Terrible Towel Desecration

[randomsteelerfan]

When will people/teams learn?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc- ... -football/

[BethlehemSteel]

This up's the ante on just taking them apart then.

[randomsteelerfan]

The arrow to Ben's junk is a bit much.

I had zero feelings toward the Skins prior. Now I want them annihilated.

[rocky mtn stiller]

Unleash Hell!

[Legacy User]

Unleash Hell!

BEFORE December?!?!

[BethlehemSteel]

The arrow to Ben's junk is a bit much.

I had zero feelings toward the Skins prior. Now I want them annihilated.

Yeah, that was a little extra that i am sure will get on the blackboard

[R_S]

The arrow to Ben's junk is a bit much.

I had zero feelings toward the Skins prior. Now I want them annihilated.

try reading the clueless comments in any skin-steelers article in the post about how Pittsburgh is such a shithole blahblah and nobody wants to live there so they come here (DC) to find a job. Like bragging that DC is full of meaningless cubicle dwelling pencil pushing jobs due to a bloated government capital city.....whoopteeee!!!

[BethlehemSteel]

Free for all now on her twitter as this grows legs

https://twitter.com/tress_way/status/775314132870524928

[Legacy User]

Oh boy, that was stupid.

Kickers' moms are even bigger idiots than their sons, says Peyton Manning.

[Old School Steeler]

The arrow to Ben's junk is a bit much.

I had zero feelings toward the Skins prior. Now I want them annihilated.

try reading the clueless comments in any skin-steelers article in the post about how Pittsburgh is such a shithole blahblah and nobody wants to live there so they come here (DC) to find a job. Like bragging that DC is full of meaningless cubicle dwelling pencil pushing jobs due to a bloated government capital city.....whoopteeee!!!

Here's a stat you'll never see anywhere that screams about waste fraud and theft in that flatulence on the Potomac. 20% of all office buildings leased by the government from pvt landlords and developers on behalf of we the people are vacant. We're paying rent, taxes, insurance, operating costs including security 24 7 on millions of vacant Sq Ft. Deals are made between government representatives and landlords who own portfolios of multiple buildings. This is a joke but typical of how things are done.

[R_S]

Interesting but not even slightly surprising

[Legacy User]

Oh HELL NO...

[alancac98]

You can bet this is poster fodder for Steelers tonight. The punter (Tress?), what the fuck kinda name is that!, just might have a target on his back. The Steelers have a "gang" type attitude about their colors, so this may not end well for him and the Redskins. As far as the arrow pointing to Ben genitals, she'll be choking on something when Ben throws his 6th touchdown against that piece of shit team.

[Ice]

Tress is a perfectly good nickname for a national championship winning coach.

Disrespecting the Towel, though. You're right, now I want them beaten from pillar to post.

[BethlehemSteel]

Hey Mrs Tress!!!!

Twerk That!!!

[Legacy User]

They never learn. You do NOT fuck with the Towel.

[Orangesteel]

They never learn. You do NOT fuck with the Towel.

Hahahahaha WHOOP WHOOP!

[steelmann58]

THE SKINS NOW UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE TOWEL GLAD WE WENT IN FOR THAT LAST TD

[BethlehemSteel]

Beware of be curse!!

Desecration history :

Before a 1994 playoff game against the Steelers' long-time rival Cleveland Browns, Steelers defensive tackle Brentson Buckner accidentally dropped a Towel that he was waving during the player introductions. Browns running back Earnest Byner stepped on the Towel yelling, "We don't care about your towel. We're going to beat you this time." This act "provok[ed] other Steelers and Browns to mingle. Not affectionately."[43] The Steelers won the game 29–9.[43]


During a December 4, 2005, game at Heinz Field, T. J. Houshmandzadeh of the Cincinnati Bengals wiped his feet on a Towel after he scored a touchdown.[44] Although the Bengals managed a 7-point victory in that regular season game, the Steelers came back to defeat them 31–17 in the playoffs, on their way to a victory in Super Bowl XL.[45] The Bengals did not reach the playoffs again until the 2009-10 season, after Houshmandzadeh had left the team.


