Stillers.com Celebrates Our 10th Anniversary!
Hard to
believe, but Stillers.com has now been dominating the internet for 10 years�.!�
If we may,
we�d like to take a moment and wax fondly as we look back on these great 10
years.�
Stillers.com
first hit the �net in March 1999.� Former
Pitt MBA classmates Trenches and Still Mill, along with Still Faith, formed
Stillers.com with the intent of providing hard-hitting analysis�.�for the fan,
by the fan�.� That intent and spirit --
as outlined in our Stillers.com
primer -- still lives on today.��
From those
humble beginnings, the site grew in readership and worldwide notoriety.� When first fielded, the site was a spartan site indeed, with no message board and a very
rudimentary site that required manually updating the entire front page just to
publish an article.�� Fortunately, Trenches�
web savvy allowed the site to migrate to a more database driven platform, and
message boards and other features were added.�
The message
board at Stillers.com has long been a fun venue to banter about Stiller football.�
There have been some loyal, superb posters over the years�..from way
back in our early days, Nick79, Steel33, The Rock, and others too numerous to
list by name.��
There have
been many highlights; a few are worth mentioning --
����������� - Chuck Finder of the Post Gazette
did a nice write-up on our site in 1999, when we were a fledgling site that was
known by just a small group of readers.�
����������� - Stillers.com has sponsored some
great tailgate parties over the years�.most notably the Sunday nite game late in 2000 versus Jax (the nite
Fred Taylor ran wild) and the tailgate at Arrowhead Stadium in 2001.
����������� - Pre-draft coverage over the years,
most notably by Steel Phantom and Steel Haven, which has been recognized and
lauded by many as the premier draft coverage seen any time, anywhere.�
����������� - The impact to Steeler football
lexicon that we�ve had, most notably contributing terms such as �Dong Sack�, �slop
n� slather�, �Hard Hat Award�, �titty-fighting�, �Kevin
Gaypride�, �anal stormtrooper�,
�wide loop rush�, �assaholic�, �softee
defense�, �Billy Cowhard�, and numerous others terms
that we literally started and have spread throughout Stiller fandom.�
����������� - The recent AFCC versus the Poebirds, in which Mill attended wearing a Stiller game-jersey with �Still Mill� sewn on the back.� During pre-game festivities at a local bar,
as well as during and after the game, numerous fans approached, asking if I was
�the� Still Mill from Stillers.com and then thanking me for our analysis as
part of Stiller Nation.� That thanks meant
an awful lot and gave me new found appreciation of how far-reaching our impact
has been here at Stillers.com.�
Regrettably,
there have been a couple low points.� The
merger with The Downsiders.com in 2002 was a bit of a disaster, mostly because
we got Judased by Kosar�s
band of idiots.� And, there were the techno
glitches back in �06 and �07 that nearly crippled this site.� Although I still keep in touch with the
reclusive Phantom, his self-imposed retirement was also a bummer, as we all dearly
miss his dry wit, acerbic humor, and astute analysis.��
Through it
all, however, Stillers.com has persevered and slogged through in typical Hard
Hat fashion.� We can only hope we can
make it another 10 years.� Many thanks to all of our faithful readers who have kept us going
and keep us going through the years.��
Thank you, Stiller fans and readers, for making
this the premier site on the �net for analysis of the Pittsburgh Stillers.��
Stillers.com -- �Since
1999, no one else comes close�.