Carson Palmer knows it, so does Tom Brady and Matt Hasselbeck. Now, Willis McGahee knows it too. The Pittsburgh Steelers are cheap shot artists, plain and simple. They have been since Bill Cowher became their head coach in 1992, and they remain so with Mike Tomlin at the helm.
It is intrinsic in the game plan devised by defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau to take every opportunity to hurt the opposition whenever possible. Latter day Steeler football is all about blindside hits and helmet first shots. They rely on the consistent ignorance of NFL officials and the blind eye of the league to get away with it.
Steeler fans and the national media who seem to genuflect at the mere mention of this organization should stop sidestepping the issue and embrace what their team is, a band of thugs, no more, no less.
The media is especially guilty. In the wake of Ryan Clark’s dirty hit on Baltimore running back Willis McGahee late in Sunday’s AFC title game, announcers Jim Nantz and Phil Simms immediately exonerated Clark calling the hit perfectly legal. Their replays showed that Clark’s hit was clearly helmet-to-helmet, but Steeler love had taken over the broadcast booth. Clearly, this legendary team could never administer a dirty hit. Please.
It’s no surprise that Simms let Clark off the hook. He has, in the past, cowered, or shall I say, Cowher-ed similarly. In the first half of the 2002 AFC title game between the Steelers and New England, Simms failed to take a stand when Steelers linebacker Jason Gildon rolled over onto Tom Brady’s legs nearly injuring the Pats’ QB.
Later in the half, when Lee Flowers delivered his infamous dirty hit to Brady’s leg knocking him out of the game, Simms was again mum.
In the second half of that game, New England’s Ty Law shoved Hines Ward while the two were out of bounds. Referee Ed Hochuli tagged Law for unnecessary roughness, but failed to call Ward for a blatant facemask.
CBS showed several replays of the call, and not once did Simms remark on the obvious facemask. But this is Steeler football, baby. Smile to the cameras. Hire a coach that sucks up to the media and loves to be on TV, and you can get away with anything.
Monday, on SIRIUS NFL Radio, Randy Cross and Solomon Wilcots also defended Clark’s hit on McGahee. Wilcots said that there was a little helmet to helmet contact, but stood up for the Steelers. Cross actually said that helmet to helmet hits on a runner do not exist, whatever that means. The pair then chuckled about Willis McGahee being “liquified.” Yeah guys, seeing a player carried off on a stretcher always tickles my funny bone. Later in the show, Cross and Wilcots seemed more concerned about the health and state of Clark than McGahee.
Pittsburgh’s recent history of cheap shots is the stuff of which championships are made. The Steelers’ only Super Bowl title since the Reagan administration was a direct result of perhaps the most fiendish hit in recent memory.
Flash back to the 2005 NFL Wild Card playoffs, Pittsburgh at Cincinnati. The Bengals had finally put together a great season led by quarterback Carson Palmer. They looked every bit the championship team until Pittsburgh’s Kimo von Oelhoffen delivered a vile hit damaging Palmer’s ACL, MCL and PCL. The cheap shot ended the Bengals title hopes and changed the balance of power in the AFC North for the rest of the decade.
Once again, the Steeler apologists immediately absolved von Oelhoffen of any wrongdoing. In true Steeler fashion, von Oelhoffen said he did not mean to hurt Palmer, the same way Ryan Clark sat on the Pittsburgh bench Sunday night seemingly remorseful about his hatchet job on McGahee. Sorry guys, in both cases, the damage had already been done. Palmer has never truly recovered from that hit, and has battled other injuries ever since.
The beloved Steelers of course went on to win the Super Bowl against Seattle in one of the worst officiated games in Super Bowl history. Most of the bad calls, of course, went in favor of Pittsburgh. First time Super Bowl referee Bill Leavy and his crew negatively affected the outcome of the game in embarrassing fashion.
They missed several offside calls against Pittsburgh, called a phantom hold on Seahawk Sean Locklear nullifying a big reception by Jerramy Stevens and called a bogus block below the waist on Seattle QB Matt Hasselbeck.
A called fumble by Hasselbeck was correctly overturned by replay, but a clear helmet first hit by Deshea Townsend on Hasselbeck with 6:20 left in the game went ignored. Another dirty Steeler hit, another non-call by officials, another bogus Steeler victory.
The Steelers are not only dirty, they are gutless. At least the Raiders of the 1970s accepted what they were. Jack Tatum, George Atkinson and the gang admitted that they were out to injure and maim. The Cowher-Tomlin Steelers seem to want it all. They want to be respected as a hard-hitting football team that does things the right way, yet on the field, their record of questionable actions speaks for itself.
The towel waving Steeler fools and the merry band of Black and Gold boosters in the media can try to cloak the cheap shots in fabled glory. Bill Cowher can sit at the CBS anchor desk flapping his chin about hard nosed football, and Mike Tomlin can feign concern for victims of his brand of football. Their words are meaningless. On February 1, the Pittsburgh Steelers may in fact be crowned the NFL’s champs. In truth, they are nothing more than a bunch of chumps.
John Molori writes for Patriots Football Weekly, Boston Baseball Magazine, New England Golf Monthly and BostonSportsMedia.com. He is a contributor to the “Papa Joe Chevalier Show” at KLAV AM 1230 in Las Vegas and papajoetalk.com. He hosts the “J-Team Radio Show” at AM 980 WCAP and www.jteamradio.com. Email John at MoloriMedia@aol.com.
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This is the biggest pile of BS I have ever read. How dare you point a finger at the Steelers after your presious Pats have been found GUILTY of cheating for several years. Looking back at 02 AFC game would mean the Steelers should have won had you not cheated as usual.
Oh my Lord, you have never watched more than a handful of games involving Pittsburgh. If anything the league owed Pittsburgh that Super Bowl. Which team has the most apologies from the NFL for blown calls in a game? Pittsburgh. The NFL doesn’t just issue apologies for the sake of it. Get a grip. Why don’t we further investigate how Bellicheat couldn’t lick Cowher’s boots until he got the ok to cheat when he went to New England? My misinformed moronic friend, if not for cheating, Pittsburgh would probably have 2 more trophies in the case thanks to 2001 and 2004. Don’t forget your little asterik when you write about your former Super Bowl wins. The Pittburgh Steelers - the true dynasty of the 2000’s.
You sound like sour grapes from a New England Fan who upset that they didn’t make the Playoffs. The Pats the king or the Tuck Rule and Mr Cheap shot Rodney Harrision. Please get over yourself and your a prro excuse for a Journalist.
The bias is sickening.
Are you forgetting that Hines Ward HAS been receiving fines from the NFL for some of his hits? The NFL isn’t exactly turning a blind eye.
Are you forgetting that LEGITIMATE media has been regularly running stories about other player’s opinions of Hines Ward being a cheap-shot artist? The Media isn’t turning a blind eye.
What about the Ravens stating on national radio that there are bounties to injure specific players, and one of the named Steelers players, Mendenhall, was taken out for a season by a nasty hit from Ray Lewis.
Watch the clip again. There was indeed helmet-to-helmet contact, but Clark lead with his shoulder. He intended to drill McGahee with a lead-in shoulder. It was unfortunately coincidental that McGahee opted to lower his body and head for more leverage right at the same moment.
Wow another bitter chowderhead. Dirty hit, I guess you don’t know how the game is played. That was a pefectly legal and valid hit. But then again your probably a cheater like Belicheat and the Pats. Why don’t you investigate the Pats cheating. Do us all a favor and stop writing. Your not adding anything important to the discussion.
here’s your bias:
1)Rodney Harrison, he gets as many complaints as anyone in the league, but
you love him
2)Richard Seymour, see the link below;
http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/sports/patriots/?p=2072&srvc=home&position=recent
3) the tuck rule, talk about bogus championships
4)Tom Brady, when he went down, the media cried for months about
the loss to the NFL.
clean up your own team, or quit whining about others.
btw, it makes you look lame, but if thats the way you like it, carry on.
You are proof that Internet message board trolls can get paid doing what they do.
Read the rules. Helmet to helmet means you lead with your helmet. Heads collide on nearly every hit in the NFL. Kind of hard not to, being that they’re in such close proximity to the shoulders. Add human anatomy to things you need to study up on.
Clark led with his shoulder but their heads also collided. That’s football.
Owed a superbowl??? Ben Bledsoe still hasn’t crossed the goal line in Super Bowl 40.
Best column you’ve ever written John, never have truer words of the classless cheating Steelers ever been written.
Steelers? More like Stealers as in Thieves.
hit the tissue wendy whinner and wipe your tears way, the only dirty hits out there were the numerous late hits (spearing from behind) by Baltimore. If you are going to all the clark hit dirty, what about the very similar tough hit Scott put on parker?
you your blog suck.
WAAAAA WAAAAA WAAAAAA MY P**** HURTS !!!!!!!!!!!!
F***** Chowdahead Cheatriot Fan (FRONTRUNNER)
You’re one frustrated human being…stop wasting precious space in Boston, move to Pittsburgh and take the beating like a man!
Wow. A couple of years without a SB and the Pats media and fans turn quickly from arrogant jerks into pathetic whiners. I’m amazed this article doesn’t somehow try and blame the Steelers for Brady’s injury.
Stick to writing about golf. If Rodney Harrison had done this you’d be defending him to no end. Oh, and didn’t YOUR team get busted for cheating? And the tapes just so happened to have not been shown to the media. Talk about media bias. I can’t believe how stupid you are. You give mentally handicapped a bad name. You are a complete moron and have no idea about football, human anatomy, or cheating.
