a little history...

well, tonight i am sitting in my hotel room in tempe, az. i drove over from san diego this afternoon. the drive was good (i will post some pics on flickr). being here in the phoenix area, and next sunday being Super Sunday, reminds me of 10 years ago in this very city. Super Bowl XXX, Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Dallas Cowboys. i was very confidant that my Steelers were going to win their 5th Super Bowl (in 5 trys) against the hated Cowboys (who we were already 2-0 against in past Super Bowls), but it was not meant to be...Dallas won the game 27-17. it has been a bitter pill ever since, especially since we have had 4 other chances to get there, with home field advantage to boot, but lost every one of them. we should have 8 Lombardi trophies as far as i was concerned, but i digress...
the real story that Super Sunday was a trip with some buddies from SNU. we decided to watch the game in Dallas with our buddy Tucker who had graduated the year before. as anything you do in college, we decided the night before to leave OKC and head down I-35 3 1/2 hours. we did not even know if Tucker was home because we could not reach him. well, with 2 gas cards and about $9 in cash between the 3 of us (Quanstrom and Dave White were the other 2) we headed south and waited for Tucker at his apartment. luckily, he finally came home. he was happily (i think) surprised to see us and invited us into his home. we watched the game and smoked swisher sweets. the funny part was Tucker insisted on us smoking in the apartment. we tried to tell him, but he was the host and we did not want to be impolite...so we smoked in the apartment. well, 2 weeks later he was complaining about how bad his place smelled. sorry Tuck, that was is on you.
anyway, next sunday, feb 5, my Steelers are back in the Super Bowl, and i have all the confidence that they will win their 5th Super Bowl title! GO STEELERS!!!