1.30.2009

Super Bowl

TOTALLY NOT DC RELATED.

BUT, this is all I have to say about the Super Bowl.

Posted by Dave Stroup at 10:15 AM

18 comments:

  1. M@January 30, 2009

    Oh, you just lost your High Life privileges, son.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009

    rust belt chic, nice.

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009

    Steeler fans will outnumber Cardinals fans by, oh I dunno, maybe 70,000 to one.

    A lot of them live in Florida anyway, among other places. Because Pittsburgh is such a filthy shithole.

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  4. Dave StroupJanuary 30, 2009

    pittsburgh is going to get the last laugh when this recession hits bottom.

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  5. JamesJanuary 30, 2009

    No it won't. DC will.

    America's misery is always Washington's gain.

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  6. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009

    Pittsburgh is a stinking toilet.

    It's been losing population for half a century for a reason.

    Steeler fans are passionate because they've got nothing left to cling to (aside from guns, religion and anti-immigrant bigotry).

    Plus, Primanti Bros is shit, their meat is from Ohio river rats.

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  7. BedlamJanuary 30, 2009

    this will be something to watch,

    new here

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  8. M@January 30, 2009

    Pittsburgh IS in fact a toilet. But there's nothing wrong w/ questioning the orthodoxy of unmitigated mass immigration from Third World nations.

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  9. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009

    I like Pittsburgh, it's gotten better over the years, but to say that it's going to have the last laugh is stupid. Just b/c it was a booming manufacturing town in the past doesn't mean that it'll be one in the future when we'll be looking to manufacture different things and things like business taxes and labor is more competitive. That's like saying Detroit is going to have the last laugh.

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  10. Dave StroupJanuary 30, 2009

    no, but with UPMC and the fact that PNC Bank looks like it might be one of the very few solvent banks... Pitt is in a good position.

    They already had to retool themselves after the collapse of the steel sector, and they never really experienced the housing boom the way a lot of other places did.

    Pittsburgh definitely wasn't great during the boomtimes, but it's not going to be hit as hard during the bad times... so overall, it might come out of this in better shape than other places. Much better shape than Detroit.

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  11. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009

    Go Cowboys!

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  12. JamesJanuary 30, 2009

    Pittsburgh's economy has been much more resilient than most other rust belt cities, but that's not setting a high standard. They were able to wean themselves off steel and reinvent themselves. it was a painful process in the 80s, but one that Denver, Cleveland, Buffalo etc. never got around to.

    But whatever. DC's still a worse shithole because we've got money pouring in from all sides here, so we've got no excuse.

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  13. JamesJanuary 30, 2009

    By "Denver," I meant "Detroit."

    DC's overall shittiness caused me to fuck that up.

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  14. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009

    Republican or Democrat, Steeler or Cardinal fan, Vegan or carnivore, now is the time to give our new President the remote control.

    Gimme some uh them chips, though.

    See http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/superbowl-veg-out/

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  15. J-RedFebruary 01, 2009

    Not the first person I've seen cite UPMC as Pittsburgh's great economic asset. Makes perfect sense, seeing as how the Cleveland Clinic and Hopkins/Maryland have made Cleveland and Baltimore shining cosmopolitan metropolises.

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  16. AnonymousFebruary 02, 2009

    When I moved from Washington DC to Pittsburgh 5 years ago, and my realtor was showing me adorable 3 bedroom houses in decent (rather nicely diverse) parts of town for under $100,000 I couldn't believe it, perhaps they didn't have roofs? Complete reverse sticker shock.

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  17. AnonymousFebruary 09, 2009

    Were you for the steelers or against them?

    The guy in the pic is pretty douchey, so it could go either way.

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  18. Dave StroupFebruary 09, 2009

    i am for the steelers.

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