After a article like this…this guy whoever he is can not be taken seriously as a real journalist. He sounds like some guy living in his parent’s basement writing crap on his blog and then trying to pass it off as professional. Nantz and Simms were so pro-Ravens during the game that it was ridiculous! The refs were making calls that they still haven’t bothered to explain. The mysterious incomplete pass that cost Santonio Holmes a touchdown??? When Larry Fitzgerald did the exact same thing in their game against the Eagles and it was ruled a catch and he was called down by contact. I would never read anything in the future from this clown as he is clearly a joke.
Bottom line is a lot of tackles wind up being helmet-first. When Bart Scott tackled Willie Parker out in the flat of the AFCC game, the crown of Scott’s helmet was the first thing to hit Parker - in the chin. It’s a violent sport and when both the target and tackler are moving it’s hard to control where the hit is going to take place.
And if you want to catch a ball in the middle of the field - as both Welker and McGahee did - the receiver has to know they’re taking an additional risk. Football has always been that way. It takes a special kind of receiver to make those catches over the middle. Safeties are taught to tee off on anyone trying to go over the middle.
Maybe you should be watching soccer. Or figure skating.
So when a player catches the ball over the middle you’re supposed to play touch football? You are a moron! It was a clean hit led with the shoulder. But, I guess as a sour grapes Pats fan, you’re still crying over the hit on Welker, which was clean, as determined by the NFL, no fine!
I found it quite amusing last year how the Patriots got thumped in the Super Bowl by the Giants because they weren’t able to film the Giants earlier in the year when they played them. No wonder Belichick was considered the best HC at beating a team the 2nd time they played them, he cheated! And no wonder his staff keeps bolting and then prove to not be that good. Now Pioli even wants to get out from under the cheater tag.
As for you, it’s sad when publications and web sites let bloggers pretend to journalists!
I’d like to give you a cheapshot you pathetic, poor loser. Rodney Harrison is one of the dirtiest players in the history of the NFL, not to mention you precious and genius of a coach Belichick, cheating in all of those playoff games. And by the way, as soon as the Steelers win this superbowl, Ben Roth will be mentioned right up there with your Tom Brady. Patriots are finished
I couldn’t even finish reading it… the “writer’s” “objectivity” was overwhelming….
Wow, you got everything right with the exception of the names of the Team and the players. Replace Steelers with Ravens and any rat player and this blog would be in the MARK!
I will be anticipating your next article on how Ronnie Lott, Jack Tatum, Dick Butkis, and other hardnosed old school players who made devestating hits should not be in the HOF.
Now the rest of the country realizes that Boston just discovered the NFL around 2001, so you may get a pass, but before the recent pussification of the NFL and America in general big hits were celebrated and glorified. Remember the ESPN segment called “JACKED UP!”?
And the old saying about glass houses… A fan of a team who just got busted in the biggest cheating / espionage scandal in sports history, a team with extermely DITY players like WILFORK and Harrison, a team who’ just had a player busted for HGH, a team who won by spying on other teams and stealing signals, a team who won a AFCC game because of an obscure “tuck rule” should not be criticizing other teams, PERIOD!
Then again, you chod’s will do what you do best. Complain. Complain when the Sox cant win a ring for 80 years, complain when another team is on the verge of an NFL dynasty, complain because you are a miserable, fat, old fool…
Enjoy the SB and remember 6>3*!
Good thing you included the video — so you can see the Clark in FACT his with his SHOULDER not his helmet. Sorry to inform you by the way that the league won’t be fining Clark — because it was a CLEAN LEGAL hit. Aw whatsa matter, Johnny still ticked off about the Steelers whooping your Patsies this year? Awww.
The New England Patriots cheated their way to a Super Bowl win by cheap-shotting and late-hitting the Rams into submission. Rodney Harrison is the dirtiest player of all time, and Vince Wilfork is a close second.
If there’s anyone who should know what cheap-shotting is about, it would be a guy from New England.
Don’t give this guy the time of day, people. It’s utter drivel–and he knows it. He’s smirking behind his desk right now. If you take this kind of garbage seriously you are dumber than can possibly be fathomed.
GO STEELERS!
Wow, these Steelers fans just ooze class, don’t they?
Let me guess, John….were you on the ‘let’s trade away Brady and keep Cassell bandwagon around November of ‘08? Most likely. Typical blowhard, impatient, ungrateful NE sports ‘fan’. The Steelers are dirty? After your coach destroyed all evidence of his videotaping teams and Roger Goodell helped cover it up? Give me a break. Typical internet garbage. Just proves how ignorant and incompetent sports journalists are. They’re the lowest of the low in their own profession. Just do us all a favor and quit writing.
Says John Molori:
“Carson Palmer knows it, so does Tom Brady and Matt Hasselbeck. Now, Willis McGahee knows it too.”
So does J.P. Losman, after Vince Wilfork of the Pats took out his knee.
Here’s a video to compare with the one Molori posted. See which one you think is the cheaper shot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3POT8n2Qk3g
And read:
SOURCE: VINCE WILFORK WILL BE FINED, NOT SUSPENDED
Posted by Michael David Smith on October 29, 2008, 9:03 a.m. EDT
A league source tells PFT that Patriots defensive tackle Vince Wilfork will be fined but will not be suspended after meeting Tuesday with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
Per the source, Goodell had suspension on his mind heading into the meeting but came out of it convinced that Wilfork understands the league’s focus on player safety.
Wilfork was summoned to the league offices because of several incidents in which he appeared to be trying to injure opponents, most recently a late hit on Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler.
http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/10/29/source-vince-wilfork-will-be-fined-not-suspended/
LOL at all the Stealers* fans posting on a BOSTON sports site. It goes to show your inferiority complex still, you’re in the Super bowl and you still can’t stop thinking about the Patriots.
By the way, to all you Stealers* trolls talking about the 2001 AFCCG, I’d suggest you go back and watch it again. I seem to recall two special team TD’s making the difference for the Patriots. I don’t know how spygate factors into that.
And please get off your high horse about that. You guys did nothing for 35 years before you started juicing up in the 70’s, and then nothing for 25 more until the referees saw fit to hand you a Super Bowl.
And one final thing, football has been around a lot longer than since the Super Bowl was played. Stop bragging about your 5 tainted trophies as if they’re the best. The Packers have 12 championships, so I suggest you shut the hell up in regards to that.
oh and your beloved Patriots are the biggest cheaters in the league, why not report about sign stealing. You would never have beaten us without the cheater edge..
CHEATERS!
CHEATERS!
CHEATERS!
Sounds me like James feels a little guilty and insecure about his Spygate Patriots* and their tainted Lombardi trophies. Oh my!
I agree. The Steelers are pathetic, and it is nice knowing that the Patriots will be the last team to have beaten the new Super Bowl Champion Arizona Cardinals. Outside of Pittsburgh (think: two Worcesters smooshed together), the rest of the world will be rooting on the Cardinals. That is just irrefutable fact. No one likes a football team that plans parades before even deserving one, but that’s the Pittsburgh Steelers for you.
To Steelers fans taunting the Pats as cheaters, didn’t it recently come out that the 2006 had members that used HGH prescribed by a team dr.? You know what they say about glass houses….
Maybe it should be John MORONari !!!
Your article is a complete joke….
I do love the part about Kimo injuring Palmer …..” vile hit ”
Yeah, right …. Kimo simply pulled himself along the turf trying to make a play and did so….as any other lineman who gives it all would have ….
Surreeeeee the 2006 Steelers didn’t use HGH. Maybe that is where all the rage for the dirty hits comes from. Just saying.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=3831956
Not at all. They are the team of the decade, having dusted the Steelers twice when it counted. I’m not the one who’s team is in the Super Bowl, yet I feel the need to post on a non-playoff opponents article.
Nice article Chiklis . Couldn’t agree more.
Good article. I think Steelers fans are still upset that they couldn’t ever beat the Pats during any of those big games when they were supposed to win. Sorry guys, time to move on. And relax with the cheaters comments, everyone knows that the Patriots are just better run and have better players. That’s why we’ve won 3 Super Bowls and you’ve won 1. Hopefully you’ll lose another big one in 2 weeks.
And don’t forget what they did to Cam Neely - Pittsburgh bullies.
I live in Boston and am a Patriot fan, but this article is complete garbage. This is the NFL and violence is what this game is about. This author, who obviously never picked up a football in his/her life needs to stick to a sport that is not so manly. I think that hit that the Steeler Clark put on that Raven was what football is about.
LOL. It is obvious you want many “vicious” Steelers fan reactions to validate your post. Bottom line, the NFL says Clark’s hit was legal, just as the Kimo hit was. I want to think you wrote your piece before learning the NFL’s reaction. The response of a good sportswriter versus an internet troll is pretty obvious.
Haha what a joke
and Cheap, Tainted titles reign supreme for you Massholes. The NFL has ruled Clark’s hit was legal and issued no fine. But they’re just of the conspiracy, right?
Bellicheat? Astericks?
Did I wander into a lame ESPN message board?
Pathetic.
At least the Raiders of the 1970s accepted what they were.
screwed by the NFL?
how about the raiders of the 2000/// screwed by the pats
Pittsburgh fans are the biggest front runners around. Go support your baseball team and hockey teams.
The only time the penguins do well is when they tank the season to get the high draft pick.
The Steelers sucked for decades and were a league laughing stock until Noll finally turned their draft picks into productive players.
