For Monday Morning - you guys that were there ... how was it?

[RuthlessBurgher]

Unfortunately, I wasn't inPittsburgh this weekend. Had to watch it on TV. And on tape delayto boot (I guess that would be DVR delay these days, but I digress). Luckily, I was able to avoid finding out the score before I was able to gethome to watch it (had to avert my eyes a few times when I was walking by placesshowing the game). Awesome, awesome game. Wouldn't havebeen the same if I had known the outcome beforehand. Would probablyhave rivaled the Bettis-Urlacher snow game at Heinz for the bestregular season games there.

My wife bought tickets to a show down near Philly on Saturday night as anearly Christmas present for my daughter. I figured it wouldn't bean issue since we are only 2 hours or so away fromPhilly, so we could easily drive home after the show,and since the game on Sunday was at 4:25 instead of 1:00, Iwouldn't have to leave for Pittsburgh at 5:00 a.m. after driving home fromPhilly the night before...I could leave at 8:30 a.m. instead(much more palatable).

But then our neighbors found out we were going and wanted to go withus and stay overnight down there and take the kids to the aquarium and theoutdoor Christmas Village the next day...make a whole weekend out of it (to myobvious chagrin). I was considering taking a second car and going to theshow with everyone on Saturday night then driving back home myself afterthe show and going to the game as planned the next day, but it is kind of adouche move to abandon your family on a holiday weekend mini vacation (besides,my father's been having some health issues lately so he really wasn't up foranother trip physically, and my friend who's a Bronco fan actually, had beenwavering about whether or not he would be available either...since my typicalbackup option in these type of situations is to bring one of the kids,that was also off the table due to this trip as well).

So, after suggesting a change from the aquarium in Camden to the FranklinInstitute in Philly, where we were all able to see the new Star Warsmovie in all of its 70 mm Omnimax splendor (one of only 20 such screensshowing the film in this format in this country...it was awesome, by the way),I ended up selling my seats on Ticket Exchange. The profit I made on thetix helped pay for a really nice dinner on our way home too. Would have LOVED to have been there, but itall worked out in the end.

[papillon]

i agree, tale of two halves. the first half I had an obnoxious donkey fan next to me. by the time we tied it up he was more blitzed than the denver offense and when Os threw that pick he jumped up, dropped f-bombs and spilled his 14th beer on the row in front of him. that was enough to be escorted out by the PoPo's.

so as frustrated as i was for the first - the second half was glorious, culminating in an arrest of a douchebag and a great win.

why people feel the need to drink 9 dollar beers in quantity at heinz field is beyond me........

More money than brains

Pappy

[RuthlessBurgher]

Unfortunately, I wasn't inPittsburgh this weekend. Had to watch it on TV. And on tape delayto boot (I guess that would be DVR delay these days, but I digress). Luckily, I was able to avoid finding out the score before I was able to gethome to watch it (had to avert my eyes a few times when I was walking by placesshowing the game). Awesome, awesome game. Wouldn't havebeen the same if I had known the outcome beforehand. Would probablyhave rivaled the Bettis-Urlacher snow game at Heinz for the bestregular season games there.

My wife bought tickets to a show down near Philly on Saturday night as anearly Christmas present for my daughter. I figured it wouldn't bean issue since we are only 2 hours or so away fromPhilly, so we could easily drive home after the show,and since the game on Sunday was at 4:25 instead of 1:00, Iwouldn't have to leave for Pittsburgh at 5:00 a.m. after driving home fromPhilly the night before...I could leave at 8:30 a.m. instead(much more palatable).

But then our neighbors found out we were going and wanted to go withus and stay overnight down there and take the kids to the aquarium and theoutdoor Christmas Village the next day...make a whole weekend out of it (to myobvious chagrin). I was considering taking a second car and going to theshow with everyone on Saturday night then driving back home myself afterthe show and going to the game as planned the next day, but it is kind of adouche move to abandon your family on a holiday weekend mini vacation (besides,my father's been having some health issues lately so he really wasn't up foranother trip physically, and my friend who's a Bronco fan actually, had beenwavering about whether or not he would be available either...since my typicalbackup option in these type of situations is to bring one of the kids,that was also off the table due to this trip as well).

So, after suggesting a change from the aquarium in Camden to the FranklinInstitute in Philly, where we were all able to see the new Star Warsmovie in all of its 70 mm Omnimax splendor (one of only 20 such screensshowing the film in this format in this country...it was awesome, by the way),I ended up selling my seats on Ticket Exchange. The profit I made on thetix helped pay for a really nice dinner on our way home too. Would have LOVED to have been there, but itall worked out in the end.

[RuthlessBurgher]

Sorry for the wonky formatting with words running together...board's been really weird. At least that's better than the first attempt that came out all black (and wouldn't allow me to edit the font color). Typing is painful (it seems like every 4th letter or so doesn't get recognized much of the time), cutting and pasting anything from this computer is a chore, and posting pictures is impossible (while from other computers, it works seemingly fine).

[RobinCole]

feltdizz, I wasn't there but I don't doubt that the crowd noise abated the bigger the margin got in the first half. That's why coaches for visiting teams always talk about "taking the crowd out of the game early". But, you see, the crowd took itself out of the game because the Steelers were playing like azz. The poor play started while the crowd was still in the game. How can that be? Wasn't it a Steeler home game?

In the second half, the Steelers started to play better. Much better. When the margin narrowed to 27-20, hope returned and the crowd started to crank it up higher and higher. Pretty simple. The performance of the players affected the crowd. Not vice-versa.