The saying "any given Sunday" is well known around the NFL. It's basic meaning is that any given Sunday any team can beat any other team and for the most part it is true. Every year in the NFL there are good teams and bad teams, but the one thing that people fail to remember at times is that every player in the NFL is a pro-football player and was a stand-out player in college. Through the history of NFL football there have only been two teams that have ever lost every game during the regular ... Read More
The Super Bowl that Could Have Been
If I take my personal allegiance to the Steelers away, there is one play in Super Bowl history that stands above all others for me. It was Super Bowl XXXIV, the Rams and the Titans. Six seconds remained; Tennessee was down 23-16 and had the ball at the Rams 10-yard line. One last chance to punch it in. The late quarterback Steve McNair dropped back in the pocket (maybe the only time he threw from the pocket that game) and suddenly saw a streaking Kevin Dyson at the five-yard line. Dyson ... Read More
Steelers Sent The Bus Out On Top; Ravens Trying to do the same with Ray Lewis
The Pittsburgh Steelers know all about what the Baltimore Ravens are trying to do this post-season. A legend on their team, Ray Lewis, has announced that he will be retiring at the end of the season and the team is rallying behind him to try and send him out on top. For the Steelers this scenario played out to perfection during the 2005-2006 season. The player was Jerome Bettis and the Steelers road "The Bus" all the way to Detroit and allowed him to finish his NFL career as a Super Bowl ... Read More
Ray Lewis: The bitter and the beloved
In 1998, a middle linebacker entering his third season with the Baltimore Ravens signed a four-year contract totaling $26 million dollars, with a $7 million dollar signing bonus. This newly rich man was Ray Lewis, and this made him the highest paid linebacker in the NFL. One might say that is quite a bit of money for a young, professional athlete to handle himself. In recent years, we have all seen cases of how other athletes act when they think they are guarded by an invincible shield of ... Read More
Steelers may announce offensive line coach, special teams coordinator
When Sean Kugler accepted the head coaching position at UTEP it meant that the Steelers would need to find a new offensive line coach this off-season. There was also speculation that Todd Haley could leave and join the Cardinals as their new head coach and talk of the Steelers parting ways with special teams coordinator Amos Jones. Arizona decided not to hire Haley and instead hired former Steelers' offensive coordinator Bruce Arians. Today Arians announced the hiring of Jones as the ... Read More
Is Steelers line or running backs at fault for running game?
The Pittsburgh Steelers run game is not what it used to be. During the 2005 season, the Steelers won a Super Bowl behind Willie Parker and Jerome Bettis and the run game. They passed the ball only when they needed too and Ben Roethlisberger only averaged 15 completions per game during the regular season. In comparison Roethlisberger averaged almost 24 completions per game in 2012 including only nine against the Chiefs in the game when he was injured. Roethlisberger was drafted by the Steelers ... Read More
Why the Ravens have a little bit of Steelers magic in them
When thinking about the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens football teams, most think of a hard nose, physical rivalry between two teams that do not like each other. Besides the physical state of play, there is not much that you could find that both teams have in common. That is, until he Ravens set off on their most current playoff run that looks quite similar to a playoff run that the Steelers embarked on earlier this century. As most already know, before the playoffs started this ... Read More
Don’t ever count the Steelers out
Numerous times throughout the 2012 NFL season Steeler fans and national media pundits alike have had the pen and paper out, ready to write the eulogy for this year’s Pittsburgh Steelers. And every time they have, these Steelers have made them put it away. In Sunday’s win over the Ravens was yet another example of this team being able to summon up a win when not many gave them a chance. Trailing most of the game, on the road against a team that hasn’t lost at home in two years, with their third ... Read More
Pittsburgh Steelers’ Week 13 Report Card
No one, and I mean no one expected it, but the Pittsburgh Steelers went into Baltimore and came away with a win. Despite having a laundry list of injuries, Mike Tomlin's team played as an inspired game as they have in quite some time and in the process, saved their season. You can even make the case that Sunday's win was the biggest regular season win in the Tomlin era. If not the biggest, definitely the most meaningful. With that being said, let's take a look at how each position ... Read More
Three reasons to take the Bengals
Article by contributor: T. Hunter Williams The Cincinnati Bengals travel to the setting of the great HBO series,The Wire, to take on the Baltimore Ravens in the 2012 Monday Night Football debut. Why they took that show off the air, I’ll never know; it’s all vampires, fairies and zombies anymore. But I digress. As usual, I’m on the contrarian side of this game because everybody and their mother, including Stringer Bell, are taking the Ravens, even though they are laying seven. I ... Read More