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Steelers Gear for Out-of-Towners

May 18, 2006 by Still Trivia

We Bad!!  Steeler gear for out-of-towners

By Swissvale72

 

Well�..three months and change post-epiphany.  I still suffer from PEIS (Post-Euphoric Immersion Syndrome). 

 

My family tells me that I�m also chronically delusional.  Is anyone else�

 

Absorbed with the jealousy with which one is viewed as you travel about town in your Steelers jerseys, t-shirts, etc. 

 

Me�.we�re at a local eatery (..not a very high class one).  I�m decked out in my #43 jersey.  By the way, Mrs. Swiss abhors my wearing these jerseys.  Hates the material, hates its transforming effect on me.  I lean over the table, whisper to the kids, �Hey�.hey�.do ya think that people in this restaurant are jealous of my jersey?�  They look at me, look at each other, roll their eyes, go back to their chicken fingers.  Mrs. Swiss nudges me, in a harsh but firm whisper, says, �Dave!!  Will you shut the fuck up!!�

 

I�m at the Y�.on the weight machine, the stationary bike�adorned in my white tank with STEELERS emblazoned in gold across the chest.  I know that the guy with the Giants sweats is jealous.  The local idiot Pats fans�.with their emblems that resemble Elvis�.they may not be jealous, but they�re pissed!  The guy in the Shamokin basketball jersey�..he wishes he was a Steelers fan, probably a Pats convert.  All the fat ladies that abound there�they wish their men (if they have any) were Steelers fans.  I stand more erect (�.maybe I shouldn�t have said that!), I definitely have a swagger, I�m stronger, other members covet my STEELERS tank.

 

I�m driving in my car.  I see other vehicles with Pats stickers.  I pass them up, quickly cut in front of them.  I want them to see.  The top sticker�with the Steeler logo.  The bottom sticker, the new one�..five-time Super Bowl Champion.  FIVE�.FIVE�.FIVE�.FIVE

 

I�m obsessed with the world �five.�  I go to the Post Office on Saturday, have to overnight my request for Steelers tickets.  The postal agent, in Merrimack, New Hampshire�looks at my envelope, looks up, peers over his glasses�says to me, �Got LUCKY.�

 

I lean forward, look into his eyes�.right at �em, say �Got FIVE.�

 

I turn on my heel, laugh my ass off, walk out. 

 

The jagoff probably tour my envelope to shreds.  No tickets for me this year.

 

I drop my car off at the station for inspection this morning.  Idiot Kevin, the boss�s son, asks me about the Pirates. �Y�know, Kevin�I bet I couldn�t name five players on the Pirates.�  He says, �I couldn�t name five on the Steelers.�  �Yes you could, � said I.  �Super Bowl IX, Super Bowl X, Super Bowl XIII, Super Bowl XIV, Super Bowl XL.�  Do ya think I�ll have brakes for the drive home??

 

All of a sudden, being a Steelers fan in New England is heaven, where it was previously an unrelenting hell.

 

Fuck all these Pats fans!!  They�re my neighbors, my friends, my in-laws�.but fuck �em.

FIVE is more than three!!  FIVE is more than three!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

PEIS has taken over.  I may need inpatient intervention.  Better pack my Steelers Johnny!!

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