Ho mang would you look at that. Real sharp clean look revealed tonight as part of Pat Narduzzi’s rebuild. While they may deserve a nod of approval they played it safe and left out those sexy throwbacks we believed had leaked last week. 

Pat Narduzzi continues to do an exceptional job turning in Pitt back into a big time program. He treats the program like a first class program off the field and soon that will translate onto the field. A crap team like Penn State would update their logo with a tweet at most. Coach went to far lengths wrangling up former players to pimp the returning Pitt Script on Twitter.

Full disclosure, some of my favorite Pirates highlights are the Kang Bombs broadcast from Korea.

Needless to say, when I stumbled upon a “Hockey Night In Canada” broadcast in Punjabi I was hesitant to believe even if the announcers were epic.

Sure we all love Doc, but you can easily think at times even he sounds like he’s speaking a different language. Canada is about to extend its Stanley Cup-less streak to 23 years so we know these guys don’t have a horse in the race and are just pure adrenaline announcing, but is it legit?

We deployed out crack research staff on the case and learned that Punjabi is the third most spoken language in Canada.  WWE has three announce table ringside these days so it would make sense Canada is trotting out a tertiary crew for 1.3% of Canada’s population.

All facts considered, Hockey Night Punjabi is now the official broadcast selection of The Yuppie Yinzer. Now how are we gonna find that on Fios?

First we were kinda ehhhhh about the 24 Legacy Trailer.

Then we popped nostalgic boners at the Prison Break Trailer.

Now we’re all in on our favorite new show of the fall.

Now I understand its on ABC and won’t be able to be a gritty as your Game of Thrones or Walking Dead’s but we have Jack Bauer fulfilling his Jack Ryan-adjace legacy and being sworn in a President of the United States here.

Are they intentionally paying homage to the first episode of 24 with Jack using his nice voice to talk to his daughter while she’s up past her bedtime only to go full Jack voice in a matter of minutes?

Kal Penn looks like he’s gonna be difficult but I still stand by my first idea that I can’t wait for Jack to interrogate a lobbyist.

Side Note: It’s a damn good thing I’m marrying an optometrist because daddy gonna need a new pair of glasses.

Boom, great news coming from the North Shore this afternoon.  For as much credit as the Bucco’s get for being Pitcher Whisperers, the have done a terrific job twice now spinning former Yankee Catchers into NL elite guys.  It’s great to see they locked up the younger guy without breaking the bank.

Amongst catchers who have at least 100 at bats, Cervelli ranked third in on base percentage at .386 (second place Wilson Ramos is only .001 ahead of him).  The Pirates have been doing a great job getting guys on base and that kind of production from a largely defensive position is a major asset.

Pizza party on Fran am I right?

Side Note: Everything appears to be coming up Cervelli as a recent Reddit Post used a website developed by Zurich University that measures a person’s attractiveness.  Well don’t you know the Bucco Backstop happens to be scientifically “stunning.”

Some guys have all the luck.

My godddddddddd.

Full disclosure, I was a complete 24 fan boy.  I could crush any soul out there in trivia which is why I was so disheartened at yesterdays 24: Legacy Trailer.

24 paved way for Prison Break and for a short 2 years the 8-10:00 block Monday’s on Fox stands as one of the best two hour blocks of TV when Prison Break went back to back with 24.

Yesterday I was “meh” when I saw my favorite TV show’s new trailer.  Today I’m balls to the walls excited for the return of a show which in my mind was always the bridesmaid and never the bride.

Don’t get me wrong, seasons one and two of Prison Break were epic.  I loved that the writers took the time to develop a long arc well ahead of shows like Game of Thrones who had catalogs of source material to plant seeds in episode one and cash out 2 years later.  Hell Prison Break invented killing off main characters and bringing them back later (you know nothing John Snow).

Yes it’s completely ridiculous the same guy now has to break out of his FOURTH prison but when you coming at me with so much nostalgia I have no choice but to allow it.

Perhaps I’ve been in denial all along.. I majored in engineering for a year because of this show, I tried (poorly) to learn oragami because of this show, could this have really been slotted at number one in the power rankings of my favorite TV shows?

Considering my dog is named Bauer probably not, but after these two reboots come to a close in 2017 I might have to bring the committee back to the table to reevaluate the rankings.

Work ethic? Child please.  You’re the NBC Sports iteration of a troll but you weren’t wrong Friday night when you banged the Pens for launching all their shots into the goalies chest.  Last night however you couldn’t have been more wrong for dogging one of the best players in the league.

It was real rewarding to see Crosby answer the bell in all of 40 seconds.

The best news here is when people call out how clutch Sid is, we no longer have to point to him winning a gold medal in the 2010 Olympics in overtime.

Ahh it seems like forever ago the city stood together, excited about the return of Arena Football in Pittsburgh. First it was a team meal at Olive Garden that robbed us of our favorite squad.

Then a short 24 hours after their first tweet announcing the return of an AFL team, the Pittsburgh Pulse appear to have flatlined and fallen off the face of earth. 

Well that was fun while it lasted. Thanks Pulse!

Before game 2 Benstonium’s HBK remix was all the rage. Turns out I wasn’t the only one pumped about the Pens / WWE cros over because fans flocked to Twitter to make the OG aware of his legend status in the Burgh. 

Its one thing to show some interest on Twitter. HBK went next level with his latest update:

And for bonus points, if T shirts are more your game the fine folks at Center Field Smoke have a smokeshow tshirt you can rip off when the HBK line hits the ice.

Update: Things escalated in game 3 and Shawn Michaels hinted at a trip to Pittsburgh.

I don’t even know. I watched it twice and my first thought was The pimp from Sons of Anarchy is due to be President, the villian from last years Homeland is his wife / former head of CTU, and an African American Jack Bauer knockoff is up against the clock.
But the second time? I just don’t know. 

When Jack’s heir apparent was African American people were taken back. I’m not even sure they found the right African American but the PTSD soldier plays in this arena and as long as they don’t buy us with played out stereo types it can work. I’m definitely not sure about his wife who can’t follow instructions but I guess they were contractually obligated to include a moronic character who’s screen time does nothing but piss you off. At least Kim Bauer oozed sex. 

All that being said I’ll definitely watch and follow the news leading up to its premiere after the Super Bowl on Fox. Our best case scenario is they steal the technique Game of Thrones uses and have 24 Legacy be the slow, “wtf is this” build leading up to the inevitable Jack Bauer return / rescue payoff. 

Let us pray we get Tony Almeida back…

Pure perfection.

God bless Benstonium.  No longer do you have to sit around with your buddies watching games and laughing at the potential of an awesome video.  Thanks to his hard work once again we’re graced with exactly what we need.

Want to go next level? The best part is the original HBK has already signed off on it:

Check out the fine folks at Center Field Smoke who have the finest Penguins HBK Line T Shirt money can buy.