Steelers Lounge: Steelers Overcome Penalties, Whip Raiders 35-3

[stillers4me]

Posted on November 21, 2010 by ryan



First things first: good teams overcome atrocious officiating. I’m always
blathering on about how the refs don’t matter … but good god, man. It started early with the silly roughing the passer penalty on LaMarr Woodley and by the end of the day the Steelers had been penalized 14 for 163 yards. And still won by 32 points.

The game was over by halftime. In fact, I thought Oakland’s best chance to compete involved Bruce Gradkowski under center but by the time Jason Campbell was pulled early in the third quarter the game had pretty much been decided.

(You can read JJ’s thoughts from the game here.)

Whatever, I’ll take the 35-3 beating, and like Pats fans last week, will happily announce that my team is back. It’s a nice feeling, especially since I was starting to think there was something to this Curse of 6-3. Instead, Big Ben got his first big lopsided win of 2010 and he did as much damage with his feet as he did with his arm.

And with that, onto some other random observations:

* We’ve been talking about this since preseason and today, for the first time, Manny Sanders and Antonio Brown got a hat............

Read more: http://www.steelerslounge.com/2010/1...p-raiders-353/

[Count Steeler]

Big Ben's touchdown run was sweet, cutting back on the safety and taking it to the house.

[tube517]

(By the way, how far has Tony Hills fallen on the depth chart that he’s inactive on game day when the Steelers have the motliest offensive line in tackle football? Answer: the next move will involve him cleaning out his locker and getting a part-time job with Skippy at the Monroeville Sheetz.)

Posted on November 21, 2010 by ryan



First things first: good teams overcome atrocious officiating. I’m always
blathering on about how the refs don’t matter … but good god, man. It started early with the silly roughing the passer penalty on LaMarr Woodley and by the end of the day the Steelers had been penalized 14 for 163 yards. And still won by 32 points.

The game was over by halftime. In fact, I thought Oakland’s best chance to compete involved Bruce Gradkowski under center but by the time Jason Campbell was pulled early in the third quarter the game had pretty much been decided.

(You can read JJ’s thoughts from the game here.)

Whatever, I’ll take the 35-3 beating, and like Pats fans last week, will happily announce that my team is back. It’s a nice feeling, especially since I was starting to think there was something to this Curse of 6-3. Instead, Big Ben got his first big lopsided win of 2010 and he did as much damage with his feet as he did with his arm.

And with that, onto some other random observations:

* We’ve been talking about this since preseason and today, for the first time, Manny Sanders and Antonio Brown got a hat............

Read more: http://www.steelerslounge.com/2010/1...p-raiders-353/

[polamalubeast]

163 penalies yards.....very ugly!....but the steelers won 35-3!