Chowd�heads Panic Over Big Ben in
the Bowl
By PalmerSucks
Special Commentary
January 28, 2011
Just when you thought
the Stillers getting to the Big Dance couldn�t be sweeter, here come the New
England crybabies to make it even better!
Someone named �Gerry
Callahan� had this to say in Tuesday�s Boston Herald:
�It�s up to the
Green Bay Packers now, our Packers, America�s team. They are the last best hope
for good and decent football fans everywhere. Aaron Rodgers, Clay Matthews and
the rest of the Pack are all that stand between Ben
Roethlisberger and his nauseating return to polite society.
It seems to be a familiar question when
Roethlisberger is in the room, but we must ask again: Could someone please stop
this man?�
For
more laughs, you can read the rest of this trash at http://bostonherald.com/sports/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1311744&format=comments&sort=newest&cnum=3.
Basically
he rags on Ben for everything from having a good team around him, to his low
passer rating in the championship game. He even suggests the Stillers might be
just as well off with Charlie Batch at QB. I�m surprised he didn�t blame Ben
for the cold front that hit Pittsburgh last weekend, and any cases of frostbite
that might�ve happened.
By the
way, the title of this steaming dump is �Ben Roethlisberger�s a zero, not a
hero.� You stay classy, Boston.
Yes,
the chowderhead Patsie fan base is all in a tizzy over having to watch the
Stillers in the Bowl again. I think I have a suspicion as to why. This from the
always insightful guys at Cold Hard Football Facts:
�Big Ben has
officially replaced Tom Brady as the playoff winner of this QB generation. Was
Roethlisberger great? Nope. He was better than his shoddy stat line (10 of 19
for 133 yards and two picks), but he had his struggles.
What he did, though, for the 10th time in 12 playoff games,
was win the game � and win with more than just a defense. The Steelers have
never scored fewer than 20 points in a Roethlisberger playoff start, which is a
pretty remarkable number. Patriots and Colts fans certainly wish they could
say the same in recent years.
In Big Ben's two losses, the Steelers averaged 28 points: a
41-27 loss in the 2004 AFC title game to the dynastic Patriots in his rookie
year, and a 31-29 loss to the Jaguars in the 2007 playoffs, after a down
year for Pittsburgh.
His ability to hold up under pressure and make big third
down plays (the Steelers were 6 of 11) goes past the box score, and another
Super Bowl win.�
Not surprisingly,
Callahan�s hit piece worked in a ham-fisted plug for Brady, claiming that if
Tommy were playing for the Stillers, they�d be huge favorites over the Packers.
Hate to break it to you, Gerry, but if Brady had to put up with the patchwork
excuse the Stillers call an o-line, I doubt he�d even reach the playoffs.
But hey, now that
Justin Jr. is yesterday�s champion, I guess we�ll have to pardon Gerry for
crying in his chowder. They still like to pretend they�re the top team there in
N�England, ey-yah, but the fact is, the Patsies haven�t won a ring since Bush
was president. Brady is a perfectly mediocre 5-5 his last 10 playoff games. The
Golden Boy is no longer golden: a couple of one-and-dones in the playoffs will
tend to do that to you.
Should the Stillers
take this Super Bowl, that�ll be three rings for Ben, tying him all-time with
you-know-who. No wonder they�re crapping their drawers
up there in Boston. Big Ben the new top dog? Panic
time!
Gerry, by the way, is
part of the vaunted �Dennis and Callahan� duo, spewing their stupidity from
WEEI in Boston, the country�s shrillest sports-talk radio station. Not so
coincidentally, they recently interviewed Pittsburgh talk-radio personality
Mark Madden. The topic of discussion: defending Ben Roethlisberger. Can you say
�obsessed�?
As you know I�ve
documented the Patsies� own scandals, from Spygate to Bridget-gate to Belichick�s home-wrecking escapades. Imagine a Boston sportswriter playing the morality
card? Oh that�s rich!
Here�s a little piece
of reality for Mr. Callahan: for the first time all year,� against the Jets, Tommy Brady didn�t
get time to have a sandwich back there. He folded like a cheap pup tent under
the pressure. Ben�s overall numbers against the Jets weren�t great, but when it
counted at the end, he made the game�s two biggest passes.
That�s why the
Stillers will be playing in the Super Bowl while the Patsies are busy farting
into their couches.
Anyway, thought I�d
give you some entertainment in the down week before the Bowl. As if the
Stillers climbing the Stairway to Seven isn�t a
glorious enough thought, now we have this: Gerry Callahan choking on his own
bile as he watches Big Ben raise yet another Lombardi.