babynoz said:

^^Terry is right...old man Rooney woulda bounced Ben's azz 'cuz the Steeler organization don't play that thug mess. I was surprised when they let him off the hook with just a suspension but they let the league handle it...this time.

I think Ben knows that he's out of chances. One more incident of thuggery and he is out of the Steeler family, so Terry don't even have to worry about saying anything more.

[Edited 2/1/11 21:02pm]

I remember during the offseason when Terry ripped into Ben and rightfully so but Terry

has been known to be a little unbalanced anyway from his chilly relationship with Coach

Chuck Noll to staying away from the city of Pittsburgh for nearly 20 years blaming fans

for being unkind to him during his early years playing qb.

[Edited 2/1/11 21:15pm]

phunkdaddy said:

babynoz said:

I know...but the logistics of that hairbrained plan were a nightmare! I promise you that Jax will never host another SB.

Nevertheless Jacksonville is a beautiful city and the stadium is very nice.

Hopefully the fans there will continue to support the team.

I enjoy Jacksonville Landing at Christmas time.

[Edited 2/1/11 21:09pm]

That may very well be. But it was absolutely the MOST boring Superbowl EVER. And I bet one of the least profitable in recent years.

SCNDLS said:

phunkdaddy said:

Nevertheless Jacksonville is a beautiful city and the stadium is very nice.

Hopefully the fans there will continue to support the team.

I enjoy Jacksonville Landing at Christmas time.

[Edited 2/1/11 21:09pm]

That may very well be. But it was absolutely the MOST boring Superbowl EVER. And I bet one of the least profitable in recent years.

They betta bring it back to the ATL.

phunkdaddy said:

SCNDLS said:

That may very well be. But it was absolutely the MOST boring Superbowl EVER. And I bet one of the least profitable in recent years.

They betta bring it back to the ATL.

Now that shit was OFF da chain, blizzard, crashed cell phone network, Ray Lewis' murder charge and ALL. One of my fave SB experiences from a party standpoint. Almost reached Freaknik levels.

SCNDLS said:

phunkdaddy said:

They betta bring it back to the ATL.

Now that shit was OFF da chain, blizzard, crashed cell phone network, Ray Lewis' murder charge and ALL. One of my fave SB experiences from a party standpoint. Almost reached Freaknik levels.

Oh damn don't you start me reminiscing about Freaknik.

phunkdaddy said:

SCNDLS said:

Now that shit was OFF da chain, blizzard, crashed cell phone network, Ray Lewis' murder charge and ALL. One of my fave SB experiences from a party standpoint. Almost reached Freaknik levels.

Oh damn don't you start me reminiscing about Freaknik.

Now, that was some partying of EPIC proportions. Doing absolutely nuthin' but kickin' it on the street hangin' with my peeps and meeting/talking to folks. Good times!

SCNDLS said:

phunkdaddy said:

Oh damn don't you start me reminiscing about Freaknik.

Now, that was some partying of EPIC proportions. Doing absolutely nuthin' but kickin' it on the street hangin' with my peeps and meeting/talking to folks. Good times!

And occasionally seeing folk act the fool good and bad.

phunkdaddy said:

SCNDLS said:

Now, that was some partying of EPIC proportions. Doing absolutely nuthin' but kickin' it on the street hangin' with my peeps and meeting/talking to folks. Good times!

And occasionally seeing folk act the fool good and bad.

Nuthin' like runnin' from gunshots one minute and keeping the party goin' the next

SCNDLS said:

phunkdaddy said:

And occasionally seeing folk act the fool good and bad.

Nuthin' like runnin' from gunshots one minute and keeping the party goin' the next

Yes i remember wholeheartedly.

Not to mention the loose women running round damn near stark naked but i

do remember one embarrassing moment watching a girl walk down the middle of

Lennox Mall shouting "Ho's in the House".

[Edited 2/1/11 21:50pm]

phunkdaddy said:

SCNDLS said:

Nuthin' like runnin' from gunshots one minute and keeping the party goin' the next

Yes i remember wholeheartedly.

Not to mention the loose women running round damn near stark naked but i

do remember one embarrassing moment watching a girl walk down the middle of

Lennox Mall shouting "Ho's in the House".

[Edited 2/1/11 21:50pm]

GTFOH! Who would do such a thang???

Here's a throwback thread for yo ass, PD

http://prince.org/msg/100/267461

Big Ben On Fast Track to Elite Status

Ben Roethlisberger is about to start his third Super Bowl in his brief career.

He's rarely defeated in postseason play and now has a chance at history.

Also, he's kind of a polarizing figure.

