It's not the kind of hangover many of you may have suffered yesterday morning. I woke up thinking, really? It was that tough to beat the Browns? That's when the headache and nausea started.
Now I'm not a Browns hater - the real Cleveland Browns are now the Purple Browns of Baltimore. That's the team to hate, folks. I think that Cleveland is better than the 4-12 record suggests, and eventually they will be worth reckoning with. In the meantime, we need to take them seriously as potential spoilers if nothing more. That didn't seem to occur to the Steelers in either of the games this season.
The highlights of the game: Hines Ward reaches 1000 catches, Heath Miller passes Lynn Swann's record, and Troy Polamalu's interception - we've had far too few of those this season.
The lowlights: No room to list them all, but the lowest light is probably Mendenhall's injury - now possibly a torn ACL. No Mendenhall in Denver and probably not through the playoffs. That's gonna hurt.
Gene Collier called last night's match "a brutal Russian novel of a football game." I'm not going to try to top that one.
Happy new year - tune in next Sunday for Steelers vs. Broncos in Denver. In the meantime, let's all get acclimated to the altitude.
Huff. Puff. Bring the oxygen. It hurts to lose Mendenhall.
ReplyDeleteAny word on Ryan Clark? I think the sickle cell and the high altitude (and thin air) are a dangerous combination for him. Doesn't he lead the team in tackles?
ReplyDeleteLast I heard he wanted to play but Tomlin wasn't sure he'd let him (so now he's showing some good medical sense?).
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ReplyDeleteBTW, I read your profile. May I recommend a doxie?
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