Happy Birthday To Us, Happy Birthday To Us...

A year ago today was the very first post here at the Suburban Rob Rossis blog. This will mark the 508th post in our history. We started this blog because of the 2008 NHL Free Agency period and all of the things that were happening to the Penguins team just weeks after losing in the Stanley Cup Finals. We needed a forum to express our displeasure with all of the departures and question all of the new players. There is no way we could have predicted that in one year we would be Stanley Cup Champions, yet still be having the same discussions about the players coming and going.

A lot has happened over the last 365 days. The Steelers won their 6th Super Bowl title. The Penguins won their third Stanley Cup. The Pirates traded away their starting outfield twice. The Into The Wild Contest. And so on and so on.

Since we started this blog we have met a lot of cool people like Lori over at Hockey, Football and Stiletto Shoes, the girls of Puck Huffers, and our most unlikely reader, Symo over at Symo Says. We've had philosophical differences with Toad over at Everything Pittsburgh, but nothing too crazy. Thanks to these gals and guys for being cool with us and having strong opinions that you don't back down from, just like we do.

It hasn't all been good. At least a few people will remember our feud with the Steel City Regurgitation Machine ('hey, someone else said this so I'm going to post it here verbatim') and our inability to get linked on the Pensblog because of their hatred of Rob Rossi and our supposed connection with him (more on that later). We could go into great detail about both of these petty arguments but I really don't want to get a call from an upset husband acting tough on the phone or have some guy with too much time on his hands photoshop a picture of us with penises by our mouths. I can sleep at night with the knowledge that if we met either one in a parking lot somewhere there would be no question who would be walking away from that fight victorious.

We would like to thank all of the people who have visited our site over the past year. If our counter hadn't crapped out on us, you would have been able to see that the site has been viewed over 23,000 times. While that pales in comparison to a lot of sites, we still think it is pretty damn good for a blog that has no sponsors and runs zero advertisements. We haven't whored ourselves out to 30 different sites like Yard Barker unlike some people (*cough* Steel City Sports Fan *cough*). What we've tried to do is spread the word through our blog friends and let people find us themselves. We don't need to be validated because some web site says so. We applaud everyone else on our blog roll that does the same.

So with all that said, we believe it is time for a change. I alluded to this after Game 2 of the Stanley Cup series in a very down moment, but we've been talking about this for a while. We are going to change our name from the Suburban Rob Rossis to something else, but we don't know yet. The reason behind the name was that Rob Rossi made up a helluva lot of free agent signings last year yet 99% of them didn't come true. The joke was that we could make up shit and it would be just as accurate. Somehow that got turned into us liking Rob Rossi, which was never the case. The joke is kind of old now so we're looking for something new.

What do you think we should be called? Send us an email or post a comment. If we like your suggestion, we will send you a fish taco from Long John Silver's.