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That was onlyt one small article. Many others said he basically could of been just as easily an Conn Smythe winner. BUT that is not an issue. They won that cup as a team the way it should be. Lots of glowing articles on him
CHURAK you linked worng article. The one you linked has Cox making a case for him as MVP LOL. i read the Star. I also was at the game. I wacthed all of the celebrations. There is another smaller article on Crosby not immediately shaking lidstrom's hand and someone on detroit was being a whinny baby over it. I also have it DVR'd and if I ever get home again I will watch for this very very minor incident.
I have no idea WTF that whinny baby on detroit was talking about because I sure didnt see whatever he was crying about not getting his hand shaken soon enough
Crosby got slammed in the Star yesterday - http://www.thestar.com/article/650549
well done 3 years from this post
Bring on Malkin - add a few players around the KID and Bring Lord Stanley back.
Congrats Syd. Awesome year - WE are all proud of you.
KUDOS TO THE 1000 OR SO PITTSBURGH FANS WHO MADE THE TRIP. hATS OFF TO ALL THE WINGS FAN WHO STUCK AROUND for the cup celebrations. it was an awesome experience. I think Lord Stanley will be making more trips to Pittsburgh
The block heard round the world!!
Monday parade honoring Pens will follow same route as Steelers'
By The Tribune-Review
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Pittsburgh will honor the Stanley Cup champions on Monday with a parade that will take the same route as last February's Super Bowl parade, city and Allegheny County officials announced yesterday.
The victory parade honoring the Pittsburgh Penguins will start at noon at the intersection of Grant Street and Seventh Avenue.
"No words can describe the history-making comeback achieved by our team," Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said in a statement. "No one believed that this could be done, that we could win on the road and defy history, and that the League's youngest captain could make it happen.
"On Monday, let's show the world how the 'City of Champions' welcomes home their Stanley Cup Champion Pittsburgh Penguins."
The parade's route will be as follows: It will proceed through Grant Street, loop to the Boulevard of the Allies and end at Stanwix Street. A stage celebration will be held along Stanwix.
More than 300,000 people packed Downtown streets in February after the Steelers' sixth Super Bowl win.
Officials said barricades will be set up throughout the route to ensure the safety of fans and players. Fans are being encouraged to take public transportation or park on the periphery of the Downtown area.
The celebration in city streets following Friday night's victory against the Detroit Red Wings was relatively peaceful, said City of Pittsburgh Police spokeswoman Diane Richard.
"The celebration was very orderly," she said.
About 3,000 people jammed east Carson Street on the South Side and 31 people were arrested for failing to disperse, Richard said. The streets, which had been blocked throughout the game, were reopened at 1 a.m. today.
One person was arrested in Oakland for setting fire to a couch, Richard said. Another person was arrested in Shadyside.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_629471.html
Roach congrats! Isn't that Meat loaf's song, two out of three ain't bad!
Pittsburgh Penguins Stanley Cup Champs
Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl champs!
Pittsburgh Pirates...
Well 2 out of 3 is pretty good!
Need to overcome the Fear of the Joe!! IMO lol
Go Pens
Big trade! McClouth gone to Atlanta for three players!
06/03/09 7:31 PM ET
PITTSBURGH -- The Pirates have traded center fielder Nate McLouth to the Braves in exchange for three players -- outfielder Gorkys Hernandez, left-hander Jeff Locke and right-hander Charlie Morton.
McLouth left PNC Park earlier in the evening after the Pirates' game was postponed due to rain.
The trade sends two of Atlanta's top eight prospects, as ranked by Baseball America, to the Pirates. Hernandez, a center fielder with the Braves' Double-A affiliate, was ranked No. 4 heading into the season. Hernandez has hit .316 through his first 52 games this season.
Locke, Atlanta's seventh-best prospect, was a second-round Draft pick in 2006 and has pitched for the Braves' high Class A affiliate this season. He is 1-4 with a 5.52 ERA in 10 starts.
Morton, who went 4-8 with a 6.15 ERA in 15 starts (16 appearances) for the Braves last season, was 7-2 with a 2.51 ERA at Triple-A Gwinnett this season.
McLouth, a first-time All-Star in 2008, was in his second season as the Pirates' everyday center fielder. He had signed a multi-year contract with the Pirates this offseason.
