Minnesota -- how could a team with horns on its helmet call "tails?" -- won the toss and elected to receive. The temp is up to 55, and the sun makes it feel warmer. Game on. FIRST QUARTER 1:03 p.m.: The Vikings gave the defense three very different looks, including a little no-huddle. And you...
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...
Saturday, 12:30 a.m. The e-mails and comments came pouring in this week after the Pirates traded Nate McLouth, and most were from angry and disillusioned fans who could not understand the trading of the team's best player. Below is a sampling of those comments with my answer at the end. -- Bob Smizik...
Saturday, 1 a.m. Q: I have been a Penguins, Steelers and Pirates fan all my life. Never lived a day in Pittsburgh but my family is from McKeesport. Why are you people having such a hard time with an EX coach of the Steelers having some fun at a hockey game in the town he lives and where he is admired...
By Bob Smizik | Friday, 12:30 a.m. A year after having the toughest schedule in the NFL, and still winning the Super Bowl, the Steelers face a considerably less daunting list of opponents this season. What's not to like about a schedule that has two games with Cleveland and Cincinnati and also includes...
By Bob Smizik | Thursday, 12:30 a.m. Is it possible that with the winning of two more Super Bowls in the past four years and with the signing of Ben Roethlisberger to a nine-figure contract and the signing of linebacker James Harrison this week to a contract that could pay him as much as $51 million...
By Bob Smizik | Friday, 5:30 p.m. Who would have thought, say, 10 weeks ago that the high probability of keeping the team’s offensive line together for another season would be greeted with massive sighs of relief across the Steeler Nation? But that’s the case today. The widely ridiculed group...
By Bob Smizik | Posted at 10:05 a.m. Mike Tomlin says he wants no talk of repeat, but with all due respect to the coach that’s the subject today. Under any circumstances it is difficult to repeat as Super Bowl champion. One injury, one off-year by a key player or a couple of bad bounces can turn...
By Bob Smizik | Posted at 10:51 p.m. The script was familiar but yet unfamiliar. It was familiar in that Ben Roethlisberger was leading another come-from-behind victory, and this one on the biggest stage of American sports -- the Super Bowl. What was unfamiliar was that instead of bailing out a sluggish...
10:09 p.m.: Double wow. Double yoi. Greatest Super Bowl finish ever? Certainly for the Steelers. Break open that 6 Pack now. 10:02 p.m.: Good call by McAulay: Holmes "toes" were in bounds. A freeze frame in NFL history, let alone the Super Bowl. With 35 seconds left? On what could be the game...