By Bob Smizik | Sunday, 4:55 p.m. Random thoughts immediately following what might someday -- maybe today -- be remembered as the game that undid the Super Bowl champions: * The Steelers got a huge break today when the super lowly Oakland Raiders beat the Cincinnati Bengals, who are in first place in...
By Bob Smizik | Saturday 1:30 p.m. There are no sure things in the National Football League. But the defending Super Bowl champion, coming off a defeat to a team it once owned, playing against a team that is 8-33 over the past three seasons is about as close as it gets. The Kansas City Chiefs, the Steelers...
By Bob Smizik | Monday 12:15 a.m. The conventional wisdom of the day seems to be that the Steelers were merely playing down to the level of competition, which is why they did not beat the Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns by, say, 50 points. Sorry, I’m not buying that. After beating the Browns...
By Bob Smizik | Monday 12:15 a.m. People in various parts of the country got vastly different looks at Pittsburgh sports fans over the weekend. On Sunday, they saw some of the best fans in the world invade hostile territory and take over a stadium. These fans were in Ford Field in Detroit to vocally...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- We;re live, on location, at a Steelers bar. . . .. Oops, sorry, slipped into television blow-dry mode for a second there. While in Florida picking up a number of other stories (shhhh, the folks at Brand X can read, so we have to keep it from them for awhile), the Live Blog follows...
FIRST QUARTER 8:31 p.m.: Kickoff. . . . 8:32 p.m.: Two tight ends started, instead of No. 3 receiver Mike Wallace as introduced. For the record, Heath Miller didn't don the Reebok-pink shoes as promised (they don't fit), but he did add pink laces to the out-of-production line he normally wears...
By Bob Smizik | Posted at 8:50 a.m. Nobody asked me, but . . . * The game-winning catch by Santonio Holmes in the Super Bowl was of such historical significance that it was bound to draw comparisons to truly great plays of the past. It does not belong in that category. Holmes made a nice catch and an...