The trade clears the way for the promotion of center fielder Andrew McCutchen, who is batting .303 with four home runs and 20 RBIs at Triple-A Indianapolis.
Big game tomorrow!! Must win!
They played hard righ to the end even though they were up. They won a lot of the litlle battles along the boards first to the puck.
World leaders to hold economic summit in Pittsburgh
Thursday, May 28, 2009
By Ed Blazina and Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh will host the world's major economic powers at a G20 Summit in September.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09148/973412-82.stm
The White House made the announcement at a press briefing in Washington, D.C. this afternoon. The summit will be held on Sept. 24 and 25.
Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs said the U.S. agreed to host the next summit during the London meeting earlier in the spring. Pittsburgh is "a good place" to hold the summit because of its recovery from the decline of the steel industry in the 1980s, he said.
At the Pittsburgh Summit, President Barack Obama will meet with leaders representing 85 percent of the world's economy to take stock of progress made since the most recent summits and discuss further actions to assure a sound and sustainable recovery from the global economic and financial crisis, officials said.
"With leaders already scheduled to be in the United States in September to attend the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama offered to host the Summit and leaders of the G20 welcomed the invitation," a White House statement said. "Pittsburgh has demonstrated a commitment to employing new and green technology to further economic recovery and development. The summit will be held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Downtown Pittsburgh, an exemplar of that commitment. The facility is proud to have a LEED Gold Certification from the U.S Green Building Council for leadership in energy and environmental design."
"This is a tremendous opportunity for Pittsburgh," said city Chief of Staff Yarone Zober. "This is a chance for us to showcase our city, and our region, for the world."
He said that Mr. Obama, perhaps joined by First Lady Michelle Obama, would be among the world leaders in attendance, "as well as hundreds of dignitaries, world leaders from around the globe, and thousands of journalists from around the world."
Mr. Zober said the decision to hold the summit here was based on repeated contact between White House staff, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and his staff, and Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato and his staff.
Among the selling points: "Pittsburgh has really been a model for an economic turnaround," he said, noting the smokestacks-to-knowledge transformation of the regional economy and the development of environmentally friendly "green" job sectors.
It doesn't hurt, he said, that "President Obama is a big Pittsburgh fan in so many ways, and we're glad of it."
He acknowledged that preparing the city to host the world's leaders would be a big job.
"We're going to be ready to welcome the world to Pittsburgh in September," he said. "We're going to make sure that this city shines. . . . This is potentially one of the largest things to happen in Pittsburgh."
The short-term economic impact to hotels, restaurants and other Downtown businesses is significant, he said. So may be the long-term impacts of introducing so many top leaders and international journalists to the city, hopefully including its neighborhoods, he said.
The city's public safety departments have already begun coordinating security planning with the Secret Service, he said, but details are not yet worked out.
Mr. Onorato said hosting the summit is a sign of the area's economic stability and environmental innovations. Pittsburgh's convention center is the largest LEED-certified convention center in the world.
"I want to thank President Obama for giving us this remarkable opportunity to showcase our accomplishments and transformation on a world stage," he said.
The G20 includes Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union (along with the European Central Bank).
The most recent summit occurred in April in London, Mr. Obama's first major international conference.
Previous conferences have spawned demonstrations that have sometimes become violent in the host cities. Pittsburgh had a peaceful protest in April during the London conference when marchers went from Market Square to the Federal Building on Liberty Avenue.
More details in tomorrow's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09148/973412-82.stm#ixzz0GrEiagFd&B
LOL!! Ok then!! Let's Go Pens!!!!!
THey are going to win this year. IF you go back on this thread 3 or 4 years I promised it
Coming back to the 'burgh!!!
Post a pic of Lord Stanley ~ Art > please
IT was sweet. I actually was playing shinny last night so I watched game on DVR late but as I didnt know outcome it was great just like live. With him actually showing up for playoffs this year and them getting production from other lines and , of course, Crosby , They must again be considered a force that may give Detroit a run for the money. - Maybe play Gonchar less except for PP as I think their one weak spot is on D but D needs goiod forward help also and I think the pens are better at that this year also
how about that third goal of Malkin's... whoa.
Posted by: Buckey Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:24:19 PM
In reply to: Art2Gecko who wrote msg# 517 Post # of 1235
Bring on Malkin - add a few players around the KID and Bring Lord Stanley back.
