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stillers4me
12-13-2010, 05:25 PM
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Steelers President Art Rooney (Photo: KDKA)

Reporting Rick Dayton (http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/personality/rick-dayton/)

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — With six Super Bowl championship celebrations, Steelers fans have grown used to success and they don’t take too kindly to anything that puts those winning ways in jeopardy.

Fans and players alike have expressed frustration over the NFL’s recent crackdown on hits — particularly with Steelers linebacker James Harrison shelling out $125,000 in fines on four separate occasions this season.

KDKA-TV’s Rick Dayton recently had a chance to sit down with team president, Art Rooney III, to get his thoughts on hard hits, fines and what his grandfather The Chief might think about the state of the game right now.

“I think our fans want to think that the games are being officiated fairly and in a consistent way,” Rooney told KDKA, “and so that’s why you get some of the questions that have come up in some of our games. And it’s been an unusual year — there’s no question about it — for our team.”

Unusual is one way to describe it......................

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2010/12/13/steelers-president-weighs-in-on-hits-fines/

tube517
12-13-2010, 05:39 PM
The Chief would have made his point to the league, but it would have been a private conversation — behind closed doors.

I miss The Chief.

ALLD
12-13-2010, 07:04 PM
"Believe"