Super Bowl

[dmraco]

Any of you guys ever been in the old Limestone mine that's now high security private and Govt. storage?

Never been there, but a friend of mine interviewed for a job there.  At least I think its the place you mean.  He didn't get the job.

And yes, you are right, there are a lot of strange food traditions in Western PA that I am still learning myself.  The french fries on a salad is strange but true fact.  Its not my cup of tea, but who am I to argue with tradition?

From what I see, Pittsburgh food is a combination of various central European traditions mixed with hearty American factory worker food.  Nothing lightweight about it.

There are a few barbeque joints, but they're all pretty much in dicey neighborhoods--meaning dangerous.  I envy you Texans for the bbq tradition you have.

The food in PGH is great.  You are right...good BBQ is tough to find there.  Another thing I cannot stand...IRON CITY beer.  AGGG :help:  That stuff is nasty!  Stay away from that! 

 

[Paul-less]

Forget the SuperBowl, talk about a lame game with an even worse halftime show,

UFC 126 right here! Jon Bones Jones is going to be champ!  :headbang:

 

[The Norwegian Guy]

:hello2:

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Any of you guys ever been in the old Limestone mine that's now high security private and Govt. storage?

Never been there, but a friend of mine interviewed for a job there.  At least I think its the place you mean.  He didn't get the job.

Don't know exactly what it's called, but Iron Mountain sounds familiar.  There's a post office in there and I believe the Zip Code/name of the "city" is Annandale.  There's a 5 acre underground lake in there and 15+ miles of road.  I had a job, and their HQs were in there.  I had to go to training for 3 weeks there.  In the winter when the days are shorter and we were working long days, there was a week where I didn't see sunlight!  Some of the items of note underground are the original Wizard of Oz films and Elvis's original recording of Blue Suede Shoes.

 

[Nightclub Dwight]

Any of you guys ever been in the old Limestone mine that's now high security private and Govt. storage?

Never been there, but a friend of mine interviewed for a job there.  At least I think its the place you mean.  He didn't get the job.

Don't know exactly what it's called, but Iron Mountain sounds familiar.  There's a post office in there and I believe the Zip Code/name of the "city" is Annandale.  There's a 5 acre underground lake in there and 15+ miles of road.  I had a job, and their HQs were in there.  I had to go to training for 3 weeks there.  In the winter when the days are shorter and we were working long days, there was a week where I didn't see sunlight!  Some of the items of note underground are the original Wizard of Oz films and Elvis's original recording of Blue Suede Shows.

Yeah, thats the place.  Its a high tech document storage facility (well, more than just documents as you mention).  My friend is a tech guy, they were looking for someone to instal some new video system or something.  In any case, I don't think he got to enter the underground facility too far if at all for his interview. 

I could only imagine what the government has underground for its truely secret operations.  Probably beyond our wildest conspiracy dreams.

 

[jwl68th]

I worked in one of those underground "secret " installations about 10 yrs ago. Basically a self supporting alternate base of operations that is disaster proof. Safe to say if the apocolypse comes people like you and I aren't getting in!!

 

[Nightclub Dwight]

The Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia has a bunker underneath that was designed to house both houses of the United States Congress in the event of nuclear war.  It was declassified and decomissioned in 1992.  These days it is an attraction for the resort.  About ten years ago when I worked in pharmaceuticals, one of my colleagues held a large dinner meeting in the bunker. 

 

[Miskatonic]

Pittsburgh and Green Bay are my two favorite teams so it was a win win this year. I wanted GB to win just so Rodgers could get a ring. Favre has been my favorite QB since he started but the way he has been disgracing himself lately made me glad that Rodgers is becoming the face of the Packers now.

 

[The Norwegian Guy]

Pittsburgh and Green Bay are my two favorite teams so it was a win win this year. I wanted GB to win just so Rodgers could get a ring. Favre has been my favorite QB since he started but the way he has been disgracing himself lately made me glad that Rodgers is becoming the face of the Packers now.

I've been following Packers since last year - but since I live in norway, the oppurtunities to actually see a match are not the best. This year was the first year the bowl were sent on norwegian tv - and I'm completely hooked! I agree with your Rodgers - Favre statement. Favre were great for many years until he "retired" and signed with vikings two months later.

 

[The Norwegian Guy]

I guess I'm a fanboy

 

[Graffiti62]

If you ever visit Northeast Wisconsin, you'll learn that there are a lot of spots that are very similar to Norway and the whole Scandanavian peninsula, as Scananavians, along with Germans and Belgians were the first to occupy the area. The best reference I can see are the places on the Door peninsula, with the fish boils. The best part is when the cooking crew finishes off with the boil over--once the fish is cooked and the oil rises to the top, the cooking crew adds kerosene or fat to the fire to cause an overdrive to the flame, causing the pot to bil over, whch then causes the oil to go into the fire, creating extra flames--very cool process.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMpbRSzB2yE&tracker=False[/youtube]

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

I guess I'm a fanboy

Don't know.  Also don't know what your affiliation was before the Superbowl.  Some people just like winners.  Last year, you would've been a Saints fan.  Giants and Patriots would be in the mix too. 

 

[JaySwear]

Don't know.  Also don't know what your affiliation was before the Superbowl.  Some people just like winners.  Last year, you would've been a Saints fan.  Giants and Patriots would be in the mix too. 

True. There are so many lifelong _______ (whoever won the last Superbowl) fans every year running around. They're the type of football fan I dislike the most, mostly because they're the hardest to argue with and never really know what they're talking about. They're always the ones who go "Oh yeah, who's YOUR favorite team?" after you confront them about loving a new team each year. Oh well, that's sports for you I guess!

