Pittsburgh Steelers
The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Northern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC), in the National Football League (NFL). The Steelers are the oldest and most championed franchise in the AFC. The team has appeared in six Super Bowls and is, along with the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys, one of three teams to have won the Super Bowl five times. They have appeared in thirteen Conference Championship Games, and have hosted more conference championship games than any other NFL franchise. They are the only team in NFL playoff history to win a Super Bowl after being seeded sixth in the playoffs, winning three consecutive games on the road followed by a Super Bowl XL victory in Detroit on February 5, 2006 against the Seattle Seahawks. Originally named the Pittsburgh Pirates, the team, along with the Philadelphia Eagles and the now-defunct Cincinnati Reds football team, joined the NFL as 1933 expansion teams, after Art Rooney, Sr. paid a $2,500 fee. However the Steelers are the heirs to the first ever pro-football team, Pittsburgh being the city to host the world's first pro game in the 1890s, a franchise that fell victim to the strict state blue laws preventing any activity during the sabbath (NFL Sundays) up until 1933. The team was renamed the Steelers in 1940 after the city's prominent steel industry to reflect the "blue-collar worker" ethic of the many Pittsburgh fans as well as to avoid confusion with the major league baseball team with the same name. Full Article on Wikipedia
Steelers sign both sixth-round draft picks
The Steelers agreed to contract terms with two more draft picks yesterday: LB Mike Humpal (Iowa) and S Ryan Mundy (West Virginia). Both were sixth-round selections and each agreed to a three-year contract. Humpal will receive a $71,600 signing bonus, and Mundy will get a $67,600 bonus. Assuming they make the roster, they will both earn $295,000 in 2008.
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McCain panders to Steelers' fans
In an interview with KDKA-TV (Pittsburgh) earlier this week, presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain told Jon Delano that he invoked the names of Pittsburgh Steelers' defensive linemen when he was a POW in Vietnam in 1967: "When I was first interrogated and really had to give some information because of the pressures, the physical pressures that were on me, I named the starting lineup -- defensive line of the Pittsburgh Steelers -- as my squadron mates."
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Steelers sign draft choices Davis, Hills and Dixon
Pittsburgh came to terms with three of its seven draft picks yesterday, signing third-rounder Bruce Davis (LB, UCLA), fourth-round selection Tony Hills (OT, Texas) and fifth-round choice Dennis Dixon (QB, Oregon). According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Davis received a signing bonus of $506,000, while Hills got $304,500 and Dixon took in $130,000.
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Talking trash: The, uh, forthcoming Plaxico Burress book
“Giant: The Road to the Super Bowl” (in bookstores July 1) is the literary equivalent of listening to Plaxico Burress speak — for 200-plus pages. In other words, Burress has nothing to say, and what he does try to say, is like, half-baked and incoherent. I feel sorry for all the English, writing and communications professors at Michigan State University (where Burress went to college), who must have shuddered when they heard that Plaxico Burress received a book deal.
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Roethlisberger "My Wish" segment to air Sunday
ESPN will air its Akeem Havens/Ben Roethlisberger "My Wish" segment on Sunday morning at 11 a.m. Click here to read our May 30th post about the taping of the program.
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Rest stops at the Bus stop
For what it's worth, the restrooms at Jerome Bettis' Grille 36 in Pittsburgh are finalists for the "America's Best Restroom Award." Cast your vote for best restroom at bestrestroom.com.
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Patriots cheating more than Spygate suggests?
A recent article in The New York Times entitled In Cat and Mouse Game, Patriots Are Central Players hints strongly that the New England Patriots are cheating in many more ways than the Spygate scandal would suggest.
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Steelers: 12-1 odds to reach Super Bowl 2009
Per the MGM Mirage, oddsmakers currently have the Steelers as a 12-1 shot to reach next year's Super Bowl. The New England Patriots are the favorite, listed at 3-1 odds.
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Steelers' Mendenhall robbed at gunpoint
The incident occurred early Monday morning in Chicago. There's no indication the robbers knew Rashard is an NFL player. Click here to read the article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Steelers' Mendenhall strains hamstring
As was the case with Lawrence Timmons last year, this year's first-round pick, Rashard Mendenhall, suffered an injury during his first minicamp practice and will sit out the remainder of the camp. In other news, Ben Roethlisberger will miss at least one practice, excused by head coach Mike Tomlin for undisclosed personal reasons.
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Steelers release KR Bryant
Pittsburgh has already cut ties with one of its rookie free-agents, releasing KR/WR Dorien Bryant (Purdue) after the diminutive return man failed his physical yesterday. Bryant is best-known for breaking the Big Ten season-record for kickoff return yards with 1,007, surpassing the old record of 994 yards (Earl Douthitt, Iowa, 1973) and the old Purdue mark of 735 yards (Rod Woodson, 1986).
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Jersey numbers for Steelers' draft picks
In case you were wondering, the Steelers will issue the following jersey numbers to this year's draft class: 2 - QB Dennis Dixon 14 - WR Limas Sweed 29 - S Ryan Mundy 34 - RB Rashard Mendenhall 53 - LB Bruce Davis 55 - LB Mike Humpal 66 - OT Tony Hills
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