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PITTSBURGH - The City of Pittsburgh has a lot to be proud of recently.
First the Steelers win the Super Bowl, and then our beloved Steeler owner Dan Rooney is named the Ambassador to Ireland. Couple that with the fact the Penguins won the Stanley Cup, and as we all know it’s one of America's most beautiful cites, what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had to say at Rooney's official swearing pretty much said it all.
"It is, I think, an understatement to say with the Pittsburgh Penguins winning their third Stanley Cup, and, of course, the Steelers winning the Super Bowl for a record-breaking sixth time, the site of Pittsburgh is not only a great place to showcase businesses but also the success of American sports as well," Clinton said. "In recent years, Pittsburgh has staged a remarkable comeback," Clinton said.
Clinton also added about its business side.
"It has made such great strides in transforming its economy and developing its high-tech sector, and those are accomplishments that led President Obama to select Pittsburgh as the site for the meeting of the G-20 this September."
This makes a column by a Cleveland writer intriguing. Recently Mike Pettica, a man who is passionate about his city, decided to write an article bashing our beloved city.
Pettica was upset over a column written by Ron Cook in the Post Gazette, which I found excellent.
Here's what Pettica who has covered the Cleveland professional sports scene for years had to say about Pittsburgh starting with the Steelers. Of course, the Pittsburgh Sports Examiner added a few rebuttals highlighted in bold black!!
***Pittsburgh was the worst franchise in the NFL until it hired Cleveland-born Chuck Noll as its coach. He led the Steelers to four of their first six Super Bowl championships. Keying Noll's indomitable defense was Hall of Famer Jack Lambert, a graduate of Crestwood High in Portage County and Kent State, and considered by some as the best linebacker ever.
We gave you Bill and Chuck.
Former Browns linebacker and assistant coach Bill Cowher led Pittsburgh to its fifth Super Bowl win. Cowher, despite his accomplishments, wasn't good enough to be head coach for the Browns. Don't believe it? Former Browns owner Art Modell chose Bill Belichick over Cowher as Cleveland's new coach in 1991. Proving that the Browns' decision-makers have always known what's best, Belichick has coached three Super Bowl championship teams.
Who's the reigning NFL defensive Player of the Year, and a linebacker on Pittsburgh's last two world champion teams? Akron's James Harrison, another former Kent State star.
What would the Steelers have been without such guys? And, all of their championships have been won since NFL games became more a dance than a brawl. After all, it was Lambert himself who famously said, "Quarterbacks should wear dresses," after he was reprimanded by the league for hitting a quarterback too hard. The Browns won all four of their titles when the game wasn't supervised like a croquet match.
*MIKE, THE PITTSBUrGH SPORTS EXAMINER BELIEVES YOU FORGET TO MENTION THAT BILL BELICHICK CHEATED, COULDN'T WIN IN CLEVELAND AND ALSO HOW HIS DISCIPLE ROMEO CRENNEL WAS A COMPLETE BUST WITH THE BROWNS. YOU ALSO FAIL TO MENTION THAT THE BROWNS MANAGEMENT COULD'VE HAD HARRISON BUT PASSED, JUST LIKE THEY DID ON COWHER.
Cleveland has it all over Pittsburgh culturally, anyway. Do you know that Pittsburgh is so lacking in creative thinking that its football team was named the Pirates from 1933-40 (when it went 24-62-5, by the way)?
*MIKE AGAIN, AS THE PITTSBURGH SPORTS EXAMINER I FEEL YOU HAVE THINGS ALL WRONG HERE ABOUT CULTURE. PITTSBURGH HAS LONG BEEN A CENTER FOR CULTURAL PHILANTHROPY. WE HAVE MUSEUMS THAT ARE SECOND TO NONE, AND IF I AM CORRECT WHEN ROCKEFELLER WANTED TO MAKE CLEVELAND A BUSTLING CITY, OFFICIALS SCOFFED AT HIM, AND HE PULLED ALL HIS WEALTH AND BUSINESS OUT OF THERE..WE CAN ALSO BOAST PROUDLY THREE RIVERS THAT NEVER CAUGHT ON FIRE SUCH AS YOUR CUYAHOGA.
Pirates just been awful
The Pittsburgh Pirates' baseball team even makes the former, failed and forlorn Pittsburgh Pirates' football team look good.
