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Speaker 3 (01:08):
Huddle up Steelers Station, It's tank, Let's well geez, Let's
talk Stealers. Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Does your head to hurt as bad as my head
hurts right now?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Have you ever been in an abusive whether it be
mental or you know, relationship.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
You know, maybe it was a.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Teacher that used to beat you over the head, like
missus Kazemchek used to whack me in ahead in fifth
grade because I suck at math A's uk that four
letters fo r, there's math for you. This lady hit
me in a head because I was not with.
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A pen a pencil.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You know, we cry because I would I probably wanted
to punch her.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I didn't realize that, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
With my temper anyway, I'm thank you're listening to Litstocks
Dealers here, I'm wheeling.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, baby, this is my time slot ten am every
Saturday morning.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I get the.
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Rattle off my nonsensical view of the world, and quite frankly,
I don't care if you care. I don't care if
you like what I have to say that Mike Tomlin
needs fire like the guy who bought the did just
see the guy bought a billboard in Pittsburgh this week
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paid good hard dollars too. I don't Maybe this guy
doesn't pay the electrical bill and he's putting up billboards instead,
and his wife is going.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Larry, there's no electricity.
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And a guy's like, yeah, but I bought a billboard
and says fire Tomlin.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
She's like, Larry, I'm leaving you, going to my mother's.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So I don't know where he got to buy a billboard.
I mean, they're not cheap. Let's say that. But there's
somewhere in Pittsburgh a billboard that says, Mike Tomlin, dear
mister Rooney, fire, Mike Tamblin or sell the team. How
did we get here? How did we get to.
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This place.
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In time in history? February of twenty twenty five, that
devoted a rabbit Steelers nation that the iconic quote says,
if you meet a Steelers fan, they'll say, damn right,
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I bleed black and gold.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I bleed black and gold. That that isn't.
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A Seattle Sea Chickens fan.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I mean they're fair weather out in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Pete Carroll Russell Wilson delivered them championships, the Legion of
Boom Secondary. You know, they couldn't tell you, you know,
what a slot receiver does, what a Michael weinbacker does,
what a post pattern is.
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But they dress up like Sea chickens and go to
games and go we're really loud. They don't bleed.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Green or teal or whatever penguin's color is. Out there
in Seattle, we bleed black and golden. Pittsburgh, we live
and die by this franchise. You know, a picture of
coach Knowle Chez no Emperor for you young kids, that's
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what's coach. Nole's nickname was by the great One Myron Cope,
the Emperor, the Emperor the NFL because he won four
Super Bowls in six seasons. Did Chuck Noll and the
Pittsburgh Steelers, Rocky Blier, Mel Blunt, Mike Webster, you know
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the names.
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So here's the arc where I'm heading with this.
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How we got to February of twenty twenty five with
people putting up billboards and fans like yourself screaming for
Mike Tomlin's head. You know, nobody handed Chuck Noll the
keys to Amasarati. Nobody handed the keys to a Lamborghini
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and said, here you go, Chess. All you gotta do
is just don't crasher. No Chuck Noll, Bill None. If
you don't know who Bill None is, you are ignorant
to Pittsburgh Steelers sports history build None built. The modern
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scouting departments actually had scouts go to college football games
and evaluate talent. Prior to that, most scouting departments were
looking through sources.
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Like Athalon Sports.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Oh, here you go. They list out the top five quarterbacks.
They list out the five top centers, five top linebackers.
No Bill, none of Europe. Pittsburgh Steelers. Way back in
the day Baby invented scouting departments.
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Chuck no himself played for the great Paul Brown.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
When the Cleveland Browns were an championship football team in
the fifties as a guard. Chuck Nole's so intelligent Paul
Brown used Chuck Noll to shuffle him plays from the sidelines. Noel,
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a mastermind of the game, played in the NFL, then
got into coaching. He'd been around the game's best. You know,
Jim Brown. Guys like that Paul Brown. Chuck Nole was
a good football player too. Nobody handed him the keys.
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In fact, they handed him the keys of a rusty
student baker. One of the jokes of car history. When
he inherited the Pittsburgh Steelers Chess Noll in sixty nine,
it was rusty, beat up.
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There was no engine in the car that Chuck Nole got.
The seats were ripped up. It was rusty.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Chas Noll took one look at that car, called the
Pittsburgh Steelers and said, I can work with this. Hey,
Bill Nunn, you were talking about that kid out of Texas.
That defensive lineman, what's his name? Bill Nunn replied, Joe Green.
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I don't know, Coach. The kids got a nasty, nasty,
nasty disposition, Chuck Noll said, my kind of football player
that Joe Green. Go get him. The drafts of the
early seventies of the Steelers produced names like Lynn Swan,
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John Stalworth, Jack Lambert. You sit up when I say
mister Lambert's name, Mike Webster. Chuck Noll built that team
from the ground up, that team that would go on to.
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Win four Super Bowls in six years.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
It had been a dilapidated Jappie John Loppie before that.
Chuck Noll turned the Steelers franchise into a dynasty. Got
a kid out of Penn State named Franco Harris, got
the blonde bomber out of lose Sianna State. Javelin champion
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in high school was Terry Bradshaw.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Chuck Noll.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Probably out of respect for the young man who had
gone to Vietnam and seeing his hopes dashed after a
great career Notre Dame having his football career ruined by
a war that should have never been fought. And I'm
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no bleeding art liberal kids. And I served my time
in the army too, But that Vietnam War, and I
loathe communism, I loathe it. But the end of that
thing didn't need to happen. Maybe Rocky Blier didn't need
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to get his foot blown off. So the Chief God
rest his soul, and Chuck Nol, probably just to give
the kids some.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Hope, put Rocky Buyer on the roster. We all know now.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Rocky proved to be Superman, a hero, a national treasure.
Chuck Nall built that team, turned it into champions. Then
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after a good long stint.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
The writing was kind of on the wall.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
The Eskimos used to well, nobody really wants to say
goodbye to Grandma. They call it when you can't chew
the seal fat anymore. The Eskimos would build an igloo,
and this is true, and they would hug Grandma and
tell Grandma they loved grandma, and they would leave her
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gifts and food. They would build her in igloo and
put her in it, and they would seal the igloo up.
Harsh reality, right, it's truth. I'm getting a little bit
long in the tooth myself. Don't build me no iglu yet. Man,
I'll take a flamethrower to that thing. The tank ain't
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done yet. Hey, your listeners, let's talks dealers. Let's talks
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Speaker 4 (13:01):
What are you talking about, tank?
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Team USA and win a trip to Saint Andrews. So
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the Emperor Chazenall's time passed. Pittsburgh Steelers turned to a
homeboy guy named Bill car Now, if you never saw
Bill Cower, he's scary. He's scary. This cat played football
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like it was meant to be. Probably him and Jack
Lambert are third or fourth cousins.
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I bet.
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Bill Cower.
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Grew up a Steelers fan in the North, Bill Cower
saw the teams of the seventies. Bill Cower respected Charles
no Noel, he respected the Chief and Dan Rooney. More so,
he respected the fan base in Pittsburgh. I was there
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for that era here in Pittsburgh during the nineties. Man,
I saw them all. I saw one. Number fourteen never
mentioned his name around me through the interception against the Chargers.
There went that Super Bowl dream. I was in Dallas
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when Number fourteen dare not mention his name around me
through the two interceptions that blew the game against the Cowgirls.
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