I GUESS THIS IS SAD
02.27.08
Former Steelers radio announcer Myron Cope is dead at 79.
Cope is best known for the yellow cloth twirled by fans as a good luck charm at Steelers games since the mid-1970s… "His creation of The Terrible Towel has developed into a worldwide symbol that is synonymous with Steelers football," Steelers chairman Dan Rooney said Wednesday.
"You were really part of it," Dan Rooney told Cope in 2005. "You were part of the team. The Terrible Towel many times got us over the goal line."
Yeah, it's probably the greatest and most technologically complex invention in Pittsburgh's history. "See, it's like a regular towel, but yellow." And then the assembled crowd murmured things like, "Amazing!" and "Well I never!" before lining up to buy three. But seriously, holy fuck, look out! It's The Terrible Towel! It's even more intimidating to the opposition than The Angry Bathmat or The Too-Coarse Loofah.
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I don't know if I'll be able to cope after hearing this news.
/leaves room for fear of beating
I'm going to turn off the internet now, because that picture is the funniest thing I'm going to see all day.
More importantly, can we kill whoever invented Thunder Stix?
Hopefully Miami starts winning again so I can break out my Jubilant Jiz-sock.
DOUBLE YOI !!!
RIP
Back in it's prime, the Terrible Towel was a hell of a fullback. If you ran behind the towel, you were going to score.
//Dan Rooney is an idiot.
When i think of Myron Cope, I'll always remember the tiem that TJ cleaned his shoes with a terrible towel. Good times. Thanks for the memories.
The Terrible Towel many times got us over the goal line.
It really breaks my heart to see that Dan Rooney's dementia has progressed to the point that he thinks Franco Harris' nickname was "The Terrible Towel." Sadder still that he thinks Cope "invented" Franco Harris.
Today we've lost a hero.
Wanna get high?
/Towlie
The Steelers are asking that terrible towels be flown at half-mast until after Cope's funeral.
The Terrible Towel is a smarter purchase than Green Bay Packer stock.
The Too-Coarse Loofah
*shudders*
i have sensitive skin
Anyone know what hospital they are keeping the body at?
/Anthony Merino
Hey, nothing wrong with contributing a symbol or tradition to your team.
Harry Carey just left the Cubs with an intimate knowlege of brain damage.
Harry Caray > Myron Cope
/end pissing contest
Not sad.
/Browns Fan
"See, it's like a regular towel, but yellow."
That's exactly how I explained away my "terrible" towel to my girlfriend when she found it under my bed.
he's not dead. retraction, please.
The newest yinzer death accessory will definitely be the Myron Cope Contemptible Casket
and Harry Kalas notches another on his belt…
Rastas – that is the funniest thing I ever read on the internet. I barely had time to stop my frozen pizza from burning while I recovered from the laughter.
/pizza still needs to be eaten.
//omg towels!