stillers4me
12-05-2010, 07:26 AM
Sunday, December 05, 2010
By Gene Collier (http://www.post-gazette.com/search/archive.asp?cCat=150), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
As this ferociously compelling Steelers season thunders to the top of the stretch tonight, December and Baltimore are hardly the time and place to be putting your worst foot forward.
Not that there's much choice.
The Steelers' worst foot, the one at the end of Ben Roethlisberger's right leg, is merely the one appendage the entire season pivots upon as prime time arrives on NBC, but as we've come to learn, sometimes our focus in the ramp-up to these weekly cataclysms isn't where it ought to be.
So let's instead talk for a minute about Pittsburgh's best foot, the one that launched a certifiable UFO, that unforgettable flying object, into the skies over western New York a week ago today.
"It's certainly a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately business," Steelers punter Daniel Sepulveda was saying as the Steelers wrapped up their Ravens prep Friday. "So yeah, it's been a nice week."
If Roethlisberger's damaged foot limits either his mobility or his very presence tonight, Sepulveda's role in determining which way the AFC balance of power shifts will only increase, particularly if there unfolds a windy field-position argument astride the Inner Harbor.........
Read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10339/1108119-150.stm
By Gene Collier (http://www.post-gazette.com/search/archive.asp?cCat=150), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
As this ferociously compelling Steelers season thunders to the top of the stretch tonight, December and Baltimore are hardly the time and place to be putting your worst foot forward.
Not that there's much choice.
The Steelers' worst foot, the one at the end of Ben Roethlisberger's right leg, is merely the one appendage the entire season pivots upon as prime time arrives on NBC, but as we've come to learn, sometimes our focus in the ramp-up to these weekly cataclysms isn't where it ought to be.
So let's instead talk for a minute about Pittsburgh's best foot, the one that launched a certifiable UFO, that unforgettable flying object, into the skies over western New York a week ago today.
"It's certainly a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately business," Steelers punter Daniel Sepulveda was saying as the Steelers wrapped up their Ravens prep Friday. "So yeah, it's been a nice week."
If Roethlisberger's damaged foot limits either his mobility or his very presence tonight, Sepulveda's role in determining which way the AFC balance of power shifts will only increase, particularly if there unfolds a windy field-position argument astride the Inner Harbor.........
Read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10339/1108119-150.stm