(02-05-2018, 12:57 AM)Vas Deferens Wrote: ... their fathers were eagles fans and jump ship like the bandwagon pieces of garbage they know they are?


Fly eagles fly around the NFL now right?  


Trash people have a new home they can't identify on a map.

(02-05-2018, 12:57 AM)Vas Deferens Wrote: ... their fathers were eagles fans and jump ship like the bandwagon pieces of garbage they know they are?


Fly eagles fly around the NFL now right?


Trash people have a new home they can't identify on a map.

(02-05-2018, 12:57 AM)Vas Deferens Wrote: ... their fathers were eagles fans 

(02-05-2018, 01:50 PM)BMK Wrote: Funfact not worth knowing #257

Actually, it's entirely possible that their fathers, ok grandfathers,  WERE Eagles fans...at least for one year back in the mid 40's. Both teams lost so many of their players to the war effort,  the Steelers and Eagles combined the two teams and created the Steagles.   They went 5-4 and it was the very first winning season for Philly, and only the second one for Pgh.  They went back to two separate teams the next year. 

Quote:In 1936, Rooney won a parlay at Saratoga Race Course, which netted him about $160,000. He used the winnings to hire a coach, Joe Bach, give contracts to his players and almost win a championship. The winnings funded the team until 1941 when he sold the franchise to NY playboy Alex Thompson. Thompson wanted to move the franchise to Boston so he could be within a five-hour train ride of his club. At the same time, the Philadelphia Eagles ran into financial problems. Rooney used the funds from the sale of franchise to get a 70% interest in the Eagles, the other 30% held by Rooney friend and future NFL commissioner, Bert Bell. Bell and Rooney agreed to trade places with Thompson. Bell took the role of President of the Steelers that he relinquished to Rooney in 1946 when Bell became Commissioner. Rooney got his good friend and his sister's father in law, Barney McGinley, to buy Bell's shares. Barney's son Jack, Art's brother in law, retained the McGinley interest that passed to his heirs when he died in 2006.[6]

(02-05-2018, 01:57 PM)Go Cards Wrote: Can understand that, but 95% jumped on.

(02-05-2018, 12:57 AM)Vas Deferens Wrote: ... their fathers were eagles fans and jump ship like the bandwagon pieces of garbage they know they are?


Fly eagles fly around the NFL now right?  


Trash people have a new home they can't identify on a map.

(02-05-2018, 10:08 PM)Captain Obvious Wrote: I jumped on their bandwagon for one night only. I can't stand the Patriots. It's funny that a Bengals fan who always jump on the bandwagon of the team facing the Steelers in the playoffs would suddenly act like it's wrong for the Steelers fans to do the same thing with the Patriots.

(02-06-2018, 09:09 AM)JS-Steelerfan Wrote: Speaking of bandwagoners, I know a guy who became a Steelers fan after living in Western PA for several years.   he's a special case that almost makes me wonder if his switch was forgivable: he'd been a Browns fan all his life.  

(02-06-2018, 10:32 AM)michaelsean Wrote: I have a hard time figuring out how you switch.  I mean if you could, ten or so teams wouldn't have any fans.  If I could come up with a formula I'd be a billionaire.  I can see fading out on your team, but not choosing another.

(02-06-2018, 10:38 AM)GMDino Wrote: I didn't switch from the Steelers (and I think I've told this before) but back in high school, maybe sophomore year so around 84-85, a friend and I decided to pick one awful team and start rooting for them so if they ever won we could say we weren't "bandwagon fans" .

He picked the Jets.  I picked the Saints.  I already had an autographed (reproduction) of Archie Manning that I had gotten years earlier so it seemed a good fit.

After a couple decades of cheering for them it obviously wasn't just a joke anymore.  I really am a Saints fan.  And a couple years before they won their super bowl we got new neighbors and she was from Louisiana and a huge Saints fan so we bonded over that and had the Super Bowl part at their house!     

But the Steelers always come first.

(02-06-2018, 10:45 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Yeah I can see second team.  i was pulling for Minnie this year.  Of course part of that was to show Mike Brown what a moron he is.  They didn't make the Super Bowl but they did make the championship game, but I'm guessing it still didn't enter Mikey's brain for one second that he might have effed that one up.

(02-06-2018, 10:47 AM)GMDino Wrote: Yeah if the Steelers aren't it I root for the division then for someone new to win it.  

(02-06-2018, 10:52 AM)michaelsean Wrote: I can't root for the division.  I want to.  I root for the Big 10 in bowl games, but I can't do it for the AFC North.  Too much envy.

(02-06-2018, 10:38 AM)GMDino Wrote: I didn't switch from the Steelers (and I think I've told this before) but back in high school, maybe sophomore year so around 84-85, a friend and I decided to pick one awful team and start rooting for them so if they ever won we could say we weren't "bandwagon fans" .

He picked the Jets.  I picked the Saints.  I already had an autographed (reproduction) of Archie Manning that I had gotten years earlier so it seemed a good fit.

After a couple decades of cheering for them it obviously wasn't just a joke anymore.  I really am a Saints fan.  And a couple years before they won their super bowl we got new neighbors and she was from Louisiana and a huge Saints fan so we bonded over that and had the Super Bowl part at their house!     

But the Steelers always come first.

(02-06-2018, 11:06 AM)Wyche Wrote: I've done this before.  I always like a good underdog, so I pulled for the lovable losers....the Aints and Yuccaneers.  Mainly the Saints because they were in the hated 49ers division, and Yucs had suffered so long.  Who'd a thunk they would both have rings now, and here my Bengals sit.

(02-06-2018, 10:32 AM)michaelsean Wrote: I have a hard time figuring out how you switch.  I mean if you could, ten or so teams wouldn't have any fans.  If I could come up with a formula I'd be a billionaire.  I can see fading out on your team, but not choosing another.