Congratulations to six-time Super Bowl winner (and seven-time nominee!) Pittsburgh Steelers. I had the good fortune of attending Super Bowl XL, when the Steelers last won. Media day was a blast:
Then I reported on game day. It seems like only yesterday that I was hanging with Stevie Wonder, then-top draft pick Matt Leinart, and soon-to-be disgraced Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick:
But then as now, I wondered: Why don't the Steelers have cheerleaders? Apparently there was a squad of Steelerettes from 1961-1970. What happened to them?
Now that the Steelers are the winningest team in football, don't they deserve to be cheered in an organized fashion? I ask you, what would Steelers cheerleaders look like?
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Posted Feb 1st 2009 2:00AM by Mo Rocca
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1. The ideal Steeler cheerleader would be about 45, between 150 and 160 lbs with an open can of Iron City in one hand, ready to kick your butt. No one wants to see that on the sidelines.
jrhoople at 5:58AM on Feb 1st 2009
2. steeler fans are mostly homosexual and cheerleaders would just be in the way.
JD at 6:47AM on Feb 1st 2009
3. i am from the pittsburgh area and i love the steelers, in fact i am havin a huge party for today. i would like to see cheerleaders also but i do not appreciate the comment from jrhoople. maybe the likes of the steelers would like to kick ur butt butthead!
deborah f cipriani at 9:15AM on Feb 1st 2009
4. jrhoople ur comment about what the cheerleaders should look like was very unappreciated as i am a huge steelers fan myself. so if u have rude and arrogant comments to say, please leave them to yourself.
deborah f cipriani at 9:30AM on Feb 1st 2009
5. What? Cheerleaders? Not really worried about cheerleaders. Maybe if they were guys from Chip n' Dales, maybe...
cleo cortez at 11:18PM on Feb 1st 2009
6. The NFL teams without cheerleaders: Bears, Browns, Lions, Packers, Giants, Jets, Steelers
All (as far as I can tell) have a mascot. The Steelers have an on-again/off-again relationship with their masks avatar. The mid-1980's to mid-'90s they had Stevie Steeler, and only created Steely McBeam in 2007.
Big Red was "hatched" in 1998, not sure who or what was the prior mascot.
Happy Super Bowl! May the nachos be loaded and the spread covered.
xericwit at 10:16AM on Feb 1st 2009
7. That is good ... no one needs to exploit women.
mnosce at 11:04AM on Feb 1st 2009
8. The Rusty Nails?? The I-Beams?? No, wait! The Pitts!!
Texas River Rat at 2:22PM on Feb 1st 2009
9. There are many beautiful women in Pittsburg, PA. Those narrow minded hicks that are saying about 45 yrs old 150-200 lbs would be the cheerleaders for the Steelers are just that some back hills, narrow minded, uneducated hicks that has nothing better to do then to stare at some super models and think they are god's gift to women. Dum jerks, women are by far superior to you and you lame postings. I wish that the Steelers would get cheerleaders just so these idot's would put their foot in their mouths.
Debera at 3:31PM on Feb 1st 2009
10. 50 female between 150 - 160 lbs and lovin it
becky at 4:31PM on Feb 1st 2009
11. Historically the Steeler cheerleaders were collectively referred to as slag and were therefore discarded as an unwanted, impure by-product of the team. Those that were remained were usually taken home in bags filled with hats and foam fingers by fans who mistook them for swag. Fortunately, there has been a slag revival; now being recycled, they have traded their pyramids for slag heaps and life on the sidelines for that of the artificial ski slope. ;D
SGS at 4:34PM on Feb 1st 2009
12. That's because all of the women from Pittsburgh are all ugly whores...
aye at 5:58PM on Feb 1st 2009
13. I'm wondering that Sarah might be a closet steeler cheerleader....she spent a lot of time in that area in the closing days of the campaign. Do you suppose she wears black and gold undies...inquiring minds need to know.
charlie baker at 6:42PM on Feb 1st 2009
14. Mo,
The reason is: YouTube is scared to shizzles
to air my latest video on cheerleaders.
Lucky Ned Pepper at 7:06PM on Feb 1st 2009
15. Seriously Mo,
Try to access "Yellow Bird!"
Good luck!
Ned Pep at 7:10PM on Feb 1st 2009