The Six Pack Sports Report has posted an "open letter" from Brady Quinn. You know him — he's that tool that will eventually be the franchise loser of the AFC North whipping boys in Cleveland. Normally I don't post this sort of thing, but this is 1) about the enemy, and 2) funny as hell.
Check it out here.
Six Pack Sports Report, you have officially made the SteelerWatch friends list.
Wikipedia: pwned
The NFL Network is showing the Steelers-Browns 2003 playoff barnburner for the eleventeenth time this week, and I can’t help but watch. So it’s the 4th quarter with the Browns up 33-21. There’s about 5:20 left, and the Steelers just forced a Kelly Holcomb incompletion on third-and-three. Greg Gumbel chimes in, “…the Steelers would love to be the first team to block a [Chris] Gardocki punt.”
Augh!
Peter King has made his thinly veiled dislike of the Steelers well known to ‘Burghers, but it looks like he’s now dragged his colleague, Bucky Brooks, into the mix. Brooks is responsible for SI’s list of the top 25 wide receivers in the league. Shockingly, Hines Ward actually made the list — in 23rd, nine spots behind Steelers cast-off (and Giants slacker) Plaxico Burress.
Now-former Steeler linebacker Richard Seigler, a first-team blocking dummy (read: practice squader) for the last two seasons, was arrested Thursday based on a Las Vegas warrant for allegedly running a prostitution ring. He was arrested in Pittsburgh the same day he was released by the team.
Given the Steelers’ history of dealing with people who have had run-ins with the law (see Bam “Puff ‘n Pass” Morris) and the timing of his release, it stands to reason that the warrant was the direct cause of his release.
Clearly his practice squad pay wasn’t covering the bills, so he began pimping. While the NFL has had its share of odd violations of the law — and, in the case of Ricky Williams and his continuing drug saga, odd violators of the law — this one will probably go down in history as one of the weirdest ways for an NFL player to get arrested. Most of them just stick to peddling pot and toting nines.
Steeler fans — and fans of every team not based in Tennessee — breathed a collective sigh of relief as second-year Titans quarterback Vince Young was announced as the 2008 Madden Posterboy.
For those of you living under a rock since the turn of the century, every player to have been featured on the cover of the game since 1998 (the 1999 edition of the game) has missed significant time or suffered bad statistical years either in the season during which the game was released, or in the year for which the game was released.
Garrison Hearst was the first player on the game’s cover, in 1998 (game year 1999). In the first game of the playoffs, Hearst broke his ankle and missed the next two seasons while recovering.
Barry Sanders was featured on the 2000 cover (1999). Just before training camp that season, Sanders retired without warning, never to play again. In some countries (Australia, New Zealand and some European nations) Dorsey Levens was on the cover. He did just fine the year the game was released, but in 2000 (the game year), he gained just 224 yards rushing and receiving.
For the 2001 edition of the game, Eddie George graced the game’s packaging. He had a phenomenal year in 2000, the year of the game’s release, with career highs in yards and touchdowns. In 2001, the game year, he had a career low for yards.
The list goes on:
The question is: if Roethlisberger was to be featured at some point, would his 2006 season count retroactively toward the curse?
Former Steeler Joey Porter was charged with misdemeanor battery over the weekend following a fight with fellow NFL player Levi Jones. Jones was treated at the scene for his injuries.
Porter’s fight helps his former team — Jones currently plays for the rival Cincinnati Bengals. Making the incident twice as interesting is that this is the first time in a year a Bengal has been on the right side of the law.
You can’t fly with your beloved team — but you can fly in your team. Or, at least, you can eventually.
U.S. Airways announced Wednesday that they will provide the city of Pittsburgh with a Steelers-themed aircraft as part of a deal that will see the company purchasing billboard space in the stadium, as well as hosting tailgate parties before games (bonus for us!)
Read more about it here.
What’s in a name? Clearly more than any of us realized.
Strong safety Troy Polamalu officially changed his name this week. He changed it to “Troy Polamalu.”
Huh?
Unbeknownst to essentially 6 billion people in this world (translation: doggone near every one of us), Troy’s real name was Troy Benjamin Aumua — until this week, that is. He took his mother’s maiden name after his parents divorced, and he finally made it legal yesterday. His full name is now Troy Aumua Polamalu. His jersey will continue to read exactly as it had — not as if anyone of us has seen his name on his jersey in at least three years…
Who will be the starter at center in 2007?
Total Votes: 32
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