View Full Version : Just The Cowher "facts" Sir: Notice Any Omissions?
TL24x7
09-19-2006, 02:05 PM
Shutting out Cowher
from Ed Bouchette Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Since becoming the Steelers' coach in 1992, Bill Cowher has been held scoreless only three times before last night. Here's a look at the losses:
Team Score Skinny
at New York Jets Dec. 14, 2003 6-0 The loss in a heavy snowstorm eliminated the Steelers from the playoffs.
at Miami Dolphins Sept. 20, 1998 21-0 The offense produced just 200 total yards in Cowher's second shutout.
at Los Angeles Rams Sept. 12, 1993 27-0 Rookie Jerome Bettis closed the scoring for the Rams with a 29-yard TD run.
(Ed Bouchette can be reached at ebouchette@post-gazette.com. )
How easily they forget.....
FellsPointRaven
09-19-2006, 02:17 PM
Shutting out Cowher
from Ed Bouchette Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Since becoming the Steelers' coach in 1992, Bill Cowher has been held scoreless only three times before last night. Here's a look at the losses:
Team Score Skinny
at New York Jets Dec. 14, 2003 6-0 The loss in a heavy snowstorm eliminated the Steelers from the playoffs.
at Miami Dolphins Sept. 20, 1998 21-0 The offense produced just 200 total yards in Cowher's second shutout.
at Los Angeles Rams Sept. 12, 1993 27-0 Rookie Jerome Bettis closed the scoring for the Rams with a 29-yard TD run.
(Ed Bouchette can be reached at ebouchette@post-gazette.com. )
How easily they forget.....
They'll claim they don't count the 16-0 in 2000 because Kordell was their QB. They'll be claiming they legitimately won a Superbowl next.
I hope you emailed Ed Douchette, Tony.
52decleetzu
09-19-2006, 02:17 PM
Hmmmm......I thought there was one other time they got shutout,I just cant remember for the life of me who it was....anyone????
RAVENOUS52
09-19-2006, 02:29 PM
I believe I may have been present during the last season home opener at 3 Sewers Stadium....Umm, refresh my memory...What was the final score of that game?
52decleetzu
09-19-2006, 02:51 PM
Hey TL got a link?
BaltimoreRon
09-19-2006, 03:17 PM
It looks like the guy listed only away games. It's even worse to get skunked in your own crib.
TL24x7
09-19-2006, 03:29 PM
Sorry guys and gals....here you go: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06262/723075-66.stm
ravensfan1996
09-19-2006, 03:52 PM
That is just too funny. They must be owned by the same company as The Sun!! How hard is it to look up the scores of the past seasons and pick them all out?? They have Google in pittsburgh? They just cant give Baltimore any credit.
Sports Steve
09-19-2006, 04:25 PM
Why would they want to give us any credit. They hate us just like the rest of the NFL. They just can't stand Baltimore being back in Pro Football much less winning.
:jester: :jester:
AZRAVEN
09-19-2006, 05:17 PM
Not to be a PITA, but how much "credit" do we Ravens fans give Pittsburgh? That street goes both ways. Sometimes I think Baltimore folks have to much of an "us against the world" mentality.
highwater
09-19-2006, 05:42 PM
That is just too funny. They must be owned by the same company as The Sun!!
This is a little off topic, but speaking of the Sun and their stupidity, did anyone notice how brain-dead their little table of the Ravens defense was in the Monday paper? They have given up six points in two games, so the Sun had a table that listed the points allowed per game so far as -- four points per game. Really? Six divided by two is four? :grbac:
They also claimed that the Packers lost their home opener to the Saints, but unless I'm mistaken, I think the Packers had their home opener the previous week against the Bears. They also said we had a 2-0 lifetime record against the Panthers, but I seem to recall the Panthers beating us a few years ago. How hard can it be to get this simple stuff right?
crowdog89
09-19-2006, 06:56 PM
Here's the email I sent to him...I'll let you know if I get a response.
I saw this at the bottom of your article from todays edition;
Since becoming the Steelers' coach in 1992, Bill Cowher has been held scoreless only three times before last night. Here's a look at the losses:
Team Score Skinny
at New York Jets Dec. 14, 2003 6-0 The loss in a heavy snowstorm eliminated the Steelers from the playoffs.
at Miami Dolphins Sept. 20, 1998 21-0 The offense produced just 200 total yards in Cowher's second shutout.
at Los Angeles Rams Sept. 12, 1993 27-0 Rookie Jerome Bettis closed the scoring for the Rams with a 29-yard TD run.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06262/723075-66.stm
I notice one HUGE glaring error. You seem to have forgot the Steelers home opener from the 2000 season a 16-0 Ravens victory. Did Bill Cowher take that day off, thus it didn't count, or what? Maybe you are only including away games, in which case the chart is misleading. Or is it that you hate Baltimore so much that you've chosen to blank that out of your memory banks?
