FAMOUS FAUX PAS: COWHER'S BURNT BAKER’S DOZEN

Previously, I listed current Steelers coach Mike Tomlin's "Bonehead Moments," but the hue and cry came from Steeler Nation demanding fairness, calling for the same standard to be applied to his predecessor, Bill "The Chin" Cowher. My initial response was that such an assignment would cause me to request a sabbatical from my place of employment, Cowher's capacity for bone-headedness was so expansive.

While Cowher's transgressions...

MIKE TOMLIN: BONEHEAD MOMENTS


Lest it be thought that those that actually wear the uniforms of the Pittsburgh Steelers have a monopoly on bone-headedness insofar as the fortunes of the Black & Gold, let’s review the three-year tenure of Head Coach Mike Tomlin.

As we all know, Coach T is now the beneficiary of a three-year contract extension, at an as yet undetermined price. I don’t think that anyone’s really surprised. Even with the option year of 2011, would...

DUMPING SANTONIO: EXCUSES, EXCUSES

It's been awhile since Santonio Holmes was traded to the Jets for a 5th round draft choice, ostensibly for being a bonehead. Ordinarily, I wouldn't devote the words, two months later, to a fait accompli, but with this, arguably the worst personnel move in Steelers history, the defense of the move grows becomes progressively outrageous. Here's the most popular excuses, in no particular order:

*Receiver is a position of strength:...

DOZEN MOST MADDENING PLAYS IN STEELERS' HISTORY
By Swissvale72


Most maddening generally means that the Steelers lost the game, or else the play wouldn't be all that maddening, yes? True, with one very notable exception. That exception wreaked havoc even among the fandom of the winning eleven.

Most maddening generally means that the game was of high import, or else the play wouldn't be all that maddening, yes? True...but not always. Sometimes it was...