The Steelers prepare to face the Jets
The Steelers are playing frighteningly good football right now. The Jets…are not.
Roethlisberger has thrown 12 TDs in two weeks, and looks like an MVP candidate. If he keeps even half that pace up he’s almost a surefire lock. This is a far cry from the team that lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Steelers have found themselves and god help us, no one does football smug quite like Pittsburgh does. When you have Steeler fans rooting for the hated rival Ravens in the Super Bowl over the 49ers just so the 49ers don’t also have the same amount of Super Bowl wins as the Steelers, you know you’ve got a fanbase that is untouchable in terms of not being able to collectively get over itself.
The Jets are the opposite. A fanbase of fans who hate their team, and seemingly for good reason most of the time. The Jets playing very, very bad football right now and may very well be the worst team in the league. Geno looks more like a bust every game. The QB situation is abysmal and Rex Ryan just doesn’t deserve to be a head coach. He belongs as a DC. He should have been fired when the Jets cleaned house two seasons ago. I didn’t blame him as much then, but it’s clear he wasn’t helping really. If he could figure out how to get something competent on offense he could have won two Super Bowls with Sanchez, who I think never stood a chance in that environment. The Jets have major problems and have yet to fix any of them.
this is going to be an ugly game for New York unless a miracle happens.
man if the Jets win I’ll laugh forever
And Armando Salguero, or whatever his face is, says the Jets are Miami’s bitterest rivals in his latest piece, slagging off the Fins for giving up a home game to come to Wembley again in 2015.
Looks like he don’t want the Super Bowl back in South Florida, huh.
The Jets ARE Miami’s bitterest rivals. There are Dolphans who wouldn’t mind going 2-14 as long as both those victories came against the Jets. On a side note, what’s wrong with being mad that one eighth of the team’s home games has been taken away from its fans?
As a Bills fan I couldn’t agree more. The Bills and Fins hate the Jets, the Jets hate the Pats, and the Pats laugh at all of us.
Though you have to admit, the Pats never seem to be able to completely dominate the Jets.
Case in point: Last 5 Pats-Jets matchups:
October 21st, 2012: Patriots 29, Jets 26 (in overtime)
November 22nd, 2012: Patriots 49, Jets 19 (the only blowout)
September 12th, 2013: Patriots 13, Jets 10
October 20th, 2013: Jets 30, Patriots 27 (The only Jets win! In overtime!)
October 17th, 2014: Patriots 27, Jets 25
As you can see, even though the Jets are still 1-4 in their last 5 match ups against the Pats, they’ve played them tough every time except that fateful day in November 2012, and even beat them last year on the other fateful day in November 2013.
Coming off of two impressive wins?
Playing a terrible 1-8 team?
Sounds like the perfect time for a Steelers meltdown.
I’m thinking the exact same thing that this would be how the steelers do things. Find a team they should dominate and then lose to them like the Tim Tebow led broncos in the playoffs.
I’m a steeler fan that was pulling for the ravens against the 49ers and no we cannot get over ourselves but that’s ok.
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And your prediction comes completely true.
“…you know you’ve got a fanbase that is untouchable in terms of not being able to collectively get over itself.”
This sentence is just pure gold.
Used to work Broncos games a few years back during the Tebow era, and watching Pittsburgh fans curse and storm out of the stands huffing and puffing about their numerous Superbowl rings following the ridiculous Tebow-1st-Play-of-Overtime-TD-to-DT was priceless.
..That said, Patriots fans take the cake for being pompous d-bags in today’s NFL. When they came to Denver that year, an older Broncos fan likened them to the “Cowboys fans of yore”, which helped me finally understand why a substantial number of fans can’t stand the Boys. I was about 7 years old during the Dallas dynasty days of the 90’s, so I didn’t really get it at the time…
Anyway, go Jets!
OK. I’ll bite. Where do I fart?
Seriously, this is important. I tried the crowded room. I tried right next to Ben Roethlisberger, even right on his face and his hair. Shoot, I tried all over the Hindenberg. I’ve tried every piece of equipment. I just can’t figure out where. I’d try a crowded elevator if you’d drawn one.
I cant find my fart
The Percy Harvin injury reported today just means the Jets airship is full of methane not hydrogen, kaboom!
How smelleth the fart
The Steelers love to slack off during games like this. Expect a close one. Trust a Steelers fan on this.
Meanwhile the Giants are going to play the Seahawks…guess we will expect about the same margin in each game but then again the Seahawks have been playing pretty sluggishly this season.
I always imagine Jets game tape has the Benny Hill soundtrack playing over it.
I have this one friend who’s a completely obnoxious Pittsburgh fan. He’s always insanely optimistic at the beginning of the season (Super Bowl here we come!!, etc.). Whenever they win, if any of his friends are fans of the losing team, he goes up to them and basically laughs his butt off (I know this to be a fact, he did this last year when the Steelers beat the Jets). Whenever they lose, he always talks about how the other team was cheating or that the refs screwed them over. He also goes bonkers if they don’t make the playoffs.
He’s essentially a blend of the Optimist, Loudmouth, and Conspiracy Theorist-type fans.
Needless to say, I’m not looking forward to this game. Or that phone call he’ll give me after the Jets get pummeled into dust.
That doesn’t mean I won’t laugh my butt off if the Jets actually win.
Steelers fans are like cheap cars. You hate the vast majority of them because they’re dumb and obnoxious, but when you find the diamond in the rough that’s actually good, they’re a keeper forever.
Nothing was funnier than watching anxiety filled Steelers fans try to pick a team in Superbowl 47.
In the days of my youth, I was told what it means to be a man.
Now I’ve reached that age, I’ve tried to do all those things the best I can.
No matter how I try, I find my way into the same old jam.
Guess who got Ben on his fantasy team? This guy!
Guess who got Ben Roethelisberger on his fantasy team, just to piss everyone off and bench him. A good Cleveland Browns fan like myself that’s who.
“man if the Jets win I’ll laugh forever” COMMENCE!
THE JETS WON
THE FUCK DAVE. YOU JINXED THEM
And the Jets win. START LAUGHING DAVE
Laugh forever.
Whenever I saw the scores for the Jets-Steelers game scroll along the bottom of the screen, I thought of this cartoon and loled. My lols started as chuckles and became full belly shaking laughter as the game went on. I’m still chuckling now.
Is panel #2 a reference to the Steelers head coach looking very similar to actor Omar Epps?
lol the hindenburg