Super links 'n@

T-minus 46 hours and counting ...

• The Terrible Shamwow and other good Stillers stuff.
• This guy is really reaching.
• Updating previous items: FedEx shipped 2,555 Terrible Towels to five military units in Iraq and Kuwait and at a military hospital in Germany as part of the "Towels for Troops" program.
• Training camp bet: Jim Towey, president of Saint Vincent College, summer training camp of the Pittsburgh Steelers for the past 42 years, has made a wager with President John Haeger of Northern Arizona University, summer training camp of the Arizona Cardinals on the Super Bowl: Whichever team wins, the opposing team's president must wear the jersey and hat of the winning team's school or team on the first day of training camp 2009 - training camp XLIII.
• Animals prefer the Steelers: Veterinary Pet Insurance (VPI), the nation’s oldest and largest provider of medical insurance for pets, recently analyzed its database of more than 467,000 insured pets to find which Super Bowl XLIII competitor has inspired the most fans to name pets in honor of the team or its players. While the exact inspiration for any pet name may be impossible to determine, there’s no doubt the Steeler Nation made a more pronounced impact on pet names in 2008. Here’s a look at how the two teams match up:

   

  Super Bowl of Pet Names
  Arizona Cardinals	#	Advantage		#	Pittsburgh Steelers
  Pets Named After…		Cardinals	Steelers		Pets Named After…
  Team ("Cardinal" or "Cardinals")	1		√	19	Team ("Steeler" or "Steelers")
  Quarterback ("Warner")	3		√	4	Quarterback ("Roethlisberger")
  Receiver ("Fitzgerald")	8	√		5	Receiver ("Hines Ward")
  Current Stars ("Boldin," "Edge")	15		√	19	Current Stars ("Polamalu," "Woodley")
  Former Stars ("Tillman," "Marcel")	35	√		32	Former Stars ("Bettis," "Bradshaw")
  Nickname or Mascot ("Big Red")	9	√		4	Nickname or Mascot ("Steely")
  Intangibles ("Whisenhunt," "Leinart")	5		√	76	Intangibles ("Rooney," "Myron")
  Overall	76		√	159	Overall