=== Pittsburgh Steelers 2008 Season Preview ===

                          By Tony Moss, NFL Editor

(Sports Network) - The honeymoon period for Mike Tomlin lasted nine games.

The first-year Pittsburgh Steelers head coach and his team found themselves at
7-2 soon after passing the halfway pole of the 2007 NFL season, and
suggestions that they belonged in a discussion of the AFC elite along with the
Patriots and Colts were rampant.

Tomlin, a curious head coaching choice to many due to his age (34 when hired)
and relative inexperience (just one year spent as defensive coordinator of the
Minnesota Vikings), had immediately impressed the Black and Gold faithful by
winning the respect of the players and seemingly pushing many of the right
buttons.

Then, a 19-16 overtime loss to the New York Jets on Nov. 18th signaled the
first rough patch of Tomlin's young career.

The Steelers would hang o ... Read more ...

Mamma always said learn something new everyday!
INTERESTING GEOGRAPHY FACTS:
 
Alaska

More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in  Alaska .

Amazon

The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply. The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States

Antarctica

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.  Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica .. This ice also represents seventy percent of all the fresh water ... Read more ...

I bought a bird  feeder.  I hung

it on my back porch and filled

it with seed.  What a beauty of

a bird feeder it is, as I filled it

lovingly with seed.  Within  a

week we had hundreds of birds

taking advantage of  the

continuous flow of free and

easily accessible food.



But then the birds started

building nests in the boards

of the patio, above the table,

and next to the barbecue.

Then came the poop. It was   ... Read more ...

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