Since everyone is posting their favorite clips of Conan O’Brien, here’s Conan and animal expert Jarod Miller in the early 2000s on “Late Night”…I could post endless Conan clips, I genuinely think he’s one of the funniest humans who has ever lived.
Mike Tomlin knows his Division II college football rivals in Minnesota .
“If you want to Alabama or Auburn, I said it’s like the Iron Bowl. If you went to Bemidji State, I said it’s like Bemidji State versus Mankato.”
Not surprised. The whole “white savior” trope has always been icky. Feel terrible for Michael Oher and hope he’s able to get some money out of this—especially because “The Blind Side” is his story.
Former NFL player Michael Oher, subject of "The Blind Side," petitioned a court Monday with allegations that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy never adopted him, instead tricking him into a signing a document making them his conservators and enriching themselves.
Broderick Jones on what it is that always the Steelers offense to have these fourth quarter comebacks.
“Just the grit and the fight. TJ always tells us before we go out—before the game, ‘it’s a 60-minute game.’ Until the clock hits those zeros, we’re still out there, we’re still…
Joe Greene, one of only two Steelers to have his number retired, was asked about Franco Harris becoming the third player to receive the honor during the Steelers alumni weekend back in October.
He said he thought it was a nice honor for Franco and added this:
Favorite Steve Blass broadcasting moment:
Cutch’s walkoff homer in the bottom of the 14th vs. Cardinals July 11, 2015. Steve was every fan in the stadium and at home.
“OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD...how damn proud are you of your Pittsburgh Pirates tonight. I’m sorry.”
Here’s Franco Harris announcing the Steelers first-round pick in this year’s draft.
Harris seemed really excited that the Steelers took Pitt QB Kenny Pickett.
Reminder that Aaron Rodgers’ paycheck is made possible by Johnson & Johnson—Jets owner Woody Johnson is the great-grandson of one of the founders of Johnson & Johnson.
So he actually takes more money from “Big Pharma” than any endorsement money Travis Kelce is making.
Steelers 1974 rookies:
Lynn Swann (1st round pick)
Jack Lambert (2nd round pick)
John Stallworth (4th round pick)
Mike Webster (5th round pick)
Donnie Shell (undrafted free agent)
Now all Hall of Famers
Steelers safety Minkah Fitzpatrick broke his hand today. He says he thinks he did it while making a tackle, had it casted during the delay.
Says he’ll be good to go for Thursday.
I get why people are upset that Tony Dungy is at Ron DeSantis’ press conference but I don’t know why anyone is surprised.
Dungy has a record of being homophobic & said he’d welcome Ray Rice on his team, but wouldn’t want Michael Sam b/c Sam would be a “distraction.”
The kid who caught Cutch’s 300th HR ball, Toren Mehta, has leukemia. He & his father didn’t share that with Cutch or the Pirates at the time because they wanted to keep the focus on Cutch. 😭
I hope
@Pirates
can maybe hook Toren up with some cool experience or something!
More exhausting than the “Steelers aren’t winning the right way” discourse is the “Najee Harris vs. Jaylen Warren” discourse.
The Steelers might have the best running back duo in the league but the fanbase complains about it.
Mind-numbing.
Jay Bilas on SportsCenter just now picks Pitt as the bubble team that should be in:
“Pittsburgh’s a tournament team. There’s no question in my mind. You’ve got guards like Bub Carrington and you’ve got a shooter like Blake Hinson. They make 9 threes a game.”
Matt Canada on coaching from the sideline:
“There’s pluses and minuses to all of it, right? Upstairs, you see things; on the field, you’ve got more face-to-face. We made a decision to find a way to play better and obviously the results—it worked out Thursday night so it was…
When I saw Damar Hamlin collapse, my first thought was of his family. Seemed to be very close to his parents, and I found this photo from 2019 when his little brother sat on his lap during a postgame media session.
Praying for Damar and his family.
