At this time last week, I had high hopes for the Chicago Bears and a Superbowl appearance. Even though Jay Cutler, our starting quarterback, left the game with an injury, they came very close to a last minute victory. Hats off to Da Bears!
Now it's time to turn our attention to the big game. The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers will be taking the field on February 6th. Can you think of two teams with more rabid fans?
We've dyed up a couple of special colors. One the left is Go Packers! And on the right is Pittsburgh Pride. I'm not sure two fans would really cozy up like that.
You can get Go Packers! at Yarns by Design in Neenah, WI. The Pittsburgh Pride is at Natural Stitches in Pittsburgh.
We'd like to give away one skein of Shepherd Sock to a fan of each team. Leave a comment letting us know whether you'll be rooting for the Packers or Steelers and we'll pick a winner from each side using a random number generator on the day after the game.
**Edited to add:
I just got a call from the nice folks over at Signature Needle Arts. They want a piece of the Super Bowl action too!
They are generously upping the kitty in our little Packer/Steeler contest and have offered to give away one pair of straight needles to each of our lucky winners. In keeping with the theme, they have gold needles (sized 1 and 6) and green needles (3 and 8). Or you can pick another color if you'd like.
Go Steelers!!!
ReplyDeleteE-mail: tracey@froggieknitslikecrazy.com
I'm from PA, so it's STEELERS!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm rooting for the Packers to win the Super Bowl.
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ReplyDeleteI've been a Steelers fan since ever & my daughter has been rooting for them because their colours are the title of one of her (new) favourite songs.
ReplyDeletePackers, Packers Packers!
ReplyDeleteGo Stillers!!
ReplyDeleteActually, I'll be watching Puppy Bowl, but I have an uncle who's a Pack fan, so if I won that yarn I'd make him some socks.
ReplyDeleteI'll be rooting for the Steelers!
ReplyDeleteAs a knitter, crocheter AND a huge Steeler fan, I can't think of a better contest! Thanks for the chance to knit something up in our Steeler Black 'n Gold!
ReplyDeleteKelly P.
kiwibirder@verizon.net
The Natural Stitches link goes to the Yarns by Design site. Is this an anti-Steeler conspiracy? :)
ReplyDeleteI have to go for Green Bay because they're such a good team. And, their colors are prettier!
ReplyDeleteGo Steelers!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the heads up Bethany. It's been fixed.
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ReplyDeleteAs a rabid Bears, I have but one Comment. GO STEELERS!
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ReplyDeleteGO Packers! :)
ReplyDeleteSteelers for my friend Laura Hope. She is 8 years old and has brittle bone disease. She loves the Steelers even painted her bedroom gold and black. So if I win, I'll make her something from the yarn.
ReplyDeleteC'mon Packers! (I'm a fan by association, lol, all my friends are rooting Packers).
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ReplyDeleteI go back to the days of "one for the thumb" Go Steelers!!!!!
ReplyDeleteOh, it pains me to say this, but Steelers? My sister-in-law is a huge fan, and I've been meaning to buy some black and gold yarn to make her something. I feel so dirty now.
ReplyDeleteIt's got to be the Steelers.
ReplyDeleteKarin
Steelers!! Already have our jersey and onsie ready!!
ReplyDeleteSTEELERS ALL THE WAY!!! I have several family members who would LOVE socks made from this yarn (as would I!)
ReplyDeletePackers!
ReplyDeleteGo Pack! Cheeseheads rule!
ReplyDeletePackers all the way.
ReplyDeletePackers...it would be so thrilling for Aaron Rodgers to finally get out from Brett's shadow once and for all.
ReplyDeleteMust leave a vote for the Packers since my husband loves that team. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, and I must say the last two games of the playoffs were the very first time I ever cheered for the Steelers . . . .
ReplyDeleteKathy V in NM
Definitely rooting for the Packers!
ReplyDeleteGo Steelers! The colors look awesome and wouldn't mind some Steelers socks.
ReplyDeletesarakist@gmail.com
Go Steelers! I was actually sitting in Natural Stitches when they found out about this contest.
ReplyDeleteSince my dear Colts won't be playing... I'm choosing the Packers based on color alone LOL!
ReplyDeleteSteelers definitely!
