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NFL Jerseys owners are due to lock out the players in 46 days, on March 4.The last full meeting between players and owners was 56 days ago,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Nov. 22 [link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
While owners meet in their monthly labor-strategy session Tuesday in Atlanta, about 35 new player representatives and alternate player reps (Patrick Willis, Aaron Kampman, among others] will meet for orientation in Washington at NFL Players Association headquarters, then move on to meet and lobby key politicians on Capitol Hill,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in case they need friends in high places when the two sides are at impasse and Congress debates getting involved. The sabers are rattling [link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
I want the men [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] in suits to meet Pittsburgh Phil, a 40-year-old claims adjuster from Monroeville, a few burbs east of Pittsburgh, and friend of a very good friend of mine. They watched the Steelers-Ravens game together Saturday in a bar in Monroeville, drinking Stout. In the fourth quarter, when it was anyone's game, Pittsburgh Phil, who is one superstitious guy, whipped out his cell phone and called up a photo of Steelers founder Art Rooney, The Chief, a black-and-white job of him ... he's smoking a cigar. And he began to chant to the photo. "Please Chief,'' Pittsburgh Phil said to the visage on his phone, his voice pleading. This was no joke. "Do not let us down! You built where we are! You were Pittsburgh! Your legacy endures now and forever! DO NOT LET US LOSE THIS GAME! PLEASE![link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] ''
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I want the men in suits to meet Rob Bonatucci, a supplier for Bombardier Transportation, a Pittsburgh-based company that builds train cars. Bonatucci, traveling for business in China, watched the game at a Steelers bar in Shanghai, at 5:30 in the morning Sunday. "There's a bar in Shanghai called The Camel where I'd say about 125 of us watched the game,'' Bonatucci said from China. That's right: There's a Steeler bar in Shanghai. "Chinese girls dressed as cheerleaders, Terrible Towels and all these expats or people traveling on business dressed in Steeler stuff. If you're a Steeler fan, you're not missing this game. When they came back in the second half, it was just like you'd get in the states -- people jumping up and down, high-fiving, going crazy. These people live for these moments.''
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] in suits to know that's what they're fooling around with here.Many things on the docket, from the games to what is really worrying Congressman Runyan to my Gumby Player of the Weekend to the Power of Seven to just how ridiculously good Aaron Rodgers is to the Patriots' Super Bowl drought reaching Year Six to this: If you think the 33rd meeting between the Ravens and Steelers was pretty good, what do you think the 182nd meeting between the Packers and Bears will be like?
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] But we can start in one place only this morning: with the New York Football Jets, and their coach, who is unlike any other.
On a 34-degree afternoon Saturday, I walked the 35 minutes from my downtown hotel, the Omni William Penn, to Heinz Field for the Steelers-Ravens game. I decided to do a little referendum to see just how much Ben Roethlisberger has been welcomed back into the Steelers family by the fans.
I would count the number of Roethlisberger [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] I saw and compare it to the number of Troy Polamalu jerseys. Is Roethlisberger back in the good graces of the fans? By this ridiculously rudimentary process, I would say not, though I did see two women wearing number 7.Number of Polamalu 43 jerseys seen: 58. Number of Roethlisberger 7 jerseys seen: 9 [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] .
The Steelers are flawed, but isn't every team?
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"Had 'em all the way,'' Steelers president emeritus Dan Rooney said, walking through the locker room after the 31-24 win over the Ravens. It was easy to chortle after such an emotional win, and the Steelers are in the championship game of the AFC for fifth time in 10 years. That's good. What's not so good is how much Ben Roethlisberger got hit Saturday evening -- Terrell Suggs sacked him twice and forced the fumble that the Ravens returned for a touchdown -- and how shaky his offensive line is. I can just see Rex Ryan this morning, watching video of the Baltimore defense and watching their five sacks of Roethlisberger and four more significant hits. We can do that too, he'll say, and he'll be right.
I hadn't seen the Steelers, nor been around them, since training camp. What interested me most was the depth of contributors. The top two were Ben Roethlisberger and James Harrison, as it often is.
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] Third on the list: Safety Ryan Clark. With Troy Polamalu staying off the line of scrimmage all night, missing two tackles and generally being invisible, Clark forced two third-quarter turnovers that led to touchdowns and played his best game as a Steeler.
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Sixth: Center Maurkice Pouncey. The center of a problem area, but certainly not the problem. Pouncey was terrific Saturday, ranging all over the field. The play's never over 'til it's over. That has to be his mantra, because he was blocking in the secondary and near the sidelines on several extended plays.
"Coach Tomlin put names on the board of all the guys playing big roles for us now who weren't around for our last Super Bowl [two years ago against Arizona],'' said Clark. "Antonio Brown, Ziggy Hood, Emmanuel Sanders, Rashard Mendenhall. He said he knew what guys like Troy Polamalu and James Farrior would do. But the difference was going to be what those young guys would do. Like tonight -- you know what Ray Lewis and Ed Reed are going to do for Baltimore. But what are their young guys going to do? I believe tonight we won that battle [link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],.''
They'll have to have a few of those guys win Sunday in the AFC title game for the Steelers, 6-1 in their Super Bowl history, to go for number seven [link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
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