After Noll’s run in the 70s the team bit the big one again in the 80s before rebuilding in the 90s under Cowher.
Before Steeeler fans say anything about the Patriots and their past remember how read about the decades of terrible football played by the Steelers. Also before you talk about cheating remember the spirit of competitive play when your team tanks it to draft Mario and Sidney Crosby.
The Pirates take Yankee and Red Sox handouts because Pittsburgh sports fans don’t support their team.
The NFL called the hit legal. Yeah, they don’t know their own rules (if you read the ACTUAL rules their statement contradicts the rulebook plain and simple). Launching himself and leading with his helmet (and if you don’t think he lead with his helmet or if you think McGahee ducked (?!) watch the angle from above, it’s obvious to any unbiased observer) is always illegal. Steelers are thugs, and Clark should be suspended. I’m all about hard hitting football, but let’s follow the rules or get rid of them. At least with the tuck rule, as much as I HATE it, the officials applied the (lousy) rule correctly.
“That’s why we’ve won 3 Super Bowls and you’ve won 1. Hopefully you’ll lose another big one in 2 weeks.”
I regret to inform you my friend, but the Steelers currently own 5 Lombardi trophies. Going back to 2nd grade math, 5 > 3. Just keeping the playing field even…
We live in the worst city in America! I wipe my ass with a terrible towel! Please just leave us alone!
As for the Steeler fans calling the Patriots cheaters. Do you really think that the Patriots are along in trying to gain any advantage. ESPN held a story on a Steeler physician giving the team HGH. Here’s a link to the story:
http://www.profootballtalk.com/2009/01/20/espn-fish-decline-interview-on-steelers-and-hgh-story/#more-10477
How is Tom’s knee…LOL
The only cheap shot I see is your article. Lebeau is a class act, and football is a violent game. Maybe you should write about something a little more your speed like 50% off womens underwear sales.
This article is actually quite funny. I won’t even bother to mention what so many other posters already have. But let’s just say that outside of Boston, the entire football watching world believes what you already know to be true. The Patriots - as an organization - are cheaters. The team and coach were found guilty by the NFL and punished. So to be honest, 30 other NFL beat writers within the US could have written this article and as a Steeler fan you could take issue with it either in part or in whole, but an opinion is strictly that. However, for a pro-New England Patriots media professional to attempt to make the claims that you have put forth here, is usually something you would have to read in a local high school newspaper.
Stick to what you know, which cannot be related to football.
Not to mention, the Steroid Curtain.
The Stillers have and always will be frauds.
And the pathetic fans, with their pathetic towels will all work for us someday.
Gillete Stadium:
Public Financing: 61.1% at $171million
Private Financing: 38.9% at $109.2million
Heinz Field:
Public Financing: 61.1% at $171million
Private Financing: 38.9% at $109.2million
In a word , you towel wavers are PA - THETIC!
Correction, my cut and paste failed:
Gillete Stadium:
Public Financing: 0%
Private Financing: 100% through Robert Kraft
Pittsburgh - it’s for dupes!
Would the writer like some cheese to go with his whine?
In response to Mike Whited, does Ben Dreith ring a bell? What’s that, you’ve never heard of him? Then shut up. The tuck rule was the correct call anyways.
All I can say is you are an idiot.
newly minted fan of the ariz cards beat the bleep outta da steroid crazed , stiller frauds, steroid crazed taint smells up all four of their 70’swins ,i will give them that last one bad refs or not …hey zona someone lay out that cheapshot scum clark plssssssssssssssssssss !!
GO STEELERS
Don’t change a thing. Molorie sounds like a little girl.
ESPN said the Patriots cheated, so the Patriots are a bunch of cheaters! Good thing that clears that up!
This article was completely unnecessary. We all remember the cheap shot from Kiko which ended Carson’s career, and we all remember the lousy calls from that subsequent Super Bowl.
I hope Larry Fitzgerald isn’t hoping for a pass interference call in this years’ Super Bowl…
Patriots three Super Bowl wins.***They cheated and got caught.They should give the Lombardi Trophies back just like Marion Jones giving back her gold medals.***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
Helmet-to-helmet is not necessarily illegal.
It is illegal to LEAD with the helmet. Clark clearly led with the shoulder and the helmet contact was incidental. I mean, it’s football, it’s a rough game and that happens.
That’s not “Steeler homerism” from a “towel waiving fool”, it’s just a simple interpretation of the rules from CLEAR video footage of the hit that has been replayed about a million times in the last two days.
Why is that everytime a Steeler makes a big hit, somebody cries foul?
And this from a guy that has spent several years rooting for Rodney Harrison. Perhaps I should belittle you and your Patriot fan brethren by calling you “Flying Elvis jersey wearing fools”, no?
Now to address the fine folks that partake in the greatest bastion of intelligence on the internet, the fan comment section of sports articles!! ::end sarcasm::
About the HGH, not one Steeler was caught using HGH. That’s not to say none of them did or didn’t, it’s fishy I agree, but not one of them was caught. Unlike… ohhhh…. saaaaayyy… the aforementioned Rodney Harrison who was busted REDHANDED and suspended! A UPMC doctor who was assigned by the Medical Center to work with the Steelers was caught having it sent to his private practice. That’s the story. Fishy, yes, but the guy also ran a private practice and no proof exists that he gave it to Steeler players. And besides, if anyone here would be shocked to learn that NFL players on ALL teams might juice up a little, I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.
And, about us not supporting the Pens, I do recall an arena half full of Montreal fans during the playoffs last year, while we’ve sold ours out for several consecutive years. And don’t hand me the “We don’t care about hockey anymore” arguement. You should, being as though most of the decent athletes that come out of that area of the country these days are hockey players.
I mean, c’mon, I have nothing against Boston fans, but these attacks are all just ridiculous. Spend another $200 million on the Sawx payroll, price the small markets out of the stadium, then make fun of us for not having great attendance. The Red Sox are awesome, the Pirates are lame. There, I’ve given you some props, happy?
And yes, we all one day work for the entrepenuerial geniuses that are the Patriots fanbase!!
I’m sorry, I didn’t realize that every last Patriots fan was a successfull business owner of the highest calibre, while every one of the million or so Steeler fans across the country are obviously just poor, uneducated rubes because we don’t root for the same football team as you fine, priviledged people.
I like it when people get so desperate in their stupid sports arguements that they decide to try and disparage an entire group of individuals from that city. It is the surest sign that the person does not have a good sports arguement, so they resort to an equally flimsy arguement about the people that inhabit the city.
Is this some sort of joke?!?
If any Pats fan on here thinks the Steelers are the only one’s to use HGH then you really have no clue. 300 lbs plus people. these people shouldn’t be able to run at 300lbs plus but they do. Everybody is on steroids in the NFL , including Rodney Harrison. Junior Say-Meow playing at his age? Come on. Give your heads a shake Pats fans. Bellicheat couldn’t touch Cowher’s jockstrap until the cheating started. I’m sure every team tries to cheat on some level but when you get caught, fined and have video tapes burned, well, maybe you’ve gone a little too far.
Ah, the infamous Locklear “phantom hold” of Super Bowl XL. It must be the only “phantom” hold in the history of the NFL in which the “phantom” holder hooked the defender and pulled him to the ground. Madden said he didn’t see it, so everyone else jumped on that bandwagon.
As for your list of cheap shotss? Grow up. So called cheap shots happen all the time. Did you see the Ravens cheap shot Chris Johnson in the divisional round and take him out of the game? Did you ever watch Rodney Harrison play? Borderline cheap shots are part of the game. They happen on every play and in every pile. If you don’t like it, then don’t watch the NFL.
“The Pirates take Yankee and Red Sox handouts because Pittsburgh sports fans don’t support their team.”
Who cares about baseball? Preseason football games outdraw pennant race baseball games in ratings. Regular season football outdraws playoff baseball. Baseball may be number one in Boston, New York, Southern California, and possibly Chicago, but it’s a second tier sport practically everywhere else in the country.
I think my name says it all. But if you want to talk dirty, lets talk about the elbow in the Buffalo game. That’s as disgracing as it gets.
Any real analysis (not some homer blog write) has watched the tape many times and reported he led with his shoulder and the helmet-to-helmet was accidental and after the fact.
Vent about the dirty players on your team. Your up to your ass in them. Let a real franchise out of it.
Wow…this dorks seems to be forgetting about all the times that Ben has been knocked out of a game because of a vicious, or low hit… Stuff happens in the NFL when you can’t protect your QB….think about it.
This from a Pasterick fan? Talk about tainted, no one is dirty is Rodney Harrison isn’t dirty.
What happened to you Boston, everyone used to pull for you until you revealed what a self absorbed and hateful population you are.
The Chiefs are obviously dirty as well for rolling up Mrs. Bradies leg right?
You guys make the Yankees appealling and this is why, when you win you just aren’t good at it, once YINZ taste it you think you deserve it. Apparently that whole 18 and 1 think must have really left you “neurologically unsound ”
dick trickle
When golf writers try to write about football; you get articles like this. While the injuries to Palmer and McGahee were unfortunate, the hits were legal, non-penalized and true to the physical nature of the game.
“video tapes burned”
When you have you to make up stuff like this in order to get the point across, Pittsburgh, than maybe you’ve gone too far.
By the way, how are those taxes for the stadium feeling in your pocket during this recession?
Idiots.
So what we cheated to win our Super Bowl’s we’ve got John on our side.
You are one pathetic loser. Wah, my Pasterisks aren’t in the Super Bowl this season so I’m going to cry about the team that is instead.
