THE BLACK AND GOLD POST

* PSFCOB congratulations go out to Shooters patron Scott Poole and his wife on the birth of their second child. Ryan Michael was born on August 3, 2002 and hit the scene at 9 lbs, 5 oz and 21 inches long. Scott can't wait until both his boys are old enough to go to Shooters with him and root for the Mighty Black 'n Gold. Sounds like a plan, Dad.

* The Sports Page, your #1 local connection for anything and everything Steelers has moved. While they are still located on the lower level of Marley Station Mall in Glen Burnie, they have moved to a larger store location which is just up the aisle from their previous spot. Owners Jeff and Julie Donahue have the largest, most unique collection of Steelers merchandise and paraphernalia this side of Breezewood. Give The Sports Page a call at (410)-582-9100 or, better yet, stop in and be amazed. You won't be disappointed.

* The PSFCOB e-mail group within the Fan Club website has come under attack recently from advertisers and the like who want to bombard the 130+ users with their endless stream of ads. These links can also contains viruses and worms that can dimish or damage your system's performance.

Webmaster Ed McConnell has been working tirelessly to try and limit access to the e-mail group from these idiots of the Internet and has added an approval feature for new participants but occasionally, things will slip in that shouldn't be there.

As such, please use common sense in opening or responding to messages. If you see an entry that doesn't mention something about the Steelers or is simply just a link containing random characters, it is best to just delete it.

The e-mail group is an integral part of the website and the users enjoy the back and forth exchange of information about our favorite team. Let's keep the garbage out.

* There's a certain local sports talk radio station here in Baltimore that runs a commercial for some rat trap called Della Rose's Avenue Tavern. Most people probably never hear this station as they run on some little 60 watt transmitter likely powered by Ray-o-vac batteries and you can't get decent reception unless you're sitting in their parking lot but a point has to be made.

This place has taken to bashing Steelers, Steelers fans, Pittsburgh and even Coach Cowher himself in their radio ads. I hear dribble about "Momma Della Rose throwing hot crab soup in the faces of yellow towel waving pu***ies" and how "Bill Cowher is still a d#%k" and enough's enough.

It pains me as one of Italian descent to hear this bananahead who calls himself "The Wop" along with his sidekick Kiss Ass or Sea Bass or something like that spout this crap in order to try and pump up their pitiful raisins. It certainly doesn't surprise me that this goof has to have his momma fight his battles from the kitchen but if this is the way they want to promote themselves, then we'll bite.

With this in mind, I would ask that any and all Steelers fans in the area pass the word and BOYCOTT this poor excuse of a restaurant. Let's see how well they do catering to all three raisin fans who show up when their team is languishing near the bottom of the AFC North. And Momma Della Rose, if your crab soup is that bad that you have to throw it, give the crabs a break and don't make it.

* WHERE HAVE ALL THE POOR BOYS GONE? That is the question that echoes the confines of The Goose on game days. This bunch of rabid fans would congregate in the one corner of the bar and cheer on the Black 'n Gold with a fervor that could be heard near and far. They earned the moniker "poor boys" because they weren't allowed to use chairs and they were rarely allowed on the carpeted areas of the floor.

Now, those days appear gone. No-shows these days include original poor boys Dave Milauskas, Bryan Walker, Alvin "The Man" Kornigay, Scottie Brown and a host of others. Sporadic sightings of Mel "I didn't fall; I was pushed" Freeman (you would have had to be in New Orleans to get this one), give us hope that the poor boys still exist but who knows.

Did they all win the lottery and now have big screen TV's that they stand in front of? It's anybody's guess but we're calling them out as their presence at The Goose is irreplaceable. We may even let them use seats and actually stand on the carpet next time they show up.

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