Pittsburgh Steelers-related stories
Here's video of Betty Draper playing Beer Pong and getting tackled
If you've ever wondered what it would be like to see Betty Draper play Beer Pong, you got to see it last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Then January Jones helped Pittsburgh Steeler Troy Polamalu demonstrate the best way to tackle someone.
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Dungy in, Bettis Out at NBC's Football Night in America
NBC continues to play musical chairs on Football Night in America, the network's Sunday night blanket coverage of the NFL including a prime time game. (I'm surprised NBC hasn't added Jay Leno to the broadcast!) The latest change is an interesting one: Super Bowl winning coach Tony Dungy is joining the panel and former running back Jerome Bettis is out. What's interesting is that they are two completely different types. Bettis, whose nickname is "The Bus," is well-known as the smiling winner from the 2006 Pittsburgh Steelers' Super Bowl team. He's loud, boisterous and a larger-than-life personality. Dungy, on the other hand, was the architect and head man for the 2007 Indianapolis Colts' Super Bowl championship. He is cerebral and thoughtful and the author of a bestselling memoir, Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life. You could say that the two men are the anti-thesis of each other, which is likely why NBC has made the switch.
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Monday Night Football to feature McCain & Obama on election eve
At the rate they're going, the 2008 presidential candidates will have made appearances on every kind of TV program before voting day arrives. No show is too insignificant, it seems. (Seriously, if only we could have seen Obama and McCain do the cha-cha on Dancing with the Stars!)Therefore, it comes as no big shock that on the eve of the election -- Monday, November 3 -- the presidential candidates are going to appear on ESPN's Monday Night Football.
They will be interviewed -- separately on tape -- by half-time anchor Chris "Boomer" Berman. The anticipated time is 10:15 p.m. (ET), but because of the flow of the game, it could be closer to 10:30.
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Jerome Bettis joins NBC sports team
During the Super Bowl earlier this month, ABC micced up Jerome
Bettis and occasionally played clips of his motivational speeches to teammates during the game. Apparently NBC
considered that an audition, because he's been hired as one of the commentators for Sunday NFL games. He'll join Bob
Costas and Al
Michaels. His first game will be Sept. 7 in Pittsburgh, when the Steelers receive their Super Bowl rings.Letterman does Roethlisberger a favor
Underneath all that beard, Grizzly Adams is a good looking
fellow. Last night, Dave Letterman did what I wanted to do during the entire Super Bowl game on Sunday: shave Ben
Roethlisberger's beard. The 23-year-old Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback is the youngest in NFL history to win a Super
Bowl. He doesn't usually wear a beard, but he says it became his good luck charm after the Steelers lost to Cincinnati
back in October. He told Dave, "I kind of went into a depression and didn't shave and we ended up winning the next
game." It turns out, young Roethlisberger is a little bit superstitious so he kept the beard all the way through
the Super Bowl.Super Bowl guide for dummies
This is the first year in my life when I actually
am interested in who wins the Super Bowl. You see, I grew up in a baseball home. My first taste of football was in
college (Go Griz!) and I've never had a national team to root for. Well, I still don't have a national team to root
for. I live in Portland, OR, a city that lives vicariously through the professional sports teams that Seattle has.
Therefore, I'm rooting for the Seahawks on Sunday.In order to pretend that I know what is happening, I did a little research about both teams that I thought I would share with the rest of you who will be watching the Super Bowl for the commercials. By the way, the Super Bowl is on Sunday, Feb. 5th on ABC at 6:30 pm Eastern. In Detroit.
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