To quote Jimmy Fallon from the SNL sketch, "Morning Madhouse on Z105"...

And we're BAACCKK!

Before I dig in to what I woke up.. well, in this case it's going to be, what I came back to, I first need to thank the staff here at the TB for filling in for me this week. I was able to play catch up last yesterday and was blown away by the content, and the different WIWUTs, which were AWESOME. As committed as I am to bringing our quickly growing readership a dose of news, opinion and bad jokes each and every day, times will come when the job I get paid for needs me to be outside of our fair city.

Jesus Christ is it cold here by the way.. after 4 days in San Diego, where it was 78 and sunny everyday, I jumped back into my ride at Pitstop Parking last night at 10:30 PM to see that the digital thermometer on my rearview mirror read "1". As in 1 degrees, as in goddamn it's cold.

One more quick thing about my trip to San Diego, as I am walking onto the plane Monday morning at US Airways terminal B10, I was past the first class cabin and notice none other than Dennis Green. Not even 2 minutes after I sit down I get a Blackberry IM from friend of the blog and my co-worker Chris reading, "They were who we thought they were!". Good times.

Enough about the weather and stuff you probably can care less about, as you all pretty much know what I am whining about.. and onto what I came back to, after the leap-a-roo.

So I catch late last night on the Channel 11 news that Sidney Crosby got hurt versus the Caps the other night. Surprise, surprise NHL coverage is non-existent in non NHL markets and I had no clue this happened.. and ESPN gives maybe 4 minutes per 60 minute Sportscenter to hockey, so I was clueless. But, according to John Fedko's stache-less face, Sid should be ok sooner than later. THANK GOD.

Oh, and the Steelers are prepared to return to the Superbowl. I know this is going to be a very debatable game Sunday against at the Ravens, but I can't see Joe Flacco beating the Steelers D at Heinz Field on this stage.

Onto the links guys.. it's great to be back.

The PG:  The Panthers have quite the gauntlet to run these next few games.. almost each team is ranked and almost each game is on the road.. YIKES.

The PG:  Sid will be a "game-time decision"..

The PG:  Gerry Dulac goes through the Steelers/Ravens match-up..

ESPN:  Now this is how you preview the Steelers/Ravens game.. 

ESPN:  Jerome Bettis gave fast Willie a pep-talk before last week's game.. 

NHL:  Looks like Sid has the "lower body injury" we all know and love..

NHL:  The .com's preview of the Pens/Ducks battle tonight.

Metromix:  The all-time best Superbowl commercials.