Terrible Towels

The Terrible Towel is a fan symbol associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers, an American football team in the National Football League (NFL). Created in 1975 by then Steelers radio broadcaster Myron Cope, the Towel has since become "arguably the best-known fan symbol of any major pro sports team".



I hate these things. During the first 20 minutes of the game (and pre-game) I had these stupid things in every picture I took.


Pat and I went north to Kansas City this weekend to see the Chiefs vs. Steelers game. We were very excited to go to this game, the Steelers being the defending Super Bowl champs and all, and we had ashamedly low expectations for the outcome of the game.

HOWEVER when the Chiefs opened the game with a touchdown punt return and then managed to play a good game the towels were silenced and I had lost my voice from all of the screaming. I myself am a pretty competitive person so it felt so good to rub it in to all of the irritating Steeler fans. At a game like this, with an opponent like this, there were just as many Steeler fans as Chiefs fans so you could count on most of the people around you being against your team. That can get really irritating after awhile. So we were, of course, overjoyed to send the Steelers home with a loss and to see those stupid towels stuffed into back pockets rather than being waved in your face. (and your pictures)












We also busted out Christmas decorations this weekend. We got the tree put up (although I am going to hold out on the ornaments a little longer) and got lots of our decor put up. The kids were so excited to see the tree up and especially happy to open our Christmas books/toys/movies box. There is already a lot of talk about the naughty and nice list here and threats to call Santa have already been issued.

We had movie night and watched the Grinch and Rudolph movies. I bought my Christmas favorite, a popcorn tin with 3 popcorn flavors, and the kids had a great time chowing down and getting into the Christmas spirit.








Sissy had a fun gymnastics party to attend this weekend. As usual she was very shy at first and hesitant to do everything until she processed it but before long she was showing off her gymnastics skills. She cried when we left, she had so much fun.















And today at school we had Sis' Thanksgiving Party at preschool. Fun for Sis, but much more fun for Big Boy. He thought it was the best thing ever. This year he is the only younger sibling in Sissy's class- unbelievable- so he gets lots of attention from the adults and kids as well as Nana who was there for the party. They had food, games, and songs. It was very cute.





Laying in Sis' lap listening to the story:







HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!