Last week I mentioned the dearth of good, new Steelers songs.  Thanks to the Post-Gazette’s Steelers Sing-Along Fight Song Contest, we have some new songs to enjoy.  None of them are really fight songs, and most aren’t all that catchy (“On the Road to Sixburgh” sounds like a sad breakup song, rather than a “holy crap we’re going to the Super Bowl again” song).  But I like “Steeler Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”.  I think if you’re not going to go the chant-y, classic fight song route (think “Fly, Eagles, fly….”), parodying an existing song might be your best bet- at least people already know the gist of how it goes.  Though “A Yinzer Anthem” also gets points from me- despite its non-derivativeness and lack of fight-song-ery, it’s sung by a pretty Yinzer-sounding guy, or at least one who does a good impression.  It makes me feel like I’m back in the land of Primanti’s, Jine Iggle, and gumbands.

Now that I voted for my favorite, it won’t let me go back and listen to the songs.  So if you vote, give them a good listen first.  And remember, this is the year we get that one for the…ring finger on the other hand.