Comments on: Big Ben and Joe Willy http://themoderatevoice.com/26127/big-ben-and-joe-willy/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 30 May 2012 18:57:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/26127/big-ben-and-joe-willy/comment-page-1/#comment-171310 DLS Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:54:04 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/26127/big-ben-and-joe-willy/#comment-171310 1. Tony, if you love Pittsburgh (which really is a beautiful city), you should visit Portland (Oregon) sometime. I've lived and traveled all over the USA, have been to both cities (my brother lived in Portland for many years), and I can tell you that it is Pittsburgh's sister city. How does a nice skyline located among multiple major rivers, a city known for its bridges, that even also has an approach from the west through a tunnel sound to you? Also some of the well-known and -loved bridges in Portland were designed by Gustav Lindenthal.<br><br><a href="http://myweb.msoe.edu/%7Ewestr/pdxbridges.htm" rel="nofollow">http://myweb.msoe.edu/~westr/pdxbridges.htm</a><br><br>pghbridges.com/pittsburghW/0584-4476/smithfield.htm<br><br><br>2. I paid attention to Big Ben on the sidelines as well as on the field, and yes, he is definitely big. Pro football is a game that favors the big men, and Big Ben is so big that I was thinking that if he is in the passer's pocket and is hit by enemy players, he is big enough that it's punishing to the enemy players. Note that he is more graceful than another quarterback who was big but clutzier -- John Elway. I wonder how Big Ben's throwing arm compares to Elway's cannon and if he could -- gracefully, in Ben's case -- run fast enough to elude even defensive backs as Elway could.<br><br>I just wish someone would teach him the correct way to point the brim of a baseball cap, because he and others look stupid when they wear a cap pointed backwards. 1. Tony, if you love Pittsburgh (which really is a beautiful city), you should visit Portland (Oregon) sometime. I've lived and traveled all over the USA, have been to both cities (my brother lived in Portland for many years), and I can tell you that it is Pittsburgh's sister city. How does a nice skyline located among multiple major rivers, a city known for its bridges, that even also has an approach from the west through a tunnel sound to you? Also some of the well-known and -loved bridges in Portland were designed by Gustav Lindenthal.

http://myweb.msoe.edu/~westr/pdxbridges.htm

pghbridges.com/pittsburghW/0584-4476/smithfield.htm

2. I paid attention to Big Ben on the sidelines as well as on the field, and yes, he is definitely big. Pro football is a game that favors the big men, and Big Ben is so big that I was thinking that if he is in the passer's pocket and is hit by enemy players, he is big enough that it's punishing to the enemy players. Note that he is more graceful than another quarterback who was big but clutzier — John Elway. I wonder how Big Ben's throwing arm compares to Elway's cannon and if he could — gracefully, in Ben's case — run fast enough to elude even defensive backs as Elway could.

I just wish someone would teach him the correct way to point the brim of a baseball cap, because he and others look stupid when they wear a cap pointed backwards.

]]> By: elrod http://themoderatevoice.com/26127/big-ben-and-joe-willy/comment-page-1/#comment-171257 elrod Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:18:45 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/26127/big-ben-and-joe-willy/#comment-171257 Nothing I love more than driving on the Pennsylvania Turnpike and passing that house with the Steelers logo painted on the roof. Nothing I love more than driving on the Pennsylvania Turnpike and passing that house with the Steelers logo painted on the roof.

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