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February 6, 2006

Congratulations to the Steelers and their fans for winning Super Bowl XL. I was pleasantly surprised it turned into a good game and not a total blowout. Pittsburgh played a classic Steelers game: let the defense keep the team in the game, hang around a while, then break a couple big plays to win the […]

January 22, 2006

It was not a good day to be a quarterback named Jake in the National Football League. Jake “The Snake” Plummer and his Denver Broncos got rolled at home by the Steelers 34-17, while Jake “Not The Snake” Delhomme and his Carolina Panthers were overmatched by the Seahawks 34-14. For once in the Conference Championship, […]

January 15, 2006

While Pittsburgh and Steelers Nation celebrate, the media and the NFL are hanging their heads along with Peyton Manning. Everything they had worked for all season long, to finally get Manning and the Colts into the Super Bowl, has come up short in the end.
Or maybe I should say it all came up wide to […]

November 6, 2005

The Packers put up a noble fight today showing flashes of what kind of team this could be, but in the end mistakes and missed opportunities thwarted their effort to upend the Pittsburgh Steelers. This game was sort of a microcosm of the season: at times it looked hopeful, but in the end there was […]

If you’re like me, the brats are already on the boil in anticipation for today’s matchup between Green Bay and Pittsburgh. (If not, you better get on down to your neighborhood Piggly Wiggly or Copps Food Center, ’cause the lines are gonna get long.) Sure, the odds are against the Packers and no one is […]

November 3, 2005

Well, well, well. Looks like ol’ Charlie Batch will be starting Sunday against the Packers. I doubt that Pittsburgh will call even a single pass play.