Congrats Syd. Awesome year - WE are all proud of you.
Posted by: Buckey Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:24:19 PM
In reply to: Art2Gecko who wrote msg# 517 Post # of 1235
Bring on Malkin - add a few players around the KID and Bring Lord Stanley back.
Congrats Syd. Awesome year - WE are all proud of you.
LOLOLOL too bad semin didnt show up
"What's so special about [Crosby]?" Semin said. "I don't see anything special there. Yes, he does skate well, has a good head, good pass. But there's nothing else."
"What's so special about [Crosby]?" Semin said. "I don't see anything special there. Yes, he does skate well, has a good head, good pass. But there's nothing else."
lol
Little late but you are correct! AND #1 seed also!!!
Go Pitt!!!!!!!!
PITT for #1 ranking
from what I hear comcast is going to offer each customer $10.00
WOW...any updates to this story?
Porn airs during Super BowlStory Highlights
Tucson, Arizona, viewers see 10 seconds of porn during Super Bowl
(CNN) -- Super Bowl fans in Tucson, Arizona, caught a different kind of show during Sunday's big game.
Just as Cardinals' superstar Larry Fitzgerald watched himself sprint into the end zone on the stadium's Jumbotron during Sunday's Super Bowl, 10 seconds of eye-popping pornographic imagery "flashed" across the screens of those watching at home.
"We are mortified by last evening's Super Bowl interruption, and deeply apologize to our customers for the inappropriate programming," Comcast Cable said in a written statement.
"Our initial investigation suggests this was an isolated malicious act," the statement added.
Comcast, and several local television stations that carried the signal, say they are currently investigating what caused the interruption.
"It appears this material was only viewed by some Comcast customers," local Tucson television station KVOA-TV said in a written statement.
Television station KVOA added "when the NBC feed of the Super Bowl was transmitted from KVOA to local cable providers and through over-the-air antennas, there was no pornographic material," KVOA President and General Manager Gary Nielsen said in a separate statement
thanks, agree with that... beating up on the browns now is more like beating up your little sister....
Congrats Art, being a die hard Browns Fan and always hating the Steelers, their football program is one that I hope the Browns follow under our new coach, and that one day our rivalry will be what it used to be instead of being one sided
( Steelers side )
GO STEELERS
TAMPA, Fla. – Tampa police have released their highlights from the Super Bowl: 26 arrests, 18 ejections and four small planes that breached the secure air space above Raymond James Stadium.
Police say they charged nine people with selling counterfeit tickets Sunday. One person is charged with selling counterfeit NFL merchandise. Two others were charged with selling fake credentials to the game.
Two people allegedly tried to steal their way into the stadium. Police say they swiped one fan's tickets, but dropped them while attempting to flee from officers. The tickets were worth $800 apiece.
One driver was charged in a DUI crash involving a police horse. The horse and its officer were not injured
Congrats to the Stillers. Helluva game!
Steeler' D need to be the Steel Curtain Again
We Are Family...
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1151221/index.htm
A VISITOR TO Pittsburgh needs driving directions, and they will be provided. On a bitter January morning, Jon-Paul Malezi, 38, doorman at the downtown Omni William Penn Hotel, ducks into the valet parking alcove, scribbles instructions on a piece of scrap paper and hands it over. But this is not enough; there must also be a story told, because the Steelers are bound for the Super Bowl and the city's heart beats with theirs. Every journey is draped in black and gold. ¶ "Right here on Second Avenue, when you pass the 10th Street Bridge," says Malezi, tapping the paper with a gloved hand and sending steamy breath into the winter air. "That's where Ben had his motorcycle accident. June 12, 2006. I guess you can call that a 'Where were you?' moment." Kennedy shot. 9/11. Big Ben's crash. "I was playing golf," Malezi says. "We had a foursome. As soon as it happened, all our phones started buzzing." The words come dispassionately, as if the tale is not unique but ingrained.