The problem with Black coaches in the NFL is obvious to everyone who isn’t lying to themselves.
The hate Tomlin receives on a weekly basis in this city is proof.
Paul Brown, Don Shula, Chuck Noll, Ara Parseghian, Bo Schembechler, Don James, Lou Holtz, Nick Saban, Jim Tressel, Bob Stoops, Les Miles, Urban Meyer, and Jim Harbaugh were all born or raised within the circle on this map, which stretches 315 miles from Toledo, OH to Fairmont, WV
Here’s Jeff Capel talking about Blake Hinson and what he’s meant to the program and Capel himself.
“Our paths crossed for a reason.”
Pitt fans, this is worth a watch.
Mike Tomlin on Franco Harris yesterday:
"He’s just a special man. Forget the player. Obviously, I never knew the player, I know the man. What an awesome representation of this organization, this community, a guy that embraces all the responsibility that comes with being him."
Why’s Doug Pederson wearing that hoodie?!?!
(Just kidding, it’s because this was a league-wide thing, but boy were people mad online about a certain coach wearing a similar shirt yesterday.)
My husband said he told my dad during the game that he couldn’t remember the Steelers looking this bad in an opener, let alone a home opener.
My dad’s response: “I was here in 1989 when they lost 51-0 to Cleveland.”
🎥 Pitt Football Mom 🎥
Nina Hamlin, mother of senior safety Damar Hamlin, shares her son's story and explains his love of family and the University of Pittsburgh.
#H2P
Louis Riddick was on The Fan today and said Hugh Green texted him and invited him to dinner with Jimbo Covert, Dan Marino, and Tony Dorsett.
I can’t even imagine all the former stars who will be present on Thursday night.
Steelers QB Kenny Pickett on playing against former Pitt teammates Damar Hamlin and Dane Jackson last night:
“It was really special to see them at the NFL level. We’re doing exactly what we said we’d be doing when we were in the Pitt locker room in the South Side.”
Today marks the 22nd anniversary of the final game at Pitt Stadium.
Pitt beat Notre Dame, 37-27, and the crowd stormed the field to take down the goalposts.
If Pitt leaves the ACC or the conference ceases to exist in the near future and we didn’t get a Zaxby’s or Bojangles anywhere in the greater Pittsburgh area, what was this all for?!?!
Steelers fans say the team should tank for a QB for the last few years now.
This fanbase doesn’t have the stomach for 6-3 because the wins aren’t pretty enough and the stats look bad. I’m sure you will all handle bottoming out really well. 😂
Fellow Pennsylvanians: now that Roe is gone, the state legislature will push anti-abortion legislation. Gov. Wolf will veto.
But there is an election in Nov. If Doug Mastriano is elected, he has promised to outlaw all abortions with no exceptions.
So maybe vote Josh Shapiro.
Huggins resigning isn’t “cancel culture”—he was driving with a blood alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit and couldn’t recall what he’d done for the previous SEVEN hours.
Him resigning is probably the best outcome. He’s lucky he didn’t kill others or himself.
I asked Steelers first-round pick Broderick Jones about his relationship with Dan Moore:
“Dan’s great. We don’t look at it as a competition, ‘cause at the end of the day, both of us have a job to do. It just comes down to the best man…no hard feelings between me and him.”
Sean McDermott says he has a relationship with Pat Narduzzi and Narduzzi's endorsement of Damar Hamlin as both a player and a person went a long way because he trusts Narduzzi. He thanked Narduzzi for helping begin the relationship with Damar ahead of the Bills drafting him.
Maybe the Russell Wilson thing blows up in the Steelers’ faces but what happens then?
They have bad QB play? Already had that.
They’re in QB purgatory? Already there.
They don’t know what the long-term solution is at QB? Already don’t.
Russell Wilson visited the Steelers on March 8.
News broke about him signing with the Steelers on March 10.
Diontae Johnson was traded on March 12.
