Rookie quarterbacks are taking this NFL season by storm. Two rookie quarterbacks have locked up ten win seasons and a playoff spot. Another is celebrating a Pro Bowl bid and aiming for a division title. Either way you look at it, Robert Griffin III, Russell Wilson, and Andrew Luck are turning heads. Robert Griffin III, known as RG3, is leading the 4th best scoring offense in the NFL with 20 touchdowns and 5 interceptions. He is 2nd in the NFL with a passer rating of 104.1, only behind Aaron ... Read More
Steelers 2013 draft preview
With the 2012 season coming to an end for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the playoffs being out of sight; the Steelers have to be thinking about their future. The next important day for the Steelers will be the draft in April. They will have plenty of time to evaluate and figure out who they want to target. There are not many glaring needs on the team; it is more of a revamping and taking someone to replace a player a few years down the road. The Steelers are set to have a top 20 pick so there ... Read More
Heath Miller finally gets his due
Steelers tight end Heath Miller earned his second trip to the Pro Bowl Tuesday, along with being named Team MVP by his teammates on Wednesday. The awards are a silver lining to a tumultuous week that saw Miller have surgery to repair a torn ACL and MCL in his right knee. It was also a week in which Miller finally got the recognition he deserves. It’s hard not to like a player of Miller’s caliber, the Steelers’ under the radar yet always dependable tight end. Ever since he came to ... Read More
Where Do the Steelers Go From Here?
One year after an overtime loss to Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos in the AFC Wild Card Game, the Pittsburgh Steelers now find themselves on the outside looking in. This will be the first season under Mike Tomlin that the Steelers have had less than nine wins. With a win on Sunday against the Browns, they will finish 8-8. The question that Steeler Nation is now asking is: What now? One of the biggest issues for the Steelers all season has been health. The Steelers have seen most of their ... Read More
Steelers in unfamiliar territory against Browns
The Pittsburgh Steelers are in unfamiliar territory under coach Mike Tomlin: eliminated from postseason contention. The Cleveland Browns have become too accustomed to missing out on the playoffs, and mass changes in the organization could be on the way as a result. On Sunday the Steelers will host the Browns, with Cleveland looking for its first season sweep of the series since 1988. Pittsburgh (7-8) will miss the playoffs for the fourth time since 2001 after Sunday’s 13-10 loss to Cincinnati ... Read More
Steelers Pouncey/Miller named to Pro Bowl
Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey and tight end Heath Miller have been selected to the 2013 AFC Pro Bowl team announced today by the NFL. The Steelers are sending multiple players to the Pro Bowl for the 12th straight season and the 21st time in the last 24 seasons. Pouncey is making his third consecutive trip to the Pro Bowl, including his second as a starter. He has started 14-of-15 games this season, including one at left guard, and has quickly become the leader on a youthful offensive ... Read More
Pittsburgh Steelers’ Week 16 Report Card
Another week, another disappointment for the 2012 Pittsburgh Steelers. This time however the script was different as the Steelers' defense played great and their offense let them down. Thanks to Sunday's loss to the Cincinnati Bengals, there will be no postseason for Mike Tomlin's team, just plenty of questions. With that being said, let's take a look at this week's report card. Quarterback: Ben Roethlisberger played his worst game of the season. He was an MVP candidate before his ... Read More
Steelers playoffs hopes come to a stop with loss to Bengals
For the second straight week, a late interception from Ben Roethlisberger came to haunt the Steelers dropping their third straight game in a 13-10 loss to the Bengals. The Steelers are officially are eliminated from playoff contention with the loss. After holding AJ Green to only one reception for eight yards in their week seven meeting, Green exploded for 116 yards on 10 receptions. With arguably his biggest coming on 21 yard pass from Andy Dalton to set the Bengals up for a Josh Brown game ... Read More
The Immaculate Reception: A first hand account
The Immaculate Reception is, without a doubt, the most famous play in NFL history. With the 40th anniversary of the iconic play approaching on Sunday, I thought it would be appropriate to tell the story of the play through the eyes of someone who witnessed it first-hand. My grandfather, Joseph Kilkeary has been a Steelers season ticket holder since the 1960’s, and was at Three Rivers Stadium that day with my late grandmother. I interviewed him to get his side of the story of what happened ... Read More
It’s the end of the world as we know it
No future date has been more spoken of than today, December 21, 2012. People have made careers off it. The supposed end of the long-range Mayan Calendar. Famed American philosopher Terence McKenna had developed a numerological formula he dubbed “Timewave Zero,” in which he charted the ebb and flow of major events over world history. His graph goes off the charts in December of 2012, which he proposed would be the point of singularity; in which everything in the world would occur ... Read More