<strong>MEMORABLE SERIES MOMENT</strong><strong>Patriots 30, Steelers 14</strong><strong>Sept. 9, 2002 at Gillette Stadium</strong>Tonight's game will be the third banner-raising season opener for the Patriots ...
PITTSBURGH — Ben Roethlisberger talked about adjusting “almost mid-snap” against the New England Patriots, and that goes double for defensive playcallers trying to read Tom Brady while heĢƵ reading them.The Steelers have been embarrassed before by Brady in this exact situation.In 2015, ...
<em>The ĢƵ</em> staff and Steelers correspondent Jim Wexell give their predictions for Super Bowl 53:<strong>Rob Burchianti, H-S Sports Editor</strong>Can a veteran team like the Patriots still learn from experience? I think ...
PITTSBURGH — If you can pardon the mixed metaphor, the NFL hit it out of the park with Conference Championship weekend.In other words, it was a real slam dunk.The games were fabulous, the drama was compelling, the outcomes were in doubt until overtime, and there was even some controversy to ...
From the notebook of a sportswriter who can’t think of a worse call that decided a bigger game than the pass interference call not made in New Orleans:n But then someone on Twitter called it the worst since “Ben was gifted a TD in the Super Bowl.”n Sigh. That third-down play at the ...
From the notebook of a sportswriter who just witnessed a perfect execution of Opposite Day:n You know, up is down, black is white, eating tuna on toast when maybe the salmon swims against the current. You know, Costanza, when he did the opposite of what his instincts told him and ended up with ...