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Sorry that I’m late with the winner of last week’s haiku contest.  I also didn’t get to write this week’s game preview.  As you may have guessed, I was away enjoying the Thanksgiving holiday with family.  But I’m back now.  I hope my readers will forgive me for missing a few posts.

We have a surprise winner of last week’s haiku contest.  I’m sure that when this reader submitted his haiku, he thought that he was submitting a joke entry.  However, when I read it, I felt that it actually did a great job of capturing what happened in the game, and the sentiment of most Steelers fans about what was happening during the game.

This week’s winner is Jimi Glancy Jr.  He wrote this very simple, yet accurate recap of last week’s action.

Flags flags flags flags flags
fights flags fights fights flags flags flags
#^$@%$  Roger Goodell!

Congratulations Jimi.  That was simple, yet elegant.

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The Steelers won an action packed, physical, penalty-filled game against the Oakland Raiders on Sunday.  Now it’s time for fans to capture the key elements of the game in a haiku.

The contest rules are simple. You must summarize the Steelers-Raiders game in a haiku. A haiku is a form of Japanese poetry that contains only 3 lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third line has 5 syllables. Typically, haiku do not rhyme.

Please note, the emphasis is on syllables, not words. Remember 5/7/5.

I start the competition by offering a haiku of my own. Then you readers write a haiku of your own to try to beat mine. On Thursday I will announce this week’s contest winner. But remember, your haiku has to be better than mine.  If none of your entries are better than mine, then I take home the prize.

Here is my entry:

Neither flags by refs
Nor blows by Richard Seymour
Could stop our Steelers

The winner of this week’s contest is going to win a copy of the book “Find A Way” by former Steelers player and current NFL analyst Merril Hoge.  It’s a great book that belongs on the bookshelf of any Steelers fan.

Okay readers, your turn.  Lets see who can come up with the best haiku about the Steelers-Raiders game.

Are you ready for some haiku?!!

Today’s featured item:

With the holiday’s coming, Steelers gear is sure to be on everyone’s shopping list.  No Steelers fans should be without a basic black Steelers polo shirt.  Why not take the time to buy one for your favorite Steelers fan?

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Ordinarily we would have our weekly haiku contest following a Steelers game.  However, because of the way this game went, I’ve decided to skip this week’s contest.

I’m afraid that fans would totally trash the Steelers, and I just don’t want to be responsible for that.  So rather than encouraging people to write things like this:

William Gay gets burned
The Patriots score again
#$%#%& you, William Gay!

Or like this:

Short pass by Brady
8 yards for the Patriots
Why can’t we stop this?

I’ve decided that it is probably better to simply skip this week’s contest rather than encouraging fans to write things like that.  And I certainly don’t want to offer a prize for writing bad things about the Steelers.  So the haiku contest will begin again next week.  But for now, let’s all just try to forget that nightmare game against the Patriots.

Of course, if you want to go ahead and submit a haiku anyway (for therapeutic reasons), then feel free.  Who am I to limit your right to free speech. 

A more positive take on the game

Jim Shearer did a very nice job on his video blog, Yinz Luv Da Stillers, this week.  I thought that sharing it with my readers would be a good way to help all of us move past this painful loss.  So here is this week’s episode of Yinz Luv Da Stillers.

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It’s time to announce the winner of this week’s haiku contest.   The first place winner of this week’s contest is going to win a copy of the book “The Ones Who Hit the Hardest” by Chad Millman and Shawn Coyne.  It’s a great book that belongs on the bookshelf of any Steelers fan.

So without further ado, here are this week’s winner and runners up:

Our third place haiku was submitted by Paul.

Three fifty nine left
the pain in my chest came back
Not two years running

Very nice haiku.   I felt the same pain in my chest late in that game.

In second place was John#21.  He submitted this excellent haiku.

Like Steelers days past
Defense gets tough when it counts
T.O. Ocho Ciao

And this week’s prize winning entry was submitted by Frank Williams.  Frank’s winning entry was the following:

Bengals had T.O.
But could not match our big D
Season over Marv

Congratulations, Frank.  Please go to the “Contact us” tab on SteelersToday.com and leave us a message with your mailing address so we can send you your prize.  Or, if you prefer, send us a private message on our Facebook page.

Thanks, and congratulations.

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The Steelers won a hard-fought battle last night on Monday Night Football.  Now it’s time for fans to capture the key elements of the game in a haiku.

The contest rules are simple. You must summarize the Steelers-Bengals game in a haiku. A haiku is a form of Japanese poetry that contains only 3 lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third line has 5 syllables. Typically, haiku do not rhyme.

Please note, the emphasis is on syllables, not words. Remember 5/7/5.

I start the competition by offering a haiku of my own. Then you readers write a haiku of your own to try to beat mine. On Thursday I will announce this week’s contest winner. But remember, your haiku has to be better than mine.  If none of your entries are better than mine, then I take home the prize.

Here is my entry:

Bengals fear Steelers
But T.O. didn’t know that
Guess he knows it now

The winner of this week’s contest is going to win a copy of the book “The Ones Who Hit the Hardest” by Chad Millman and Shawn Coyne.  It’s a great book that belongs on the bookshelf of any Steelers fan.

Okay readers, your turn.  Lets see who can come up with the best haiku about the Steelers-Bengals game.

Are you ready for some haiku?!!

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