Crybaby cheaters fan.
Should I call the waaaaaaaaaaambulance for you?
Idiot.
Not that you would know it from this board, but the Steelers do have great fans. I grudglingly say this as a long-time Pats fan (yes, even thru the many sucky years). Making any assertions about Steelers fans based on the morons bashing the Pats on this board makes about as much sense as claiming them calling Pats fans sore losers based upon this one nitwit’s article.
I’m ashamed to be a Bostonian with so many idiots like this.
Yes, the Patriots stole signals…..but they still OWN the Steelers. Hurts doesn’t it? It hurts remembering the hated CHEATRIOTS running up the score on your home field in 2004 and canceling your parade plans in 2002. Those memories will stay forever.
Dan, you’re wrong. The Commonwealth puta significant amount of taxpayers dollars toward the stadium, but the majority of that money went into fixing Route 1. Read Christopher Price’s book - it explains it all.
The guy who wrote this couldn’t write himself out of a paper bag; this is college-grade column writing. And for all the Pittsburgh morons, a column isn’t supposed to be objective. It is supposed to be slanted toward the writer’s opinion, although there is supposed to be some semblance of the other side of the story which Molori seems to have forgotten.
The hit wasn’t dirty. The hit on Brady in 2002 wasn’t dirty. The hit on Brady this season wasn’t dirty. The hit on Palmer wasn’t dirty. Anyone who’s played football will tell you the same thing. I’d bet if you talked to McGahee’s teammates off the record, they’d tell you it was clean. Same with Brady’s teammates. They put on a face toward the media but they know the deal. Those were guys trying to make plays and in football, people get injured.
The hit on Welker, well, that’s up for debate. In my eyes, Welker gave up on the play, had his head down and Clark never bothered to look. He should have been fined. Welker recovered, but had he been injured Clark would have been suspended for a while.
I just read a well-written and polarizing column, then I read 58 comments - far too many from a few pinheaded Steelers fans - suggesting it was crap. Why? Because the writer did what he was supposed to?
The insecurity of Hub-area fans who root for out-of-town teams is astounding. Hell, if you live in Pittsburgh and like the Patriots, you need police protection. The contrast is like something out of the Cold War. Steel Curtain, Iron Curtain - no difference.
Molori raises some good points and never takes a homer attitude; rather, he only mentions the Patriots to the extent that they were victimized by cheap shots. So Steelers Fan pulls a straw man and reads this as whining. He immediately follows with his yesterday rant of Spygate. Let me tell you, a few minutes of film showing Jets defensive coaches picking their noses in 2007 in no way acquits his team of their pathetic efforts in 2001 and 2004.
Instead of running their mouths off, they should thank the football gods the Pats didn’t make the playoffs. The only time their team sees a Super Bowl is when another takes care of New England for them.
I’m not a fan of either team but both sides of this is just ridiculous and I wanted to address some issues with this crap.
First whoever said the Steelers where the laughingstock of the league, well lets not forget that until 2001 you could easily say that about the Patriots.
Second, steroids weren’t banned in professional sports until after the ’70s and every team was juicing. So, no, that’s not cheating at that time. Repeat in case you missed it, not cheating during the ’70s. Now, yes; then, no.
Pats fans can’t say anything about HGH with Rodney Harrison being suspended. Seriously though, does anyone really believe that any pro NFL team doesn’t have players juicing up? Are you really that naive?
As for Spygate, the same thing applies. Does anyone really believe there are NFL teams not trying to find an extra edge? Are you really that naive? The only difference is they got caught.
And I’m sorry, but that hit was legal. McGahee clearly lowered his head to try to get leverage and Clark clearly moved his head to the left to try and lead with a shoulder. Unfortunately for both of them this happened in less than a second. You try it and see if you can do it any better.
And as far as the helmet to helmet hits go, has anyone here actually played football? It’s almost impossible to always just tackle with your shoulder. Now add on a ton of weight and muscle and move about 3000 times faster than you do now and see if it doesn’t happen to you. Someone mentioned earlier about Jack Tatum and all those old-school guys and was right on the money. Ronnie Lott made an entire career out of it and he’s in the HOF.
And Boston Dan that’s your best comeback. “how are those taxes for the stadium feeling in your pocket during this recession?” Dude you live in one of the most expensive cities in America and that’s all you have. Sad.
What’s a bigger cheapshot, videotaping defensive signals of the opposition, or hitting a player who has the ball?
Enough said.
History will prove you wrong….
Already outsiders have labeled the Patriots as Cheaters;
1. South Park had a whole episode devoted to Belichik and his cheating
2. ESPN polled around the country and EVERY fan base outside of the Patriots was rooting for the Giants in SB XLII
3. Many sportswriters polled said they WOULD NOT vote for Belichik for the HOF
No such actions have been leveled against the Steelers and their organization. They are generally respected all over. And if you see them play on the road, Terrible Towels are a high percentage of the crowd. A current poll shows them ahead in popularity nationwide:
http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/43
Let’s wait and see who’s team will be more revered a few years from now around the country
A Patriots fan calling the Steelers dirty is only slightly less hypocritical then Adolf Hitler calling someone anti-Semetic.
John Molori, You, sir, are a chump. You write as if you are stating fact, but are actually writing a VERY biased opinion.
The game is football. It is a contact sport. There is a certain amount of violence allowed in the sport (shocking, isn’t it?). If you disagree with the people who actually run this sport, then complain to them, but don’t spout off your opinion as if it has any weight, because it doesn’t.
The bottom line: the hit was legal (fact, not opinion).
How did the Pats do this year? Glad you found something to write about, good luck with your dying career.
Awesome hit. If this sort of hit offends you- watch soccer.
Stupid article written by a ‘reporter’ that is a ‘fan’ of a team that has been PROVEN to be cheats. Looks to me like he’s been DESPERATLY waiting for an opportunity to deflect the disgust most NFL fans hold for ‘his’ team & their honourless, classless & pitiful desperation to win at all costs.
This is the NFL. If injuries occur, so be it. If it is a BLATANT foul, then I have little respect for that play. But this looks like a great hit mixed with some unfortunate head placement FROM BOTH PLAYERS.
Only a complete fool would even ATTEMPT to point fingers with a comment like this- “Steelers linebacker Jason Gildon rolled over onto Tom Brady’s legs NEARLY injuring the Pats’ QB”
Nearly?? So what? I NEARLY won the lotto- should I jump up & down in delight?
Are you going for the whole “Herd”, or Skip Bayless angle, just trying your damnedest to take the opposing view for the purpose of controversy and reader hits? Please.
Your opinions are baseless, cowardly, and pathetic. This isn’t even QUALITY mudslinging - it reads like the temper tantrum of a teenager.
This is a bunch of crock. Your boy owns CBS and everything on there is always about how classy the Pats are. Please don’t show your jealous demeanor as much as your are. The Steelers have the most wins since the 70’s, the most rings, the LEAST amount of trouble makers. A great organization, great city, and fans who absolutley love their team as you guys do with the RED SOX and not with the PATS. Majority of your fans didn’t or or don’t know who your QB WAS BEFORE bledsoe, so please cut me a break on how we are cheap shot artist. Let me see your non-athletic self run full speed at sub 4.4 speed as well as another player and see how hard it is to control excatly where you hit someone. Ok so if Clark goes low, he break Willis leg. Its football its a brutal sport, injuries happen. Learn the game, learn the rules, and I bet you will be better off in life. Until then, keep writing your little pathetic articles that show how asenine your judments and articles are. Thanks and “REAL” football fans know and respect how the Steelers play the game. Please go destroy evidence that shows you cheating as well.
Hey John. Just to let you know if you do watch Steeler games, Simms is very biased and has a negative vibe at all times about the Steelers. John, John, John. Your have a sweet hair do as well, looks like you played a lot of ball growing up too. Have a great one. Till then keep making your life happy and bashing the Pittsburgh Steelers
Ever heasrd of Karma, perhaps the Pats have it now, with their 18-1 record and then Brady out the first game of the year. Do you feel the cheating had anything to do with it? I do.
New is a bunch of cry babies. They cry when it comes to the Yankees. They cry about everything that is just the nature of how they were brought up. It’s about them and no one else. No friendly people in the New England area, a bunch of show offs, who can out beat who, who has the better car, the better house, the better this. Me first you second mentality. Just do not pay much attention to writers as baldy. To the other posters, no one watched or cared about football before the merger in the NFL, it was all about MLB. Please do your self a favors go PARRRK your CAAAR NEXT TO THE BARRRRRR, mix in a clue, and root for hard hitting football.
Uh oh…The steelers fans are upset. Figuring the NFL rigged the Seahawks Superbowl for them. They damn near won the Dallas superbowl if it wasn’t for Neal O’Donnell’s utter incompetance. You can talk about belichick all you want but no team has won more playoff games by “accidentally” ending the season of star players. I hate Arizona’s owners, but nothing would make me happier than the Cards rolling over you weasels.
I don’t even know where to begin with the hypocrisy and senselessness of this article. I really don’t.
I think my favorite is the comment about us working for them someday. My 4th grade self would be very offended at that remark.
If you want to prove Mr. Molori’s premise is incorrect, prove it.
Don’t sit here and regurgitate the same Hatriot nonsense.
Just curious, have any of you internet tough guys ever met any Pats fans? Or do you just take this all from bad Dane Cook routines and Jimmy Fallon movies?
Because I’m getting the impression from some of you that the Terrible Towels are to distract from the obvious lobotomy scars.