ReplyDeleteGo Steelers!!!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteMy brother works for NFL Films and is leaving for TX tomorrow, so I'll be rooting for him since the next two weeks will challenging. If I have to choose a team, I'll take the Steelers.
ReplyDeleteHere we go Steelers!!
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ReplyDeleteGO STEELERS! Beautiful yarns, BTW!
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ReplyDeleteHere we go, Steelers, here we go! Pittsburgh's goin' to the Superbowl.
ReplyDelete=) I love the yarn!
~Tanya
Go, Pack, go! I have gotta have the Packers colors - husband is from WI, and if I brought Steelers yarn into the house, there'd be words.
ReplyDeleteThe Pack! Go Packers! (On behalf of my BFF from Milwaukee).
ReplyDeleteGo Steelers!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteHere we go Steelers here we go!! Get those Terrible Towels out!!
ReplyDeleteGo Pack!
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ReplyDeleteGo Packers!
ReplyDeleteEven though I live in Mike McCarthy's old neighborhood, and work with his brother, gotta go with my Steelers (although the Packers blend is REALLY cute).
ReplyDeleteHere we go, Steelers!
ReplyDeleteI want the Steelers to win. In 2009, my family had its annual family reunion in Pittsburgh. It is a great town. My late uncle loved the Steelers and the Pirates. I am pulling for the Steelers in his memory.
ReplyDeleteGo BLACK AND YELLOW!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHere we go, Steelers, here we go!
ReplyDeleteA seventh Superbowl ring and trophy will look nice in the collection.
ReplyDeleteGo Steelers!!
Steelers, no question!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteJoan McElroy
The Steel Curtain will crush the Packers! Go Steelers!
ReplyDeleteSteelers all the way!!!
ReplyDeleteI snapped up two skeins of the Packers yarn from the first batch, and just wanted to say Yarns by Design is a fantastic store with FAST shipping!
ReplyDeleteCasi in TN (who is married to a Wisconsin native :) )
My team is out so I can't exactly say I'm a rabid fan...but go Steelers!
ReplyDeleteSteelers. I live in MN. Thanks for asking.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in Pgh, remember the immaculate reception, and am thrilled that the Steelers are setting another record. So, yes, I will be rooting for the Steelers.
ReplyDeleteLet's Go Steelers!!!
ReplyDeleteGo Steelers!
ReplyDeleteOh, the Packers for sure!
ReplyDeleteGo STEELERS!!!! Black and Gold all the way!
ReplyDeletekernmr@comcast.net
I don't really care much about football, but considering I was born & raised in Neenah (even though I no longer live there), I have to root for the Packers or be disowned by my entire family. ;)
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hello.lovely@gmail.com
Well, you just made up my mind...I am going to have to vote for the GB Packers because the color of the yarn is magnificent! I am a Cincinnatian so cheering for the Steelers is just painful but they are in our division. And GB..well, great state and nice people. But it was easy after seeing your dye jobs!
ReplyDeleteSteelers of course!
ReplyDeleteI will be routing for the Green Bay Packers !!!!! I have never lived in Wis but have always been a Packers fan.
ReplyDeleteRaeknitsnwa@gmail.com
Go Packers! I live in New England and I'm usually a Patriots' fan, but my father and grandfather are huge Packers fans, so I'm hoping they win this year!
ReplyDeleteMy parents met at Pitt, so even though we grew up in Rockford (and all my cousins are now spread across the states) we are all Steelers fans. I just ordered two sock and one worsted from Natural Stitches, but would love to win another! Go Steelers!
ReplyDeleteHaving grown up in New Jersey I'm actually a Jets fan at heart, but after living in Wisconsin for 40 years, it's Go Pack! After all, Green Bay is Titletown!
ReplyDeleteNancy
mnthone49@aol.com
My heart belongs to Pittsburgh -- Go Steelers!
ReplyDeleteThe Packers are the only publicly owned team in the NFL, meaning they will never leave Green Bay... I think this makes them the NFL equivalent of a LYS!
ReplyDeleteGo Steelers!
ReplyDeleteHere we go Steelers, here we go! Pittsburgh's going to the Super Bowl! Whoooo!
ReplyDeleteI think I will be rooting for the Packers now that the Bears will be out of the picture. Go, cheeseheads, go!
ReplyDeleteIt's the Packers for me!
ReplyDeleteI'm moving to Pittsburgh a week before the game, so I'm all for the Steelers! I'm excited to live in a city with a pro team!
