The Terrible Towel
Sep24
on September 24, 2015
at 12:01 am
I like the Terrible Towel as an icon because it works on at least 3 levels
1. As a towel it is just terrible
2. it’s just the most annoying thing if you aren’t a Steeler fan
3. GO STEELERS WOO FEAR THE TERRIBLE TOWEL SIXBURGH PEROGIES PASS ME THAT KEG OF IRON CITY
As a fan gimmick it’s probably the best in the NFL. It’s very simple, it’s iconic, and it’s absolutely annoying as shit for ever other fanbase. It’s very, very Pittsburgh and very very Steelers. I may hate it and think it’s a stupid ugly gimmick rag, but I respect it.
I like the fan gimmick of the Packers more than the terrible towel. The Towel is almost as annoying cloying as the “legion of boom”. They can all go choke on a divot.
The cheesehead was swiped by the Claymores from 1995-2004, covered in tartan and redubbed the Cheddarhead. I went to World Bowl XI in Glasgow, and the Scottish fans are still the most fun group at any game I’ve ever been to.
As for AB here, I’ve heard of helmet-hair, but… LEGO helmet-hair?
The Terrible Towel pretty much keeps the Allegheny Valley School funded. A certain Mr. Kopelman of New Kensington made sure of that.
/SWELLS WITH YINZER PRIDE
It’s also why it is extremely bad to disrespect the towel. Neither the Steelers nor the NFL get any money from it. All proceeds go to a school for disabled people. Messing with the towel is really bad karma.
The terrible towel is the perfect size to wipe your ass with, especially when you are the greatest of all time.
Why would Aaron Rodgers want to wipe his ass with that?
love pittsburgh. love love love pittsburgh and its perogies and primanti bros and iron city.
hate the stillers and their stupid terrible towels
How…just how does Antonio Brown’s hair stay like that in the shower?
Because his family’s hair is magic. His father, Eddie Brown, the greatest (or second greatest if you live are an Orlando Predators fan and think Barry Wagner was the best) player in Arena Football history (as a wide receiver/cornerback for the Albany Firebirds from1990-2000) also had hair like that.
Slow news week?
…Do you think Brown’s girlfriend has an afro with a socket topiaried into it?
………..I now and forever do.
I wonder if the Steelers merchandising department ever considered making the Terrible Towels the size and consistency of a real towel so they would b both fun for the fans and functional…
There is actually one
Man if I was a Steelers fan I would actually buy that, now excuse me while I go vomit for completely unrelated reasons…
I love this cartoon, but the towel is good for one more thing. From the beginning, all the proceeds have gone to fund a special needs school in the suburbs. Myron Cope arranged this because of his own special needs child. So yes, it really is a symbol of drunk yinzers, but I doubt a lot of the other teams’ knockoffs have the good cause behind them that the terrible towel does.
I hate that damn towel, hate the Stealers, hate everything about Pittsburgh.
But I will admit that when everyone in Heinz Field is waiving them (or any place that adopts a similar “rally towel” or whatever they call it), it is a pretty cool scene.
Brb littering Dave’s house with terrible towers
Oops I meant turrible towers…not that I know anybody who says it like that
A different Brown. Cleveland.
Am I the only non-Steelers fan that likes the Terrible Towel?…
Yes. But it makes sense, you’re a Pats fan so naturally you like what everyone else hates.
I hate the Terrible Towel. I think the idea of waving it around like something special is dumb, annoying, about as intimidating as a Peyton Manning tackle attempt, and the way that Steelers fans act like it’s something more than just a brand-name rally towel baffles me.
With that said, the proceeds from its sale have always gone to a great cause, so even if I think that crowds of thousands waving them like a war cry is more funny than scary, I respect the towel itself for bringing something positive to the world.
Terrible towl proceeds go to the favorite charity of the radio announcer who invented it as a joke to spite his station manager. No bull.