What a douche this guy is. Just cause the pats sucked too bad to make it anywhere this year…….Have you ever read the story of The Fox and the Sour Grapes? Get a real job.
The hit was legal. The helmet contact was incidental and both players were to blame for it. The Steelers are not dirty. They play hard and fast and sometimes people get hurt. Ryan Clark did his job. He separated the ball from McGahee and the Steelers recovered. If you don’t want players to hit so hard then eliminate fumbles.
Plus, I don’t know if you’ve noticed but the Steelers get ignored as much as they get praised. The media and the league don’t all love them. My god, Phil Simms said that the Ravens had the Steelers “right where they wanted them” and they were losing and showing no promise that they were ever going to score.
I hate to say it but you are wrong on this issue.
You come off as a whiney little girl in this article. The Pats are champs of cheating and dirty hits. Oh, and for your next article why don’t you investigate why Nick Kaczur wasn’t suspended at all for admitting to purchasing a couple hundred oxycontin pills last year after being pulled over with a couple hundred in his pocket. I guess wearing a wire for the FBI gets you out of being suspended. But since there is no way he himself was taking a couple hundred a week…..who do you think was taking the rest?
You are a moron and should have your fingers removed so you never write another piece of crap fantasy land article again.
You wanna bring up cheating, look no further than your hometown team. There is plenty to write about up there.
Clearly, Johnny Boy has suffered head trauma and is not capable of observing a game without his predetermined jealousy-inspired bias against the Steelers.
The funny thing about the Hatriot Steeler whiners on this comments section is that they’re glossing over the real accusations in favor of mindless Pats bashing.
Sine when is 11-5 a “sucky” record, huh? 99.9% of the time, that gets you a playoff berth. The Pats - outside of the home games against the Dolphins and Steelers and the road game at San Diego didn’t suck at all this year.
You’d think if Steelers fans were going to trash talk about the Pats, they’d at least be competent enough to talk about the one of the handful of games where they dominated. Nope. Babbling on about Spygate and astericks like whiny five year olds. Give it a rest. We beat you in the AFC championship games twice fair and square and no amount of fake conspiracy theories will change that fact.
Two weeks away from Super Bowl title number six and you’re obsessed with the “Cheatriots” (or whatever other grade school ad hominem attack you lifted from the troglodytes in Bristol, CT)? Seek help.
Hey Patriots fans — good news, I’ve been working on some new knee-cutting moves and will be cheapshotting even MORE QBs next season! Something for us all to look forward to!
Hmmm! It does seem as though there may be some jealousy arising.
Boy, Patsie fans just can’t stand the Steelers’ success. You absolute dumbasses have the likes of cheap shot artists like Richard Seymour and Rodney Harrison on your team and you’re slandering the Steelers as a cheap shot organization? How lame! Just like your pissant NFL franchise in Foxboro.
But since the pillow biter Jon has taken us to task for the “actual accusations” which are of course baseless and mean piss-all coming from the likes of him and the cornholer Molori who wrote the article, there was NOTHING dirty about the hits Ryan Clark put on McGahee or little Wessie Welker. He led with his SHOULDER, and most football experts like Boomer Esiason, Ron Jaworski and Mark Schlereth said they were CLEAN HITS.
And to the emptyheaded Riga1974, piss and moan all you want little girl, but the fact of the matter is your Patsies cheated their way to their three Lombardis*. Note the asterisk that will ALWAYS BE THERE. Go outside of New England and discover just how much the rest of the NFL and the country DESPISES the Cheatriots.
A final few FACTS for you Patsie fans to digest:
1. The combined margin of victory of all three NE SB victories* (asterisk again) was nine. The Steelers won SB XL by 11.
2. 5 (soon to be 6) will always be greater than 3*. (pesky asterisk! eh New England?)
3. the 16-0 banner in Gillette is absolutely PATHETIC and never fails to get a good laugh from everyone not a Patsie fan.
LOL..
Obviously its the Defensive players fault for the offensive player lowering his head into the tackler.
In fact, if any of you have ever played football in your entire lives. You would know that the WORSE thing to do as a defensive player is to lower your head while going in for a tackle.
You call it cheap. But the fact is. that most of the hits the steelers make, are actually terrible defensive technique. That an offensive skilled player should easily be able to avoid.
I ask this writer, should we force the NFL into playing flag football? I suppose only pansies from the north east New England area feel that there shouldn’t be competition anymore eh?
This is an absolute riot, what a crying whining cheating fanboy. Helmet to Helmet hits are not allowed on defensless wr’s and qb’s. You lead with a shoulder to deliver a blow, what are you going to do with your head? Put it up high and hope it doesn’t get knocked off? Wow………
It truly does baffle me how people who’ve been picked last or never picked in sports are always out of shape sportswriters crying about hitting too hard. The Clark hit on McGahee was a cheap shot? It look like they both were delivering a blow to me and Clark got lower and rocked McGahee.
Dude, your sour grapes are REEEEEAAAAAALLLLLY sour. I feel bad for you….
Boo hoo hoo…
Funny how most of the folks referenced in this article exonerated Ryan Clark.
Have you heard that football is a contact sport? Do you think players can time their hits perfectly or predict with complete accuracy where exactly they’re going to hit their (quickly moving) opponent in a split second?
But I hear your crying–don’t worry, I think a WHAAAAmbulance is on the way.
This article is laughable! Guess the Pats not making the playoffs has made you bitter and warped your better judgement.
Thank you Kilroy for proving my point. Just keep telling yourselves that Pats fans are the ones who are obsessed. The last moronic diatribe spoke volumes. And again, more regurgitated ESPN feces.
As long as you clowns are trolling and writing the same garbage over and over again, do you with we should trade Manny Fernandez for a spare defenseman? Aaron Ward seems to get injured quite frequently.
How about trading Big Baby for a bench player?
What a joke. Ok, so Bill Cowher tells his players to injure people? Well, he’s gone now, so who do you blame? LeBeau. And you mention the AFC Championship in 2002. Dick LeBeau wasn’t our defensive coordinator then. Tim Lewis was. Try again.
And of course, the obligatory mention of the “vile” hit on Palmer. Did you actually see that play? Seems rather similar to the one your boy Vince Wilfork put on J.P. Losman. At least Kimo doesn’t poke his fingers in people’s eyes. Or how about Logan Mankins punching a guy in the nuts? Duce Staley claims that Rodney Harrison punched him in the hamstring in 2004. He was never the same after that, and his career is now over. But I’m sure that doesn’t make the Patriots a bunch of “thugs”, right?
If you want to talk about Super Bowls, how about your 1st one, against the Rams? I seem to recall the Patriots’ gameplan was to tackle Marshall Faulk all game, even when he didn’t have the ball. Willie McGinest admits they were doing that all game long, yet it was only called once. The NFL actually had to make a point of enforcing the rules on illegal contact due to the way Patriots DBs draped themselves all over Colts WRs in I believe 2003.
And it’s funny you mention the horrible “illegal block” call on Hasselbeck, which I admit was preposterous, since he was making a tackle, not a block. But see, that’s a microcosm of that whole game. Why was Hasselbeck making a tackle? Because he had just thrown an INT in the red zone. The Seahawks marched up and down the field that day, but shot themselves in the foot repeatedly with bad mistakes at crucial moments. The refs didn’t cause them to throw away virtually every chance they had to take control of the game, they did it themselves.
But whatever. Just go ahead and continue munching on those sour grapes. Maybe next year the Pats will be relevant again come playoff time.
Wow, fella, tryin real hard to get on the ESPN mediot circuit up there in NE? Shootin to replace knuckleheads on 1st and 10, or make your way ontp Around the Horn? You’re not gonna make it, there has to be a least a little truth to your bias. BTW did you hear the explanation of why the NFL did not fine Clark? Helmet to helmet is reserved for defenseless players like QB’s passing or WR’s, not running backs idiot, because RB’s lead with their helmet, dumb douche.
not right not right not right. Please do not be biased and only look at the facts.
Kilroy, do you need a hug? It’s just a game, buddy. Maybe if you spent more time worrying about the Steelers (who I mentioned are in the Super Bowl, and yet so many Steeler fans are trolling here) you’d be a happier person. Your response shows the bitterness and jealously Steeler fans still have towards the Patriots for owning them this decade. Get over it.
Last I checked, there were no asterisks. You want to put an asterisk somewhere, put it next to Super bowl 40. What a joke that was.
with youre team in the super bowl you losers give a crap what is written on a patriots fans blog? wtf is wrong with you guys?, you are obsessed with the patriots( who still own your ass in big games ) that be like patrtiots fans last year during the super bowl going to the raiders website and getting upset. Just shows why everyone hates steelers fans ( dumb fat fortysomething white dudes who more than likely have no connection to pittsburgh)
alot of this stuff sounds like ctsteelers fan who trolls the globes board. or do you all steelers fans get the talking points emailed to them with the latest topless kordell stewart pictures?
Aaaaah… someone call the waaaaaambulance.
They should put skirts on running backs too. Maybe next season we’ll have a “roughing the ball carrier” penalty.
I’m only half joking…
I love Steeler Fans! Why don’t you guys ever talk about the fact that a majority of your steel curtian players were on steriods? That might help a little more than video taping signals. The benefit of those tapes will never truly be known (although I am sure they did help somewhat), however we all know how much of a boost steriods gives to athletic performance. Do you honestly think that it is a coiencidence that both Brady and Palmer suffered hits to their knees against Pittsburg in playoff games? Congrats on getting to the super bowl in a down year for the NFL (like 2005). We will see what happens next time the Pats play you in a playoff game. Probably the same thing that happens every time since BB and Brady came here.
