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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AmishMafia" data-source="post: 341143" data-attributes="member: 2846">Seeing nobody is going to answer, I will do it:Towel started as fans would often cry in the stands while watching their team get crushed.  At this time it was called a 'tearing towel'.  Then name 'terrible towel' didn't come into use until the early 90s.   Towel also came in handy as the steel workers, widely known for their "open-minded" relationships, could wave to other male fans at the stadium hoping to catch their attention - especially when there wasn't much to watch on the field.  Then, a more sophisticated steeler fan emerged, finding the towels worked great to keep your crumpets or other biscuits nice and warm while watching the game.   Fans would shower their neighbors with crumbs from the crumpets by shaking out their towels whenever the Steelers did something good.   Eventually, crumpet sales dropped off when they realized it was british and not cool, but the shaking of the towels continued.   They were actually called 'Terrigel Towels' at this time because the main maker of Crumpets was the Terrigel company.   Later fans thought people were saying Terrible and that is where the name came from.</blockquote>

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