Liveblogging the Super Bowl from Hackers and Duffers

Update: 10:06 p.m. - Game over man, game over. The Steelers lost, much to the disappointment of everybody here at Hackers and Duffers. Packers win 31-25. 

"We never showed up to this game," said Fredericksburg resident and Steelers fan Jessica Sine. "The just didn't want it."

10:02 p.m. - Well, it's a real game now. The Steelers have the ball with less than two minutes on the clock, and a club official just promised to buy everyone in the bar a shot if the Steelers pull out a win. 

9:57 p.m. - Packers take a six-point lead on a field goal with 2 minutes left in the game. The Packers ate up five minutes of the clock on that drive, so this is probably the last chance the Steelers have to score in regulation. My neighbor at the table summed up the situation in the most optimistic manner: "If they score a touchdown, they win."

9:42 p.m. - It's a three point game, and the crowd here is going a little bit nuts. The Steelers scored on a 25 yard touchdown pass to Mike Wallace, then follow it up with a two-point conversion. The DJ here at Hackers is playing Steelers fight songs and everybody in the bar is singing along. 

9:30 p.m. - The Packers extended their lead to 11 with less than 12 minutes left in the fourth quarter. The crowd at Hackers seems beside itself. The game is far from out of reach, but with the Steelers struggling to maintain possession of the ball, the realization that the Steelers might not emerge victorious is setting in, even if no one here openly says so. 

9:24 p.m. - First play of the fourth quarter and the Steelers fumble the ball on the 45 yard line. The crowd here at Hackers is a lot less energetic than before,. The Steelers fans seem to be sitting on pins and needles awaiting the outcome of this game, hoping for another Steelers score. 

8:42 p.m. The crowd goes wild as the Steelers draw to within four points. Following a big run from Steelers running back Isaac Redman brought the Steelers within the red  zone, Rashard Mendenhall scores a touchdown on the ground. The fans here at Hackers went ballistic. 

8:34 p.m. - Still down by 11 points, the fans down here aren't acting defeated yet. With game action resumed, this crowd is about as energized as they have been so far this game. The chanting is near constant, and one small woman to the rear of me has to have the loudest set of pipes I've heard in a long time. Every time the Packers run a play she's shouting at the top of her lungs "get him!"

8:03 p.m. - Halftime sees the Steelers down 21-10, but the members of Steeler nation down here at Hackers hold out hope. 

"Ben Roethlesburger is a clutch quarterback, he can still pull it out," says one fan.

7:56 p.m. - Steelers score their first touchdown. The entire bar is on its feet chanting "Here we go steelers here we go!". The game looks less out of reach than before for the faithful gathered here at Hackers.

7:45 p.m. - The Packers make it 21-3 with less than 3 minutes to go in the first half. The silence from the crowd here at Hackers is deafening. Fans here are questioning Roethlisburger's performance behind the line. With two interceptions, there is merit to their critiques. 

7:42 p.m. - Roethlesburger tosses another interception to Packers safety Jarret Bush. People here are less than impressed with Roethlisburgers' performance so far. "This is getting ridiculous," says one Steelers fan.

7:30 p.m. - A big stop on third down has added a bit more energy to the crowd down here at Hackers, that plus the three points which they just scored seems to have some Steelers fans feeling a bit reassured. 

 "We were down by two touchdowns against the Ravens," says Phyllis Vest, a local real estate specialist here at hackers in a Troy Polamalu jersey. "We'll come back."

7:25 p.m. - The Steelers finally get on the board with a field goal with about 11 minutes remaining in the half. The crowd looks and sounds much relieved. 

7:07 p.m. - Nick Collin's 30-some yard touchdown return off of a poorly thrown Ben Roethlisburger pass has just heaped a little bit more misery on the assembled Steelers fans here at Hackers. Things are starting out so well for the Steelers. 

7:01 p.m. - And with good reason. The Packers bring the score to 7-0 on a touchdown pass to Jordy Nelson. The sound in the bar was something like a dying animal cut down. A gasp, a scream, and then a moment of silence as the Steelers fans assessed what befell their team. 

6:58 p.m. - Packers get down to the 38, follows it up with a seven yard run to the 31. The atmosphere at the bar immediately gets a tad more tense. 

6:50 p.m. - Doritos scores again, bringing down the bar with their, shall we say, disturbing chip dust licking commercial. 

6:44 p.m.  - First commercial to get a palpable laugh from the bar is the Doritos door-smahsing pug. The next commercial for the luxury Saab also got laughs for its references to Kenny G's soulful saxophone.

6:42 p.m. - on a 3rd and 7, the packers almost connect on a 30 yard long pass which had everyone in the bar on pins and needles. If he had caught that, he'd may have been end zone-bound. 

6:36 p.m. - Patch is reporting live from Hackers and Duffers in Spotsylvania County. Here, an estimated 200 Steelers fans are gathered in a mass of black and gold before 20 big-screen televisions to watch the big game. As you probably already know, the Pittsburgh Steelers are facing the Green-Bay Packers for NFL supremacy. 

Hackers and Duffers has served as the home bar for the Fredericksburg area Steeler's Fan Club for the past season. Right now it's packed to the brim. There are no seats left, except for outside. 

I asked club president Tom (he refused to use is last name because of his teaching job) why the Steelers enjoy such support in the Fredericksburg area. He says that the recent economic downturn has caused economic migrations from Central Pennsylvania and theWest Virginia, two hotbeds of Steeler support. 

"It has a lot to do with the economy and the jobs. Up in steel country you can't get any jobs or anything, you have to come down south," said Tom.