On Sunday in Tampa the Steelers and Cardinals will play a Super Bowl matching two of the five oldest franchises in the NFL. (The Cardinals and the Bears are the only charter franchises from 1920 still in existence; the Steelers were founded in 1933.) For many years they shared not only age but also breathtaking futility. The Cardinals won just two championships, in 1925 and 1947. They moved twice, to St. Louis in 1960 and to Arizona in 1988, and played only four postseason games in 60 years. The Steelers were worse. In their first 36 seasons they were 96 games below .500 and had just eight winning records. They played one postseason game—losing a playoff to Philadelphia in 1947 for the right to face the Cardinals in the championship game—and took solace in a reputation for leaving victorious opponents battered. "Hard-hitting, lovable losers," says Joe Gordon, 73, a Pittsburgh native and the team's public relations director from 1969 to '98. "Every Monday the Chief [team founder Art Rooney] would take the back streets to work so he didn't run into any fans."
In January 1969 the franchises' paths diverged. Dan Rooney, the Chief's then 36-year-old son, wanted to hire Penn State's Joe Paterno to coach the Steelers. When Paterno chose to stay in State College, Rooney turned to a Baltimore Colts defensive assistant named Chuck Noll. In the 39 years since, Pittsburgh has won five Super Bowls and made the playoffs 24 times. The key to the Steelers' greatness has been a bedrock, across-the-board stability that is nearly unprecedented in American sports.
In a league in which 17 coaches have been replaced since December 2007, the Steelers have had just three coaches since 1969: Noll for 23 years, Bill Cowher for 15 and Mike Tomlin for the last two. They have consistently emphasized down-to-earth defensive play and mostly shunned flash (seldom signing big-money free agents or taking risks on marginal personalities)—a philosophy that has solidified the bond between the franchise and its fans, themselves products of a blue-collar culture from generations past.
"One of the most critical elements in the success of the NFL is that a team takes on the character of its community," says NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. "Nobody does that better than the Steelers. The team reflects the values of the community."
John Mara, president and CEO of the New York Giants (and son of the team's longtime owner, Wellington Mara), says, "Over the years you've seen Pittsburgh teams that are always tough and physical. The identity of the team is the identity of the city. I don't think that's an accident."
It most surely is not. There is a line that connects the '70s teams of Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris and Jack Lambert to Ben Roethlisberger, Hines Ward and James Harrison three decades later; and Noll to Cowher to Tomlin. The NFL—like all of commercial sport—has undergone epic change in the last four decades, transforming itself into a multibillion-dollar entertainment machine. The Steelers are very much a part of that growth; during an ownership restructuring that was finalized in December, the franchise's value was placed at $800 million. But they are also in fundamental ways little changed from the team that suddenly rose from the depths of incompetence to become a dynasty.
Their defense is the best and most brutal in the NFL, anchored by Harrison, the Defensive Player of the Year, who was cut three times by the Steelers before securing a roster spot in 2004. Their star is a no-frills quarterback whose work is inartistic but effective, whose great personal controversy involved riding a motorcycle without a helmet and who could be seen last week scurrying across a city street en route to a Pitt basketball game wearing jeans and a baseball cap turned backward, dodging evening traffic.
Their Super Bowl XL MVP, Ward, is a wide receiver known as much for his vicious blocking as for his pass-catching, and is among the players who fulfills a long-held role in safeguarding the Steeler Way. "It's a game of follow-the-leader," says the 11-year Pittsburgh veteran. "You don't see many character issues around here."
Dan Rooney, now 76 and the team's chairman (son Art II runs day-to-day operations), is equally at home attending an inauguration eve black-tie dinner in Washington (where he presented an AFC Championship Game ball to President-elect Barack Obama) or poking his head into the Steelers' press room in the early evening, trading stories with newspaper reporters and bloggers. Rooney almost always eats lunch in the team cafeteria, patiently taking a tray and standing in line. "Where else can you eat lunch every day with the owner?" says linebacker James Farrior, a 12-year NFL veteran who spent his first five seasons with the Jets. "Where else can you see the owner driving around, looking for a parking spot?"
ROONEY LEARNED stewardship from his iconic father, who died in 1988 and is enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Dan was an undersized halfback at Pittsburgh's North Catholic High who began attending Steelers games with his mother at Forbes Field when he was five. At 14 he was a ball boy at training camp. By his mid-30s he was essentially running the team, and it was he who oversaw the building of the Noll dynasty. He has been a powerful voice in the NFL for three decades, so much so that the league's mandate on minorities interviewing for head coaching jobs is called the Rooney Rule. Says Mara, "When Dan speaks at a league meeting, you can hear a pin drop in the room."
