Five Reasons to Root for the Steelers, not the Packers

Top 5 Reasons to Root for the Steelers:

1. Because it will kill Cowboys fans (and Roger Staubach having to present the trophy) for the Steelers to win in Dallas!
2. You have to root for a team that has a guy whose hair is insured for $1,000,000.00
3. At least the Lombardi trophy will be in Pennsylvania.
4. Football is not supposed to be pretty, and the Steelers aren’t pretty.
5. Maybe it will help all their older fans get over reminiscing about the 70’s and join the present time.

Bonus Reason: During WWII the Steelers and Eagles merged, the Steagles, due to a shortage of available men to play. So, in an alternate universe, rooting for the Steelers is really like rooting for the Eagles.
 
Top 5 Reasons to Root Against the Packers:

1. Nobody looks good with cheese on their head.
2. They eliminated the Eagles
3. If they win, Brett Favre might let his ego drive him back out of retirement ... again
4. The walls behind the end zones in Cowboys Stadium are too high to do the Lambeau leap.
5. No place should call themselves “Titletown” when they don’t have a baseball, basketball, or hockey team.

Top 5 Reasons to Root for the Packers:

1. Rodgers is easier to say than Roethlisberger.
2. It’s the only team without a billionaire owner.
3. People who live in Green Bay deserve something.
4.  Green and Gold is closer to Green and White than Black and Gold.
5. Maybe it will help their older fans get over reminiscing about the 60’s (isn’t that Brett Favre’s age) and join the present time.

Top Five Reasons to Root Against the Steelers:

1. Even Disney doesn’t want Big Ben going to Disneyworld
2. The ring for a seventh Super Bowl would have to be SO big you probably couldn’t wear it.
3. The only thing that might aggravate a Cowboys fan more than the Steelers winning in Dallas would be the Packers – anybody remember the “Ice Bowl”?
4. Seven Wins just isn’t fair to all the Arizona, Atlanta, Buffalo, Carolina, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, Minnesota, Philadelphia, San Diego, Seattle, and Tennessee fans.
5. We all know a Steeler fan, and with the economy the way it is, no one should be that happy.

These lists were compiled by Denny Darragh and his youngest’s daughter, Marykate. They bleed Black and Gold, and even though they think they might be damned for it, they also wrote the lists for the Packers' team, for which they have a healthy respect.

In Denny's words: I was born and raised in Pittsburgh; my father was an original Steeler season ticket holder dating all the way back to 1933 (they were originally the Pirates by the way). I started going to Steeler games in 1969, Joe Greene’s rookie season, and the rest is well, as they say, is history.
 
Marykate, the youngest of my four children, developed the love of Black & Gold (like her siblings) early in life.  A well-educated fan, her knowledge of the game is excellent and was strongly enhanced by following Central Catholic's State Championship journey this past year. During a recent sleepover with her girlfriends, there was no reality TV, no texting boys or updating Facebook pages. Instead, Marykate quizzed her friends on Steeler trivia from my hardbound copies of the team’s history. I was a very proud parent at that moment.