Super Bowl? I'm for the Steelers
Saturday January 31, 2009
Categories: Culture
I hear there's a football game tomorrow, and a team I hadn't thought about for a few years, the Pittsburgh Steelers, are playing. Hooray, say I! I do like that quarterback of theirs, the Bradshaw boy, and am confident that...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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And the Steel Curtain too!
But, ya know,
we, conservatives and those liberals et al,
should have a huge appreciation for all that steel does for our lives.
That includes environmentalists as well, yes?
So Go Steelers!!
I mean, if it's not going to be the Patriots, it might as well be them.
Can't be spreading the wealth around, ya know?
Can't have the Cardinals winning their first when the Steelers are going for number 6.
punt pass kick faith hope love joy peace to all...
(eternity has no purpose)...
Forgive God...
Being no follower of this highly stylized medieval war substitute, I will for the team with the most comely get-ups.
godisaheretic
It's a pleasure to see your comments again--you had been absent for so long, I was getting concerned. I complimented you a few years ago on your creative, poetic style and your courtesy, and I'll repeat those thoughts now.
If this is to be the case, Mr. Dreher, then we are to be mortal enemies!
Have at thee!
You know that Polamalu fellow is a serious Orthodox Christian? He's become quite the role model for Orthodox kids across America!
Troy Polamalu is a trip. He makes the most amazing plays out there; he is feared as a hard-playing, hard-hitting safety with a killer instinct. And then you hear him talk: a very polite, soft, gentle voice.
I saw a local feature on him one fall on a visit to Pittsburgh -- what a man!
I figured you'd be for the Cardinals, what with Kurt Warner's (he's their quarterback) devout Evangelical Christianity. He's very outspoken about his faith, which I think is a good thing.
4th qutr. 43 secs to go
so much for this being a boring game
ack! steelers just made a TD
oh well
We won. (Steelers that is.) Who knew so many of my neighbors had fireworks? If the Cardinals won, would they have kept till the fourth?
Thanks, Epiphany.
I hope to live to post for at least a couple hundred years more.
It might be interesting to see Super Bowl CCXLIII.
Steelers should have over 20 titles by then.
(Worldwide financial collapse might just hinder that, though.)
6 is just a warmup.
punt pass kick faith hope love joy peace to all...
(eternity has no purpose)...
Go Patriots!
You may want to get your kids #43 jerseys. Ann Rodgers in today's Post-Gazette describes the Orthodox world's growing awareness of a celebrity of their own.
I should have know that you weren't cheering for the Cardinals. You're still mad that Cardinal Law got St. Mary Major instead of jail. But don't let that jade you to the wider team of the Cardinals. The Princes of the Church got the raw end of the Super Bowl, but they still get to elect the pope. :)
Frequently heard at the SuperBowl party I attended last night:
"Eis Polamalu eti, Dhespota!"
Heck Rod, I figured you'd be all over the Kurt Warner bandwagon. He's a certified member of the "God Squad," by which I mean somebody who achieves fame and success due to a combination of talent and hard work, then goes attributing their success to God every time somebody sticks a mic in their face.
Actually, I think Kurts got a lot better about the God Squad stuff since his Rams days, but he was so annoying back then I still can't root for him.
Heck of a game!
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