Football fans have long memories. Asked earlier this week if Pittsburgh fans had forgotten the incident, Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward said:



"No. When you disrespect the towel, you are disrespecting the Nike Dunk High people here in Pittsburgh and all of Steeler Nation.



"They remember it and they will always remember it."



Clearly, the Terrible Towel is much more than just another piece of ED Hardy clothing fabric to Steelers fans. It is their Shroud of Turin.



Since its arrival on the scene during the 1975 playoffs, it is the best known fan symbol in all of American sport. It is far more enduring and endearing than Bill Belichick's hoodie. The Terrible Towel has been carried to the peak of Mount Everest, transported to the International Space Station and waved on Saturday Night Live.



On the Steelers' official website, you can purchase anything from a Terrible Towel Keychain ($6.95) to a Terrible Towel Tie ($19.95). A portion of the proceeds from Terrible Towel sales goes to Allegheny Valley School in Coraopolis, Pa., a favorite charity of the late Steelers radio voice Myron Cope, who helped create the phenomenon.



To many, it is consecrated cloth and those who mistreat it are subject nfl jerseys to the Curse of the Terrible Towel. Don't tread on the towel.The former Livonia Clarenceville High standout, who played at Penn State, is officially now a member of the Tennessee Titans.



On Sunday, the Titans on claimed former the Chicago Bears linebacker, who last year set a club record with 30 special teams tackles, including six in last year's season finale at Detroit's Ford Field against the Lions.



According to the Tennessean, Shaw will provide a boost for the Titans on special teams, and also provide depth at linebacker.



In a text message to The Observer, Shaw said: “It seems like a great opportunity. I'm excited.''



The Bears reportedly shopped Shaw in a trade prior to him being released over the past weekend. Shaw, a fifth-round pick in 2007 with Carolina, previously played for the Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars.



“He's a pretty versatile guy, and can do a number of things, especially on special teams,'' said Shaw's agent, Scott Smith of XAM Sports to The Tennessean. “He is a great one. The Titans are getting a good player.''



According to a report Saturday in the Chicago Tribune, the 26-year-old Shaw was the odd man out in the Bears' six-linebacker rotation.



The Tribune report also speculated that the Lions, decimated by ed hardy jeans injuries at linebacker and having the worst special teams unit in the league last year, may have had considerable interest in the 6-foot-1, 236-pound Shaw.



Shaw got considerable time at linebacker in last Thursday's final exhibition game at Cleveland where he recorded six solo tackles and one assist.

"No time for golf," said Henderson, smiling and shaking his http://www.coach-bags2u.com head. "I'd like to be out there on the golf course, but I know I have to be in the gym.

"I've always been a guy who liked working in the summer. I think that's when players are made, when you are able put work in every day. In season there is team practice and there are games. Other times you're trying to rest your body, since it is a long season. So the summer is the time to change your game."

What Henderson, the scratch Nike Dunk Low golfer, needs to change about his basketball game are most of the little things and a few of the big ones that will actually get him onto the floor for the Bobcats in his second NBA season.

To use a tournament golf term, Henderson virtually missed the cut in his rookie year, averaging just 2.6 points and playing only 355 minutes in the entire season, shockingly low numbers for a player who was taken with the No. 12 pick in the Draft.

"It's tough," said the 6-foot-4 shooting guard. "As a basketball player, as a competitor, you're on a team, so you want to play. You need to compete and not simply in practice. It was a learning experience for me. With the makeup of our team, how our coaching staff is and the way things were, I wasn't going to play. That's how the season went."

Coach Larry Brown is hardly the type to make things easy on a rookie, especially one who never seemed to grasp the proper way to use his skills to his -- and the Bobcats' -- advantage.

"You come in with the highest expectations," Henderson said. "I think very highly of myself. No matter what happening with our team, I always thought I could play. I always aspired to go out there and play. I think anybody would feel that way. It just didn't happen. So I had to just roll with it and continue to try and get better.

"You talk to everybody. Everyone coach sunglasses feels like they have something to say of your situation. I'm there in practice every day. I'm there on game days. I'm there all the time. I understand how our team works, how our coaches are, how my teammates are. It's just something where I figured it is what it's and I had to adjust to it. I never had a bad attitude toward it."

