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09-08-2010, 03:42 AM
Collier: Using Steelers' Dixon like using spare tire
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
By Gene Collier, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Officially, the National Football League season does not begin until Thursday night in New Orleans with the first kickoff of a long Kickoff Weekend, but, for me, it always starts the moment the head coach of the Steelers throws out the ceremonial first Tomlinism at his first regular weekly media irrigation.
Only when I hear the haunting September siren that the Steelers plan to be "thoughtfully non-rhythmic," in their approach to something am I assured that the NFL's planet is rotating reliably on its axis. It's a natural and necessary counterpoint to my own plans, it happens, which are so much closer to being rhythmically non-thoughtful.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085794-150.stm#ixzz0yvRUgIw2
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
By Gene Collier, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/images/201009/20100908dixon_500.jpg
Officially, the National Football League season does not begin until Thursday night in New Orleans with the first kickoff of a long Kickoff Weekend, but, for me, it always starts the moment the head coach of the Steelers throws out the ceremonial first Tomlinism at his first regular weekly media irrigation.
Only when I hear the haunting September siren that the Steelers plan to be "thoughtfully non-rhythmic," in their approach to something am I assured that the NFL's planet is rotating reliably on its axis. It's a natural and necessary counterpoint to my own plans, it happens, which are so much closer to being rhythmically non-thoughtful.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085794-150.stm#ixzz0yvRUgIw2