While every year the fan complaints about “the drudgery that is preseason football” get louder, one inescapable fact remains unchanged: Every summer the much maligned rite of “preseason football” gives 45 young men a shot at a lifetime dream. Think about it. With the exception of a handful of highish round draft choices, and NFL […]
In the late 1990’s something happened in Pittsburgh that had not occurred since Chuck Noll agonized over whether not to start Mark Malone or not to start David Woodley. Surely you remember that, right? Neither do I. At least not too much. Such “quarterback controversies” obviously missed the sports pages during adolescence which was spent […]
It is fitting that the Pittsburgh Steelers still hold training camp at a college, because this franchise needs to concentrate on the 3 R’s while at St. Vincents. Of course the 3 R’s in question are not reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic but Retool, Recalibrate, and Refocus. While each of the Steelers “3 R’s” represents an […]