Tones of home
Over the weekend we ate dinner at a new-ish German restaurant. They play music over their PA system, sometimes of German origin and sometimes not. I started to be amused when I heard them playing polka music, particularly since it was in English. You must know that you can and will hear or see anything when you are in China. I have already stopped being surprised by those things that would surprise me anywhere else in the world.
The first one I noticed was the Beer Barrel Polka, which is my least favorite polka (when you grow up with a Slovene grandmother, you have favorites). Then the next one came on, I recognized it, and I mentioned to Randy that it was the Pennsylvania Polka, noting that it is also the tune used for the Steelers Polka.
"It's going to be hard for me not to sing along," I said in between humming. "Except I will sing the Steelers lyrics."
Just then I started singing, "Offense, offense, take that ball whole way up the field," and we realized I was actually singing along.
I was in a German restaurant in Shenzhen, People's Republic of China, and I was singing along with the Steelers polka. And it wasn't a Pittsburgh or Steelers event or anything like that. It was just the music they were playing.
The first one I noticed was the Beer Barrel Polka, which is my least favorite polka (when you grow up with a Slovene grandmother, you have favorites). Then the next one came on, I recognized it, and I mentioned to Randy that it was the Pennsylvania Polka, noting that it is also the tune used for the Steelers Polka.
"It's going to be hard for me not to sing along," I said in between humming. "Except I will sing the Steelers lyrics."
Just then I started singing, "Offense, offense, take that ball whole way up the field," and we realized I was actually singing along.
I was in a German restaurant in Shenzhen, People's Republic of China, and I was singing along with the Steelers polka. And it wasn't a Pittsburgh or Steelers event or anything like that. It was just the music they were playing.
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come over to our side............... hehehehe....
Best bet to see the Steelers for under $250 a seat (if you don't have season tickets and didn't get one of the few non-season ticket seats available for sale over the summer) is to see them out of town. The first Steelers game I saw live was when they played the Tennesseee Oilers in Memphis. Yup, they weren't the Titans yet, and their stadium wasn't complete, so their home games were played all over Tenessee--Knoxville, Nashville, and Memphis. They had no loyal following yet, either, so they could barely give tickets away. At the height of the Beanie Baby craze they had a Beanie Baby giveaway, and they couldn't fill a stadium. They had free tickets with a full tank of gas day and couldn't fill a stadium. When we went, almost everyone there was also in the Black and Gold. Some southern transplants (like I was at the time) and some people that came all the way down from Pittsburgh.