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Stepping Stones Academy in Phoenix Tiny ass school. (new window)

Pretty lame, though.

I grew up in Ohio. When I was in middle school, the Principal would encourage us to wear our colors on the Friday before the Ohio State-Michigan game. But, by the way, maize and blue were banned.

It was an obvious joke. But these administrators are an even bigger joke. WTF???

i'm rooting for the team with the most black players. uncle jimmy used to tell me that the black is a better athlete to begin with because he's been bred to be that way - because of his high thighs and big thighs that goes up into his back, and they can jump higher and run faster because of their bigger thighs. This goes back all the way to the Civil War when during the slave trading, the owner - the slave owner would breed his big black to his big woman so that he could have a big black kid.

Teen in question:

If the parents want to pursue this you can que the lawyer stampede in 5..4..3..2..1

I'm surprised that all the other kids weren't sent home for wearing Cards colors since before the playoffs opposing fans outnumbered Cardinals fans.

Tristan Carrick...

Hmmmm...the school's principal doesn't have the surname of Langley, Oliver, Peabody, Perry, or Westinghouse, by any chance?

larrycot: My school had a similar day today. Most of the kids (and teachers) wore Cardinals gear (our school is about 5 miles from the stadium.) There were several in Pittsburgh gear. It made the whole thing more fun.

I asked one of my students if she could tell me what position Troy Polamalu played, since she was wearing his jersey. She assured me he was the Steelers quarterback. After the laughter died down, I congratulated her for having team spirit.

Then I docked 20% from her total grade.

/Not really
//OK, I thought about it
///Not really. Really.

Don't worry. Her self-esteem was ruined by the thoughtless laughter of her classmates. Your smiling acquiescence just added fuel to her fire for revenge.

Just don't blame the Steelers when she, in a black and gold trenchcoat, waving a Terrible Towel, enters your school in a few years and attacks everyone with a barrage of Heinz ketchup.

You laugh now. Just try to get those ketchup stains out of your pink short-sleeved Oxford-cloth shirt. And that "silk" Target tie.

BWAAAHAAAHAAAA! BWAAAAAAAHAAAAAAHAAAAA!

If it's an Academy, then I guess they can do what they want when it comes to dress code.


still.....

Hey, the kid just wanted the day off.

Private school. End of discussion.

Maybe they will let the little bandwagoneer wear his Polamalu jersey on Monday after Pittsburgh gets torched by a team with an offense.

p the boiler: i lived in indy 2 SBs ago - my son wore Bears gear the Friday before the game and was not sent home - you people out east and west are crazy

Ughh, you're making me hate Purdue less.

/Stop it

P.S. 97% of Cardinal fans weren't Cardinal fans a month ago. It's science.

why do kids do this? you really aren't being cool at all. if you want to piss off your classmates, wear the jersey all next week. bring a terrible towel to school and wave it whenever you get a chance to.

nocode: Teen in question:

This was not the teen in question. This was the teen that ate the teen in question.

I live near Indy, we don't give a ratsazzz who wins.

IAmRight: larrycot: I asked one of my students if she could tell me what position Troy Polamalu played, since she was wearing his jersey. She assured me he was the Steelers quarterback. After the laughter died down, I congratulated her for having team spirit.

Sounds like your basic "hardcore" Steelers fan. You know they're hardcore because they root for a team that wins a lot.

guess you never met a Phoenix fan before. At least Steelers fans aren't only fair weather fans.

/farkin Cards barely sold out the first game of the playoffs
//hate Phoenix fans

Didn't this happen recently... maybe it was baseball? I distinctly remember a kid getting World Series tickets for free because he got kicked out of school, or something.

My guess is the red/white jerseys were 'allowed' for the day...being an academy they probably have uniforms so this particular day was set aside to wear jerseys.

By not wearing red/white as he was told, technically he was violating a dress code.

so...what's wrong?

/probably been said above, too lazy to read.

