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What the Wife thinks....and other irrelevancies

May 30, 2005 by Swissvale72

It seems that the recent question posed on the message board of, �What does the wife think about your investment in this site,� is deserving of an article

It seems that the recent question posed on the message board of, �What does the wife think about your investment in this site,� is deserving of an article.As usual, per personal experience�.

 

My wife�s response is best summarized by my excitedly telling her that Mill had invited me to write articles for this esteemed website, �Oh great!!� she said, ��another thing for you to be an idiot about.�

 

My wife, a native New Englander, a PK with no grounding in any sports tradition doesn�t get, and will never get it.As I always tell her, �You�ll never understand; you�re not from Pittsburgh.�She is the Anti-Fan, think the whole thing is �stupid.�

 

I though I had her 24 years ago�brought her to a Steelers-Patriots game in �81.My mistake was seating her with my Patriots friend, Stupid Charlie, while I sat with my brother.The game went to OT, the Steelers won on a Bradshaw-Swann TD pass (�does anyone other than Hesske remember the sign, 12 + 88 = 6).I excitedly waited for her outside of the stadium.�Wasn�t it great?� I exclaimed.�Don�t you ever f#%@# do that to me again,� she said.Apparently Charlie was out of control, screaming, cursing, pounding his fist.When the little woman laughed at this, Charlie became incensed.�Don�t laugh at me,� he warned.So�she had the double wammy of feeling unsafe with Stupid Charlie compounded by sitting with a stupid Pats fan acting like an idiot in the enemy territory of Three Rivers.Add in their sitting in the 1st row of the upper deck, prime for being tossed over the rail, and she couldn�t wait to get the hell out of there.Twenty-four years later, she�s never been back.

 

My Sunday strategy is to get her the hell out of the house until the game is over.She has this uncanny ability to come home with about 4 minutes left in the game, wanting to talk to me about something. Arrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

 

Anyway, about the site�..she can be sitting on the couch, reading, doing whatever she want to do, but seems to have radar when www.stillers.com appears on the computer.�What are you doing?Why are you wasting your time doing THAT?�Which always prompts my response of, �Look�I don�t interrogate you about what you�re doing�� and the battle builds from there.

 

I own a cottage in Canada�s Prince Edward Island. Last year, StillTrivia indicated that he might want to come to visit.I told him he�d be welcome (anyone that can drive that far is), and told her that one of my buddies from the site might be coming to visit us in PEI.

�Oh,� she said, �who would that be?�

�StillTrivia,� I answered.

�What�s his name,� she said.

�I don�t know, � I answered.

�What,�she said, �you�ve invited someone to come stay with us�.and you don�t know his name.Don�t we always warn our kids around communicating with people on the internet�and know that�s exactly what you�re doing.�

�Yeah,� I said, �but I doubt that anyone wants to sexually abuse a 50-year-old fat guy.�

 

Interesting point she raises, though.Last playoff season, when the tailgate was being arranged in the Heinz Field lot, I mentioned to my nephew that was accompanying me that not only had I never met the people we would be tailgating with, I really didn�t know their names.Some of the names are obvious, SteelerIke, OregonSteve, Hesske, SteelerAl(�did I have to mention him).I met Glenn95 (who�s obviously Glenn) and StillDiesel (who�s name I think is Justin�but it doesn�t really matter), but it is a bit odd to think that we have these relationships with each other but know only our screen names.For example, I can�t imagine what FukCowher�s name would be.I assume that this mother named him Fuk.

 

I do receive a Christmas card each year from Mill.This past year, there was Mill, who�s white, 3 little white girls, and a black person on the Christmas card.I showed this to my wife, and said, �Gee�I don�t remember Mill�s wife being black.��I read further, only to discover that the said person of color was none other than Hines Ward.�What a fan�..boots his wife off the Christmas card in favor of #86!!Lest anyone think this guy doesn�t bleed black & gold, what further proof does one need!

 

Rambled enough�.my wife�s the Anti-Fan�.hates football�.I love her�..and all of you as well, even though I don�t know your names.

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