Sorry the Title is “When Patriots lost” on you tube
They won’t let me list the link because they’re wimps
The kid is John Molori
Waaaaahhhhhhh. Get a tissue. Your team sucked and couldn’t make it to the playoffs, while the Steelers have consistently been at the top of the AFC ranks for over a decade. Just like Pats fans are sore winners, they’re sore losers too.
The game is called football. There is contact. Sometimes the large men moving at high rates of speed happen to injure the other large men moving at high rates of speed. Physical injury is an accepted risk of the sport. You don’t like it, don’t accept your millions of dollars to play a game.
Maybe Belicheat should grab some game video of LeBeau’s defense so he can learn a little.
Tawmee from Quinzee? Is that you, buddy?
I was at the Superbowl last year to watch the greatest upset ever when the Patriots went down in flames. It was one of the best days of my life. The one thing the NFL can do is come together to despise the Patriots - as a Steelers fan, I loved the Giants that day. And Patriots fans cannot get over it. And seeing the Steelers get back to the big game before they do has to be killing them. I’m sure they didn’t appreciate their debacle of a game against the Steelers this season (in New England no less). Keep the whiny articles coming - I love them! See you in Tampa - oh wait, my team’s there(and I’ll be there to watch them), yours isn’t.
HAHAHAHAHA…everyone of u guys are sooooooooo laaaaaame. Grow up! Especially the guy that wrote that garbage. I’m a huge Pats fan and hate whiners like that guy cuz he gives us a bad name. But you garbage Steeler fans are no better. Do you truly believe the Steelers weren’t stealing signs??? Don’t be naive. And also, do you really think it had a significant on-field effect?? And I don’t wanna hear your BS theories ala Mark Schlereth that is comple make-believe.
You guys are no better than the guy writing the the story. “Our Steelers would never play dirty! Not like your Cheatriots!”…LOL grow up please
Jamie, who do you think is telling our players to injure opposing QBs? Obviously it must be someone telling them to do it, because it was different players, and the guy who hit Brady wasn’t even on the team when we played the Bengals in 05. So who’s telling them to do it? Cowher? Again, he’s gone. LeBeau? Again, he wasn’t here in 2001 when Brady got hurt. So who is it? You have to have some kind of explanation for this conspiracy theory, beyond just “durr… I hate the Steelers… I saw a guy get hurt playing them… then I saw another guy get hurt playing them… that must mean they’re doing it on purpose! Derr….”
And, once again, if you want to talk about hits below the knees, look no further than Vince Wilfork, and the time he was falling down, so he stuck his elbow right into J.P. Losman’s knee. Was that dirty? Is it dirty when Wilfork pokes people in the eyes?
Love the ads above your head, John. Sorry that I got my AFC championship gear already. Can’t support you Us Steelers fans showed up because we got to have something to do with 1 1/2 weeks to do before our next game. Still upset over Wes Walker? “Every time Ryan Clark makes a play, flag him!” BS! Go watch curling if you want a safe sport where no one gets injured.
As a fan of the lowly Bengals I have seen a lot of the Steelers. I was at the game in which Carson Palmer got hurt. I can’t deny that from way back in the Chuck Noll days the Steelers have come across as a team with a tendency to play dirty and whine a lot when on the receiving end. The whole atmosphere around the team is just a little too desperate and dark to really identify with. However, this piece is typical of the whiners who have just not reconciled themselves to the reality of the NFL and what it means to want the team you root for to win within that reality.
Good teams play hard, and in a league of multibillion-dollar commercial spectacle, “hard” means crazy and not always clean. When any team in the NFL is playing winning football, opponents have a tendency to get carted off at an increased clip. The Steelers are rabidly dedicated to playing winning NFL football, so they keep the stretcher-bearers busy and sometimes they cross the line. If you can’t stand the Steelers, stop kidding yourself about your feelings toward the game.
it is good to know those losses in the playoffs to the patrtiots still sting steelers fans so badly, you have to come onto this board when youre team is in the superbowl. without the steelers bledsoe would have never had his moment of glory and get his ring
shouldnt you trolls be on the baltimore or arizona boards?
thanks guys
See, here’s the thing. The hit on McGahee was certainly brutal, but I see no reason for my to believe that the intention of the hit was to hurt McGahee. Since players were young they’ve been taught to put their helmet on the ball when you to make the tackle, the game goes far too fast to avoid helmet to helmet hits all the time.
When Kimo von Oelhoffen took down Carson Palmer, he was on the ground and couldn’t lift his head high enough to see if Palmer had thrown the ball and he wasn’t even that late on the hit in the first place. von Oelhoffen just kinda fell into Palmer as well, don’t you think that if it was his intention to injure him he would hit him harder or maybe even throw a punch?
Football is a brutal game and injuries are inevitable. It seems to me that you’re letting the injuries that resulted from the hits cloud your judgment and make the hits more vicious than they really were.
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John Molori after SB XLII
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John Molori after SB 42
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Hey- Chris 01.20.09 at 9:45 am
“…the Patriots will be the last team to have beaten the new Super Bowl Champion Arizona Cardinals”
… and they were the last team to have beaten the NY Giants last year. Enjoy.
Sounds like sour grapes to me.
This whining from the fan of an organization that boasts the “dirtiest player in the NFL” As voted on by the PLAYERS. Not whiney sports writers.
Go cry in your beer and dream up conspiracy theories. Anyone who knows anything about football knows the difference between tough football and cheap shots. But I guess if you can’t take the hits you shouldn’t be out on the field, and judging by your picture, you OBVIOUSLY can’t take the hits. Grow up, get over it, the world doesn’t revolve around the NE Patriots.
Once again you prove that there are a whole bunch of Patriots’ fans who are just massive cry babies. They cry when their team isn’t anointed and see media bias only when they aren’t the ones being fawned over.
Grow up, football is a man’s game, played by man, something you can only aspire to be.
All this crying from the fan of the only team in NFL history to be busted red handed for blatantly cheating. REAL CLASS ACT coach you’ve got there, you all must be SOOO proud. Not only cheats at football, but he cheats with married women. Talk about CLASS-LESS.
Wow. I had to see it to believe it. Boston journalists are just as retarded as boston fans. Pathetic.
SteelerFan…Yup that play that Vice Wilfork made was 100% dirty. I can admit that because I am not blinded by my love for a team I cheer for. I think Cowher was in no way opposed to hurting another team’s best player. That mentality has been clearly translated to the team now, just look at the hit on Welker and now the most recent one on Magahee. Notice how you didnt mention the fact that the 70’s Steelers were on steriods? You are all in denial about the “greatness” of your team. Face it, your team will never beat New England when it really matters. Even when you take down the QB, the backup still comes in and beats you. There is a pattern of dirty plays that your team commits in the playoffs, insted of denying it and lashing out, accept it and enjoy the super bowl knowing that your team is dirty. Embrace it like the Raiders of the 70’s, you will get a lot more respect that way. Derr I am from Pittsburg and all I have in my life is a football team. Derr
There are other Opinions by better writers not from Boston
Are the Steelers the greatest franchise?
By David Fleming ESPN
Pittsburgh is making another trip to the Super Bowl, so are the Steelers the greatest franchise ever?
Less than an hour before kickoff of the AFC Championship Game in Pittsburgh, I stepped toward an elevator inside an empty lobby of Heinz Field. In front of me was an older man with silver hair, matching glasses frames and a long black overcoat. Right away, I thought it was Steelers owner Dan Rooney … but how could that be, I wondered? Just a few minutes before the players took the field for the most important game of the year, the owner of one of the most successful sports franchises in the world was standing quietly by himself in the back corner of a public elevator? No security detail? No private elevator? No entourage? No cameras?
But it was him, all right. And while I nodded hello we were joined by a family of fans that included a toddler dressed up in a Steelers cheerleader outfit. And despite the parents’ pleading and prodding — as well as some cute grandfatherly encouragement from Rooney himself — the shy little girl refused to acknowledge the Steelers owner with so much as a wink or a wave.
Flem File
You have to know the Steelers and football’s first family a little bit to understand this, but the snub actually seemed to delight Rooney.
At a black-tie dinner two nights later at a Hilton in Washington, D.C., Rooney had a little better luck when he handed over a game ball from the AFC Championship Game to the newest member of a now-rapidly expanding Steelers Nation: the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama.
“He’s a Bears fan first, he admits that,” Rooney told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “But he’s a Steelers fan. He said it, and all his staff, they’re rooting for us [in the Super Bowl].”
The thought first popped into my head while watching Rooney leave that elevator and disappear down a hallway of Heinz Field, the picture of quiet, dignified strength. Then I actually wrote it in my notebook after the Steelers beat up the Ravens for a trip to Super Bowl XLIII and the chance to become the first NFL team to win six Lombardi trophies. But now that the most popular man on the planet and the leader of the free world has acknowledged his allegiance to the black and gold, I feel a lot more comfortable asking this question out loud:
Are the Steelers the best sports franchise ever?
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Purchased by Art Rooney Sr. in 1933, with $2,500 he supposedly won at the track (love that), the Steelers initially struggled for decades. But since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970 (something Art Sr. helped orchestrate), no one’s been better. No one. And now, after seven Super Bowls, 30 postseason wins, seven championship games in the past 14 years, 19 Hall of Famers and the dynasty of the 1970s that includes probably the greatest, baddest football team ever assembled … if you factor in the popularity of the NFL and the quaint but sturdy Midwestern soul of this franchise, it’s hard to argue against what the Steelers have built.
