Official Superbowl XLIII thread : Congrats Steelers...Keep it real Az

[rico7jt]

^^^ DOPE song ... put that on WAX ASAP and sell it to AZ.

 

[trufance]

Originally Posted by Fade On You

Ya'll bandwagoners kill me, before this year you would have got laughed at if you ever cheered for the cards, now all the sudden everyone wants to hop on cause they finally have a winning season...give me a break.

I've been laughed at for years now. And all through these playoffs.


I'm ready to do some laughing this Sunday.

 

[highrep87]

lets go cardinals... show dem fools what your about... #11

 

[koolkatz]

Originally Posted by TRUFANCE

I'm SO ready for this game to happen.

Im mad how theres only 1 black guy with a black T on a hot sunny arizona day

 

[ooickusoo]

Roethlisberger WILL f*** up... That is all.

 

[recognizaz]

Originally Posted by RICO7JT

^^^ DOPE song ... put that on WAX ASAP and sell it to AZ.

you like that.

word

 

[recognizaz]

Originally Posted by KoolKatz

Originally Posted by TRUFANCE

I'm SO ready for this game to happen.

Im mad how theres only 1 black guy with a black T on a hot sunny arizona day

 

[80jerryrice80]

Im sittin here watching Americas Game anxiously awaiting the kickoff of SUperbowl 43.

 

[fade on you]

 

[krazy88s]

I will be on pins and needles the entire game.

 

[dmxfury]

Me too. I was nervous earlier about Fitz and the Cards offense, but the more I think about it, the Cards have not seen a defense like this or a coordinatorlike LeBeau. So now I am feeling a bit more confident, though not 100% confident by any means.

 

[CP1708]

at the super bowl thread only being at 10 pages after two weeks ofwaiting.

Regular season Dallas game thread is 10 pages by Tuesday.

 

[dmxfury]

For Terrible Towels, a Wonderful Legacy
By JOHN BRANCH

There is one Steelers fan in Pittsburgh ambivalent about the team's success.

"It's actually been really hard for me, with the Steelers going to the Super Bowl," the 38-year-old Elizabeth Cope said. "Because I have to see the Terrible Towels everywhere. It's great. But it hurts."

The towels are a swirling reminder of her father, Myron Cope, a longtime Pittsburgh broadcaster credited with creating the Terrible Towel in 1975. Before he died last February at age 79, Elizabeth Cope watched last year's Super Bowl with him in his hospital room. She draped his coffin with a quilt that a fan had made out of Terrible Towels.

But the great part comes from what each of those towels does for people like Danny Cope, Myron's son and Elizabeth's older brother.

Myron Cope left behind something far more personal than a legacy of terrycloth, a battle flag for a city and its team. In 1996, he handed over the trademark to the Terrible Towel to the Allegheny Valley School. It is a network of campuses and group homes across Pennsylvania for people with severe intellectual and developmental disabilities. It receives almost all the profits from sales of the towels.

Danny Cope is one of the roughly 900 people the school serves. He has been a resident since 1982, when he was a teenager. He was diagnosed with severe mental ******ation when he was 2. He is now 41.

"He's never spoken," Elizabeth Cope said. "Which is kind of funny, because Dad is known for his voice. It's almost like the Terrible Towel is Danny's silent voice."

Hundreds of thousands of the towels - trademarked as "Myron Cope's the Official Terrible Towel" - are sold every year, for about $7 each. Through the Steelers, who handle the marketing of the towels, the school receives a check every month, usually for tens of thousands of dollars.

A Super Bowl changes everything. The company that produces the towels, McArthur Towel & Sports of Baraboo, Wis., produced 450,000 of them last week, after the Steelers won the A.F.C. championship. The company expects to duplicate that this week before Sunday's game against the Arizona Cardinals, its president, Gregg McArthur, said.

A Steelers victory would most likely lead to orders of at least 500,000 more for a pair of Super Bowl versions of the Terrible Towel, one with the score against the Cardinals, the other declaring the Steelers as six-time Super Bowl champions.

