Your Super Bowl Champions: The Pittsburgh Steelers

Congratulations to the Pittsburgh Steelers, as they are Super Bowl Champions. They defeated the Cardinals, 27-23, thanks to a Ben Roethlisberger touchdown to Santino Holmes with less than a minute left in the contest.

The Cardinals came back from an 11-point deficit to take the lead in the 4th quarter; however, Roethlisberger engineered yet another drive to win the game for Steeler nation.

Arizona fought valiantly after being down at halftime as Warner was excellent, and Larry Fitzgerald suddenly became a factor; alas, the playmaking of Roethlisberger was too much for them to overcome. Both teams fought -- and I mean hard -- on Sunday evening, and I'm sure this game is destined to be a classic.

The championship for Pittsburgh is their sixth in NFL history -- a record.

And yes, did Bruce Springsteen put on a show, or what?

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Uehera & The Orioles, Ravens/Steelers and Barack Obama...

The big news out of Birdland yesterday was the introduction of Koji Uehara to the masses. Again, it lookes to be quite a scene and here's a rundown of all the media reports from the big event yesterday...

• The Baltimore Sun's Jeff Zrebiec pens a lengthy piece on the press conference yesterday.
• Dan Connolly thinks that the Orioles have made a good initial attempt in breaking into Japan by acquiring Uehara, but will need to do more...
• Meanwhile, George Sherrill gives his thoughts on the Japanese media and Uehara.
• Sun columnist Peter Schmuck gives his thoughts on yesterday, and the Orioles.com Spencer Fordin also has a report. He also reports that the signing of Uehara might be the last arm the Orioles get on the market, and they may trot out all other pitchers on the roster to patch together a rotation.
  
• MASN's Steve Melewski also comments on the press conference, as does Kate Wheeler, and Roch Kubatko.
  
• Tony Pente of the Orioles Hangout likes the move for Uehara.

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Pittsburgh Mayor to Change Last Name (Temporarily) In Anticipation Of The Steelers-Ravens Game

From the you can't believe it file...

Baltimore Sun: Mayor Ravenstahl issued a proclamation temporarily changing his name after he was taken to task by a local radio station for having Raven in it. I think Pittsburgh should just consider itself lucky that its mayor doesn't have more important personal issues to worry about.

Haven't heard what the two mayors are going to have a wager on Sunday's game, so all I can do is speculate. If the Ravens win, Ravenstahl would probably send some of those weird sandwiches with the french fries in them. If the Steelers win, I'm guessing we'll just give him something from Best Buy.

Should be a good game. Funny, how crazy people get about their sports, eh? All in good fun though and the best of luck to both teams. I'll have my predictions for this weekend's game maybe Thursday.

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It Looks Baltimore's Opponent Will Be Pittsburgh in the AFC Championship...

It looks like the Ravens will be taking on their archrivals, the Steelers, in the AFC Championship next weekend.

Pittsburgh will host the game, and after what happened in week 25, you can bet Baltimore will be gunning for revenge.

The Steelers advanced to their fourth AFC Championship Game in the last 10 seasons, as they beat the San Diego Chargers in a snow-filled game, 35-24.

I'm sure this will be the game of the season for many fans, unless the Ravens reach their dream destination -- the Super Bowl. If you want to head out there, WNST is having another bus trip out there for those of you have the money and undying love for the purple and black.

I'm a 'Skins fan; however, I and a lot of Washington fans have our support behind Baltimore.

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Can You Believe This? The Eagles & Cardinals in The NFC Championship?

Everyone, raise your hands -- I mean raise them real high -- if you any of you picked either the Eagles or the Cardinals to play in the NFC Championship. I sure as hell didn't.

The Philadelphia Eagles beat the New York Giants 20-14 this afternoon up I-95 in New Jersey, and then Cardinals whooped up on Carolina Panthers last night, 33-13.

I'm stunned. Between the Ravens win and what happened this weekend, I don't know what to expect next week. I really hope Pittsburgh loses; however, I don't see that happening against the Chargers.

It should be one hell of a game for Baltimore next week, assuming Pittsburgh wins.