Pittsburgh baseball has lost 318 games more than it has won since 1992. Recent Indians' teams look like the 1927 Yankees compared to the Buccos. Yes, the Pirates won the World Series in 1971 and 1979, but if they were any good lately, they would have made it to the 1995 or 1997 World Series to play the Indians, to see who really is best.
*NOTE TO MIKE, FROM ALL OF PITTSBURGH- THE PIRATES MAY NOT HAVE HAD MADE THE WORLD SERIES IN 1995 OR 1997, BUT THE TEAM WAS ONE OF THE BEST IN BASEBALL IN THE EARLY 1990's AND THREE CONSECUTIVE YEAR'S FELL IN THE NLCS. LAST I LOOKED, WE WERE STILL IN CONTENTION, WHILE YOUR TRIBE IS REBUILDING ONCE AGAIN.
The Pirates' inherited their ineptitude from the Pittsburgh Alleghenys, who went 23-113 in the 1890 National League pennant chase, finishing 66 1/2 games behind the first-place Brooklyn Bridegrooms and 23 games in the dust of the seventh-place Cleveland Spiders. The Alleghenys were outscored by 738 runs for the season, which even a Steel City citizen could tell you is more than one run per game.
Yes, in 1899, the Cleveland Spiders went 20-134, but we dare Ron Cook to find one person who can honestly say those Spiders were worse than the '90 Alleghenys.
Take Cavs over any Pitt team
You realy think the Pittsburgh Ironmen could have stopped LeBron James?
What a great NBA history Pittsburgh has. Its lone NBA team, the 1946-47 Pittsburgh Ironmen (another creative name), played in the league during just its first season, when it was called the Basketball Association of America.
Typical of the city they represented, the Ironmen went 15-45, finishing 15 games behind the legendary Cleveland Rebels. Pittsburgh record books show that Colby Gunther is the team's all-time field goal percentage leader, hitting 33.6 percent of his shots. Some Pittsburgh fans could tell you Colby missed more than half his shots. A lot more, in fact.
*MIKE, JUST A QUICK HISTORY LESSON HERE FOR YOU!!! WHILE YOU ARE CORRECT ABOUT THE IRONMEN, YOU FORGET THAT THE CITY BOASTED THE ABL CHAMPION PIPERS IN 1967/68. YOU'VE GOT US ON JAMES, BUT THE BURG HAS PRODUCED SOME GREAT NBA TALENT OVER THE YEARS, DOES PISTOL PETE MARAVICH RING A BELL, OR HOW ABOUT NORM NIXON? WE'LL ALSO TAKE OUR PITT PANTHERS OVER CLEVELAND STATE ANYDAY!
Penguins who?
Let's say this about hockey. Nobody had even heard of the Pittsburgh Penguins when the Cleveland Barons were winning nine Calder Cup championships between 1939 and 1964. That's when the NHL had six teams, and the Barons were commonly called the "seventh best hockey team in the world." We say they were the best. Not their fault they weren't allowed to play the Canadiens, Red Wings, etc.
*MIKE, GET OVER IT...HERSHEY, WHICH IS IN PENNSYLVANIA BOASTS A NUMBER OF CALDER CUPS TOO, BUT THE LORD STANLEY, WE'VE GOT IT, C-TOWN DON'T! OH. AND ALTHOUGH WE DON'T BOAST A PRO BASKETBALL TEAM, WHEN IS THE LAST TIME THE CAVS WON A TITLE? THOUGHT SO, NEVER...
Ohio, 7-1
Just so Pittsburgh backers know, their city is in Pennsylvania and Cleveland is in Ohio. Despite an 89-year slump, Ohio has had seven men born in the state elected president. Pennsylvania has had one, and if you want to know how the experts rank him, look here.
*THIS IS SINKING TO LOW HEIGHTS. BUT HEY, WE'LL TAKE THE ABUSE IF YOU CALL IT THAT. THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SPORTS COLUMN, SO MIKE, EXAMINER.COM WOULD LIKE YOU KNOW, THAT IN ADDITION TO THE STEELERS SIX LOMBARDI'S, WESTERN PA BORN QUARTERBACKS HAVE WON FIVE OTHERS - JOE MONTANA (4) AND JOE NAMATH (1). THAT MAKES 11 TO THE BROWNS NONE. WE CAN ALSO BOAST FOUR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS AS GEORGE BLANDA WON THREE, AND JOHNNY UNITAS TOOK HOME ONE.
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