And by the way, I don't mean you Andreas. I just mean sports fans in general. Mostly the kids who went to my highschool who had on a new jersey each week for whoever got the biggest win that weekend...

 

[OzziePete]

Don't know.  Also don't know what your affiliation was before the Superbowl.  Some people just like winners.  Last year, you would've been a Saints fan.  Giants and Patriots would be in the mix too. 

True. There are so many lifelong _______ (whoever won the last Superbowl) fans every year running around. They're the type of football fan I dislike the most, mostly because they're the hardest to argue with and never really know what they're talking about. They're always the ones who go "Oh yeah, who's YOUR favorite team?" after you confront them about loving a new team each year. Oh well, that's sports for you I guess!

And by the way, I don't mean you Andreas. I just mean sports fans in general. Mostly the kids who went to my highschool who had on a new jersey each week for whoever got the biggest win that weekend...

Yeah it's called the 'bandwagoner' effect. If a team is travelling well they'll get decent crowds, then if they perform bad over the season you could hear the grass growing or, in the case of synthetic surfaces, the static discharging as the players brush on it.

In the football I follow, we've had low crowd numbers all season, but our GF is being played to a packed stadium of about 50K.  :dontknow:...

Where all these so called fans of only two teams came from I have no clue, because you look at the crowd stats over the season we've never had that many fans there.

Shits me no end. My own club has struggled to get crowds in despite playing well (media bias means we don't get reported on, so no one hears we were going gangbusters) & yet we've managed to fill a whole away supporters section plus a number of folks in the expensive seats.......in a stadium 1000ks away!

If you don't like football or any other sport, fine, but if it suddenly becomes THE thing to see in your town don't become the fudging hypocrite and start turning up. Hopefully the match will be an event that many will remember and they'll manage to stump up some $$ for a season ticket next season. History shows, tho, that the bandwagoners tend to sit back, they like to be seen as winners.....

 

[Nightclub Dwight]

In the interest of not jumping on any bandwagons, and in celebration of the fact that its almost spring here in the United States, I want to hijack this thread and declare my lifelong obsession with the New York Yankees baseball team.

This is a polarizing statement here in the US.  Many people hate the Yankees.  But I was born a Yankee fan, and I will live my life as a Yankees fan, and one day die a Yankees fan.

In the history of professional sports on this planet, no team has ever achieved the dominance that the Yankees have.  The World Series has been played since 1903.  In that time, the Yankees have appeared in the fall classic 40 times, and won it 27 times.  For competetion, a few teams have appeared as many as 18 times (less than half of all Yankees appearances in the World Series) and the closest runners up, the Cardinals, have won it 10 times.

I understand the Montreal Canadians have a similar celebrated history, and I salute them as a fine hockey team.  I have always admired the Habs, but we're talking baseball here for the moment.

Some people deride the Yankees because of the claim that they "buy" their championships.  In this era of revenue sharing between major league baseball teams, all teams get a slice of the success pie.  Why fault the Yankees for investing their profit back into the team, unlike other teams (ie. Pittsburgh Pirates) who simply pay their owners a nice dividend with the profit?

I know we're way off topic for a Superbowl thread, and I'm opening myself up for a lot of (hopefully good natured) abuse.  I just want to go on record today, March 11, 2011 that the Yankees are my team, have always been my team, and will be my team this fall when we win it all.  Again.  For the 28th time.*

*Sometimes these predictions don't actually come true, but on average, year after year, I like my chances.

 

[DangerousR6]

If you ever visit Northeast Wisconsin, you'll learn that there are a lot of spots that are very similar to Norway and the whole Scandanavian peninsula, as Scananavians, along with Germans and Belgians were the first to occupy the area. The best reference I can see are the places on the Door peninsula, with the fish boils. The best part is when the cooking crew finishes off with the boil over--once the fish is cooked and the oil rises to the top, the cooking crew adds kerosene or fat to the fire to cause an overdrive to the flame, causing the pot to bil over, whch then causes the oil to go into the fire, creating extra flames--very cool process.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMpbRSzB2yE&tracker=False[/youtube]

Probably because it was most like home, cold as shyt, and nobody in thier right mind would want to live there... :icon_biggrin:

 

[crash]

The great thing about living in a cold climate,  It kills these nasty things:

http://www.cracked.com/article_15816_5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html
some colorful language at that site

 

[Graffiti62]

The great thing about living in a cold climate,  It kills these nasty things:

http://www.cracked.com/article_15816_5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html
some colorful language at that site

Seeing the massive wasp made me literally shudder, like an "I have to wipe snot off of my hand" shudder....

 

[The Norwegian Guy]

Don't know.  Also don't know what your affiliation was before the Superbowl.  Some people just like winners.  Last year, you would've been a Saints fan.  Giants and Patriots would be in the mix too. 

True. There are so many lifelong _______ (whoever won the last Superbowl) fans every year running around. They're the type of football fan I dislike the most, mostly because they're the hardest to argue with and never really know what they're talking about. They're always the ones who go "Oh yeah, who's YOUR favorite team?" after you confront them about loving a new team each year. Oh well, that's sports for you I guess!

And by the way, I don't mean you Andreas. I just mean sports fans in general. Mostly the kids who went to my highschool who had on a new jersey each week for whoever got the biggest win that weekend...

I have actually been a packersfan for almost two years. The only problem is that it's difficult to watch games here in norway, so I've been watching the sstatistics and the highlights.
This year was the first year they sent superbowl on norwegian TV - and it was awesome!

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

A friend of mine here, who has always lived here and never been to Greenbay let alone Wisconsin, is a Packers fan.  It culminated in his description of the Superbowl as "the Packers game."