IAmRight,
"Sounds like your basic "hardcore" Steelers fan. You know they're hardcore because they root for a team that wins a lot."

I beg to differ. Observe:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=432897 4

Steelers fans are the exact opposite of "fairweather"; they will be Steeler fans until they die. This is reflected in the polling; The Steelers fanbase is the most stable of all NFL teams.

/Steeler Nation!

I lose one internetz :(

The video

IAmRight: Psumek: guess you never met a Phoenix fan before. At least Steelers fans aren't only fair weather fans.

Actually, they are. Every team's fans are. Fortunately for them, it's been fair weather for pretty much 40 years.

Gotta say Packer fans are also not fair weather fans. Waiting list for season tickets was 40K+ when Randy freaking Wright was QB.

If you can't beat them ...... send their 13-year-old fans home from school.

/wait ... what?

GoSlash27: I lose one internetz :(

The video

that was awesome thanks

Kid Mojo: Didn't this happen recently... maybe it was baseball? I distinctly remember a kid getting World Series tickets for free because he got kicked out of school, or something.

I vaguely remember it too...kid wore a Favre or Elway or some player's jersey in enemy territory during the playoffs. I tried a quick search but couldn't hit anything using keywords like jersey, sent home, school, etc.

"Hard to say, given that current Steelers fans under the age of 40 haven't experienced any tough times. "

I became a Steelers fan for the 69 season, yeah, I'm old.
Let me bring up some old names, Bubby Brister, Steve Bono, Cliff Stoudt, and my favorites from 1969, Dick Shiner and Terry Hanratty.
/1-14 baby!!
//things did get better though...thank you Coach Noll!!

I'm really conflicted on who to root for this Superbowl.


On one hand, you have Kurt Warner; who is a biatch.

and on the other hand, you have Ben Roethlisberger; who sucks.


So whatever.

Kurmudgeon: Let me bring up some old names, Bubby Brister, Steve Bono, Cliff Stoudt, and my favorites from 1969, Dick Shiner and Terry Hanratty

Here are some older names for you: John David Crow, Charley Johnson, Prentice Gautt, Jim Bakken, Bobby Joe Conrad, Sonny Randle, Jerry Stovall, Gene Stallings, Larry Wilson, Pat Fisher, Jackie Smith.
Who are they? Members of the team I grew up rooting for during my childhood, the St. Louis Football Cardinals. And I still root for the Cardinals to this day, despite the fact that they moved to AZ, and despite the owner being one of the cheapest MF'ers in pro sports, and despite the fact that they have conpletely sucked for most of the last 35 years. Once a fan, always a fan.

coffee fiend: conpletely

completely

FTFM.

Proofreading is a wonderful tool; I should use it more often.

IAmRight:

Let's see Pittsburgh go on a 61 year championship drought, being complete sh*t for most of those years, and we'll see how huge and loyal their fanbase is.

/please?
//tired of the same teams always winning
///so much parity, half the league doesn't have a title!

Why is it necessary to biatch and moan about fans of a winning team? Simply because the team wins, you assume they're all bandwagon fans. That does a huge disservice to those of us who are too young to have seen the horrible Pittsburgh years. Is it my fault I wasn't born until the mid 80s? Since I can remember really paying attention to football, I've followed the Steelers. I watch every game I can. But I must be a bandwagon fan because they win. Have to be, no other possibly explanation for liking a team other than them winning.

IAmRight,
"The bandwagon keeps rolling when you're in the Super Bowl every 6th year."
Funny, I seem to remember a 26 year dry spell between the first 4 and #5, yet there we were.. in ur stadiumz mobbin' ur "home" gamez.
I see what this is about. Bitterness.
It ain't our fault half the league doesn't take their jobs seriously. We're all under the same salary cap and the schedules/ draft are arranged to give all the breaks to the sucky teams.
I don't know what else you want. Maybe make it so the Steelers need 15 yards for a first down while the short-bus teams only need 5? Or plant the field with landmines but only tell the sucky team where they are?
Or maybe just evenly award wins across the league so everybody's equal. Of course then there'd be no point in playing..