Before the September 29, 2008, Steelers game at Heinz Field, Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Derrick Mason stomped on a Terrible Towel. The Ravens then went on to lose all three of their 2008 season games against the Steelers, including the 2008 AFC Championship Game.[46]


On October 8, 2008, the Steelers played the Jacksonville Jaguars at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium. At that point of their season, the Jaguars were 2-2-0, and feeling very hopeful for the season following a defeat at home of their division rival Colts. The game was very close going into the second half, and the Steelers were still stinging from a Mathis interception and runback for a touchdown. Shortly after the start of the third quarter, Jaguars mascot Jaxson de Ville stood alongside some cheerleaders, and produced a Terrible Towel, which he used to rub his armpits and buttocks. Shortly after that, the Steelers ran away with the game and the Jaguars lost 26-21. The Jaguars went on to lose eight of their remaining eleven games in the season.[47]


On December 21, 2008, LenDale White and Keith Bulluck of the Tennessee Titans stepped on a Terrible Towel after the Titans's 31–14 victory. Pittsburgh's Larry Foote responded, "They deserved to do that, they whooped us, they deserve to celebrate and, hopefully, we'll see them again."[48] While Hines Ward said, "[T. J. Houshmandzadeh] did kind of the same thing and you see where they went."[48] Former Steelers head coach Bill Cowher, by this point working for CBS as an analyst on The NFL Today, mentioned on The NFL Today that such antics can come back to haunt teams.[49] Tennessee was the top seed in the playoffs, however following the incident the Titans proceeded to lose eight consecutive games, including an '08 divisional playoff game and their '09 Week 1 game against the Steelers, 13-10. After the Titan's 8th consecutive loss—a 59-0 blowout to the New England Patriots, the Titans worst loss ever—Titans coach Jeff Fisher expressed regret for his team's behavior towards the Towel, and a number of Titans players autographed a Terrible Towel and mailed it to Allegheny Valley School – the Pittsburgh charity that now owns the trademark. The Titans won their next 5 games.



On January 27, 2009, at a public sendoff in Phoenix for the Arizona Cardinals before they faced the Steelers in Super Bowl XLIII, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon produced a towel and called the Cardinals mascot, Big Red to the stage, where he used the towel to wipe his armpits. Gordon then blew his nose on the towel.[44] The Cardinals then proceeded to lose the Super Bowl to the Steelers, 27-23.



On October 11, 2009, the Pittsburgh Steelers played the Detroit Lions at Ford Field. Nearing the end of the fourth quarter the Steelers were up by 8 points and the Lions were marching down the field. At this time the mascot Roary The Lion, stepped on, bit and ripped apart a Terrible Towel. Following this the Lions suffered three straight sacks to put them in a long fourth and twenty-eight situation. The Lions did not convert and the Steelers won the game 28-20.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c362/ ... lions4.jpg

Several Blue and White "Terrific Towels" were made for the Indianapolis Colts' in the 2009 season playoffs, one of which received some airtime during their AFC championship victory.[50] The Colts subsequently lost Super Bowl XLIV to the New Orleans Saints.

After a 13-10 Ravens win in Pittsburgh on November 18, 2012 Ray Rice walked off the field waving a Terrible Towel over his head and singing Steelers rally song "Renegade" with teammates.[51] Rice publicly stated after the game that no disrespect was intended.[52] Two weeks later on December 2, the Ravens lost to the Steelers 23-20 despite being at home and facing Pittsburgh's third-string quarterback, Charlie Batch. Losing 4 of their last 5 games notwithstanding, Baltimore would go on to win the AFC North and follow that with a playoff run to become Super Bowl XLVII Champions, giving them the distinction of being the first and only team in NFL history to have shown disrespect toward the Terrible Towel and win the Super Bowl. However, prior to the 2014 season, Ray Rice was suspended due to a domestic violence incident in the offseason and was subsequently released and has not been signed by another team since.




On an October 5, 2014 game between the Steelers and the Jacksonville Jaguars at EverBank Field, in which the Steelers won 17-9, Jaguars mascot Jaxson de Ville was seen holding a Terrible Towel on one hand and a handwritten sign that reads "Towels Carry Ebola" on the other hand, mentioning the deadly outbreak that started in West Africa. The next day, the Jaguars issued an apology for the incident,[53] but would go on to lose 13 of their next 17 games.


On February 7, 2016, the Florida Panthers' mascot, Stanley C Panther, blew his nose into a Terrible Towel, with the Pittsburgh Penguins down 0-2 with around 6 mins left in the 3rd period. After this, the Penguins then tied the game in regulation, and won it in overtime. According to Elias Sports Bureau, this was the first time in Pittsburgh Penguins franchise history that they have overcome a 2-0 deficit to win with 6 mins left in the game. Kris Letang scored the OT winner, and Sidney Crosby tied the game with the goaltender pulled late in regulation. Including the game against the Penguins, the Panthers are 1-4 since the incident.


On September 12, 2016, before the Steelers' 2016 season opener against the Washington Redskins on Monday Night Football, Redskins punter Tress Way posted a video on Twitter of a spirit video his mother sent him, which culminated in her burning a Terrible Towel. The Steelers won the game 38-16.