Comments regarding the Pittsburgh Steelers

While I am still not a big fan of their coach Mike Tomlin (see his decisions to go for field goals and not first downs or touchdowns in this year’s loss at Seattle vs the Seahawks and in a Supe win vs the Cardinals. Odd that the Steelers and Seahawks each lost in the divisional round on the same day while the Cardinals won in the round the night before.), the Pittsburgh steelers deserve much credit for a fine year and certainly great history.

Despite injuries that sidelined key players including brilliant receiver Antonio Brown, Pittsburgh battled in Denver before losing to the Broncos, a first divisional round loss for the superb Steelers’ quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger.

The Steelers are the leaders with 6 Super Bowl victories and are (15-8) in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs.

Until 1972 when they won a divisional round game on the “Immaculate Reception” Terry Bradshaw off John Fuqua? to Franco Harris, the Steelers had never won a post-season game.

They lost an Eastern Conference unscheduled playoff to the Philadelphia Eagles in 1947 and came close losing a showdown game at Yankee Stadium vs the New York Giants for the Eastern Conference title in 1963.

I listened to the great Marty Glickman calling a Frank Gifford one handed catch in that tilt. A nice memory as I was allowed to go to the hospital lobby taking a break from a visit to my grandmother, a patient there.

Antonio Brown, pictured above, and the Steelers had another good season.