TheSnowPlow
Driving Don Shula Crazy
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Exactly. Wait until they start having to listen to that sort of thing all the damned time. It'll get old real quick. "Those teams that didn't exist didn't have a chance to compete!"
It's pretty pathetic to want to have the most championships so badly that you're willing to lie to yourself (and everybody else) to make it "true".
Ugh.
P.S. And by the way, I can't find a photo of Bart Starr wearing a leather helmet anywhere. /snark
You know me - I'm an AFC guy. I tend to pay more attention to the history of the old AFL teams than I do the old pre-merger NFL teams, but I honestly have to wonder how much Steeler fans know about their own damned team?
They started back in the 30s, in the days of "leather helmets" etc. in the old NFL. Funny how, during all that time they won exactly ZERO NFL championships between then and the merger.
The only reason they are in the AFC now is because of the merger re-alignment where they got paid a few million bucks to join the AFC during the merger with a few of the other old NFL teams.
They had their chance to win NFL Championships for nearly 40 years in the pre-merger league - and won none. Nada. Zilch.
My own team's history only goes from 1960, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna badmouth the achievements of teams that existed prior to my own just because we didn't get to play back then.
I've often thought that most Steeler fans ignore the history of any team that is not the Steelers, but I find that it also seems like they ignore the history of their own team, too. :Heristical: