Ahh man you gotta feel for Ross.  I’m sure his producers had him on the ‘taped segment’ circuit where he could fill a swear jar and just “edit it in post” to come out smellin like a rose.  Poor guy probably just forgot he got promoted to live shots and old habits die hard.

I’ll be honest, I found this video inspiring.  Lord knows I screw enough things up in a day to be regulated to the taped circuit of my own.  Up until today I had no idea that the pro move was never to acknowledged the error but to just quickly start a countdown and take your do over.

Thanks Ross for imparting that knowledge, look out world 2.0 is comin for ya.

https://twitter.com/NFL_Leaks/status/721419148920619008

This little nugget dropped on Twitter over the weekend.  While some pairings weren’t earth shattering (the Panthers going with blue) other’s did leave the fan bases questioning the motives (the Raiders couldn’t possibly go gold right? Makes no sense… right?)

Sidebar: Technically the original Raiders were black and gold too but Al Davis wasn’t feeling the sex appeal (he was wrong) and changed to the Black and Silver.  Uniform History Guides even include the jersey’s with gold letters as part of their history so the idea of the Raider’s color rush being gold isn’t completely crazy, just don’t tell that to the Raiders.

Awkward…..

Back to the reason you’re all here.

According to this unconfirmed leak, the Steelers are preparing to wear all gold/yellow for their Thursday night football encounter with the Indianapolis Colts.  Not exactly breaking the mold considering both the Pirates and Penguins welcomed gold back to their uniform pallets with open arms.

Art Rooney II however threw a wrench into gold uniforms, when he couldn’t wrap his old man brain around the potential of a different uniform on gameday.

“We had our options,” said Rooney. “We had some presentations from Nike in terms of what the options were, and we decided our color-option was going to be black, and the default option is going to be white. When you’re the road team, the home team gets to decide what it’s wearing. If for some reason the Colts would decide to wear white, we would wear black. We just felt black was more of our predominant color (than gold).”

Hot take: Someone left Art out of the room where they decided to sell some new gold jerseys.

Gold over gold wouldn’t be awful, the Steelers already use that for training camp.  Personally, I don’t like the NFL’s idea that only allowing one helmet per season.  College teams like Oregon use a dozed helmets a season and it would make sense that having to re calibrate each week would only ensure the players safety.  Nike is stuck having to draw up uniforms that would be fresh yet match up with their existing helmet.  The NFL put them in a corner and with the exception of The Color Blind bowl, the color rush movement was an interesting one.

USA Today also put their crack staff on photoshop duty coloring yellow over black on the existing jersey for this stretch:

The change in the Steelers uniforms when the NFL switched from Rebok to Nike were minimal at best.  Judging from the adjustments Nike made with the Rams and Jaguars I think Nike is foaming at the mouth to create a newer look for the Steelers that will send your old school father into a fit of rage when they look different.  The good news for Nike is the people who buy jersey’s will lose their mind and gush like The U did when they got new uniforms.

https://twitter.com/RPerron11/status/721595878964899841

https://twitter.com/Miles_P23/status/721461632761769984

So much potential here but unfortunately I am not in charge of the hires at Root Sports and thus they did not hire “Good Ole JR” Jim Ross.

Go ahead and drop in the legendary phrase that was born in Mellon Arena…

Editors note: That was not in fact Andrew McCutchen.  We apologize for the confusion.

Its no secret ole Donald Trump has become the villain in the 2016 Election Cycle.  He’s losing momentum and that GoP gap is closing with every primary as we head towards pure mayhem at the RNC this summer.

In a PR move for the ages however Donald Trump asked a hot Pittsburgh crowd how Joe Paterno was doing.  You remember JoePa, he was the bad guy about four years ago who aided and abetted a child rapist. Trump’s advisers clearly did their homework and knew that crowd was littered with members of the Penn State cult Penn State fans and alumni and if he could work a little voodoo and bring Paterno back to life, he’d all but lock up the western contingent of votes in the PA primary.

It’s that time of the year again. Major League Baseball has released its annual holiday jerseys.  While it can work for some teams, the Pirates are playing behind the 8-ball on most as their traditional colors Black & Yellow don’t exactly pair well with Red/White/Blue, Pink, Blue etc.

Lets have a look

The Memorial Day set isn’t terrible.  The Pirates have gone camo in the past so they wont look too repug on TV that day.

Now this one I can get into.  They added a gold border to the logos and etched stars on each of the hats venting holes.  The real value here is a peek at what could become of those 2017 Opening Day uniforms celebrating the defending World Series Champions.  The Royal’s most recently continued that trend (below)

The final hat revealed today is the All Star Game hat.  A nice John Cena-esque throwback to the Padre’s classic shell I always like when they go all in embracing the All Star Game Host City’s template.

