At least “Ratbirds” sounded like an insult. “Purple Browns” just doesn’t hurt at all. Makes me wonder if you’re all into the fashion thing and by mismatching colors, it will hurt our sense of fashion, Snowballz Sally.

birdland (orioles) falls under everything. every year. prime example of the mega wealthy thinking they know sports better than the players and peeps. the one thing that keeps me from going crazy about the crappy O’s is that there is know way they can compete $$ wise with the Yanks and Sox. There needs to be a cap. I don’t like baseball anymore because of the salaries. Boarders on insanity. Plus, North American players are being squeezed from their own sport. Just more cash being exported.

No one talks about BirdLand in Baltimore. The Orioles are irrelevant.

Now Ravens Roosts are OK. They are a resurrection of the old Colts Corral clubs (which used to be national). Local fans rooting for the team.

Designating oneself a “nation” is laughable. The Red Sox already did it and ruined whatever positive connotation it may have ever had. Any fan base that follows suit has no imagination and are stupid ignorant enough to follow a marketing strategy trying to copy something the Red Sox are loathed for. Buy your Steeler Nation trinkets and proclaim that you are not a thinking fan and just buy into some kind of marketing bullshit.

For the last time, the B-more restaurants mostly use crab from other countries or the carolinas. we are trying to kill the bay so will you stop getting in the way with these accusations about us having home grown crab cakes. if you want a real B-more crab cake stop by in September and I’ll pull some out of Back River, wipe off the sludge and cookem’ up. sheesh already.

Hines is a leader on the Steelers. He sets the tone for the rest of the offense. As Heath Miller said

“We try to be a physical team around here, and when you have a receiver who blocks as well as he does and cares about blocking as much as he does, that sets the tone for the rest of the team, because as an offensive lineman or even as a tight end, you don’t want a receiver blocking better than you do. So you just try to keep up with his pace.”

Not only is Hines a great blocker – but if you watch the Steelers other receivers they usually improve drastically while playing next to ward. Randle El – used to make great blocks for a little guy. Santonio has started picking up the pace. The only exception was Plaxcio – and the Steelers FO sniffed that rat out in time.

Hines is not only a great player, but a great leader. In a league with big mouthed, high ego wide receivers, this guy is a hard working, tough as nails role model. Remember his reputation for toughness isn’t only for flattening linebackers with hard blocks, but also for going up the seam the very next play, getting clobbered and hanging on to the ball. There are more talented receivers out there for sure, but there isn’t one I would rather have as the role model and leader for the Steelers offense.

he’s a fat/slow receiver who happens to get off blocks at the line. he is easily guarded down field..if he gets more than 10 yards down field.

hines ward is a great blocker, you don’t know dick about football.

yeah, I thought Rexx gave Hines more props than that before. Hines is way more than a beat down and a smile. He’s a Baller!

No:

My point is that Ward is not man enough to go right at a guy to amke the block or much less take it.

That is your point. And it’s bullshit.