RS v. Y 10-20-04?

Yesterday, I was looking for something and found something else... every so often this happens with comical, or tragic results. First the backgrounder, my folks are from just south of Pittsburgh and growing up in NY there was only one real NFL team, the Steelers, Franco's Italian Army, http://media3.steelers.com/article/40517/
Lynn Swan and Co. etc, Iron City, Old Frothingslosh, the pale stale ale with the foam on the bottom! http://media3.steelers.com/article/40517/
Anyway, I called my mother after they won last night and made it into the Superbowl, I knew I had a Steelers button in an old box of stuff somewhere. As I searched a video tape fell out from one box being moved, on it was my handwriting, "RS v. Y 10-20-04 / RS v. Cards #7 last outs"...!

WELL! I popped it in and there were the supreme expressions of joy for Red Sox Nation, a catharsis of the most profound kind as I became aware over time. Now I am not much of a sports fan really, I grew up a chubby kid and rarely participated beyond what was required to pass phys ed class and even then I had issues, so... time passes and I am mildly oblivious to it except for the big ones, the World Series, the Superbowl and sometimes basketball and hockey if I was betting with my friend from California. It was all for fun until he suggested I pay the couple hundred he thought I owed him when he was ahead, what an opportunist! That was around the time I got into NASCAR, then went to races in Watkins Glen NY, NH, Pocono PA, Dover Delaware, Sonoma CA, then went drag racing in my street car up and down the East Coast...
So there on the tape, at Yankee Stadium, recovering from a 0-3 deficit to win 4 games, the biggest come-from-behind performance ever, etc... the game ends 10-3 right after midnight and there was much rejoicing throughout all the land.

I remembered that night vividly, that night and the one that would come later reversing The Curse... me in a t-shirt and shorts and a red terrycloth robe, faded Red Sox hat circa 1986 and Dale Earnhardt bedroom slippers that look like little puffy race cars... we live two floors above a bar and there is screaming and yelling and the crowd flows into the sidewalk and for an hour or two everyone driving by beeps and waves and we are all in frenzy, I found a cigar and lit it up thinking, "How sweet it is!".
(fast forward tape)
There was also a political ad for John Kerry for President on the tape... and that brought up another whole series of memories.
I like how Chris Matthews characterized what is going on with Rep. John Murtha as "swiftboating"!
Very nice... Good luck Pittsburgh!