Maybe if you click on this link from your very own newspaper, it will refresh those brain cells that you've obviously killed with too much 'Arnshitty beer.
http://www.post-gazette.com/steelersphoto/photos_display.asp?ID=604
ladyraven127
09-19-2006, 07:26 PM
"Maybe if you click on this link from your very own newspaper, it will refresh those brain cells that you've obviously killed with too much 'Arnshitty beer."
:rolling:
:nerd:
Ravens0587
09-19-2006, 07:35 PM
i'm just waiting for them to remove that from their archives
crowdog89
09-20-2006, 04:27 PM
Got a short and sweet answer from the dude I emailed....check my earlier post in this thread to see what I sent him.
His reply:
I've notified our editors, who are the ones who compiled that chart.
Thanks,
ed b
:rolling: Pass the buck......:crazy:
IanWhetstone
09-20-2006, 04:43 PM
Bouchette is a terrific reporter... probably the best of the local Pittsburgh guys, and we enjoy pretty good sports journalism in these parts. I'm sure it was just an oversight, not some shot at Baltimore. And his response to your "reminder," Crow, given your closing sentence, was quite professional.
crowdog89
09-20-2006, 04:53 PM
Just to be fair Ian, I would have said something similar even if it was a Baltimore reporter.
He may be a good reporter, I don't doubt it. But, he left it up to his editors to fact check...which I suppose a lot of reporters do. He then passed the buck onto his editors for blame. He should have, and all reporters should, check their facts prior to letting the story be printed or published.
I thought it was funny that I supplied a link from his very own newspaper with the 4th shutout story.
I just thought I'd be my normal smart ass self because of that fact....just ask my wife.:kewl:
crowdog89
09-20-2006, 05:05 PM
One more thing Ian, you ever drank Iron City Beer? That stuff is putrid.
Not just because it's a PA beer.
I like yuengling beer, they make some really fine tasting ones.
IanWhetstone
09-20-2006, 05:29 PM
One more thing Ian, you ever drank Iron City Beer? That stuff is putrid.
Not just because it's a PA beer.
I like yuengling beer, they make some really fine tasting ones.Nah, not much of a drinker. I find that the general sentiment around here is the same, though: Iron City is swill, Yeungling is pretty good.
Losac
09-21-2006, 08:51 AM
Yuengling is excellent. I think that's brewed in Pottsville, PA. How far is that from Pitt?
In fact, isn't even Natty Boh brewed in PA these days?
Yuengling is excellent. I think that's brewed in Pottsville, PA. How far is that from Pitt?
In fact, isn't even Natty Boh brewed in PA these days?
Pottsville is near Allentown...kindof between Philly and Harrisburg. Can't help you on the Natty Boh thing.
IanWhetstone
09-21-2006, 10:11 AM
Yuengling is excellent. I think that's brewed in Pottsville, PA. How far is that from Pitt?Three or four hours.
In fact, isn't even Natty Boh brewed in PA these days?Haven't the foggiest. Rolling Rock just left Latrobe, I do believe, for New Jersey.
Losac
09-21-2006, 10:14 AM
According to Wikipedia, Boh is now distributed by the Pabst Brewing Company out of North Carolina.
They still haven't fixed the article. Those guys are almost Sun-like.
52decleetzu
09-21-2006, 02:12 PM
Im sure it was just an innocent mistake,I mean it was his editors not him.
crowdog89
09-21-2006, 06:22 PM
Im sure it was just an innocent mistake,I mean it was his editors not him.
Yeah, but you'd think that since they have been made aware of the error...that they would have fixed it by now.:thumbdown:
52decleetzu
09-21-2006, 08:07 PM
This is Pittsburgh we are talking about,you know they are a little slow out there.
edreedisgod20
09-21-2006, 08:31 PM
Bouchette is a terrific reporter... probably the best of the local Pittsburgh guys, and we enjoy pretty good sports journalism in these parts.
From what I've seen, Bouchette IS a good reporter, but... he's taken some pretty nasty shots at Baltimore in the past. His AFC North preview earlier this year was surprisingly refreshing and objective.
flraven
09-27-2006, 02:56 PM
I believe Yuengling is brewed farther east of Pittsburgh, I hear some people call it "miner's piss" anyway. Its not that bad though.
I believe Rolling Rock is brewed closer to Steel City. Not that I've ever been there, and never will go, unless its to see the Ravens hammer on the Stealers. :hammer:
edited it because I saw later responses.
flraven
09-27-2006, 02:58 PM
Yuengling is excellent. I think that's brewed in Pottsville, PA. How far is that from Pitt?
In fact, isn't even Natty Boh brewed in PA these days?
From what I understand, Natty Boh is brewed by Heilemann Breweries in Milwaukee.