ReplyDeleteravid: ceweller
email: dramachic0425@yahoo.com
Steelers all the way!!! Stairway to Seven, and 7 in 11!!!
ReplyDeleteGo Pack!
ReplyDeleteSteelers -- Seventh Heaven
ReplyDeleteHere We Go !
Steelers!!!!
ReplyDeletePackers all the way, Bay-beeee!
ReplyDeleteI'm for the Green Bay Packers. My two real teams, Patriots and Vikings, are out. I grew up in New England and live in Minnesota.
ReplyDeleteSteelers all the way baby!! HERE WE GO STEELERS, HERE WE GO!!
ReplyDeleteEB
Packers all the way!
ReplyDeleteSteelers for the win!! :)
ReplyDeleteIs it okay to say, "who cares, but yarn is awesome and the superbowl is a great excuse to knit"? ;)
ReplyDeleteGo Packers!
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ReplyDeleteGo Steelers! (I would normally choose Green Bay, but since they went and beat the Bears to be in the Superbowl, well, phooey on them.)
ReplyDeleteCurrently living in a house divided - I'm for Green Bay while the spouse is backing the Steelers.
ReplyDeleteThe Pack all the way. Our kids live in WI and there is NO team with the support like Packers' fans! It's a longtime legacy and they deserve to win for their fans.
ReplyDeleteGo Steelers!
ReplyDeletePacker Rule! Steelers... are too big and strong for me to finish this rhyme. Go Pack. Thanks for the giveaway.
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ReplyDeleteGo Pack Go!!!
ReplyDeleteSarah Whalen
Go Steelers! Woop, woop...
ReplyDeleteI like the Packers! Crazy fans in a frigid outdoors home stadium, brrr.
ReplyDeleteGO PACK GO!
ReplyDeleteMy brother is a big Packers fan, so I would love to win this skein and knit something for him. Probably won't be a hat, as he already has that wedge of cheese atop his head.
ReplyDeleteWe will be rooting for the Packers at our house on game day, and really even after!!!
ReplyDeleteredmelbug at yahoo dot com
It's the Steelers all the way (don't let my MIL hear that... she's from Wisconsin, and a Packers fan all the way)
ReplyDeletePackers! I'm in the UK with no strong partisan feelings, but I LOVE those colours, and I promise to come back and show you the resulting FO!
ReplyDeleteSteelers all the way!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteGo Packers! I lived near Green Bay when they were in their last 2 Super Bowls, so the frenzy was extra intense...nice from farther away this time!
ReplyDeleteOh, I was supposed to show my Packer love here and not on Facebook?!?! Well, I'm covered in both places, then. Go Packers!!!
ReplyDeleteGo Pack Go, Best team ever
ReplyDeleteWooHoo!!! Let's go Steelers!!!
ReplyDeleteGO PACK GO!
ReplyDeleteas a bears fan, i have to go for the steelers.
ReplyDeleteI was born a Packer fan and will die a Packer fan! Love my green and gold, Go Pack Go!!
ReplyDeleteGo Pack Go! From a diehard Packers fan living in Bear country.
ReplyDeleteI have cheese on my head and I bleed green and gold!
ReplyDeleteGo Pack Go!
Go Packers!!!!!! Cheesehead forever!!
ReplyDeleteGo Steelers!
ReplyDeleteWe love the PACKERS in our house.
ReplyDeleteDiane
Go packers!
ReplyDeleteGo Packers;)
ReplyDeleteI am a Pat's fan thru and thru however, I definitely want the Packers to win!!! I can tell you many reasons why, some controversial, others, not so much! Packer's are just a loveable team as long as they are not playing the Patriots!
ReplyDeleteGotta be by boyz from 'Da 'Burgh--Go Steelers!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's going to be the Packers!!
ReplyDeleteI'll be cheering for the Packers to have some sort of investment in the game and because "Go Green!" is firmly rooted in my head where football is concerned. I'm really a Saskatchewan Roughriders fan, though.
ReplyDeleteikkinlala AT yahoo DOT ca
Love Green Bay ..... Go Packers.
ReplyDeleteGo Pack! I'm a big fan, and even my niece who's a Steeler's fan thinks Green Bay will win!
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ReplyDeleteLynn
cbruff8624@aol.com
GO PACK GO!!!
