It is not snow blocking the streets its STILLERS pride.
Steelers won their sixth Superbowl title by an 'edge of your seat' 27-23. After 2006's crushing defeat of the Seahawks, this game was truly a battle until the very end. With just 20 seconds to spare, Holmes performed a pointe even a member of the Joffery Ballet Company could admire. I found myself screaming, along with 15 other rabid fans, at the projection screen. It was a catch and win worth celebrating.
10 minutes later I am driving up to Liberty Ave. honking at cheering, drunk neighbors on the streets of Lawrenceville as my friend waves a terrible towel from my passenger window.
We were introduced to the celebrating masses with a hug from an old drunken man on the sidewalk. Bloomfield's main avenue had officially been closed off by 2 cop cars and 4 buses (why were the buses still out?). Everyone was there - babies, hipsters, yinzers, punks, bikers, my jet messenger guy, teens. Firecrackers popped, a young man threw cake in the air from a near empty dish, and that's when it happened.
The couch flew into the center of the road.
Three young men circled it like sharks before they used the only means they had to light it, firecrackers. Unlike Superbowl 2006 in oakland where couches were thrown into the streets pre-soaked in lighter fluid - this was impetuous. The couch was decrepit and did not stay in flames longer than 10 minutes before the firemen snuffed it out.
(photo courtesy of Kate's cellphone)
After the couch encounter I felt my Superbowl experience was complete and I went home.
Damage done:
$500,000 for the oakland destruction, and then 79,000 for cleanup after dumb parade. (data given to me by friend who works for a law firm in pittsburgh)
my co workers witnessed cars lit on fire, 2 trees lit, and two bus stops turned over. thats just what THEY saw!
Recent quote from my friend and neighbor Kevin Topolski, "I heard gun shots go off from my bedroom when the game finished" !
