The Terrible Towel and Why the Steelers Need to
> Win the Super Bowl
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> Members of the Steeler Nation know all too well the story
> of the Terrible Towel.
> It was a brainchild of beloved and dearly departed Myron
> Cope during the Noll
> Dynasty. The magic of the towel lasted beyond the
> retirement of Chuck Noll,
> maintained its staying power throughout the entire Cowher
> age, and is still
> going strong in the early years of the Tomlin era. The
> towels are manufactured
> in Wisconsin by Chippewa River Industries. Proceeds from
> the sale of the towels
> benefit Chippewa, which employs the mentally disabled, and
> helps to pay for
> their care. Myron Cope also collected royalties and
> donated all of them to the
> Allegheny Valley School , a special needs place where his
> autistic son is a
> resident. Before he died, Cope bequeathed the Towel
> rights to the school,
> ensuring proper care for his son and for many others.
>
> What you may not know is that greed has found its way in to
> this benevolent
> endeavor. The NFL is quietly working on a promotion to
> produce larger towels
> for every other team in the league besides the Steelers.
> They plan to unveil
> this gimmick after the conference championships this week
> and push it through
> the super bowl. The plan is to market these towels and
> capture the enthusiasm
> of the super bowl contestants. To get things moving, free
> towels were handed
> out at every stadium during the divisional playoffs this
> week. You may have
> seen the Tennessee fans waving those powder blue things.
> Of course, they would
> not have brought their own.
> Did anyone notice the complete backfire? All the home
> teams lost EXCEPT the
> Steelers!
>
> This is why the Steelers need to win the Superbowl. The
> sanctity of the
> Terrible Towel must be preserved!
> Also of note:
>
> After the 2005 season members of the Cincinnati Bengals,
> AFC North division
> champs, stomped all over the Terrible Towel before their
> playoff game with the
> wild card Steelers. The Bengals still have not recovered
> from their loss that
> day. The Steelers went on to win their Fifth Super Bowl.
>
> On Dec. 21, 2008 members of the Titans stomped on the
> towel. Three weeks later,
> the Titans took an early dismissal from the playoffs. Early
> on in that game with
> the Ravens, many fans were waving their freebie blue towels
> marked TITANS!
> Later, as the rain began to fall, and it got colder, they
> put the towels on
> their necks to stay warm. Appropriately, as the game went
> on, their necks began
> to TIGHTEN! And their team choked.
>
> If the Steelers win the Superbowl this year, they will have
> to win two games
> against teams named after birds. Then the opposing fans
> can use their new
> towels to clean up all the bird S&%#. Also, a
> Steeler Super Bowl victory
> will make the sacrilegious theft of the spirit of the
> Terrible Towel the worst
> marketing idea since the NFL network!
>
> GO STEELERS !
>