Yes, of course, I know the Montreal Canadiens have won 24 Stanley Cups. But if we’re talking about the best-run, most successful franchise in our lifetime, the Habs are disqualified for winning only two Cups in the past 30 years. There are the defending NBA champs in Boston, of course, who have collected 17 titles, but they too were largely a non-factor for the past two decades. The Cowboys? America’s Team? Please. They haven’t won a playoff game in a dozen years.
The stats definitely favor the Yankees, I know. In fact, the numbers are nearly impossible to argue: They’ve got a gazillion titles (26) in 109 years, but nothing since 2000. The Steelers could have six in the past 43, giving them 14 percent of their sport’s titles as compared to 24 percent for the Yanks. I could go on with this, but the truth is math gives me a headache. So let me say this: You can’t buy titles in football the way you can on the diamond. Therefore extreme parity in the NFL, plus the economic constraints of a hard salary cap, make it (at least) twice as hard to win Lombardi trophies.
“I see the personal sacrifice that people from our team make on a daily basis for this to happen,” coach Mike Tomlin said Sunday night. “That is not just the players; the players are special, but the support staff, training, equipment, medical team, etc. It is a lot of sacrifice by a lot of people. I would be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge that this is the Steelers’ story and not my story.”
Indeed, as Tomlin spoke it was impossible not to feel the profound impact of the Rooney Rule. In 2003 Dan Rooney chaired a committee that opened doors and changed the face of our national pastime by requiring teams to interview at least one minority candidate for head-coaching jobs. Rooney, who was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2000 and has had a major impact on labor negotiations and realignment in the NFL, has always said the best part of his Rooney Rule is that, hopefully, the NFL won’t need it much longer. (Maybe the NFL can loan it to the NCAA.)
That kind of social responsibility and impact, however, is one reason why during the past five years the Steelers have compiled an average ranking of 12 in ESPN The Magazine’s exhaustive and comprehensive evaluation of all 122 sports franchises. The Yanks’ rank? No. 33. In a sports world drowning in drama, the Steelers are the picture of continuity: They’ve had one philosophy (defense wins championships) and three coaches in the past four decades. The Lions, meanwhile, are on their fourth coach in the past four years.
And finally, let’s not forget the little fact that the Steelers aren’t currently constructing a new stadium that destroys inner-city playgrounds and green space while costing taxpayers a billion bucks.
Edge?
Sorry, Yanks; it’s the Terrible Towel.
Realizing that the argument for the Steelers as the best sports franchise would still be a pretty tough sell (I mean, none of their players are, like, dating Madonna, duh), late Sunday inside the Pittsburgh locker room I asked Dan’s son, Steelers President Art Rooney II, what the team’s secret was.
“Our secret?” he said, almost embarrassed by the question. “We try to put a team on the field every year that can win a championship … ”
Then he stopped for a split second.
And I swear, that artful pause somehow perfectly captured the essence of this franchise, a team that has remained grounded in its Steeltown roots while simultaneously soaring over the rest of the sports landscape.
We try to put a team on the field every year that can win a championship.
“And,” Rooney said, “we never take a year off.”
PITTSBURGH STEELERS OBSERVATION NO. 1: Just a few months after the Steelers’ 21-10 win over Seattle in Super Bowl XL, Ben Roethlisberger and his family sat on a Swiss train, tilted nearly vertical, as it clacked and lurched 14,000 feet to Junfraujoch — the mountain peak known as the “Top of Europe” — and one of the most spectacular views in the world, which spans a glacier and three countries.
We stopped once to switch trains, and Ben and his family immediately began a snowball fight. Later we would hit golf balls down into the glacier, throw a football around almost five miles into the sky and run around inside a castle carved out of ice. But first, as the train made its way into the stratosphere, Ben reflected for a moment on becoming, at 23, the youngest starting quarterback to win a Super Bowl. Other quarterbacks who had played in the game told him to take a moment before kickoff to soak it all in before it washed away in a blink beneath the hype and pressure of the game. So before kickoff Ben closed his eyes for a moment standing on the sidelines of Ford Field and, months later, he could still remember the fireworks display of flashbulbs that was so strong it penetrated his eyelids.
But without prompting, I was struck by the fact that Roethlisberger immediately mentioned how he was already itching to get back to the Super Bowl and a second chance at playing better in the world’s biggest football game. I didn’t argue. Against Seattle he was 9-of-21 for 123 yards, no TDs and two picks: a huge letdown for a kid who, in big games, still occasionally crouches under center while daydreaming how the highlights will look on NFL Films.
A few weeks later the entire trip — and the subsequent story — were rendered meaningless when Roethlisberger was nearly killed in a motorcycle accident in Pittsburgh. He recovered from that, battled back from several injuries, the pressure of a monster contract and even the heartbreak of losing his college coach and mentor, Terry Hoeppner, to brain cancer in 2007, all to get to where he was Sunday night: a hard-earned trip back to the doorstep of Super Bowl immortality.
It’s rare, these days, to still get a kick out of a professional athlete’s display of pure joy. But that was Ben on Sunday night. Hugging his linemen. Hugging trainers. Hugging photographers. Bear-hugging coach Mike Tomlin. Telling linebackers he loved them. Graciously shaking Dan Rooney’s hand. Giggling to himself. Calling guys “Sunshine.” Working the brim of his new “AFC Champs” hat. Looking like he didn’t want to change out of his grass-stained uniform. Talking about the Steelers heading to Tampa as a “band of brothers” and celebrating one of life’s rare gifts: a second chance.
PSON2: Looking for a signature moment from the AFC title game? How about this: LaMarr Woodley, the next in a seemingly endless line of great Steeltown linebackers, blood streaming down his left biceps, Supermanning himself over a crouched blocker to get to Joe Flacco by any means necessary. He didn’t get a sack, but Woodley produced something far more valuable: a freaked-out look on a rookie quarterback’s face that said “Holy shnikes, these guys are f-in crazy, man.” I swear, as he realized what he was up against, you could see Flacco’s passer rating drop by 75 points.
PSON3: Woodley, by the way, wore a Tapout T-shirt after the game. “Each new group of linebackers brings the next group of young guys along, and that’s what makes us feel like we’re part of a family,” he said.
PSON4: Remember how I once said you can never look tough drinking from a juice box or while wearing Crocs? After seeing NFL DPOY James Harrison in a pair of black-and-gold Steelers Crocs after the game, I take that back.
PSON5: Loved this: After beating the Rangers on Sunday afternoon inside Mellon Arena, when the Penguins’ three stars were announced they came out waving Terrible Towels.
PSON6: Heinz Field sign: “Our Willie is bigger than yours.”
PSON7: I spent some time with the Steelers’ defense earlier in the season and marveled at the time about how loose and close this group was. But what I didn’t fully connect until Sunday was the way that tightness manifests itself on the field, and that’s what makes this unit so special. Defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau is like a chess master the way he makes three and four moves to disguise, or set up, his checkmate blitz call. I don’t know how many times I saw a linebacker like James Farrior selflessly shoot the edge (and wind up double-teamed or chipped at the knees or face-first into the mud) to force Flacco to step up into the pocket and into the waiting, vein-bulging arms of Woodley or Aaron Smith. “It looks like chaos, but it’s all a coordinated effort where it wouldn’t work if anyone cared about individual credit,” says corner Deshea Townsend.
PSON8: The first thing Townsend said to me after the game was “I guess there’s no jinx being on your cover — what’s the opposite of a cover jinx?” And when I asked him where this year’s No. 1-ranked defense stands in the history of the franchise, he didn’t hesitate to put it among the best. “I have loved football since I was a little kid. I was a Cowboys fan. Roger Craig ruined my running style because I tried to imitate him. I was a football fan from the first time I started watching sports. The Cowboys? The Steel Curtain? The 1985 Bears? I know that victories [in the Super Bowl] are what count, but our numbers and stats, across the board, you can’t find many defenses anywhere that can match that.”
PSON9: Pretty strong red Tigers cap worn after the game by Detroit native and linebacker Larry Foote.
PSON10: In light of the scary hit on Willis McGahee, I thought it was poignant that the Steelers’ DBs gathered in a circle after their first series of the game to pray as a group. We block out the violence and the physical ramifications of this sport because we don’t want to feel culpable for the damage inflicted for our entertainment. But these kinds of moments make it hard to ignore.
PSON11: Walking outside the stadium before the game, a band of Steelers fans were teasing one of their buddies for overdressing for the game. “It’s 30 degrees, Mary, not negative 20! It feels like freakin’ summer out here!” one guy shouted.
PSON12: Exciting news about the upcoming and potentially groundbreaking U2 album due out the beginning of March. And what really has me excited are the comparisons I keep reading to the band’s experimental, less popular and far less commercially successful “Zooropa”/”Pop” phase.
PSON13: This next game isn’t a Super Bowl as much as it’s a philosophical football challenge between an explosive offense and a legendary defense. Do defenses win championships, or have video-game offenses taken over? We’ll see. But the bigger the game, the more likely finesse yields to physical.
PSON14: After the game, Hines Ward was quick to defend rookie receiver Limas Sweed’s stone fingers on a sure touchdown pass, saying the rook came back and de-cleated Corey Ivy with a vicious downfield block, and he also earned back three of those six points when he batted away a sure interception in the end zone, allowing the Steelers to keep the ball and kick a field goal to make it 16-7.