All in all, not terrible.  There was no getting out of the standard uni’s with unmatched coloring but the payoff of those Home Run Derby & All Star Game hats might be worth suffering through a day of Black & Yellow…. and Pink.

Side note: Kinda bullshit all those holiday baseball games are away from PNC Park.  It would have been nice to spend a three day weekend in the summer enjoying baseball!

Road rage stories are generally downers.  Shooting stories:also downers.  When Scott Steiner shows up out of nowhere as a witness to both:

Scotty didn’t have any of his signature hot takes, he was #factsonly but what better time to crank up that YouTube machine and go down memory lane….

Post Gazette Spring, and perhaps reality television love, is apparently in the air at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort this week. ABC affiliate WTAE is reporting the Farmington, Fayette County, property will be host to the love-struck cast of ABC’s ratings hit, “The Bachelorette.”

I’ll admit I have little to no interest in The Bachelor or Bachelorette until someone I know goes on that oh so magical journey.  I’ve seen snippets here and there when Monday Night Football / Wrestling weren’t bringing much to the table.  The show seems like utter garbage where they take pretty people and put them on incredible dates where they’d be crazy not to enjoy the moment and begin developing some faux feelings.

I get ABC is only going to put pretty people on TV and that’s fine they need love too, but for the love of reality can you please send these jabronis off to some dogshit pizza place and see how they really hack it when they don’t have an endless budget funding their dates?  90% of these relationships don’t stick because when their five minutes of fame are up, not all couples can handle the Pizza Hut vs Papa Johns debate on a rainy Tuesday night.

So when the Gazette reported they’d be filming in and around Pittsburgh my ears perked up a bit.  If the producers were gonna let the contestants get in the mud and have some less glamorous date than their typical island resort, maybe the show was turning a corner…

Oh look, more info on their potential Yinzer date…

What the fuck ABC? This is a hockey town in March, you offer a first class Penguins experience to any guy in this city and he’d agree to pretend to be interested in any wooly mammoth, hell they might even hit her with a “I think I’m falling for you” somewhere during the second intermission.

There’s more?

A FOOTBALL OBSTACLE COURSE WITH BIG BEN, HINES WARD, AND BRETT KEISEL!!!! SIGN ME UPPPPPPP

Well congrats ABC, you had my attention and prompty defecated all over it.  Snuck into the Steel City to have what I thought would be a common man date only to go big and hang out with the Steelers & Penguins.  Curse you.

I may still have to tune in for that one last sliver of hope…

Lets see how long the guys put up with her shit when that starts rumbling in her stomach mid date…

Penguins.com The Pittsburgh Penguins will wear their “Pittsburgh Gold” uniforms for all home games during the Stanley Cup playoffs and will distribute gold t-shirts and rally towels to create a “Gold Rush” at CONSOL Energy Center.

The “Pittsburgh Gold” design has been the Penguins’ third jersey for the past two seasons. It is virtually identical to the black-and-gold design the Penguins wore during the 1980s and in the Stanley Cup championship seasons of 1990-91 and 1991-92.

The Penguins open the playoffs on Wednesday when they host the New York Rangers at 8 p.m.

Pittsburgh Gold t-shirts and towels will be distributed to all fans attending each playoff home game.

Well there you have it folks, make sure your June calendar is rather flexible because there is going to be a parade you’ll want to attend.

This one is going to be even better than the last because today the Penguins announced they will be going with their sexed up Black and Gold uni’s for home games.

Is it too late for Geno to grow out his Jagr-Mullet so we can recreate all sorts of fun photos from the 1991 & 1992 championships?

The puck drops for game 1 vs the Rangers Wednesday at 8:00.

https://twitter.com/johnborukcsn/status/718895399436685312

Ah a nice little modern day Romeo & Juliet how sweet. 

The crack investigative staff at The Yuppie Yinzer has also learned the brides family has paid their dowry. Her families property includes:

• A Rocky box set
• Half a Wawa cup of coffee
• Several D batteries
• 41 years of tears in homemade Stanley Cups made out of aluminum foil. 

Ahh you smell that.  Spring has sprung.  And along with the dreaded stank of cum trees, it also means its NFL Draft Season and more of Jon Gruden’s QB Camp.

Every year Jon selects the cream of the crop and has them draw up their favorite play and Cardale’s selection is not only pure perfection but fits right in with the Steelers playbook and for that reason should immediately jump to the top of their boards.

Gruden didn’t get up like he would for a Spider 2Y Banana but he was eating it up when Cardale went next level and explained where his shotgun arm would put the ball.

But can Cardale put his money where he mouth is? Lets go to the tape.

You’re a liar if you try to tell me you you’re not hungry for these kinds of bombs dropping in AB’s hands in a post Ben world.