Eagles victory at Arizona in the National Football Conference championship game and a Steelers victory over Baltimore in the American Football Conference title game.

For most governors, that would be reason to host a news conference and smile a lot. But Rendell is hardly your average governor when it comes to sports. This is a man who — legend has it — sparked the snowball-throwing frenzy in a playoff game against Dallas in 1989. He has said he paid someone to throw a snowball at the field so he would not bother fans.

To Eagles fans, Rendell is one of them. He says true Steelers fans will understand. "The casual fans might be upset, but I don't care," he said.

Rendell says an Eagles-Steelers Super Bowl would send happy, rowdy Pennsylvanians rushing to Tampa, Fla., whether they had tickets or not. And he would become the de facto mayor of Tampa for two weeks.

That chain of events was almost realized in 2005, when the Eagles advanced to the Super Bowl but the Steelers lost in the A.F.C. championship. Rendell said 25,000 Eagles fans went to Jacksonville for the game even though they did not have tickets. He said he expected double that if both teams made it to Tampa, and he expressed sympathy for Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida.

"Eagles fans and Steelers fans are such enthusiastic blue-collar rock 'n' rollers, there may not be much left of Tampa when they get done with it," Rendell said. "Governor Crist is a friend of mine, so I will offer to send the Pennsylvania National Guard down to help."

Rendell said that when he was in Jacksonville in 2005, he was stopped on the street by 17 Philadelphia men sharing a recreational vehicle. They had no tickets and nowhere to stay but the R.V.

He said that he would continue the tradition of opposing governors' placing a bet on the outcome of the game, and that he would bet against himself in the event of an all-Pennsylvania Super Bowl. If the Eagles were to win, Pittsburgh would donate a shipment of sandwiches from Primanti Brothers to a senior citizen center and a homeless shelter in Philadelphia. If the Steelers were to win, Philadelphia would send Pat's cheese steaks to a senior center and a shelter in Pittsburgh.

And Rendell plans to be at the game to celebrate and, naturally, to do pregame and postgame shows: average governor stuff.

"Can you imagine what it would be like to have those two fan bases, so knowledgeable and enthusiastic, in the same Super Bowl?" Rendell said. "The only thing that would come close is if the Jets and Giants both made the Super Bowl. It would be a dream for so many of us.

"But nobody in Pennsylvania is counting on it yet. We know better."

[MDS]

and thats why we call it shteinsburgh

[hunt]

well, i guess i hope the cards win it all.  i farging hate shteinsburg & that murderer ray lewis.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

No.  No one else wins their first Super Bowl until the Eagles do.

GO AFC.

[hunt]

meh....the cards winning it wouldn't make the eagles sb drought any worse or any better, imo.

[reese125]

No.  No one else wins their first Super Bowl until the Eagles do.

GO AFC.

for real..why the farg would i want the Cardinals to win. Its seriously a god-damn travesty this team is in a Superbowl.

the NFL should of paid the refs off because SB ratings just went in the shteinter