On more than one occasion, the 28-year-old quarterback has been accused of sexual misconduct with college co-eds, though no charges have ever been brought up against him. Most recently, this past off-season saw him get in the spotlight for the wrong reasons again down in Georgia, which led to a six-game suspension by the NFL that was later reduced to four games for good behavior.

The Steelers went 3-1 without Roethlisberger and hit the ground running when he returned.

Now, with a win on Sunday in Super Bowl XLV, Roethlisberger will disgust many of his haters by winning his third Super Bowl title before his 30th birthday, joining some select company with the likes of Tom Brady and local hero Troy Aikman, who won three championships in four years with the Cowboys.

And there's really not much logic to say Roethlisberger won't surpass those two and join even more select company (Terry Bradshaw and Joe Montana) by winning a fourth ring in his career.

Hell, what's to say he won't win five? The Steelers are always good, always have one of the league's best defenses and are still young in several key positions.

So yes, chances are, Big Ben will end his career as one of the, if not the most decorated quarterback in NFL history.

God help us.

Hines Ward wants Plaxico Burress back. Sorry Hines, he's coming back to the Giants!

phunkdaddy said:

babynoz said:

^^Terry is right...old man Rooney woulda bounced Ben's azz 'cuz the Steeler organization don't play that thug mess. I was surprised when they let him off the hook with just a suspension but they let the league handle it...this time.

I think Ben knows that he's out of chances. One more incident of thuggery and he is out of the Steeler family, so Terry don't even have to worry about saying anything more.

[Edited 2/1/11 21:02pm]

I remember during the offseason when Terry ripped into Ben and rightfully so but Terry

has been known to be a little unbalanced anyway from his chilly relationship with Coach

Chuck Noll to staying away from the city of Pittsburgh for nearly 20 years blaming fans

for being unkind to him during his early years playing qb.

[Edited 2/1/11 21:15pm]

Yeah, he talks pretty openly about his years of therapy.

phunkdaddy said:

babynoz said:

I know...but the logistics of that hairbrained plan were a nightmare! I promise you that Jax will never host another SB.

Nevertheless Jacksonville is a beautiful city and the stadium is very nice.

Hopefully the fans there will continue to support the team.

I enjoy Jacksonville Landing at Christmas time.

[Edited 2/1/11 21:09pm]

I've only been through Jax a couple of times...never long enough to see much of anything. One of these days I may go for a longer visit. It's a pretty small town isn't it?

SCNDLS said:

babynoz said:

^^Terry is right...old man Rooney woulda bounced Ben's azz 'cuz the Steeler organization don't play that thug mess. I was surprised when they let him off the hook with just a suspension but they let the league handle it...this time.

I think Ben knows that he's out of chances. One more incident of thuggery and he is out of the Steeler family, so Terry don't even have to worry about saying anything more.

[Edited 2/1/11 21:02pm]

Terry get on my last nerve, but I'm glad they patched things up face to face like men.

Me too...Terry was no angel but he managed to stay on the right side of the law.

I always liked him though because he makes me laugh.

babynoz said:

SCNDLS said:

Terry get on my last nerve, but I'm glad they patched things up face to face like men.

Me too...Terry was no angel but he managed to stay on the right side of the law.

I always liked him though because he makes me laugh.

But he's so illiterate and bordering on buffoonish. I went to a two-day sales conference years ago and they hired him to speak. Terry was so incoherent and inappropriate that they told him not to come back the 2nd day and keep all the money.

SCNDLS said:

babynoz said:

Me too...Terry was no angel but he managed to stay on the right side of the law.

I always liked him though because he makes me laugh.

But he's so illiterate and bordering on buffoonish. I went to a two-day sales conference years ago and they hired him to speak. Terry was so incoherent and inappropriate that they told him not to come back the 2nd day and keep all the money.

I guess his "down home Lou-zi-anna" schtick didn't go over too well,

http://msn.foxsports.com/...ame-020211

SCNDLS said:

Troy Aikman and wife separate

DALLAS — Troy Aikman and his wife, Rhonda, have separated after 10 years of marriage. The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback confrimed the split to The Dallas Morning News.

Aikman offered this statement: "This has been a difficult decision for Rhonda and me, but after 10 years of marriage we have decided to separate. We remain committed to our children."

The couple has three daughters. Aikman is employed as an analyst for Fox Sports.

About a million panties in Dallas got moist with he news.

[Edited 1/25/11 6:17am]

Troy fine as hell

DFW on Ice Over Snow "Debacle"

NBCDFW.com

Peter King, one of the country's most read, and respected sportswriters let out a bombshell this morning to his Twitter followers.

