stillers4me
12-30-2012, 10:24 AM
Welcome to Meaningless Sunday.
The Buccaneers, Browns and Raiders play meaningless games. The Steelers (http://triblive.com/sports/steelers/) simply don‘t. Even when their late-season games don‘t decide a division title or a playoff seeding, they often serve as postseason auditions.
But for the first time since Heinz Field opened in 2001, the Steelers will play a means-nothing game there to end a season. (The only time they‘ve had a losing record since Heinz Field opened, in 2003, they finished in Baltimore.)
Some younger Steelers will be seeing the stadium like they‘ve never seen it before, with thousands of empty yellow seats and no game-time buzz. All that‘s to be decided is whether the Steelers go 7-9 or 8-8, if their winning percentage will be .438 or .500.
How did it come to this? There‘s an opinion for nearly every player in a locker room that won‘t be populated again by these very same players. A busy offseason will see to that. Some of those opinions: ..........
Read more: http://triblive.com/sports/steelers/3201475-74/steelers-game-players#ixzz2GYLlJN5E
The Buccaneers, Browns and Raiders play meaningless games. The Steelers (http://triblive.com/sports/steelers/) simply don‘t. Even when their late-season games don‘t decide a division title or a playoff seeding, they often serve as postseason auditions.
But for the first time since Heinz Field opened in 2001, the Steelers will play a means-nothing game there to end a season. (The only time they‘ve had a losing record since Heinz Field opened, in 2003, they finished in Baltimore.)
Some younger Steelers will be seeing the stadium like they‘ve never seen it before, with thousands of empty yellow seats and no game-time buzz. All that‘s to be decided is whether the Steelers go 7-9 or 8-8, if their winning percentage will be .438 or .500.
How did it come to this? There‘s an opinion for nearly every player in a locker room that won‘t be populated again by these very same players. A busy offseason will see to that. Some of those opinions: ..........
Read more: http://triblive.com/sports/steelers/3201475-74/steelers-game-players#ixzz2GYLlJN5E