Happy Halloween!

Today marks a day where everyone can get dressed up and let their creativity (or inner slut) shine through! The Steelers broke out their Halloween costumes a little early on Sunday with their 1934 throwback uniforms. No matter what your pose, it's difficult to look "hardcore" while effectively looking like a bumble bee. As my man pointed out, Pittsburgh is a notoriously un-fashionable city and even hit #3 on the GQ list of worst-dressed cities back in 2011; so these uniforms should really be no surprise. But bad fashion doesn't equal bad football, and the Steelers kicked the Redskins' butt 27-12 in week 8.

Last post I commented on the Seattle Seahawks' new jerseys and I've noticed that lots of teams are wearing "throwback uniforms" each year, so it piqued my interest in the trend of retro uniforms in the NFL. To Wikipedia! It turns out the throwback uniforms started with Major League Baseball and got picked up by the NFL in 1991 in special retail collections. NFL teams started wearing replicas of past uniforms in 1994 to mark the 75th anniversary of the organization. Even back in 1994, the Steelers clearly had the ugliest throwback jersey of them all. It's time for the Rooneys to hire a stylist.

 

Why I like the Seahawks

Apologies for the lack of posts. I know you have all been holding your breath for my comments about the last 3 weeks' games and that whole replacement ref fiasco. In all honesty, The Fan killed me. (I would post a photo of me passed out in my Steelers shirt on the couch but my man vetoed it. Party pooper.)
I'm still in recovery mode but managed to pay attention to the second half of the Seahawks vs. 49ers game tonight. You know what? I like the Seahawks. I don't care if one of their wins was the result of a controversial call by the replacement refs in the last seconds of the game against the Packers all those weeks ago. I liked that call. It was an awesome pass and it got the people going. And people can blame those replacement refs all they want, but what about the non-replacement officials in the booth who supported the call after reviewing it on tape and then all the other "official" NFL people who continued to support the call and let the win stand days later? I personally thank them for making that call because it helped me beat my man in the weekly Pro Pick 'Em pool at work and I'm not giving my $40 back. Hands off my mani-pedi money!
I like the Seahawks for others reasons too. Their head coach, Pete Carroll, was the head coach at USC when I was there and he's a total silver fox. Seattle is a great city (from July-September when the sun is shining). Marshawn Lynch is a pretty bad ass running back. And I love their new uniforms. A little pop of neon is very "in" this year.