One City. One Nation. One Beer.

Its been a tough couple weeks to be a member of the Steel City Sportsfan Diaspora. The Pirates will break the record for losing this year ("We're best at being worst!") and continue to trade away even the most marginally interesting players for prospects we suspect will disappear into obscurity and one of its biggest sports stars, Big Ben, is kinda sorta accused of rape (He's definitely been accused but its in a civil case where there's been no criminal complaint and a year's gone by, so its got some murkiness) There are "gambling executives" involved and Ben's denial of the charge sounded a little like Roger Clemens' denial steroid charges and the wackos defending him on sports blogs make him sound guilty of something. (Of course I don't know what an innocent person would sound like, thats probably why defense attorneys make sure their clients clam up).

Now then is an odd time for another Pittsburgh institution to make a big marketing ploy- Pittsburgh Brewing Company, with a marketing budget less than the annual salary of a reserve middle infielder is trying out a national campaign for Iron City Beer.

Two questions come to mind:
-Don't they realize that even people who liked it called it "Iron Shitty"?
- Whats with the scary motto quoted in the title? Did they think that all talk about America going socialist on cable meant National Socialist?