Penguins Fans from a Detroit Perspective

While watching (on TV) the Pittsburgh Penguins fans stand and cheer and not leave Mellon Arena while the Detroit Red Wings were awarded the Stanley Cup last night I was thinking, wow, we ARE a unique bunch.  Not only are we passionate about our team, but we stay and respect the team that beat ours receive the award we wanted our team to have.  Then I thought, hmmmmm……….guess I am just partial.  But then I read this article and realized that Pittsburgh Penguins fans (and all Pittsburgh fans of ANY Pittsburgh sports) are truly special.

PITTSBURGH — Channel 11 received an email Thursday morning from a Detroit Red Wings fan. Many would expect their fans to gloat after their team won the Stanley Cup, but not this guy. Read what he had to say about the city of Pittsburgh and the proud Penguins fans.

Dear Pittsburgh WPXI NBC 11,

My name is Tony. I am a resident of Detroit and am a Red Wings fan. I would like Station 11 to pass along a message to all the Pittsburgh Penguin fans in the stadium on Wednesday night. Congratulations on a well played hockey season. Thank-You for the respect you showed our Red Wings, applauding, standing, cheering and sticking around for the trophy ceremony. All of you have a lot of class. I don’t know which moved me more, winning the cup or watching all of you in the background on T.V. I’m leaning towards “all of you in the background”. It’s times like this that makes me proud to be an American. We can belong to different States, different cities, root for different teams but still at the end, come together as Americans, hockey fans, good sportsmen and sportswomen. I for one hope that one day I (and hopefully all of Detroit) can return the respect to Pittsburgh that Pittsburgh has shown Detroit. See you next season, Good Luck and again, Thank-You!

Sincerely,

Tony

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Pittsburgh Penguins………..My Thoughts………

After watching every game this season (a few games maybe not the WHOLE game, but the majority of most games………in other words, hubby and I aren’t the bandwagon fans when they entered the playoffs!) and every single minute of all the games the Penguins played in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, I want to comment on the awesome Pittsburgh Penguins.The Pittsburgh Penguins didn’t win the Stanley Cup last night. The Detroit Red Wings won it………..and I congratulate the Red Wings (even though their coach never congratulated the Penguins on a good job like most coaches would!). The Red Wings won it fair and square, but the Penguins gave them a run for the money and didn’t go down without a fight!

I am sure you heard about the Monday night game and how the Penguins tied it up with 35 seconds left in the game. Then the game went into three overtime periods and the Penguins won it on a called shot by the new Babe Ruth, Petr Sykora. Sykora told the NBC announcer that he was going to hit the winning goal and he did (just like Babe Ruth called a shot in a World Series)!

Last night with ONE SECOND left they almost tied it up again……….I am talking if the puck was any closer to the line on that last shot, they would have scored. But they didn’t and it wasn’t meant to be.

The Pittsburgh Penguins are the best of all the rest and they should be proud! After the first two games of the finals I wasn’t too sure they deserved to win the Stanley Cup. But they came back and showed the world that they DID deserve it and they fought to the end. Game 5 showed that they truly did deserve to be in that spot and they made sure they let the Red Wings and their fans know that they weren’t going to let them have the Cup that easy. Game 6 was rough, but they persevered despite injuries and probably bodies that hurt and were worn out from head to toe.

I am proud to say I am a Pittsburgh Penguins fan………….win or lose, they have heart. My heart hurt for those guys after the game last night. You could tell they put everything they had into that game and wanted to win it, not only for themselves but for the fans. They hurt……….I hurt………….we all hurt………..but we can be proud of those great guys.

I don’t know what else to say except THANK YOU PITTSBURGH PENGUINS! You did Pittsburgh proud and you gave it your all…………..and we know that and we love you all for it. See you next year………….

Things to Ponder………….

I received this in an email and think it is pretty interesting.  I have not checked the validity of the answers, but it is still interesting nonetheless!

These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight
answers.
1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants
know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly
  moving backward?

3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their
  own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables
  must be replanted every year What are the only two
  perennial vegetables?

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

5 In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy,
  with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is
whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn’t been
  cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the
  letters ‘ dw’ and they are all common words.
  Name two of them.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar.
  Can you name at least half of them?
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold
frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other
  form except fresh.

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your
feet beginning with the letter ‘S.’

 

 

 
Answers To Quiz:

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor
  the participants know the score or the leader until the
  contest ends… Boxing

2. North American landmark constantly moving
backward.. Niagara Falls (The rim is worn down about
two and a half feet each year because of the millions of
  gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)

3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their
  own for several growing seasons..Asparagus and rhubarb.

4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside…Strawberry.

5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew
  inside the bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear
  buds when they are small, and are wired in place on
  the tree The bottle is left in place for the entire growing
  season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off
at the stems.)

6. Three English words beginning with dw…
Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar..
  Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen,
  apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point,
quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces,
  and ellipses.

8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned,
  processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh…
Lettuce.

9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet
  beginning with ‘S’ …
Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis,
  skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.