Zach’s Stadium
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Smash. Mouth. Steelers. Football.
As Justin Fields’ knee hit the turf on the Raiders’ 26-yard line at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, the book closed on a commanding 32-13 Steelers’ victory over a very short-handed Las Vegas Raiders team, bringing their record to 4-2. It was not pretty at times, but, for once, fans’ hearts were not in their…
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Starting Slow: The Steeler Way
Full disclosure: I did not watch the entire Steeler game last night. A weather delay that lasts 85 minutes (especially for a primetime game) will do that. As a result, I will only adjudicate on what I did watch and some of what I read on social media. Regardless of what I saw with my…
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BIG Mistakes
As the now blue-clad Joe Flacco kneeled down to end Sunday’s game, waves of frustration and disappointment fell over myself—and, I would imagine, loads of other members of Steeler Nation who watched their team lose in painful fashion in the fourth week of the 2024 NFL season. The Steelers were undefeated no longer, as they…
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Signs of Life
Pink Floyd’s 13th studio album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason, features a largely-instrumental track titled “Signs of Life” It was another good weekend for Pittsburgh football. The University of Pittsburgh hung 73 points on Youngstown State in a 56-point victory to move the Panthers to 4-0, their best start since the turn of the millennium.…
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Sustainability 101: The Opposite of What Was Done Yesterday
From a win-loss perspective, this past weekend was great for my favorite teams. Manchester City improved to 4-0-0 with a 2-1 victory over Brentford, as Erling Haaland netted his 8th and 9th goals on the season in a mere 360 minutes of Premier League play. Pitt’s football team remained undefeated with their second-consecutive win in…
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Kudos, Steelers, on a Job…Done
As the clock at Mercedes-Benz Stadium hit triple-zeroes to signify the conclusion of the Steelers’ 18-10 victory over the Atlanta Falcons, a collective wave of relief washed over Steeler Nation—they had gone on the road and won a game with their backup quarterback, a rookie center, and a second-year guard who was drafted in the…
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Out with the Old, In with the…New?
After Wednesday, I am officially done with the Pirates until next year. Blowing a seven-run lead in the last two innings of a ballgame is absolutely inexcusable, but is unfortunately representative of how the team has performed since the trade deadline. With that said, the NFL season begins on Thursday, so we will avert our…
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“Don’t Overreact”, He Says, While Overreacting
We are approaching that time of the year where the collapse of the Pirates’ season seamlessly transitions into the beginning of the Steelers’ quest for their seventh Super Bowl, an accomplishment which they have failed to achieve in each of the last fifteen years. There were times that they were close—Super Bowl XLV (2010-11), where…
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Build Me Up, Break Me Down
“You build me up You break me down Until I’m falling to pieces I crash and burn I never learn…” So are the words to progressive metal giants Dream Theater’s song “Build Me Up, Break Me Down”, the second track from their eleventh studio album, “A Dramatic Turn of Events”. No, this is not even…
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You Blew it, Boys. You Really Blew it!
POV: you’re Derek Shelton and the Pirates, and Zach somehow got past security and into the Pirates’ dugout *Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh* That about sums up the mood of Pirates fans from the past week—an interminable sigh. On paper, going 3-3 against the Houston Astros and Arizona Diamondbacks is not the end of the world. It is not…