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The Terrible Towel, And Why The Steelers Need To (WILL) Win The Super

Bowl This Year

Members of the Steeler Nation know all too well the

story of the Terrible Towel. It was a brainchild of beloved and dearly departed Myron Cope during the Chuck Noll Dynasty. The magic of the towel lasted beyond the retirement of Chuck Noll, maintained its staying power throughout the entire Cowher age, and is still going strong in the early years of the Tomlin era.

The towels are manufactured in Wisconsin by Chippewa

River Industries. Proceeds from the sale of the towels benefit Chippewa, which employs the mentally disabled, and helps to pay for their care. Myron Cope also collected royalties and donated all of them to the Allegheny Valley School, a special needs place where his autistic son is a resident. Before he died, Cope bequeathed the Towel rights to the school, ensuring proper care for his son and for many others.

What you may not know is that greed has found its way in

to this benevolent endeavor. The NFL is quietly working on a promotion to

produce larger towels for every other team in the league besides the Steelers. They plan to unveil this gimmick after the conference championships this week and push it through the super bowl. The plan is to market these towels and capture the enthusiasm of the super bowl contestants.

To get things moving, free towels were handed out at

every stadium during the divisional playoffs this week. You may have seen the Tennessee fans waving those powder blue things. Of course, they would not have brought their own.

Did anyone notice the complete backfire? All the home

teams lost EXCEPT the Steelers!

This is why the Steelers need to win the Super Bowl.

The sanctity of the Terrible Towel must be preserved!

Also of note:

After the 2005 season members of the Cincinnati Bengals,

AFC North division champs, stomped all over the Terrible Towel before their

playoff game with the wild card Steelers. The Bengals still have not recovered from their loss that day. The Steelers went on to win their Fifth Super Bowl.

On Dec. 21, 2008 members of the Titans stomped on the

towel. Three weeks later, the Titans took an early dismissal from the playoffs. Early on in that game with the Ravens, many fans were waving their freebie blue towels marked TITANS! Later, as the rain began to fall, and it got colder, they put the towels on their necks to stay warm.

Appropriately, as the game went on, their necks began to

TIGHTEN! And their team choked!

If the Steelers win the Super Bowl this year, they will

have to win two games against teams named after birds. Then the opposing fans can use their new towels to clean up all the bird S&%#. Also, a Steeler

Super Bowl victory will make the sacrilegious theft of the spirit of the

Terrible Towel the worst marketing idea since the NFL network!

GO STEELERS!

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Not to be bitter but.....I still say the steelers would have lost that game to the Bengals in 05 had that Steelers lineman not have torn Palmer's ACL and MCL. The Bengals were on Fire that year and had super bowl in their sight...untill that no good for nothing lineman ruined Palmers leg. If the Bengals had a better back up QB at the time, that would have helped too but Kitna plain ruined the rest of the good the Bengals had going that day

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Leave it to the NFL to try & adulterate & capitalize on OUR tradition :rolleyes:

The Bengals were on Fire that year and had super bowl in their sight...untill that no good for nothing lineman ruined Palmers leg. If the Bengals had a better back up QB at the time, that would have helped too but Kitna plain ruined the rest of the good the Bengals had going that day

Ummmm.....Yeeahhhh......Carson's been healthy for a couple years now....buutttt the Bungles still suck! ;):D

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