Waking up all hungover at 1 in the afternoon is only badass when you get an email and video from dear friend Gavin in China. Here's what I got:
It's Tian'anmen Square. You have to wake up early to get a bus to _____ (the last one leaves at 10 am) or you end up taking a very expensive cab because it is 2 hours away. I'm gonna head out there tomorrow, hopefully. I mean, I'm not gonna drink tonight, so I should be able to get up early.
Gavin popped in with yet another Steelers fan-video from China. This time, we got Jack again, the same guy who toasted the 2008 NFL regular season with a unique flair.
Jack became a hit with his original toast, making it to Deadspin and beyond. I asked Gavin to get Jack to send a greeting along to Deadspin, which Jack does at the beginning of the vid (Dead-pin?).
Good news, though, Jack has more words of encouragement for the Steelers! We're going to "scrush" the Ravens! And we're China's team! Ridiculous.
It's destiny at this point, that the Steelers need to beat the Ravens so we can get more videos of Jack shitting on whoever Pittsburgh plays.
Since Gavin is a displaced fan with the biggest game of the year and potential Super Bowl bid coming up, he made sure to make his voice heard. Well, not exactly his voice, but you get what I'm going for.
Today, we have a 16 year old boy from Shenzhen, China, talking shit on the Ravens. Because when the Steelers need fired up, they should ALWAYS get China's opinion.
"The Ravens may play in Baltimore, but Steelers fans still think of them as the Browns, a sorry team." Oh, and Ray Lewis is an "over-the-hill criminal."
Well, I got in touch with the guy who led the cheer, a guy named Gavin, who is teaching English in China until sometime in June. Those were his students supporting Pittsburgh. He keeps a pretty badass blog of his time and experiences in the country, but its private, so there's no use linking to it.
Anyway, Gavin assured me that he's a legit Steelers fan, and promised to send along at least another video from China. That video is above. It is of a Chinese man named Jack toasting the 2008 NFL season. Because why wouldn't he?
I'm not gonna re-type everything he says, but he does give props to guys like Aaron Rodgers and Matt Ryan, teams like the Eagles and Cowboys, and especially the Steelers. Here's what he had to say about our team:
"To James Harrison, for playing like an animal. To the Steelers, for battling through injuries and the league's hardest schedule."
Actually, it was more of "hardest skey-jer." And they say Pittsburghers have accents. Really dude, we don't have a league called the NFAir.
Still, China is pretty much the other side of the world, so I'm impressed that Jack got it right for the most part.
Man, I was all ready to write about MAF's comeback from injury, and how he was going to set the tone for the remainder of the Penguins season, but then I realized that I was gonna have to do a little research.
Then, I found this video of 3,000 Chinese people cheering for the Steelers. In unison, I might add. So my decision was this...look up stats and relate to MAFs injury from last season, or post this Youtube and do other stuff with my time.
/wonders why they aren't just cheering for hines ward /knows hines is korean /cues up ape's rittle bit of lacism /makes "they all look alike" joke /profits!
