# The 14th Annual Steelers March to the Super Bowl Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 8, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315 "2016-09-08T02:18:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/81 "2017-01-09T05:22:14Z")
Well I think is probably Ben’s last year – he ain’t getting any younger. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/82 "2017-01-09T06:07:16Z")
So Joey Porter is being charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest, public drunkenness, and making terroristic threats. Word is that he got into it with a bartender/bouncer and it escalated, then the cops showed up and he fought them. Stupid. Utterly stupid. But drunk people do what drunk people do. I’ve seen it many times, and I’ve nearly been that guy myself before. Doesn’t make it OK, of course. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/83 "2017-01-09T10:51:22Z")
Both Pittsburgh and Green Bay are playing quite well, now. Both spent too much of the earlier part of the season playing less well, and the result of that is going to be a set of road games for each, at least one of which will be in a place they don’t like to play (Foxboro and Dallas, respectively). \ ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/84 "2017-01-16T01:09:32Z")
I’m nervous about this game. By rights Pittsburgh ought to win this, they’re better on both sides of the ball and they absolutely KILLED KC earlier this year, but it’s by no means a game that I’m comfortable with. What I can’t figure out is how KC is a 5-point favorite against them. Oh, well. It doesn’t have to make sense. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/85 "2017-01-16T01:18:43Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > I’m nervous about this game. By rights Pittsburgh ought to win this, they’re better on both sides of the ball and they absolutely KILLED KC earlier this year, but it’s by no means a game that I’m comfortable with. > > What I can’t figure out is how KC is a 5-point favorite against them. Oh, well. It doesn’t have to make sense. Hey, take the points and be happy! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/86 "2017-01-16T01:56:05Z")
7-6 KC so far. Ben’s missed Brown twice and KC’s been doing well with the dink-and-dunk. I hope this doesn’t turn into The Boswell Show, or if it does that the defense tightens up. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/87 "2017-01-16T04:20:19Z")
And on they march… ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/88 "2017-01-16T04:21:10Z")
They won, but they’d better remember how to score touchdowns next week. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/89 "2017-01-16T04:45:40Z")
Patriots are not going to commit penalties like KC did, and won’t drop as many passes either. So the Stillers better figure out a way to score 27 points on the Patriots, no mean task. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/90 "2017-01-16T04:46:11Z")
To be fair, the Chiefs played some good defense and outright stole one from Brown, picked off another on a great play, and stiffened at exactly the right times. It took a record to beat them. They were tough. But Pittsburgh has a date with New England yet again, and if they play anywhere near as bad as they did yesterday Pittsburgh has this. Ben isn’t Osweiler, and while the defense isn’t as good as Houston’s it’s still pretty good. Pressure on Brady and any offense at all gives them a good shot. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/91 "2017-01-16T04:50:14Z")
It’s that damn glove. I hope it’s warm and dry next weekend in Foxboro. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/92 "2017-01-16T18:14:41Z")
I guess we can say “it’s on!” after AB decides to broadcast Tomlin’s speech to world. Might be a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/93 "2017-01-17T00:05:50Z")
Chief’s fan here. 3 observations: 1. It definitely WAS holding on Eric Fisher. Harrison didn’t fall down or fake it. Fisher tackled him. 2. Travis Kelce is an idiot. Hey, dummy, what about your personal foul when you shoved the Steeler? 3. I wish to heck we had Bell. He had 170 yards and the Chiefs had 62 total. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/94 "2017-01-17T20:02:24Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > I guess we can say “it’s on!” after AB decides to broadcast Tomlin’s speech to world. Might be a good thing. It was a pretty stupid thing. Rather than cheesing and preening for the camera, how about listening to the coach? Instead, he’s giving the Patriots some bulletin board material. So much for the old maxim about what’s said in the locker room stays there. And as I type this I get a flash from ESPN that Brown’s future is NOT assured in Pittsburgh. I’d be surprised if that were true, but he sure has done some dumb stuff recently. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/95 "2017-01-17T23:27:39Z")
[QUOTE=Marine\_One] Chief’s fan here. 3 observations: 1. It definitely WAS holding on Eric Fisher. Harrison didn’t fall down or fake it. Fisher tackled him. 2. Travis Kelce is an idiot. [/QUOTE] Can’t disagree with either statement after watching the play. Bizarrely, a wire service article today claimed the holding call wasn’t “clear cut” because the rusher “may” have been losing his balance and likely wouldn’t have gotten to the quarterback anyway. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/96 "2017-01-18T00:20:44Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > It was a pretty stupid thing. Rather than cheesing and preening for the camera, how about listening to the coach? Instead, he’s giving the Patriots some bulletin board material… In most cases, I would agree with your assessment. However, with this Patriots team, I don’t think it will make any difference at all. They’re always 100% ready and motivated. Meanwhile, I hope it leads to a more disciplined Steeler team on Sunday. It was definitely stupid and he should have been paying the F! attention. But sometimes unintended consequences are actually positive. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/97 "2017-01-20T15:55:20Z")
Not sure how they did it, but the Patriots managed to infect a portion of the Steelers with the flu. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/98 "2017-01-20T18:14:37Z")
I’m certain that the Commish will punish them appropriately. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/99 "2017-01-20T18:31:25Z")
Waiting for the fallout of Flugate. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315/100 "2017-01-20T19:10:40Z")
No doubt a Patriots operative injected some flu laden air into all the practice balls, knowing the Steelers would studiously reduce the pressure so it’s inside the NFL mandated limits. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-14th-annual-steelers-march-to-the-super-bowl-thread/765315.md?page=6)