Pitt Season Begins Tonight

The college football season officially begins tonight when the University of Pittsburgh travels to Salt Lake City to face the University of Utah. The entire University of Pittsburgh really isn't traveling to Utah (how would you move the Cathedral of Learning?), but the football team, marching band and other students, staff and alumni will go west. Anyway, I've been on record stating that I despise the Division I college football system (get a 16-team playoff!); however, the atmosphere of college football games are unmatched, and I enjoy watching the games especially the Pitt Panthers.

Therefore, in honor of the season-opener, I give you Darrelle Revis' incredible punt return in the 2006 Backyard Brawl between Pitt and West Virginia.

2010 Pittsburgh Steelers Schedule

Yesterday was one of my favorite days of the year: the day when the NFL releases the upcoming season schedule. It's a day when I start making plans and set my own personal schedule for the rest of the year.

Here is your 2010 Pittsburgh Steelers regular season schedule:

Sunday, Sept. 12 – ATLANTA -- 1 p.m. (FOX)
Sunday, Sept. 19 -- at Tennessee -- 1 p.m. (CBS)
Sunday, Sept. 26 -- at Tampa Bay -- 1 p.m. (CBS)

Sunday, Oct. 3 -- BALTIMORE --1 p.m. (CBS)
Sunday, Oct. 10 -- Bye
Sunday, Oct. 17 -- CLEVELAND -- 1 p.m. (CBS)
Sunday, Oct. 24 -- at Miami -- 1 p.m. (CBS)
Sunday, Oct. 31 -- at New Orleans -- 8:20 p.m. (NBC)

Monday, Nov. 8 -- at Cincinnati -- 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Sunday, Nov. 14 -- NEW ENGLAND -- 8:20 p.m. (NBC)
Sunday, Nov. 21* -- OAKLAND -- 1 p.m. (CBS)
Sunday, Nov. 28* -- at Buffalo -- 1 p.m. (CBS)

Sunday, Dec. 5* -- at Baltimore -- 8:20 p.m. (NBC)
Sunday, Dec. 12* -- CINCINNATI -- 1 p.m. (CBS)
Sunday, Dec. 19* -- NEW YORK JETS -- 4:15 p.m. (CBS)
Thursday, Dec. 23* -- CAROLINA -- 8:20 p.m. (NFL NETWORK)

Sunday, Jan. 2* -- at Cleveland -- 1 p.m. (CBS)

* Times and TV network may change due to flexible scheduling


A few thoughts:

- With the likely suspension of Ben Roethlisberger, it would have been nice to have the Steelers face Cleveland in the first two weeks.

- Remember how much the media hyped the Brett Favre/Vikings vs. Packers games last season? That will be nothing compared to Byron Leftwich/Steelers vs. Tampa Bay game!

- Interesting Halloween match-up in New Orleans on a Sunday night. How many people will dress up like Kim Kardashian?

- Three home games over the last four weeks could give the Steelers an advantage in the playoff race.

- Santonio Holmes, Alan Faneca, Darrelle Revis and Jason Taylor all return to Pittsburgh as New York Jets on December 19th.

- The schedule is set up to allow Heinz Field to host the January 1st NHL Winter Classic.

- I'm looking into group tickets to attend the Steelers-Dolphins game in Miami. If you're interested in going, please let me know. (Yes, I'm being serious.)

Links and Updates

Welcome to my first post of 2010! I posed this question back in August, but I think it's time for us to come to a consensus on what to call 2010. I'm leaning towards either 10 or twenty-ten.

Let's go to the links and then I'll provide some updates about Sean's Ramblings below.

* Vote for LiLu in the 20 Something Bloggers Bootlegger Awards [Livit Luvit]

* Check out the 20 Most Memorable Penguins Goals of the Decade [The Pensblog (This is part one)]

* Restaurant Refugee may be the best blog writer out there. I highly recommend reading this touching tribute. [Restaurant Refugee]

* Rob is going on a Facebook diet. [Robert Bluey Blog]

* Yinz Luv 'Da Stillers was live at a Steelers' tailgate



* Carbolic Smoke Ball shares its 2009 Year in Review. [Carbolic Smoke Ball]

* Seth compiles the best Penguins of the decade and includes a Kelly Buchberger reference. [Empty Netters]

* Ben Roethlisberger is a little late for Movember. [That's Church]



* I love pop culture and hockey, so of course I'm sharing the top ten memorable collisions of hockey and pop culture over the last decade. [Puck Daddy]

* Yes, this is a week late, but here is what we hope all of the Pittsburgh Penguins received for Christmas. [PensBurgh]

* Bob Smizik shares a great story about Aliquippa native, Pitt great and Jets' All-Pro Darrelle Revis. [Bob Smizik's Blog]

* Should Renegade be banned at Heinz Field? (I say no.) [Blog 'N' Gold]

* Benstonium's latest video is a parody of MTV's Jersey Shore titled North Shore.



Now to the update. If all goes as planned, we will close on our current home and future home this week and will move by next week. As you can guess, this is going to keep me very busy. Therefore, while I hope to share thoughts about what I'll miss and what I won't miss about my current town, provide my annual State of the Ramblings, review the Steelers' season predictions, and continue with Trivia Tuesday and TMI Thursday, I make no promises.