Encounter with a Steelers fan

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If this is the wrong place for this, please accept my apologies and feel free to move it if necessary.

I had a strange encounter with a Steelers fan this morning. It was with a fellow I have dealings with through my job. I knew he was a big Steelers fan, but I usually don't talk a lot of smack. Even though I really don't care for them or their strange uniforms that look like a cross between a Bumblebee and a prison uniform.

But lo and behold, he started in on me this morning. First, he was glad Romo was gone, calling him "homo Romo". Then he proceeded to say he hated the Cowboys and always would. I just looked at him and grinned. He must have thought I was going to reply because he then made sure I knew which team had won the most Super Bowls.

At that point, my dander was getting elevated just a little. But because of my work, I said very little. Just that I was looking forward to next season. That set him off even worse. I heard all about how the Cowboys had the third easiest schedule in the NFL last year. And how this year was going to be a lot different. He even said the rest of the league wouldn't be caught off guard by our quarterback and would be ready for Prescott next season. He predicts Dallas will be lucky to win eight games.

By now, I realized that nothing I said was going to help clear the air, so I just grinned again and said we would see.

It's been a few years since I followed football in detail. I guess I had lost the zeal for it. But I seem to have forgotten how radical some of the fans are. In reality, I don't like the Steelers. Or Green Bay, New England, and any team in the NFC East, but that doesn't keep me from acknowledging that some of those teams are good, possibly even great teams. Is it too much to ask that Dallas receives respect as a decent, good, great team, even if they want us to lose every game?

Am I that far out of touch with reality? I was a little shocked by how vehemently he declared his hatred of the Dallas Cowboys.
 
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Teams will be prepare for Prescott this season after his rookie year, but I'm guessing our offensive coaches won't prepare Prescott or Prescott himself won't prepare for defenses this season. They will just sit back and live off last year.
 
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PJTHEDOORS said:
Teams will be prepare for Prescott this season after his rookie year, but I'm guessing our offensive coaches won't prepare Prescott or Prescott himself won't prepare for defenses this season. They will just sit back and live off last year.
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Oh, I'm sure you are right. Clearly, the reports of Dak working to improve during the off season are greatly exaggerated. He's just going to sit on his laurels and let those defenses have their way with him.

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It goes both ways, the past two Cowboys/Gnats games I went to with my roommate who happens to be a Gnats fan. He was wearing a Strahan jersey and I was wearing a Witten jersey. I couldn't believe the things that some people were saying to him. Some of it was the old fashioned trash talking which he and I both laughed at, after all you are in the opposing teams stadium, but there were several incidents of people/"fans" being straight up jerks.

On at least three occasions, someone literally got in his face and started yelling and saying some really inappropriate things. It was so bad I had to intervene because I thought it was going to lead to a fight. I have never been more embarrassed to be a Cowboys fan. I get that not every Cowboys fan isn't like that but you would have had a hard time making me believe it after it happened not once but twice. Not even just one group of people, random people from the parking lot, to beer lines, walking around in the stadium, etc. It actually ticks me off the more I remember it. I hope fans of other teams aren't all treated like that, division rivals or not.

Every team has good and bad fans. I thought I would be murdered in Philly just mentioning the Cowboys at a bar, turns out a bunch of guys I met had a good laugh and bought me a few rounds, I returned the favor of course.

Sucks to hear the Steelers fan was like that. I used to go to a Steelers bar in Plano every now and then (can't remember the name of it now, it burned down I believe) with a co worker to watch games and they were always nice to me.
 
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CirrusBLow said:
If this is the wrong place for this, please accept my apologies and feel free to move it if necessary.

I had a strange encounter with a Steelers fan this morning. It was with a fellow I have dealings with through my job. I knew he was a big Steelers fan, but I usually don't talk a lot of smack. Even though I really don't care for them or their strange uniforms that look like a cross between a Bumblebee and a prison uniform.

But lo and behold, he started in on me this morning. First, he was glad Romo was gone, calling him "homo Romo". Then he proceeded to say he hated the Cowboys and always would. I just looked at him and grinned. He must have thought I was going to reply because he then made sure I knew which team had won the most Super Bowls.

At that point, my dander was getting elevated just a little. But because of my work, I said very little. Just that I was looking forward to next season. That set him off even worse. I heard all about how the Cowboys had the third easiest schedule in the NFL last year. And how this year was going to be a lot different. He even said the rest of the league wouldn't be caught off guard by our quarterback and would be ready for Prescott next season. He predicts Dallas will be lucky to win eight games.

By now, I realized that nothing I said was going to help clear the air, so I just grinned again and said we would see.