PSON15: Favorite TV sportscaster line from last week: “For it to happen twice, now that’s an anomaly!”
PSON16: He was so good a few months ago talking about how the Steelers’ defense would attack Piedmont High’s A-11 offense for a cover story in The Mag, I wanted to talk to Pittsburgh defensive end Aaron Smith about the Cardinals’ attack, but the entire right side of his face looked swollen and painfully disfigured, so I just let him be. I mean, there will be 48 chances to talk to him between now and the Super Bowl.
PSON17: Would it be small of me to remind people that before the AFC title game I said Steelers safety Troy Polamalu was every bit as good as the Ravens’ Ed Reed? Yes, it would. But Polamalu, who crosses himself after every single play, was everywhere Sunday like a spirit more than a safety, and honestly, I don’t recall hearing Reed’s name or number being called once. A big reason for that was the savvy of Roethlisberger, who really has developed an amazing field vision similar to that of a great point guard; not a sense of where everyone is, but where they’re headed or leaning. There were several times during the game — including a throw-away before the Steelers’ second field goal — when Reed was baiting Roethlisberger (purposely playing soft on a deep route only to pounce once the ball was in the air), and Ben never fell for it.
PSON18: So I guess there’s no need to rename Reedsdale Street, which runs in front of Heinz Field.
PSON19: The way 325-pound defensive tackle Casey Hampton wears his helmet way up on the top of his melon makes him look a little like Gazoo from the Flintstones.
PSON20: Wondering if we were about to see a repeat of the Titans handing over the game like a kid gives his lunch money up to a bully, in the second half Sunday night I started counting up the plays the Steelers would regret: (1) Sweed’s dropped TD, (2) the late ball spike at the end of the first half, (3) the personal foul that kick-started the Ravens’ scoring drive, (4) three interceptions that went through the hands of Steelers defenders. That’s a difference of a possible 28 points, which is OK if you’re playing the Ravens and a rookie quarterback but not the opportunistic, fast-strike Cards and the superhero duo of Fitz and Whiz.
PSON21: After the hit on McGahee, both teams emptied onto the field and nervously encircled the injured player. (The hit, by the way, was a clean one. Clark turned his body to lead with his shoulder, but momentum and trajectory caused their heads to collide first. It was a good non-fine by the NFL.) However, the violence of the hit and the emotions of the game, coupled with the proximity of the players, created a very intense, delicate situation on the field that could have turned ugly fast. I’m talking about an all-out, bench-clearing, “Slap Shot”-like mega-brawl. But right away Mike Tomlin made contact with John Harbaugh, who signaled with his hand up and palm forward that “We’re OK, it’s OK, everything’s OK.” A moment later the teams separated and started leaking back to their benches. Disaster averted. You want leadership, class and professionalism? That was it.
PSON22: I loved the fact that while the television cameras recorded the fancy made-for-TV trophy ceremony at the 50-yard line, Farrior and other members of Steel Curtain II were dressed in their new gray championship T-shirts and climbing into the stands to celebrate with freezing-cold fans, while the DBs were across the field at the 40 dancing and clowning by themselves.
PSON23: I know Dan Rooney was going to D.C. for the inauguration where he was going to give President Obama the game ball from the AFC Championship Game. And somehow, amid all the talk about history and greatness this week, that felt exactly right.
I love how one hit changes “the balance of power for the rest of the decade.” Sweet, I wish I had a bad-ass crystal ball like yours. Sounds like we’re going to win the AFC North again next season!! All because of a tackle in 2005. That’s freakin’ excellent.
Dear Jamie,
Boy, those Pats are just phenomenal. They knew Tom Brady would be the best QB ever when they had the foresight to draft him in the 6th round. And they showed such backbone when Tom threw his “I want a Randy Moss now NOW NOW!!!” hissy fit by picking up Randy Moss. And who would question the stalwart dignity and poise of Belichick, even if he does refuse to talk about his signal taping or storm off the field in a tizzy when he loses. The Patriots are good, Jamie but the Steelers are better. We beat you 33-10 this season and, last I checked, it counted!
Man, I’ve never seen someone so angry about not being a Steelers fan. But I’ll throw you a bone here:
The Steelers of the 70’s most likely were on steroids, Jamie! The Steelers of the 70’s most likely were on steroids, Jamie! The Steelers of the 70’s most likely were on steroids, Jamie! The Steelers of the 70’s most likely were on steroids, Jamie! The Steelers of the 70’s most likely were on steroids, Jamie! The Steelers of the 70’s most likely were on steroids, Jamie!
There. A Steelers fan admitted it. Repeatedly. Happy?
But guess what, Jamie? So was everybody else. Jesus man (woman?), get a life! you’re compiled posts are longer than Mongoliodri’s article!
wow if they get 6 titles they are the best ever. i suppose their twenty odd year run without a title doesnt count. also their choke jobs in 2001 and 2004. not to mention giving the cowboys another title by choking away that one in 1995 or 1996. yeah i will take the yankees or celtics. but i do enjoy all of you sad fans of the biggest cheats in nfl history. the putzburg steriods!
I am in no way a Steelers fan, but you are fackin’ idiot. The league reviewed the hit and there was no fine. The entire league doesn’t have a Pittsburgh bias. Also nice one jamie folk…”the putzburg steriods”….classic, how long have you and your friends been calling them that, I bet you thought it was the greatest thing even when first overheard someone at the table next to you say that at a bar a few years ago. stop complaining, try being a Chiefs fan like me and you will actually have something to be upset about, I’m sure it’s really tough being a Pats fan…
Are you BLIND??? Clark lead with his shoulder..moron. move to Seattle, they’ll appreciate your commentary.
HAHAHAHAH…..this is such bs…none of these hits are cheapshots…you’re a douchebag…how do you have a job writing this sh*t..joke…
Pittsburgh sucks. If the city imploded, nobody would notice.
Cheap-shot artists? How many fines did Wilfork get tagged with last year? How many times has Rodney Harrison been singled out by other NFL players as the league’s dirtiest? The Pats are one of, if not the dirtiest, team in the league. People in glass houses. Jackass.
Hey Ding Dong,
Football is a dangerous game. There are hard hits ALL THE TIME!
Also I am sure most football players do ROIDS. Just like Most Teams “cheat” right Pat fans?
The Steelers have a STRONG defense and their winning teams have always had a STRONG defense. I can see to some how this my be interpreted as being ultra aggressive. But if the NFL allows these hits then so be it. What did Welker say after the hard hit by Clark?? Does anyone know?? Hey MoronMolori perhaps you should obtain the same perception?
And the Packers won 12 Championships? WTF…I thought the Steelers had the most with 5….
Oh 12 Championships not Super Bowls.. you are so clever James…
And totally agree with Chris on PSON21. The Steelers were on the seconds from going to the Super Bowl and after that hit the whole place turned quiet. Players from both teams and Fans were concerned for McGahee. This isn’t behavior that is displayed by Cheap Shot Losers..is it?
OMFG, you sir are without a doubt a complete douchebag! A Pats fan, maquerading as a sports writer. A guy who overlooks the fact that two of the top three dirtiest players last year were Patriots (Rodney Harrison and Wilfork), who overlooks the fact that all three of ther Patriot Super Bowl titles are tarnished by cheating.
You slap aside all the other “experts” who saw nothing wrong with the play, and call it dirty….although no flag was thrown, and no fine assessed. You ignore the fact that the Ravens were the ones putting bounties out on Steelers, that the Ravens admitted targeting Hines Ward and Mendanhall,….and took a great amount of pride in ending his season……but hey, you are nothing more than a typically whiney New Englander who feels like the Sox/Celts/Pats are entitled to win every year.
Go put on your Tom Brady nightie, and cry yourself to sleep cuddling your Wes Welker doll.
Enjoy the Super Bowl, bitch.
Skullcrusher 01.20.09 at 10:22 am
“I live in Boston and am a Patriot fan, but this article is complete garbage. This is the NFL and violence is what this game is about. This author, who obviously never picked up a football in his/her life needs to stick to a sport that is not so manly. “
The only balls Moroli has ever picked up are the ones resting on his chin.
Proving yet again the internet is a bastion for the grossly misinformed - this thread is really pethetic. Molori has always been a hack, this artlicle included. The Steelers earned their way to the big game. The Pats should have been there based on thei record but that’s not how it works in the NFL tournament. Both teams have had their moments of infamy i.e. steroids, questionable hits and attempts to gain a competitive advantage.
I just always get a kick out of Steelers fans when they complain about Spygate having an effect on the 2002 AFC Championship Game. If the Patriots were using video to get the Steelers signals and were somehow able to process that information, then it didn’t work. The advantage for New England that day came on two special teams TD’s!
Oh yeah, that doesn’t fit in your arguement - the same way Raiders fans forget that their Defense had 17 opportunities to stop the Pats from tying and then scoring the winning points, let alone Chucky’s decision to take a knee when the Raiders had a chance at the end of regulation.
Never mind. Enjoy your celebration tonight. And if the Steelers do lose … yikes, what an upset that represents!
See you next year in the playoffs.
Are you kidding me?! You are the most biased sports writer I’ve ever read. I’m in no way a steelers fan either but your obvious love/lust/whatever for the pats clouds your judgement terribly. If you can’t write the facts you shouldn’t call yourself a sports writer. Do you not even realize that their coach is called Bilicheat for a reason?
harrison keeps the cheap shots coming in the super bowl - just proves this how the stealers play
No Cheap Shots Here!
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