For maybe the first time in his entire basketball career, Henderson, who'd been a star at Duke, watched the games from a new perspective, the bench, and tried to glean bits of insight

"Look, there's no question that you learn the most by playing," he said. "But there was an upside to sitting on the bench, where you watch a guy like Gerald Wallace, who is always competing so hard. And I watched guys like Stephen Jackson, Flip Murray and Larry Hughes, guys who play my position. They all do the job different ways. You learn tricks from them. You learn how they use their teammates. From that standpoint, I did learn a lot."

When Henderson went with the ruehl no.925 Bobcats' entry to the Orlando Summer League last month, he was ready to get out of the classroom and back onto the floor in games. He played with more confidence, hitting jumpers and, impressively, often freezing defenders with an aggressive one-bounce dribble to the basket.

Charlotte assistant coach Dave Hanners, who handled the bench duties in Orlando, even reached for the a certain Bobcats' owner in after one Henderson performance.

"People are worried about his athleticism, his one bounce and dunk," Hanners said. "If you play off of him because of that and he takes one bounce and makes, you look over at the bench and say, 'What do you want me to do?'

"Michael Jordan was like that: If you Nike Air Max 90 got on him, he dunked on you. If you stayed off him, he made jump shots."

That, of course, is the end of invoking Jordan's name in any comparison, except to say that the owner has had plenty of time over the summer to indulge his passion for golf, while the only place Henderson has been teeing it up is in the gym.

The movement chose the wrong historical precedent when it selected the Boston Tea Party of 1773, a genuinely revolutionary event, as its symbol. Today's Tea Party movement is much more like the misguided and ill-fated Whiskey Rebellion of the early 1790s, during the first term of America's first president, George Washington.Is it a rebellion?" the doomed king of France, Louis XVI, is supposed to have asked in 1789. "No, sire," a minister allegedly replied. "It is a revolution." The right-wing Tea Party mlb jerseys movement in the united states in 2010 is not a revolution. It's a rebellion.

The Whiskey Rebellion originated as a protest against the plan that Alexander Hamilton, the first ed hardy Treasury secretary of america, devised to pay down the federal and state debts that had been left over from the War of Independence. Hamilton proposed that the federal debt be funded at par -- that is, at face value, though it was trading at only a small fraction of that face value. And he proposed that the federal government assume and pay the outstanding debts of the states. These actions, Hamilton persuaded President Washington and Congress, would establish the new nation's credit worthiness in the eyes of European creditors, making it less expensive for the federal and state governments to borrow money in the future.

From Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was Hamilton's rival in George Washington's Cabinet, down through the many Democratic-Republican societies to the backwoods of Appalachia, critics of Hamilton's plan denounced it as a giveaway to the Northeastern rich. Virginia and several other Southern states had paid their wartime debts and objected to being taxed to pay down the debts of other states. In addition, much of the debt had ended up at the disposal of Northeastern speculators, whose agents had traveled through rural areas buying Nike Dunk Low debt instruments at a small fraction of their face value. Funding the debt at face value would provide these speculators with a huge windfall.

When Congress in 1791, at Hamilton's suggestion, enacted an excise tax on whiskey, and also a tariff, to help pay down the consolidated national debt, the result was the Whiskey Rebellion. Resistance to federal tax collection by frontier settlers in Pennsylvania escalated until 1794, when hundreds of armed men attacked the house of a federal tax inspector. When Washington mobilized the militia, the insurrection collapsed, and the few rebels who were arrested were pardoned.

Today's Tea Party movement resembles the Whiskey Rebellion -- but emphatically not because it is supported only by ignorant yahoos, as many critics of the Tea Partiers contend. On the other hand, just as the Tea Party is supported and nike Air Max subsidized by many elite conservatives, so the Whiskey Rebellion's sympathizers included members of the early republic's elite, including Albert Gallatin, a Swiss immigrant who later became President Thomas Jefferson's secretary of the Treasury. (The mature Gallatin adopted much of the Hamiltonian philosophy he had denounced in his youth and proposed a massive, federally funded canal and road system.)