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Conrad Dobler

They were? In the seven years prior to Cowher's arrival in 1992, the Steelers went 7-9, 6-10, 8-7 (strike year), 5-11, 9-7, 9-7 and 7-9. Mediocrity. There's a reason you don't remember the Bills playing the Steelers in the playoffs during our little run until Cowher got to Pittsburgh: the Steelers weren't IN the playoffs for seven years in a row. The year before Cowher got there, Neil O'Donnell and Bubby Brister were throwing to Dwight Stone and Louis Lipps. (They did have a young Eric Green and a young Barry Foster.) They had a few kids on defense -- Rod Woodson, Carnell Lake, Greg Lloyd -- but none of them, save perhaps Woodson, had become what they would become under Cowher. When Cowher got there in 1992, the Steelers drafted Leon Searcy in the first round and Levon Kirkland in the second. That year, they started 10-3 (after not having won 10 games in any of the previous seven years, mind you), went 11-5, won the division and made the playoffs. His job was NOT to build on what was there. His job was to take a once-proud, then-stagnant franchise and breathe new life into it. That he did. Almost immediately, I might add.

Cleveland can't afford him after paying Holmgren. And no way Cowher would work for Al Davis.

As the great Mickey Rivers once said, "Ain't no sense worryin' 'bout things you got no control over, 'cause if you got no control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' 'bout things you GOT control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'."

Yeah, but it was apparently updated later to read "and that his insistence that he assemble and hire is entire coaching staff may have led to today's firings." So the story may have been posted at 6:35 am yesterday, but what did it say about the firings at that time, if anything? My guess is nothing.

You, sir, are a bastard.

Or maybe he just talked to Fewell after the press conference.

I'm only 40... but I know my history

That DOES change things a lot. Maybe Ralph told Buddy to fire everyone and then, as everyone was cleaning out their offices, he realized he was going to have to PAY all of them not to coach. "Buddy? This is Ralph. Forget what I said before. What did I say before? I forget. Oh yeah. Don't fire them all, just tell 'em they can look for new jobs. Just do it."

Wasn't Bebe Webozo a friend of Dick Nixon's?

"George Cata... Cata... can't-a work here anymore, anyway."

North Carolina, South Carolina.... close enough

Solid reporting.

Things DO change when the kids are out of the house. The oldest two daughters have graduated, the youngest is in college... hell, Mrs. Cowher doesn't even have to LIVE here anymore. Buffalo has regular flights to Charlotte.

Maybe "things could change" just means "Fewell could be interviewed to satisfy the Rooney Rule."

Maybe she can transfer to Canisius! Problem solved!

I'd just like to point out that Cowher's youngest daughter just started her college basketball playing career at Wofford. Lindsey Cowher Wofford is in North Carolina. Just sayin'. Remember when Cowher retired he said he wanted to watch his girls play college basketball? Well, his two older girls are done (both played at Princeton) but why does his youngest not get the same treatment? Maybe because he got to watch her play all through high school, which is something he couldn't do for the older ones?

Great call there with one timeout.

Flag. Of course.

Bye Josh

Yuk it up there Perry and Bobby. Real funny **** we're all watching.

If you rent a movie and it sucks, why would you rent it again? Just put Brohm in.

Brohm can play in the 4th, can't he? WTF is Edwards in there?

How about the illegal pick by Edelman there?