Maybe they sent him home for his own protection from his classmates?

/Just a thought, not sayin' it's right, just sayin'

Subby here. When I saw this story on the news I laughed, and knew the Fark community would find it amusing as well. I felt it was greenlight-worthy, but then again don't we all think our submissions are? But to me this story is ironic.

In 1998 I drove through the Southwest on the way to LA. My car had PA plates and Steelers stickers on the windows. I constantly got polite honks and thumbs up from New Mexico through Arizona. Any time I'd stop to fuel up I'd have somebody ask if I was from Pittsburgh and they'd lament the Steelers' loss a year and a half earlier to the Cowboys.

The Steelers made a lot of fans in Super Bowl XXX, even though they lost. Of course I'd bet a lot of those fans then will be wearing cardinal red and white tomorrow. But Steelers Nation can afford to temporarily lose some fans tomorrow. Steelers Nation spreads from Hawaii to Connecticut, from Minnesota to North Texas. When the steel industry was decimated in the eighties, Pittsburghers were spread throughout this country in search of work. This is why Steelers Nation is so huge, because Pittsburgh's sons and daughters packed their terrible towels and moved. Thousands of fans traveled to Florida this week, but thousands were already there.

I am a Pittsburgher and a Steelers fan, first by birth and now by choice. I've been all over this country and this is where I choose to live. Surprisingly, people from Dallas are rather friendly. Not surprisingly, people from Boston and New York are not. Arizona is like paradise. Everybody should spend a night in Flagstaff, get up early and drive to the Grand Canyon. Then they should get on a plane, fly to Pittsburgh, wait until darkness and then drive through the Fort Pitt tunnel and be exposed to the city all at once.

I respect Kurt Warner and Edge. Larry Fitz is a legend at Pitt. I'm hoping for the six pack, but if the Steelers must lose I'll just hope for a win when my two boys are old enough to know what's going on. I hope there's a clear-cut winner without controversy, and that everybody wins or loses with dignity.

/Go Steelers

IAmRight: GoSlash27: Steelers fans are the exact opposite of "fairweather"; they will be Steeler fans until they die. This is reflected in the polling; The Steelers fanbase is the most stable of all NFL teams.

Hard to say, given that current Steelers fans under the age of 40 haven't experienced any tough times. They have as many Super Bowl appearances as losing seasons starting with their first Super Bowl season.

The bandwagon keeps rolling when you're in the Super Bowl every 6th year. How do you know the Cardinals and their fans aren't just in the same place Pittsburgh was 40 years ago, with decades of complete suck for years, and that this wouldn't be the spark that makes them one of the largest fanbases in the country 40 years from now?

It's kind of stupid for people to expect the Cardinals, a team with two winning seasons since relocating to Phoenix 20 years ago, to have the same type of fanbase as a team that's been in the same city for 70 years and has 7 Super Bowl appearances, and less than half as many losing seasons in the last 40 years as Arizona does in the last 20.

Let's see Pittsburgh go on a 61 year championship drought, being complete sh*t for most of those years, and we'll see how huge and loyal their fanbase is.

/please?
//tired of the same teams always winning
///so much parity, half the league doesn't have a title!

I would still be a Steeler's fan even if they never won another game. I have been a fan for as long as I can remember and will always be one.

larrycot: My school had a similar day today. Most of the kids (and teachers) wore Cardinals gear (our school is about 5 miles from the stadium.) There were several in Pittsburgh gear. It made the whole thing more fun.

I asked one of my students if she could tell me what position Troy Polamalu played, since she was wearing his jersey. She assured me he was the Steelers quarterback. After the laughter died down, I congratulated her for having team spirit.

Then I docked 20% from her total grade.

/Not really
//OK, I thought about it
///Not really. Really.

congrats on knowing more than a child