“I'm telling you: I-30 between Dallas + Fort Worth is a plow-less, snow-windswept moonscape. This is officially a debacle.”

Look, Peter. Mr. Monday Morning Quarterback. Mr. Big-Shot on Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel. It's not DFW's fault. It's something called Mother Nature.

The average temperature at this time of year is in the upper 50s. This area, unlike your northern home, is not a barren wasteland five months out of the year. It just so happens, Mother Nature decided to hit us with the worst stretch of winter temps and precip since 1979, or before I was born.

So Peter King didn't actually come out and say North Texas will never get another Super Bowl, but other blowhards have.

For example:

• National radio host Jim Rome: "6 inches of snow? Really, Dallas? Good luck getting another Super Bowl."
• ESPN writer David Ubben: "A foot of snow for All-Star Weekend? Ice and six inches of snow for the Super Bowl? What did Jerry Jones do to Mother Nature's daughter?"
• Detroit radio host Jamie Sameulsen: "I hope some writer writes a column praising Detroit this weekend. We were totally prepared for bad weather. Dallas, clearly, is not."

Look folks, Jerry Jones and Roger Staubach don't control the weather. DFW will get another Super Bowl -- book it. Cowboys Stadium is the most pristine, immaculate stadium in the world. It will happen.

But you do have to wonder how much money the area lost this week by hosting the Super Bowl. It was supposed to bring millions and millions of dollars into the area. Instead, restaurants, retail and golf courses are all losing out on the week that was supposed to make their year. It's too bad, really.

But, fret not, DFW -- the big game will be back.

SCNDLS said:

But, fret not, DFW -- the big game will be back.

Yep, but Cowboys won't be playing in it.

OMG! A High School Has an Indoor Facility!

If you've read any of the national media this week, you've learned that it's absolutely unbelievably crazy that a high school could have an indoor practice facility.

Apparently, Green Bay head coach Mike McCarthy told his players they'd be practicing at a high school if there was inclement weather this week in Super Bowl XLV preparations, and they all rolled their eyes. Don't know if I buy that, but that weather certainly happened.

The local DFW media is smirking collectively every time one of these stories is written, or every time a Packers player or McCarthy is asked about how it feels to see a high school with a $4 million indoor facility like that of Highland Park, which is, granted, on the top end of indoor facilities in the area.

Then, of course, there's always mention of the new, yet-to-be-built Allen football facility — stadium, HD scoreboard, performaning arts center for its ginormous band, the whole shabang for a healthy price tag of $60 million. (this stadium is down the street from my home)

You know that's going to raise eyebrows.

It certainly raised Green Bay linebacker A.J. Hawk's as the former Ohio State standout was, well, amazed. "I’m from Ohio and high school football is pretty big; at least we think it is,” Hawk said. “Texas football is amazing. Everything in Texas is great.”

It's Texas, folks. It's how we roll.

uPtoWnNY said:

SCNDLS said:

But, fret not, DFW -- the big game will be back.

Yep, but Cowboys won't be playing in it.

I'ma fuck your ass up, HARD.

Jerry Jones Really Needs a Classic Game on Sunday

It's hard to imagine that Jerry Jones pictured this when he strongarmed the NFL into holding the Super Bowl at his Xanadu this season.

Surely he imagined his Cowboys having their crowning moment on their home field on a sunny day with his pleasure dome gleaming like the future of everything good and noble in the world. Instead he got a matchup between two teams whose appearance in this game solidifies their place above the Cowboys in the historical pecking order. And his stadium has been an afterthought thanks to ice, snow and a million thin-skinned writers ticked off that they aren't in Miami.

That's obviously not what Double J wanted, but there's really not much reason he should have thought things were going to go his way. It didn't take an ice storm to turn this season into something bleak enough to be the plot for a Bergman film. You had the humiliating season opener, the 1-7 start, Wade Phillips's firing, Tony Romo's injury, Dez Bryant's injury and everything else that contributed to the Cowboys going from preseason Super Bowl contenders to punchlines.

Maybe all of this is karma for Jones playing one of the leading Cold Miser roles in the labor battle that's almost certainly going to lead to a lockout next month. More likely it's just a combination of too much hype and a rare weather pattern, but there's still one way that Jones can salvage a win out of the whole mess.

If Sunday's game is as good as many people believe it will be, no one will remember the iced-over streets or businesses left short on the profits they hoped to ring up with the circus in town. The fact that the Packers and Steelers are gold-plated franchises actually helps Jones because it will lift the memory of the game should it turn out to be closely contested. Since the NFL is a quarterback's league, the presence of Ben Roethlisberger and Aaron Rodgers also helps as it can go down as a duel for the ages.