Before this season, Allegheny Valley School had received more than $2.5 million from the towels since 1996, said its chief executive officer, Regis Champ. Roughly $1 million of that came during and immediately after the 2005 season, when the Steelers won Super Bowl XL. This season is likely to top that.

"It's an incredible help for us," Champ said. "We're a nonprofit organization, and our primary funding is through Medicaid. While Medicaid is very good to people with disabilities, it is limited in what it will cover."

Champ said that Myron Cope wanted the money to go not for construction projects, but for individual assistance for residents. Recent purchases include high-end specialized wheelchairs and sensory programs that allow severely disabled residents, including quadriplegics, to perform tasks such as turning on lights or music with a movement of their eyes.

The money has also been spent on adaptive communication devices, computers that give voice to those who cannot speak. Danny Cope has one.

The checks are usually spent as they are received.

"Our needs are daily," Champ said.

Elizabeth Cope receives none of the proceeds from the Terrible Towel. Her father (whose wife, Mildred, died in 1994) transferred the trademark out of gratitude to the school.

"He came into my office, and he had a pile of papers," Champ said. "He threw them down on my desk and said, 'Regis, I'm giving you the Terrible Towel.' I said, 'Myron, I have about 10 of them. I'll take another one, but ...

"He said, 'No, I'm giving you the rights, and you'll be able to get all the proceeds from the Terrible Towels.' I was speechless. I knew that this would be the legacy that outlived Myron."

The idea for the towels came out of a 1975 meeting Cope had at WTAE, the Steelers' flagship radio station where he was the voice of the Steelers. Executives wanted a promotional gimmick, something to raise the excitement level during the playoffs.

Pittsburgh's blue-collar fans were not the pompom types. But towels were far more utilitarian, useful for wiping the seats or protecting against the chill. Cope dubbed them Terrible Towels. On air, he encouraged fans to bring gold or black towels to the first playoff game against the Colts. It seemed too gimmicky, until about half the crowd began waving them at the start of the game. The Steelers won their second consecutive Super Bowl, surrounded by a sea of swirling towels.

Soon they were trademarked and mass-produced. They have been imitated by other franchises, but usually they are handed out for free, and they feel both unoriginal and uninspired by comparison. Even the N.F.L. could not contain itself; it is selling a white "Trophy Towel" to fans of both the Steelers and the Cardinals.

"When I see other towels in other stadiums, I know they probably have no personal story behind them," Elizabeth Cope said. She said she has "millions" of them at home, and recently donated some framed originals to a Pittsburgh museum. There is one displayed at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Myron Cope was treasured in Pittsburgh for his enthusiasm, nasally voice and quirky exclamations such as "Yoi!" and "Double yoi!" But he knew he would be most remembered for the towel. And he made sure that it would always be more than just something to cheer the Steelers to victory.

When Danny Cope arrived at Allegheny Valley School, Myron Cope told Champ that doctors said he needed 24-hour supervision and would never be able to work.

Danny Cope, who is also autistic, now lives in a supervised group home with four others in a Pittsburgh suburb. He shops and goes to sports events. He has a paying job, packaging pretzels and snacks on an assembly line.

"Myron said that he was thankful for the life his son had," Champ said.

The connective threads are strong. Many of the Terrible Towels go through a workshop in Chippewa Falls, Wis., similar to the one where Danny Cope works. About 80 employees with severe disabilities help fold, tag and box the shipments, McArthur said.

Come Sunday, when the Terrible Towels are swirling around Raymond James Stadium, they may also be swirling around Danny Cope. His friends like to watch the games, and Cope understands the Terrible Towels mean something exciting is happening.

"But as far as the legacy his father left?" Champ said. "No, I'm afraid Danny doesn't understand that."





Great article. Awesome how much money the Towel raises every year. GO STEELERS

 

[80jerryrice80]

yo dmxfury, are u an econ major???

 

[dmxfury]

Yes I am

 

[sohi 23]

I have absolutely 0 interest in this game.

But I'm still going to be watching lol

 

[ag 47]

Just got the BBQ done for tomorrow....got work until 2 and then the game...great weekend

 

[retr0sxual]

I'm thrilled for the game!

