Still Smiling:  Two Months Later…

 

 

Bought my 13 y.o. son a T-shirt last week….company name was “smack talkers.”  Black, with gold lettering.  Front said simply, “Got Five?”  Back proclaimed, “We Do!...and It’s One for the Thumb.”  Had an illustration of a hand with 5 rings.  Personally, I would have had the illustration be of a hand flipping the bird.  THAT would have been a great t-shirt to wear in New England.

 

Two months removed from the Super Bowl, and I’m still strutting through the New England states….listening to the Pats whiners bitch and moan, tremble for fear that their team is coming apart.

 

Two months removed….and I can’t wait to wake up each day, check stillers.com, talk to my Steeler brethren in the chat room, check the PG & Trib.

 

Two months removed, and nothing can shake me.  Things are shitty at work…..so what.  Kids are pains in the asses….ah, just kids.  Wife’s bitchin’…..ah, what else is new.  None of that matters….. STEELERS WON THE FUCKIN’ SUPER BOWL!!!

 

“When’s it gonna stop, Dad, when are you gonna not be obsessed with the Steelers?”  “Get used to it,” I tell the wife and kids, “….it’s not gonna stop.”

 

Many of you are counting down the day until the start of the season.  I’m usually with you on that…not this year.  I’m savoring every moment of this off-season.  We’re the champs, got not one, not two, not three, not four….but five Super Bowl trophies.  Can’t wait to go to Pittsburgh in a few weeks, go to Heinz, see that Fifth Lombardi.

 

Wrote about this on the message board this week….I’ve discovered a new mental illness, one that will soon be included in the DSM-IV (the inventory of diagnosable mental illnesses).  This is a new phenomenon, though….a mental illness that everyone wants to have.  It’s the opposite end of Post-Traumatic Stress  Disorder (PTSD).  The “parallel universe,” as one poster is fond of saying.  It’s Post-Euphoric Emersion Syndrome (PEIS).  Some symptoms of PEIS are:

1.  Dreaming about Steelers

2.  Waking up in the middle of the night and logging onto stillers.com

3.  Watching and re-watching, time and again, tapes of all 4 playoff games, tapes of Games of the Week, tapes of sounds of the game.

4.  Calling your friends, fans of other teams, getting their voice mail, blasting the Steeler fight song, while screaming obscenities, screaming 5 is more than 3, laughing hysterically.

5.  Spending all of your clothes budget on Steelers jerseys

6.  Hanging Steeler blankets on your garage.

7.  Plastering your car with Steeler stickers

8.  Ordering Steeler vanity plates

9.  Picking your kids up from school while waving the Terrible Towel

10.  Thinking that everyone is jealous of you….’cause you’re a Steeler fan.

 

My life as a sports fan is complete.  Got Five?  We Do!!!