CbrGirl Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 The Terrible Towel, And Why The Steelers Need To (WILL) Win The SuperBowl This Year Members of the Steeler Nation know all too well thestory 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 ChippewaRiver 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 into this benevolent endeavor. The NFL is quietly working on a promotion toproduce 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 atevery 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 hometeams 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 theirplayoff 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 thetowel. 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 toTIGHTEN! And their team choked! If the Steelers win the Super Bowl this year, they willhave 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 SteelerSuper Bowl victory will make the sacrilegious theft of the spirit of theTerrible Towel the worst marketing idea since the NFL network! GO STEELERS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtremef4i Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CbrGirl Posted January 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 :cry: Are you guys ever going to get over it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtremef4i Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 NEVER lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CbrGirl Posted January 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 LOL. I posted this more due to the fact that the NFL plan to make more money is kinda backfiring in there face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtremef4i Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 I just wanted to wine. Carry on. But it is kinda funny that their plan didn't work out so well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleCock Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 I hate the steelers...and the towels really are terrible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtremef4i Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 HAHA no pun intended Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonzie Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 Leave it to the NFL to try & adulterate & capitalize on OUR tradition 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 dayUmmmm.....Yeeahhhh......Carson's been healthy for a couple years now....buutttt the Bungles still suck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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