Meet Dancing With The Stars Sharna Burgess And Pittsburgh Steeler Antonio Brown
For those fans in the Pittsburgh area: if you’d like to meet Pittsburgh Steeler Antonio Brown and his Dancing With The Stars partner, Sharna Burgess, you can do so tomorrow at 10:00am at The Great Hall at Heinz field. If you are able to go, be sure to let us know. We’d love to feature your blog or photos.
Ah! This is a great idea. This should be a stellar season with this cast. ABC and their new programing director should also be pleased with the amount of media coverage and buzz that they will deliver.
Campaigning for votes. Smart team! I’d be doing the same in their position.
I’ll be shocked if the local media doesn’t start advertising viewing parties soon.
Agreed, M8. The celebs with specific fanbases need to make sure their base is solidly behind them and mobilized to vote. That gives them the cushion they need while they work on wooing and winning the uncommitted viewers.
I absolutely think contestants with a specific or niche fanbase should campaign to that fanbase as much as they can without being obnoxious about it. Just good sense. Good dancing alone will not win the title, and he won’t want to go home early. Quick uneducated Brit question: Is “bring your terrible towels” a normal thing to find on invitations in Pittsburgh?
LOL, Mr A — where is a Steelers Fan when you need one!?! In Steeler-crazed Pittsburgh, it wouldn’t surprise me if “bring your Terrible Towel” is a standard admonition on invitations.
It is THE iconic, and completely beloved, symbol of the football team — a smallish hand towel in Steelers gold — that fans in the stands wave (and twirl) furiously to show support for their team. Players on the sidelines will twirl their towels to rally the faithful when the defense needs their support to stop the opposing team or to encourage the offense to drive down the field for a crucial score. Needless to say the waving is accompanied by lots of creaming and loud cheering.
Yikes, awkward typo – “Screaming” and loud cheering.
There’s a bar in my hometown that is considered a “Steelers bar” because it’s owned by a Pittsburgh native. I cannot tell you how many Terrible Towels my stepdad has stolen off the wall in varying states of inebriation, only to destroy them in increasingly creative ways at home. My chow-chow, Xena (god rest her doggie soul) loved to shred those things 😛
I see. Over here we use scarves for that. Warm, wearable and easy to weaponize. And they really are accompanied by creaming and loud cheering. :p Thanks for filling me in on that.
@Mr A – I think the scarves make more sense in the UK due to the climate – over here, we have so many areas that get oppressively hot during football season, that scarves would be torturous…think Jacksonville, Tampa, Miami, Houston, New Orleans, San Diego, & Arizona in August 🙁 And really, the Terrible Towel is kinda unique – to my knowledge, only Pittsburgh Steelers fans wave them. Funny thing is, they only came into existence as a marketing gimmick – worth a read on the “Terrible Towel” Wikipedia page. Just makes me laugh, considering that so many Steelers fans give it this exalted status…
You were probably right the first time, Cidra. 😉
The nice thing about the Terrible Towel, at least in Pittsburgh, is that the majority of the sales proceeds go to the Allegheny Valley School for the disabled, and the rest of the money is split between several other charities in the city.