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ReplyDeleteGo Pack Go! And thanks, Lorna's Laces, for the great colorways!
ReplyDeletePack Attack. Packers All The Way, Baby.
ReplyDeleteSteelers! My husband is from PA, and so he bleeds black and gold. I've already made him (and his mom) Steeler's Pride scarves :)
ReplyDeleteI am a Packer's fan by birth!!!!
ReplyDeletePackers, please!!!
ReplyDeleteGo Pack Go!! Packers!!
ReplyDeleteI just like the Midwest so much I want to say both, but I will say Steelers because I like saying "yinz!"
ReplyDeleteI'm all for the Packers! I love the Go Packers! yarn, it's absolutely beautiful :)
ReplyDeleteGo Packers!
ReplyDeletePackers...since I'm an Eagles fan...but my Cheesehead sister would sure love for me to knit her up something Pack Style!
ReplyDeleteGo Steelers!!
ReplyDeleteGo Packers! - But that's mainly because I have so many friends in Wisconsin and I love Yarns by Design in Neenah (yay Midwest Masters!).
ReplyDeleteGo Packers--wouldn't want the Steelers to win since they beat the Jets!
ReplyDeletePackers all the way! Yeah Baby!
ReplyDeleteEven though I am super fond of yellow and black, I will be backing thePackers. Midwest transplant from the Baltimore area means I simply cannot abide the bSteelers. :)
ReplyDeletePackers all the way
ReplyDeleteTerri@strangeknit.com
Here in Utah we don't have a pro football team. I think that's unfortunate. I think I'm going to cheer for the Packers this year because I think every Super Bowl should be played in a frozen tundra or somewhere outdoors where the players have to battle each other and the elements.
ReplyDeleteMy team didn't make it this year. :( I'll prolly end up rooting for the Steelers.
ReplyDeleteGo Pack Go!
ReplyDeleteIf it can't be the Patriots, then it better be the PACKERS!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteGo Pack Go!
ReplyDeletePackers. Cuz I can't root for the Pats.
ReplyDeletePackers!!!
ReplyDeleteGo Steelers!!!!!
ReplyDeleteGo steelers!
ReplyDeleteI guess I'm rooting for the Steelers... more rooting to win a contest, but as my teen would say... whatev. ;-)
ReplyDeleteGO PACKERS!!!!!!!!!!! Only because the Vikes aren't playing. Again. *sigh*
ReplyDeletePackers - because I love that yarn!!
ReplyDeleteSteelers all the way!
ReplyDeletePackers all the way.
ReplyDeleteSteelers 'cuz I love Black and Gold.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a dog in this fight, but I loves me some cheese, so go Packers!
ReplyDeleteGo Packers! (Mostly because they share colors with the Oregon Ducks!) :)
ReplyDeleteGo STEELERS! Kick that packer booty!
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ReplyDeletePackers of course I love cheese
ReplyDeleteI'll be spending Superbowl Sunday knitting at a bar with no TV's, but my mom is a huge Green Bay fan and I bet she'd love a Packer's Clapotis.
ReplyDeleteWoo, Packers!
ReplyDeleteWoot - go Packers!
ReplyDeleteI've always liked the Packers just b/c of their colors!! :D
ReplyDeleteSince my Chefs and Colts couldn't close the deal, I'm for the Packers this year.
ReplyDeleteGo Packers!!!
ReplyDeletesince i had to witness the falcons losing to the packers during the playoffs-i'm cheering for the steelers.
ReplyDeleteSince the 49ers aren't playing. I'll go with the Packers.
ReplyDeleteLet's go Packers let's go!!!
ReplyDeleteGo Packers!
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ReplyDeleteGo Green Bay Packers!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteGreen Bay all the way!
Greenbay Packers all the way! I started watching NFL a few years ago because of them. I have not been watching regularly but I try to catch the highlights online when I can.
ReplyDeleteHere we go Steelers! Here we go!! Stairway to Seven! Seventh Heaven!
ReplyDeletePACKERS ALL THE WAY!!
ReplyDeleteGreen Bay Packers! 'Nuff said!
ReplyDeleteHere we go Steelers! Here we go!
ReplyDeleteGO PACK, GO!!!
ReplyDeleteI'll be routing for the Packers! Go Cheeseheads!
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