That means it will be heavily replayed on the NFL Network and in highlight films, especially if the next season takes longer to get going because of a lockout. Every time the game gets shown, Double J's monument to himself football will be on center stage, looking every inch like the kind of place that exists to host the biggest and best sporting events on the planet.

Should the game be as big of a dog as the week preceding it, however, it might be a good idea for Jones to lock himself in his house. The chances of a piano falling on his head or a rogue wave lifting out of the ocean and washing him away would be just too great.

Dallas Ad Agency Plays on the Super Bowl Field

One of the major highlights of the Super Bowl is the commercials, some of which are conceived in North Texas.

The country's largest independently owned ad agency, The Richards Group, is based in Dallas. It's created 11 Super Bowl ads, including two Bridgestone Tires ads that will air during Sunday's big game.

"I don't think a lot of people know we are doing these national ads and we are on the Super Bowl," Bill Cochran said.

He said most people think of New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco when it comes to the creation of advertisements.

"The average viewer has no idea Dallas is becoming a major player," Cochran said.

The Richards Group would not disclose how much it costs to create, produce and air Super Bowl spots.

But it's widely believed the cost will exceed $3 million this year. Production costs can range from $250,000 to $1 million.

I love me some Mike Tomlin

http://www.nbcdfw.com/new...10259.html

Big Ben Out On the Town

Sing us a song, Ben Roethlisberger, you're the Piano Man.

The Steelers quarterback, who served a four-game suspension to start the season for violating the NFL's personal-conduct policy, spent the night out on the town, treating his offensive linemen to dinner.

Roethlisberger, who will start Sunday in the Super Bowl, was later spotted at a piano bar, where TMZ offered internet footage of the quarterback singing Billy Joel's "Piano Man."

The website said Roethlisberger spent about $1000 at the bar -- $800 tab plus $200 tip -- and was nice, fun and "took care of everyone."

[Edited 2/4/11 12:04pm]

Super Bowl Halftime Surprise

A person familiar with the plans for the Super Bowl halftime show tells The Associated Press that R&B star Usher and former Guns 'N Roses guitarist Slash are slated to make surprise appearances Sunday.

The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Wednesday, because the musicians' performances were not going to be announced before the game.

Usher and Slash are supposed to join the Black Eyed Peas, who are the main halftime act for Sunday's NFL championship game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers at Cowboys Stadium.

The NFL said in November that the Black Eyed Peas would be the featured Super Bowl halftime performer. Past halftime acts have included U2, the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Paul McCartney and Prince.

Prep Legend Coming Home for Super Bowl

Graham Harrell is home again.

And though it would certainly be a sign of bad things for the Packers if he actually sees the field on Sunday in Super Bowl XLV, the No. 3 quarterback is downright giddy to be in his home city (or Metroplex?) playing in the biggest American sporting event on perhaps the biggest stage to ever host the big game.

After a record-setting career at Ennis, where he played for his father, Sam, Harrell went off to Texas Tech to study under offensive mastermind Mike Leach, and he thrived.

Harrell went on to become the second all-time passer in NCAA football history with 15,793 yards and had his shining moment as a senior when he led Texas Tech to an upset of Texas and Colt McCoy, which propelled the Red Raiders to a No. 2 national ranking.

He wasn't drafted, signed as a free agent with the Browns, was cut in training camp and ended up going to Oklahoma State to be a graduate assistant with a trip up to Canada mixed in where he never saw the field in the CFL.

Back in the spring, Harrell tried out for the Packers and was signed to the practice squad. In December, he was signed to the active roster when Aaron Rodgers was injured, and now? He's a part of the team.

He's even a star of the Packers weekly TV show in Milwaukee, which did a version of "Cribs" with Harrell, who is livin' large in the Great White North.

To make things even sweeter with Harrell, he'll get to bring his father and the rest of his family to the game. Sam Harrell is battling MS, an incurable disease that attacks the nervous system, and had to retire from coaching last year at Ennis, where he won three Class 4A state titles.

And along with having the entire community of Ennis and a huge legion of Texas Tech fans, where he is highly revered, pulling for him this weekend, he'll have no bigger fan than his dad.

"You would like to say you've been to one," Sam Harrell told KDAF-TV. "Getting to go to Yankee Stadium, I went there, then to Lambeau Field, and I did that, and I wanted to go to a Super Bowl, and sure enough, I am."

Wife of Packers' Wynn has baby hours before the Super Bowl

By Chris Chase