So if Kenny Pickett bailed on a workout as soon as he heard about Wilson, Diontae was still on the team.
Since it’s just after midnight on July 12th, time to post my favorite home run of all-time, which occurred just after midnight on July 12, 2015.
I was sitting in the upper deck behind home plate. At 12:20 a.m., with the Pirates trailing by one in the 14th inning, Cutch went yard
Statement from Pitt’s new offensive coordinator Kade Bell:
“I couldn’t be more excited for the opportunity that Coach Narduzzi and Director of Athletics Heather Lyke have given me to become the offensive coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh. Great players, traditions and…
Pitt officially has 10 players in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
That number will increase to 11 in three years, when Larry Fitzgerald will be elected on the first ballot.
And Pitt will have 12 Hall of Famers five years after Aaron Donald retires.
With Revis' getting in on the first ballot, Pitt is now tied with Ohio State with the fourth-most Hall of Famers.
And the Panthers have at least two more first-ballot Hall of Famers in the coming years.
Since Pittsburgh sports fans may want to start looking for non-football things to do next weekend, Pitt basketball opens ACC play against North Carolina on Saturday afternoon
Sean McDermott discussing how his relationship with Pat Narduzzi helped facilitate a relationship with Damar Hamlin and some comments on Damar’s relationship with Dane Jackson and the rest of his teammates.
TJ Watt on new Steelers OLB Markus Golden: “He played with JJ obviously for two years. He had nothing but good things to say about him, so I’m excited I get to work with him.”
Thinking about Damar Hamlin’s Pitt/Bills teammate Dane Jackson right now too.
When Jackson was involved in a scary collision and left in an ambulance earlier this season, Hamlin was visibly shook.
Jackson probably feeling the same way right now.
Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi statement on the hiring of Kade Bell:
“Kade’s offensive approach—relentlessly fast and aggressive—is everything a defensive coordinator hates to face and the type of system our players will absolutely love.
He’s an incredibly creative play caller who is…
#Plandemic
Not my words, but everything here is backed up by a simple google search.
It’s good to know that people believe a discredited researcher on YouTube over literally millions of scientists, doctors, and nurses who are telling people what’s actually going on.
This is a really interesting story from Kevin Seifert at ESPN about Vikings DC Brian Flores using defensive concepts he was exposed to in Pittsburgh—but not with the Steelers.
Flores is using concepts run at Pitt by Pat Narduzzi.
I asked Joey Porter Jr. what it meant to him to have Patrick Peterson say he has the intangibles to be better than Peterson.
“It means a lot. At the end of the day, that’s Patrick Peterson. I’ve been watching his highlights since I was a little kid.”
Pitt athletic director Heather Lyke talks about Pitt basketball being selfless and says, “I hope that they recognize what an incredible jolt of energy and life and pride that they did instill in our fanbase.”
After watching Pickett at Steelers minicamp today, he looked like the same Kenny I watched at Pitt over the last several years. He was composed, professional, and all business, just as he was as a Panther.
@TheDunkCentral
“A woman who has suffered a nonfatal strangulation incident with her intimate partner is 750% more likely to be killed by the same perpetrator…with a gun.”
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My phone’s “on this day” feature brought up these photos from the Pitt Fan Fest I covered in 2019.
Exactly four years later, all three of these guys will be back on the field at Acrisure Stadium tonight, albeit on opposite sides—Kenny Pickett, Dane Jackson, and Damar Hamlin.
Steelers TE Pat Freiermuth:
“It has nothing to do with the coordinator. It has everything to do with the players. It’s not the coordinator’s fault that we’re lining up wrong and jumping offsides. It’s not the coordinator’s fault at all, it’s never been. We’ve got to fix it. The…
It’s not really difficult to see that 70,000-plus trying to get to and from a game in a blizzard is a bad idea.
But by all means, continue to moan about how it’s soft. 🙄
Yeah, lives should be put at risk so you can feel macho or something. Get a freaking grip.