Even though the region is equidistant from three NFL markets, it is easy to see that Erie is Steelers Country. The Black and Gold empirically outnumbers the Orange and Brown by three to one, and double that over the Red and Blue of the Bills.
A well-written, no-nonsense fan blog of the defending Super Bowl Champions [...]

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In case you missed this year’s NFL draft, here are the results for all the local teams.
Pittsburgh Steelers
Round 1: Evander Hood, DT, Missouri
Round 3: Kraig Urbik, OT, Wisconsin
Round 3: Mike Wallace, WR, Mississippi
Round 3: Keenan Lewis, CB, Oregon State
Round 5: Joe Burnett, CB, Central Florida
Round 5: Frank Summers, RB, UNLB
Round 6: Ra’Shon Harris, DT, [...]

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The NFL has released the official schedules for the 2009 season.
Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh will play 5 prime time night games this season. The crybabies in Baltimore complained that they often had to play night games in Pittsburgh so this year, when the teams play in Pittsburgh it will be during the day and at [...]

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The Erie Times-News has some nice video from this past weekend’s Steelers Charity Game at Edinboro University.

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This week’s post of the week comes from ErieSportsFans.com. They snapped some great photos from this week’s Super Bowl victory parade in downtown Pittsburgh.

Check out the videos and photos here.
You can see other posts from local bloggers we’ve picked in the past here.

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There is no way this winter is ever going to end as long as that groundhog keeps seeing his shadow. I don’t see any way out of it. He’s got to be stopped. And I have to stop him.
~ Bill Murray as Phil Connors in the 1993 movie Groundhog Day.
And so it is with great [...]

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What just happened?

We don’t know about you, but Mike didn’t sit for pretty much the entire second half. He just paced. We’ll blog more about this tomorrow, once we have time to get our senses back and figure out what just went down.

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We’re two days away from Super Bowl XLIII pitting the Arizona Cardinals against the Pittsburgh Steelers. We can practically taste the wings and beer.
The game starts Sunday at 6 p.m. from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, Florida. WICU will broadcast the game locally. Bruce Springsteen will perform at halftime. Expect “Born in the [...]

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Today we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (whose birthday is actually January 15).  You can hear a recently discovered recording of Dr. King from his 1959 visit to the country of India.  Regardless of your political beliefs or affiliations, this holiday holds an additional special meaning in light of Barack Obama’s election as the [...]

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Thanks to a very late Troy Polamalu interception return for a touchdown, the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Baltimore Ravens 23-14 to earn a trip to Super Bowl XLIII to face the Arizona Cardinals on February 1, 2009.
It was a nail-biter until about 4 minutes left in the fourth quarter, and with these two monster defenses, [...]

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Attention Steelers fans! Get ready for the playoffs with this cool contest from VisitPittsburgh.com. Here’s info on a contest they are running:
It’s time to rally around our Pittsburgh Steelers as they head to the playoffs in January 2009 and VisitPittsburgh wants to see and hear your best Steelers cheer! We want the funniest, wackiest and [...]

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The conversations around Erie centered on Chytoria Graham and what she did to her baby. Graham used her 1 month old baby to strike her boyfriend. The baby is in a Pittsburgh hospital in a drug induced coma with brain damage. There were reports that she confessed to police. What a despicable crime. Tom Vinca, [...]

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The Pittsburgh Steelers dominated Denver winning 34-17 in the AFC title game. Seattle will meet the Steelers in Super Bowl XL in Detroit on Sunday Feb 5. For those of you who went to Edinboro, that’s Super Bowl 40, not extra large. It was great to see Nate Washington make an important catch for Pittsburgh. [...]

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MTR Gaming Group received a takeover offer from two of the company’s executives, in a deal that valued at about $258.4 million. The company’s shares soared $1.84 or 23 percent to close at $9.73 on Friday. MTR Chief Executive Ted Arneault and Executive Vice President Robert Blatt propose paying $9.50 per share in cash for [...]

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