Most of all Rooney has an acute sense of his team's standing in the city. "In good times and bad times I've seen what we mean to this community," he says. "Like it or not, we're special. When we win, the whole town is up. Doctors have told me that their patients feel better when we win. Pittsburgh is a diverse community, and we help to bring it all together. We have a responsibility to make sure we do things right."
While the lovable loser teams were popular, it was in the 1970s that Steelers support turned to fervor. As Noll, Dan Rooney and brother Art Jr., who headed the personnel department, turned the franchise around, the steel industry fell into the final stages of collapse. Mills along the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers that had long belched dark smoke into the sky fell silent. Says Rob Ruck, 58, a Pittsburgh native and senior lecturer in history at the University of Pittsburgh, "A steelworker once said to me, 'As long as there's smoke up in the sky, I've got a job.' Well, in the '70s there was no more smoke, and Pittsburgh, as a city, no longer had a job."
But it had the Steelers, who won four Super Bowls in six years and who bonded with the wounded city. After being named SI's co--Sportsman of the Year with the Pirates' Willie Stargell in 1979, Bradshaw told writer Ron Fimrite, "This is a blue-collar, shot-and-beer town. They lead a tough life, and they like a team with a tough defense, because that's where character shows." Ruck says, "It's impossible to overstate how Pittsburgh was battered by the collapse of the steel industry. The Steelers replaced steel as the city's identity."
Pittsburgh has remade itself in subsequent years as a finance and technology center, but the relationship forged between the fans and the team has endured. Terrible Towels conceived in 1975 by writer-broadcaster Myron Cope still fill Heinz Field. The Steelers trail only the Cowboys and the Giants in sales of officially licensed merchandise, and in December a survey by Turnkey Sports and Entertainment ranked them No. 3 among 122 professional sports franchises in fan loyalty. (They were No. 1 in 2007.) Likewise, the team has continued to embrace its no-frills philosophy. "Let's put it this way," Gordon says. "You were never going to see the Steelers signing Pacman Jones."
"As soon as you come here, you can sense that the franchise is revered in this city," says Jerome Bettis, who played for Pittsburgh from 1996 to 2005. "And you know it was that way years and years before you came here."
Quarterback Byron Leftwich, who joined the Steelers this season after four years with Jacksonville and one with Atlanta, says, "It's totally different here. I want to be careful not to say anything bad about any other team, but all that matters here is winning. None of the personal stuff is important. There are a lot of things I've seen here this year that I've never seen before, and they're good things." (Like what? "Like last week, before the AFC Championship Game," says Leftwich. "Our Wednesday practice, we were all trying to be perfect because we're playing to go to the Super Bowl. And we had a lousy practice. So Coach Tomlin brings us all together and says, 'You think you were bad today. Let me tell you, I've seen far worse.' And everybody just relaxed.")
THE PITTSBURGH roster is largely devoid of major egos and is ruled by veterans. "You don't find a lot of me-first players in the locker room," says Bettis. "And it's not an accident. They don't target that kind of player. They care about how you fit into the locker room. It starts at the top. Here, upstairs isn't really upstairs."
Kevin Colbert works upstairs (literally, on the second floor, above the locker room) as director of football operations. The 52-year-old Pittsburgh lifer grew up five minutes from Three Rivers Stadium and came to work for the team in 2000. He hasn't forgotten that Dan Rooney was going to be out of town on business when Colbert interviewed for his job but called the day before to wish him luck, imbuing him with the sense of family that pervades the franchise.
The locker room works like a college fraternity. Brothers educate pledges. Bettis came to the Steelers from St. Louis and followed the lead of Greg Lloyd, Rod Woodson and Dermontti Dawson. Defensive end Brett Keisel was drafted out of Brigham Young in 2002 and learned from Kimo von Oelhoffen and Lee Flowers.
And all of them, upon first arriving in Pittsburgh, found themselves in a quiet office, sitting across from Dan Rooney, getting a welcome handshake. Tomlin got it too. "It filters down," says Tomlin, "the standard that comes with being a Pittsburgh Steeler."
On Sunday they will win their sixth Super Bowl or they will lose their second. That is left to the game. But on Monday the family will be at work, planning for the next season in the same manner as the last. There will be no more smoke in Pittsburgh, but there will be Steelers.
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