It's been a few years since I followed football in detail. I guess I had lost the zeal for it. But I seem to have forgotten how radical some of the fans are. In reality, I don't like the Steelers. Or Green Bay, New England, and any team in the NFC East, but that doesn't keep me from acknowledging that some of those teams are good, possibly even great teams. Is it too much to ask that Dallas receives respect as a decent, good, great team, even if they want us to lose every game?

Am I that far out of touch with reality? I was a little shocked by how vehemently he declared his hatred of the Dallas Cowboys.
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Yeah you're a little out of touch man. Gotta start paying more attention to football
 
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I keep my mouth shut because most of the time they are right.
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Lol, no.

Stealer fans rank right above Sk*ns fans when it comes to being deluded.

Take this guy, for instance. No basis whatsoever for talking smack about Dak or Dallas after the way we beat them last year. We took their best shot in a home must-win game, and beat them anyway.
 
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Idgit said:
Lol, no.

Stealer fans rank right above Sk*ns fans when it comes to being deluded.

Take this guy, for instance. No basis whatsoever for talking smack about Dak or Dallas after the way we beat them last year. We took their best shot in a home must-win game, and beat them anyway.
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I could not agree more. It seems to me that he was more interested in refusing to see anything positive about the Cowboys, rather than having an interesting discussion about football. The difference between me and him? I can acknowledge his team has good players, even if I don't like them. He can't seem to do the same thing. I suspect he probably even thinks our o-line is bad too. :rolleyes:

It is completely different with my son-in-law. He is a die hard Packers fan with a cheese head hat and all. I mean, really serious Packers fan. But we actually watched the first Dallas/GB game together last year. He obviously was rooting for his team and I for mine, but we were able to actually discuss what was going on during the game, without talking a lot of smack. When Dallas won, I didn't talk smack, just grinned at him. When GB won the playoff game, we were texting each other and were both sweating bullets until it was over, but no smack. Just congratulations to the winner and move on.

No matter how serious some of us take football, it is only a game, after all.
 
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CirrusBLow said:
If this is the wrong place for this, please accept my apologies and feel free to move it if necessary.

I had a strange encounter with a Steelers fan this morning. It was with a fellow I have dealings with through my job. I knew he was a big Steelers fan, but I usually don't talk a lot of smack. Even though I really don't care for them or their strange uniforms that look like a cross between a Bumblebee and a prison uniform.

But lo and behold, he started in on me this morning. First, he was glad Romo was gone, calling him "homo Romo". Then he proceeded to say he hated the Cowboys and always would. I just looked at him and grinned. He must have thought I was going to reply because he then made sure I knew which team had won the most Super Bowls.

At that point, my dander was getting elevated just a little. But because of my work, I said very little. Just that I was looking forward to next season. That set him off even worse. I heard all about how the Cowboys had the third easiest schedule in the NFL last year. And how this year was going to be a lot different. He even said the rest of the league wouldn't be caught off guard by our quarterback and would be ready for Prescott next season. He predicts Dallas will be lucky to win eight games.

By now, I realized that nothing I said was going to help clear the air, so I just grinned again and said we would see.

It's been a few years since I followed football in detail. I guess I had lost the zeal for it. But I seem to have forgotten how radical some of the fans are. In reality, I don't like the Steelers. Or Green Bay, New England, and any team in the NFC East, but that doesn't keep me from acknowledging that some of those teams are good, possibly even great teams. Is it too much to ask that Dallas receives respect as a decent, good, great team, even if they want us to lose every game?

Am I that far out of touch with reality? I was a little shocked by how vehemently he declared his hatred of the Dallas Cowboys.
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I had a similar run in with a stealer fan.

I told him....

"the Stealers runs with Rothliesburger are over... Dak and Cowboys are the future"

"I bet you the Cowboys get to 7 before you do.... THAT MEANS... we are winning two before you ever get to 7"

I tell you what... my last line.... it wiped the grin off of his face!

Try it!
 
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I keep my mouth shut because most of the time they are right.
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I live in Steelers Country.

Most of the steelers fans where I work don't talk much smack about the cowboys. It is amazing how quiet they are the last few time the Cowboys have played the Steelers. The next day it is like there was not a game on the day before.

So if they do try and talk smack I just how many games in a row they have lost because I don't recall. Or I just ask if Neil can thrown another INT to Larry Brown. Shuts them up.
 
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Like it or not, it comes with the territory of fandom, then you throw in booze and a bad attitude/strong dislike toward your ' enemy'/antagonistic rival person of fandom in an already
Semi- hostile setting such as a bar and boom! Instant fist fight,,,( not that I wish to lower my self perceived esteemed status on this forum to jerk level but I have enjoyed a number of ' donnybrooks' (( mostly mouthy packer fans)) defending/ their besmirching words ain't gonna fly when it comes to my Cowboys.)

On a lighter note,,, I always get a couple of texts from my brother whenever we play the vikes,might not have talked in two,three years,,,till that game,,,:lmao2:
 
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