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Steelers: Cleveland Browns Are Cheating

“Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that members of the Steelers have complained about possible shenanigans in Cleveland. Writes Bouchette: ‘Steelers players say privately that whenever they play in Cleveland, they almost always have problems with the communicator in the quarterback’s helmet.’” [Link]

Browns? What happened – NBC(?) (sorry, I never learned to match the numbers with the stations since living here from 1986) didn’t want to try to compete with some george lopez reruns? Its funny how the nitwork (netwit?) hardchoreographed the whole thing by forcing jimbro to sit there and get more and more disgusted by the minute. Kind of like forcing the patron saint of football to endure a bar mitzvah. Was that for the benefit of the two viewers on life support that probably can’t remember seeing him play anyway?

Two home games in a row getting gutted in hd………….You know the only physical thing that works with that team year in and year out is the striking resemblance that their less than colorful name has with something that every animal on the planet has to deal with on a daily basis whether they want to or not.

On the plus side, you do tend to learn some of the fine points of the game if you decide to watch them (lose) – you know, stuff like hinting at an off sides kick by lining up with less than three men on one side of the kicker and then kicking away is a penalty.

Pittsburgh? Apparently, the soon-to-be-former NBC scheduler was the only person in the country who didn’t know that The Pitt had dismantled the brownknees for 9 straight games.

I particularly liked when the Pittsburgh returnman muffed a punt return just to psych out Cleveland’s special Olympics team which blew three shots to recover the “live ball” before some Pittsburgh guy pushed the ball out of bounds and the browns out of their misery.

The biggest offensive play of the game for leave-it-to-cleave was when they called a hard foul on Merriman for trying to faceplant Andersen petunia after he threw the ball downfield. Second biggest was when the Cleveland running back decided he would rather do a ballet (after stepping out of bounds) than follow his blockers downfield. Even Mr. Madden was nonplussed with the guy’s pirouetting.

Then, the cleveland coach wanted to make sure he once again turned the dogpound into dogmeat by deciding a field goal late in the game was a good idea (wat? to get the hockey game to 10 – 6?) so the ‘knees could go for the win on their next drive — when they weren’t going to be able get the ball back until they had 30 seconds left with no TO’s — Cleveland rule #1 No TO = No TD. Romeo even tripped up the announcers with that stratagem. What happened? Did he double down on the over at halftime? Watch him get booted and ending up somewhere like New England where he can lead them to a few (more) superbowls………….