 

[fraij da 5 11]

at this being only 10 pages so far... Cowboys game threads make 10 pages by Tuesday of the previous week before the bye

 

[true 3 blue]

Word, this is only 10 pgs. I remember last season when the G Men (

) made it, it had to be at least 20-30 pgs before game day.

 

[80jerryrice80]

 

[dyyhard]

off topic. but in tampa


http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/fNbrLSII2jB/DIRECTV+3rd+Annual+Celebrity+Beach+Bowl+Red/4kC5-vqTWa 10 of 99 http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/fNbrLSII2jB/DIRECTV+3rd+Annual+Celebrity+Beach+Bowl+Red/5nJykHjsB6u


http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/gallery...f91ac.super_bowl_cardinals_football_flrf111:1

TAMPA, FL - JANUARY 31: Matt Cassel (L) and Brady Quinn listen to ID Coach inventor Isaac Daniel at the launch of the Isaac Daniel, ID Coach at the Sheraton Riverwalk on January 31, 2009 in Tampa, Florida. The ID Coach system allows coaches to communicate plays to players without using hand signals or audio transmitters. Play calls are transmitted using a military grade encrypted wireless link from the coaches Personal Remote Terminal (PRT) to the assigned player on the field who recieves the play on the ID Coach wristband. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images for EAG Sports Management)


http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/gallery...f91ac.super_bowl_cardinals_football_flrf111:1

getty
2009-01-31

TAMPA, FL - JANUARY 31: Aaron Rodgers, Tony Sparano and Donovan McNabb play with the ID Coach Wristband at the launch of the Isaac Daniel, ID Coach at the Sheraton Riverwalk on January 31, 2009 in Tampa, Florida. The ID Coach system allows coaches to communicate plays to players without using hand signals or audio transmitters. Play calls are transmitted using a military grade encrypted wireless link from the coaches Personal Remote Terminal (PRT) to the assigned player on the field who recieves the play on the ID Coach wristband. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images for EAG Sports Management)

i think that's Mark Sanchez.

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb plays with the ID Coach Wristband at the launch of the Isaac Daniel, ID Coach at the Sheraton Riverwalk on January 31, 2009 in Tampa, Florida. The ID Coach system allows coaches to communicate plays to players without using hand signals or audio transmitters. Play calls are transmitted using a military grade encrypted wireless link from the coaches Personal Remote Terminal (PRT) to the assigned player on the field who recieves the play on the ID Coach wristband. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images for EAG Sports Management) *** Local Caption *** Donovan McNabb

getty
2009-01-31

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/T7k1EHwoUaQ/Walter+Payton+Man+of+the+Year/MFw-0OTkJa 7 of 21 http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/T7k1EHwoUaQ/Walter+Payton+Man+of+the+Year/P0NFqhBF8_7

The Arizona Cardinals pose for a team photograph during the NFC Media Day at Raymond James Stadium on January 27, 2009 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Kurt Warner;Larry Fitzgerald;Tim Hightower;Darnell Dockett

(Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images North America)



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getty
2009-01-31

TAMPA, FL - JANUARY 31: Workers prepare the field a day before Super Bowl XLIII between the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers on January 31, 2009 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Michael Heiman/Getty Images)

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The Vince Lombardi trophy is seen between a Pittsburgh Steelers helmet and an Arizona Cardinals helmet during the Walter Payton Man of the Year Press Conference prior to Super Bowl XLIII held at the Tampa Convention Center on January 30, 2009 in Tampa, Florida.

 

[illoquent aka dsk]

This thread is struggling.

 

[brrraptors]

im gonna be a nervous wreck all day tomorrow. im amped for this game!

beer.. check
lots of to-be-grilled meat marinating...check
tv wiped clean of any dirt n handprints .. check
couches positioned for optimum football viewing .. check
a terrible towel and my jersey ... CHECK

its time

 

[Los Angeles]

ill watch the first quarter and either go take a nap or study.

nonetheless, go steelers.