I'm looking forward to the championship games this weekend, and really what red blooded American isn't? My rooting interest? I'm a Steeler fan, a river rat from the 'burgh. Well, not exactly dahn tahn, but still within Allegheny County about 20 miles up along the Allegheny river. But I digress... As a Steelers fan, I'm a bit torn. I hate the murderous (okay, alleged murderer) Ray-Ray Lewis and the rest of the Rat Birds. I really can't bring myself to root for those chumps. When I was younger it was a different story. I used to support the representative from the AFC Central an ultimately the AFC. I'm not sure I really follow those allegiances much anymore. Whomever I root for, it won't be those Ravens from Baltimore.
Guess I'm thinking San Francisco, especially considering the unthinkable; another ring for the Brady bunch. Anyway, speaking of birds, I don't harbor any great animosity towards the Atlanta Falcons, at least not anything approaching the angst I feel towards the Baltimore Ravens and New England Patriots. In fact, as a boy I once had a Jack Lambert poster that featured #58 laying the wood to one of the Falcons running backs. Since I used to fear that Joe Montana and the San Francisco 49'rs were messin' with the Steelers legacy when they were winning Super Bowls, I guess I'm getting behind the Dirty Birds this weekend. Do they even refer to themselves by that tired moniker anymore?
Long winded here, but if you're a fan of the Matty Ice and the Atlanta Falcons, you'll want to get one of these cool "unofficial" shirts.
