More American Football based blogging I'm afraid, although this one with a slightly different ilk. If you've got 10 minutes to kill, go and read the following newspaper articles.
The to and fro between the Rocky Mountain News (Denver) and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette is a small-town rivalry to behold. But more interestingly, these articles manage to give a better description of life in the 'Burgh than I've seen anywhere:
(Jan 18) Rocky Mountain News: "Shot and beer Pittsburgh froths at mouth" A columnist from Denver gets the (dirty) inside scoop on Pittsburgh
(Jan 19) The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette takes offence at the above article: "Denver Columnist calls Pittsburgh "one butt-ugly town"
(Jan 19) Rocky Mountain News: "Yinz might like Steeler Nation after all" in which the Denver guy tries to atone for his sins earlier in the week - some great descriptions of places I love to frequent :)
(Jan 20) And (we) Pittsburghers (am I becoming one of them?!) are forgiving types: "Readers react to Denver columnist..."
(Jan 21) Finally, the trouble-making out-of-towner packs his bags: "Too bad these nice people will be sad, butt..." . Pittsburgh's proven to be a fiercely proud town. And with good reason. We're going to the Superbowl! and just to show that everyone cares, even us here in the muso-world, take a read of this New York Times article, in which my lovely orchestra gets honourable mention... in the sports section :)
(Jan 24) "Party Hasn't Ended for Hoarse Steelers Fans"
yinz? is that how they spell it? huh. i used to work with a guy from wheeling, wv (which is not far from pittsburgh) and he said something that sounded like "youns." probably the same thing.
Posted by: jenny | January 26, 2006 at 03:14 PM