That's Church

“I’m embarrassed about the way I played,” he said. “I’m letting the whole team down. It just seems like one guy makes mistakes and that’s me. … In my wildest dreams, I didn’t think I’d be playing this bad.”

Boy does THAT about sum up yesterday’s game.

Know what sucks even more than watching the Steelers lose to the Raiders? Watching the Steelers lose to the Raiders while in the company of a diehard, lifelong Raiders fan in the form of my brother-in-law and hear him saying things like, “People do NOT give the Raiders enough credit.  They have an incredible defense.” THAT sucks.

This game, was really all about Ben. Not that there weren’t other shiteous factors (hiya, running game and hiya, super long stupid penalties). But Ben SUCKED!

Hell even his own teammates were making fun of his ass:

My mother was calling for Charlie Batch after the first interception. Being the rational, calm person that I am, I waited until the third interception.

Ben was clearly going for some kind of record:

And I know that I can’t be alone in wondering what the hell Ben saw that stopped him from just running the six yards to the end zone and instead threw the ball to a triple covered Santonio Holmes (who I get the sneaking suspicion was ordered not to run after catching a punt, but to just catch the damn punt.) I mean, it seemed like a big guy like Ben could have just taken three big steps and fell into the end zone. It looked like he was going to … then I guess he got scared-ed or something. Sigh. Run, Ben! RUN!

All this leads us once again to the question of the season:

I don’t know what it was, but man, Ben better repent and get on God’s good side again soon, because I’ve had about enough of this.

“I’ve never put a time frame on it,” the mayor said. “I think it would be inappropriate to do so. The Law Department, as well as OMI, are working on it on a daily basis and are moving forward.”

There really needs to be a drinking game for every time Lukey says “moving forward” don’t you think?

Despite suffering two concussions in four months, despite being carted off the field looking like he was seeing rainbows shooting out of unicorns’ butts, Big Ben swears he feels fine enough to play the shiteous Oakland Raiders this Sunday.

The Internet is abuzz:

1. First off, the Onion cracked my shit up with this. Thanks to our friends over at Yinzernation.com for the tip. Every line is pure genius. Every line.

2. Celizik seems to think Ben needs to sit the week out.

3. The Trib did a point/counterpoint that would have been so much more awesome if it had been between Tunesmith and Anthony.

4. And kT over at “Say Whaaaat?” has a nice little letter to Ben with a not so nice closing line. Love it.

My view. Ben shouldn’t play. If he was having brain farts from the first concussion, I don’t WANT to know what his brain will do from the second. He’ll probably mistake Troy Polamalu for PittGirl, throw him to the ground, and start making out with him, screaming, “Love me, PittGirl. LOVE ME!”

In an interview in The Pittsburgh Catholic Newspaper in which he doesn’t really say anthing we haven’t heard before … Lukey dropped a huge bomb in the last few paragraphs. A bomb so big that PittGirl actually said “Holy SHIT!” out loud in her office:

“From that perspective, I definitely want to continue what Bob started. Now that being said, as a 26-year-old, I bring a new perspective. For example, the computer that’s in my office is the first computer ever in the mayor’s office.”

Please tell me that’s not true. This is 2006, people!

Murphy and O’Connor didn’t even have computers in their offices? I’m afraid to ask if the City Council has computers in their offices. How the hell do you do your job if you don’t have a computer? My computer was tied up for 30 minutes yesterday to run SpyBot and I was actually shaking a little bit by the 25th minute.

The first computer EVER in the Mayor’s office. Man. I wonder if it is MS DOS?

Cityworker pointed out to me this awesome pairing of a photo and headline on today’s Tribune Review front page:

Love it!

And I didn’t see it at first, but yeah, that is the gayest statue without meaning to be that I’ve ever seen.

I wonder if it will become a point of interest in the next edition of the NaviGaytor?