Sports in Perspective
Two weeks after Bruce Arians was fired retired from his position as the Pittsburgh Steelers’ offensive coordinator, reports are flying that former Kansas City Chiefs’ head coach and local guy Todd Haley will be hired to replace Arians. Haley is something of a surprise selection, due largely to the fact that all indications were that [...]
The news that many, many Pittsburgh Steelers fans have been dreaming of for years has come today: Bruce Arians is done as the Steelers’ offensive coordinator. Ding. Arians’ retirement was announced this morning, although it is highly likely that Arians was forced out after another lackluster offensive season. Ding. There have been few more polarizing [...]
The Pittsburgh Steelers’ season officially ended on Sunday night in Denver when Demaryius Thomas took a crossing route 80 yards for a touchdown on the first play of overtime. The battered Steelers, playing with 9 starters either out or slowed by injury, made just enough mistakes and the Broncos made just enough plays for it [...]
I truly believe that the New Orleans Saints will be far too motivated and way too much for the Lions to handle this Saturday night in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, with tens of thousands of crazed WhoDats making noise like Detroit’s young players have certainly never encountered before.
Despite finishing 12-4, the Pittsburgh Steelers find themselves as the #5 seed in the AFC playoffs and will therefore spend their entire 2012 playoff life on the road. The Steelers’ first stop is in Denver, where they will take on the 8-8 Denver Broncos, losers of 3 straight and who backed into the [...]
If I was Chris Berman, I think this would start something like this: “Man, I know that everyone can’t wait for Saturday. The Steelers and the Rams, bitter rivals for decades, will face off in a rematch of Super Bowl XIV. Hopefully no one is mugged in the parking lot, hopefully the lights don’t go [...]
The Pittsburgh Steelers went into San Francisco last night with everything in the world on the table for them. If they won out, they would be the #1 seed in the AFC and would not have to leave Pittsburgh again until the Super Bowl save for a Week 17 bus ride to Cleveland. Despite having [...]
It’s been 8 years since the Steelers played in San Francisco. That game, which also happened to be on Monday Night Football, resulted in a 30-14 49ers beatdown of the worst Steelers’ team in the last decade. The Steelers finished 6-10 in 2003, a record which did manage to get them the 11th pick in the 2004 NFL [...]
It’s easy to lament the fact that the Steelers added another chapter in their epic 2011 novel “How to Let a 4-9 Team Hang Around.” It’s easy to worry about the injuries that mounted last night, and it’s easy to complain about how many mistakes the team made all night on both sides of the [...]
December 10, 2009, is a day that you remember. You may not know that you remember it, but you do. It was a brutally cold Thursday and the Pittsburgh Steelers played the 1-10 Cleveland Browns in a primetime game on NFL Network. Ah yes, now you remember. The Steelers, you now recall, capped off a [...]