Steelers 79%, Redskins 21%, Undecided 0%

This bodes well. Now that Western PA has sent its football team to wreak good election-eve defensive karma, all that Western PA needs to do is not vote like a bunch of rednecks, and we'll be set.

I think this went pretty well for a game where (A) they botched a surprise onside kick to start the game, (B) Roethlisberger left at the half, and (C) Jeff Reed missed an extra point somehow. Seemed like those first six points they spotted them were going to be insurmountable. But that is what good defense will do.

Show me a game, every week really, where the opposing side feels like it needs to try a pass play on the crucial 4th and Goal from the one. Not in our house! By which we mean your house.

Nate Washington seems to be serious about making these 50-yard completions once a game, huh? And it's good to see Mewelde Moore being a clutch part of the passing game, too. To say nothing of Ward.

Watched this one in the solitary barfly role at the preferred neighborhood spot, which is a persona I'm not particularly interested in cultivating. Beats paying for ESPN though.

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Pete says this is a "good joke" so I'll include it as an example of our copious interbrotherly football-game text messaging:

Pete. Well,this should mean that obama wins, right?
Jack. Well, except that with the Bradley effect they lose 26–23

It's only funny because it's not true.