After a lifetime of watching the Pittsburgh Steelers fall flat, this blogger had the thrill of a lifetime as his Pittsburgh Steelers hoisted the Lombardi after its improbable playoff run and ugly victory in Super Bowl XL. Having grown up in the shadow of the Steel City and (at the time) a Pitt student, Tommy Gun bleeds black and gold (and sometimes blue and gold, depending on the venue).

Now a grizzled web programmer living on the mean streets of two-consecutive-Backyard Brawl-losing Morgantown, WV, Tommy Gun spends his days programming and thinking of gimmicky blogs and pyramid schemes to entertain and defraud his fellow man, respectively and inversely.

Tommy Gun (TG) concocted the idea (with Slash, who receives less credit and has deferred top billing) for this blog during a drug-induced rage sometime over the 2008 Christmas Holiday. A plot was conceived to launch the blog after the Steelers season ended. Little did the two assholes know, the lovable misfits won an AFC Championship at home for once and landed themselves in Super Bowl XLIII. Which was good for both future bloggers, because both were too lazy to do any actual work on the site until the midnight brought February 1, 2009 into our lives.

Both TG and Slash have a knack for being haters, pointing out the bad even in the best of situations, which is one of the prerequisites to blogging. No one will find “Rah Rah, Pittsburgh’s Going to the Super Bowl” posts here. XFL MVP is a blog that was born long ago, before we had even thought to broadcast our snarky comments to the world. It is a blog that stems from years of watching Kordell Stewart and Tommy Maddox running the show for the ‘Lers (and Mike Tomczak, but he was the John Kerry of Steelers quarterbacks — you stood behind him when you had to but gosh-golly if he wasn’t the most boring droid of a quarterback to exist).

XFL MVP, a blog built from necessity.

XFL MVP, celebrating a team that wins despite being quarterbacked by a guy that worked for Vince McMahon the year prior.

XFL MVP, because being a Steelers fan means you have nothing else going on in your life so you might as well waste time at work reading about a team that you know everything about anyway.

XFL MVP — fuck it, you’re stuck with it.