This Just In: Black and Yellow Not About the Steelers?

Breaking News: The Pittsburgh Steelers Anthem “Black and Yellow” Does Not Mention Anything About the Steelers!

As if losing the Super Bowl wasn’t bad enough, we just found out that the so-called Steelers anthem quite possibly isn’t even about the Steelers.

What is the song Black and Yellow about?
Open to interpretation. Only Wiz Khalifa really knows.

How did it become the Steelers anthem?
A brilliant marketing plan that serendipitously aligned itself with the Steelers’ momentum, and Bill Paladino’s music video with all the Terrible Towels.

A Dodge Challenger, jewelery, and “hoes” could be a poetic analogy for the Pittsburgh Steelers, but shouldn’t a sports anthem reference the team at least once? Lil Wayne’s Green and Yellow mentions the Packers loud and clear – no interpretation necessary.

Before you say we’re hating on Wiz. We’re not. This was one of the first sites to cover Wiz Khalifa before Black and Yellow. We intentionally worked in some questions about him when we interviewed RepPghHipHop. We’re proud that a local artist is 2x platinum (sales in excess of 2 million units) in such a short period of time (less than 5 months)! And we advertised his single on the sidebar for several months – oh wait, it’s still there.

Is Black and Yellow YOUR Steelers Anthem?

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The Terrible Towel is Poised to Strike

Steelers were going into the 1975 playoffs, defending Super Bowl champs. I was ordered by my bosses “come up with a gimmick that will (huh?) intensely and blow up with the Steelers fans.” So, mah, I came up wit a Terrible Towel and I went on the air on TV and radio, they had two weeks, you know for me to get this thing done. Throwing towels around and sayin’ to the fans “bring a yellow, gold or black towel to the game, will ya’? And if you don’t have one, buy one. You don’t wanna buy one dye one. So you know just any face towel or somethin’ like that. And I had no idea what would happen, and I show up the first game, my goodness there’s not a towel to be seen in the whole joint. And pals are droppin’ by my radio booth, (huh?) me “you’re a loser again, Cope” haaa, so, what do ya’ know, the team comes ‘n appears in the tunnel for the introductions. From no where comes like 30,000 towels, yellow, black, gold towels. What were they sittin’ on them, were did they have them in their coats? I had no idea. And then the next year, it was put on there, the Terrible Towel, you know, but it was just a plain old towel. But that first game, a minimum of three miracles did he deliver, and I had said when I introduced him and threw towels on the anchorman on the 11:00 news, and I said “The Terrible Towel is poised to strike,” boy did he strike.

So there you have it Steelers fans! Sure, we all knew that Myron Cope was the inventor of the Terrible Towel (duh, his name is on it!) but who knew the interesting story behind how it got started back in ’75! Since then, millions upon millions of towels have been sold all over the world. The Terrible Towel has even made it to the top of Everest and into space!
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Justin Bieber Saves the Terrible Towel

Ok, we promised you guys no Justin Bieber videos, but this one is for the Terrible Towel – so get over it. Besides, we owe it to ourselves and our paid sponsors this holiday season, because posting anything about Justin Bieber is bound to increase our traffic 10 fold. Increased traffic means more clicks for our sponsors, and they deserve it! The only regret is that we didn’t post this sooner lol.

The Beebs (as Julia Gongaware called him) had a concert in Pittsburgh’s Consol Energy Center on 12/13/2010 and just as he was about to start lip-syncing singing his hit song Baby, he threw a Terrible Towel into a vicious crowd of tweens. A couple of girls grabbed the towel at the same time and started a war of tug, and before it could rip down the middle, the Beebs stopped his show with a “Yo Yo Yo” and saved the honor of Myron Cope’s black and gold terrycloth legacy. Then the jag-off had to restart the song again because he came down with a case of the laughies.

So before you scroll over to hit the unsubscribe button, search within your heart for an ounce of Steelers pride and understand that we only posted this video because there was a Terrible Towel in it.
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Eminem+Ben+Terrible Towel = Almost Famous

Eminem and the Pittsburgh Steelers Terrible Towel

Eminem "The Terrible Towel Gangsta" (a satiric imitation)

Eminem mentioned Big Ben again in his latest album, Recovery. You might recall the last time we wrote about the rapper was when he dissed our fun-loving quarterback in a song called Despicable.

When putting together that article, it was noticeable that for some reason, every piece of local news coverage was sure to let readers know the song wouldn’t be included in his latest album. They were correct, Despicable was a freestyle that was released by Eminem’s manager on his site RapRadar.com and was not part of the Recovery playlist. But… the rapper actually ended up mentioning not only Ben Roethlisberger, but the terrible towel as well.

For those of you that are sensitive to offensive language and stuff, this might be a good time to click on to the next post: Social Media Day at the Warhol…
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Jay-Z, Young Jeezy, and Trey Songz

Jay-Z performing "Empire State of Mind"

If you didn’t make it to the Jay-Z Blueprint 3 concert at the Mellon Arena on Tuesday, you pretty much could have followed the entire show on Twitter. Trey Songz was the opening act – followed by the star of the show, Jay-Z w/ Memphis Bleek and Young Jeezy. The night couldn’t have been better. The live music was simply amazing, especially the guy on the soprano sax. Even the backgrounds were designed to perfection!

Whether you’re a fan of rap music or not, you would’ve received a wealth of entertainment value out of this concert. Which is exactly why it was interesting that so many people were texting on their phones during the performance. How many people left the show wishing they spent more time watching than tweeting? Haha, blame DJ Bonics, because he got everyone to tweet him song requests while Trey Songz was preparing to hit the stage.

In the words of Jigga: