Dear Steelers Fan Club of Atlanta Members,

As always, Barnacles is the place to be to watch the Steelers win a record SIXTH Super Bowl Championship! Barnacles is planning to make this an even more special event by offering some perks for Steelers Fan Club members. Below is the information from the Barnacles (our comments in parenthesis). Feel free to email us () if you have any questions!

Special for Steelers Fan Club Members Only:

Barnacles will be charging a $10.00 cover for the Super Bowl. The advantage we would like to extend to club members is that they are eligible to reserve seating by calling ahead, cutoff will be 5pm Friday 1-30-09. It will be first come first serve. Club members only will also receive a $5.00 off coupon. So essentially they will only be paying $5.00 per person. If only 2 seats are reserved at a table, other members will be seated at the table to insure full capacity seating. Your reserved tables will be available on Super Sunday beginning at 3:30pm. You must be at Barnacle’s by 5:15pm to claim your reserved seating, or you will lose your seats!!! (Barnacles phone number is 770-418-9510. Call to reserve your seats and tell them you are with the Steelers Fan Club of Atlanta. They will check your name on the fan club roster.

Drink Specials: (This list may expand during the week. If I get more information, I will send it along in another email)

$3.00 bud & bud lt. drafts

$3.00 Iron City bottles

$4.00 Heineken, Heineken lt, and Amstel bottles.

$5.00 Long Island Iced Teas.

Also running 20 wings for $11.99.

Prizes:

Raffle of prizes at Half time. Winning numbers will be posted at half time so not to interfere with the commercials. There will be Steelers memorabilia, house cash, beer & liquor vendor prizes, and a special grand prize.

Sent by our member Marlea Llewellyn:
Subject: Important STEELER News From ISS (INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ! )
Here’s some Earth shattering news from the ISS.
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Here is a very cool poem that is making the rounds. I think I recieved it three or four times so far…

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“Quoth The Steelers, Nevermore”
By Dave Crawley

Once upon a January, bold invaders, skilled and scary,
made a stop, perchance to tarry, on our Allegheny shore.
Purple people, crass and craven.
Could it be the raunchy
Raven chooses here to make a haven
for a brood we all deplore?
Quoth the Towel: “Nevermore.”

Game begins. The plot gets thicker. Kick is good!
Our bleached blonde kicker makes them feel a
trifle sicker than they might have felt before.
Roethlisberger running! Gunning!
Catch by Holmes!
And, Raven shunning, down the field!
A moment stunning, as he dives in for the score!
Quoth the Steelers “Let’s get more.”

Yet, we knew ‘twould not be easy.
Interference? (Oh, that’s cheesy.)
Now they’ve made our stomachs queasy,
quieting the Steeler’s roar.
Second half. Two sluggers fighting.
‘Tis a time for nail biting.
Must it always be exciting when we face these fiends of yore?
It shall be, forevermore.

We lead by two, and time is fleeting. Ravens’ ball.
Their fans entreating.
Could it be we face a beating from this team that we abhor?
But we have no time to wallow.
Flacco’s pass, to Polamalu!
‘Tis a moment tough to swallow,
if you hail from Baltimore.
Steelers’ defense slams the door.

For the Birds the bell was tolling,
as the Black and Gold was rolling.
Soon we’ll all be Super Bowling.
We’ve been there six times before.
The Ravens met three times this season,
and three times, beyond all reason,
with results we found quite pleasin’.
Just for fun, let’s make it four.
Quoth the Ravens, “Nevermore.”

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Here is a really well done music video done by some 11 and 12 year old kids in the Burgh. Awesome job!!!

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GREATEST FRANCHISE EVER? UM.. WELL.. YEA!
Is the rest of the world starting to realize what the rest of us have known in our hearts for years? Do you bristle when you hear the Cryboys still being call “America’s Team” just because some bonehead jagoff used that phrase once a several decades ago during a weak moment? Gimme a break. Do you think it should be illegal for the Yankees to buy every baseball player that knows how to tie his shoes without falling over? Read this. It will make you smile and say “I knew that”…
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=fleming/090121&sportCat=nfl

The offense started off strong in this game, but sputtered a bit in the second half. Thank God for the Steelers “D”. They played a great game again and sealed the deal with Troy Polamalu’s “pick six” with 4:34 left to go in the game.

RING SIX!!!!!! LET’S GO STEELERS, WIN ANOTHER ONE!!!!!!

Our feeling is that the Steelers will win by at least 10 points. Reasoning? –> The Steelers have a defense as good or better than the Ravens. The Ravens offense is not the caliber of the Steelers, especially the way the Steelers offense and the O-Line have improved in the last two games. Willie Parker is back to full speed and appears to be on a mission. Ben looks healthier now than he has since the season opened. The Steelers fans and the Terrible Towel will make life difficult on the Ravens and their rookie QB. Granted, the guy has played pretty well for a rookie and he doesn’t seem to get rattled, but that will change with this game. The pressure to win is up and the Steelers D will apply even more pressure than he can handle. This should force the Ravens into mistakes and 3-and-outs. Injuries: the Ravens have several guys nicked up while the Steelers have only a couple of minor nicks.

The keys to this game are; not turn the ball over, punt well when necessary (don’t give them a short field), and keep the pressure on Flacco. If you see Ed Reed heading in the opposite direction, we might be in trouble. Other than that the Steelers are good to go!

GO STEELERS!!!!!

Have you ever seen a more dominating 3rd quarter? The Chargers had the ball for 1 play and had 0 (yes – I said ZERO) yards. The Steelers had the ball the rest of the quarter! Also, the Chargers running game, if you want to call it that, had a total of 15 yards in 12 carries. Willie Parker finished the day with 146 yards and two touchdowns. Again, this was Steelers football.

The Steelers are in peak form right now. It doesn’t make any difference who they play at this point – there is nobody hotter right now. Bring on the Ravens! Nothing would bring a greater sense of satisfaction than to have the Steelers be the ones to send them back to Baltimore while we make plans for the big game! GO STEELERS!!!!!

GO STEELERS!!!!!

This should be fun, as the playoffs usually are. See you on Sunday at Barnacles. GO STEELERS!!!!!

The buy week also gives enough time to transition to the new fan club web site. Hopefully, it is formatted well and gives Atlanta Steelers fans the information on the club, etc. If you have any problems with the site, or have any suggestions for content or changes please let us know.

GO STEELERS!!!!!