HEY, STEELERS: REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE AND HOW YOU GOT THAT WAY



EDITOR’S NOTE: The NFL Draft is this week. With that, then, we’re sending a letter — some advice — to each of the four teams in the AFC North. This one goes out to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Dear Steelers:

What in the name of Terrible Towels, Myron Cope and The Immaculate Reception is going on at The Confluence in Pittsburgh?

It’s “Amazing, Steelers,” and not in a good way, either.

Indeed, “Yoy!!”

I wrote about a month ago that there was no way the Steelers  would have any interest at all — even in the least bit — in signing quarterback “Airhead” Aaron Rodgers, the guy whose photo is next to the listing for “Pain in the Backside” in the Pro Football Dictionary.

The Steelers, who have a way of doing things and don’t deviate from it come you-know-what or high water?

The Steelers, who have no problem getting rid of guys — even big-time stars — who cost too much, complain too much or don’t fit in enough?

The Steelers, who through their longtime no-nonsense head coach, Mike “We Own It” Tomlin, states that the team wants volunteers and not captives?

Yes, no way.

Uh, no, way. There is apparently a way.

The Steelers have been courting Rodgers for a while now. Dan Rooney and his dad, “The Chief,” Art Rooney Sr., must be turning over in their graves. What’s next, making nice with the Browns, Ravens and Bengals? Making scrub rags out of Terrible Towels? Skipping a Steelers game to attend a poetry reading?

Yoy!! Again. Always.

You can’t do this, guys. You can’t invite controversy, selfishness and weirdness into your locker room and let it spread like a poison
ivy vine. He’s not worth it. He can’t play anymore. He’s far from being a star in 2025.

Have youens ever heard of Joe Hardy?

He was the guy in the play, “Damn Yankees,” who was a diehard fan of the Washington Senators. He got so tired watching his team get beaten up by the Yankees year after year after year that he sold his soul to the devil so that the Senators could finally beat the Yankees and win the American League pennant.

Selling your soul to the devil is never a good idea, and it wasn’t in this case, either.

If you guys sign Rodgers, then you are going against your soul and signing up for trouble. You should instead use this draft to get your quarterback and let him develop. It’s how you found a Pro Football Hall of Famer in Terry Bradshaw in 1970 and a soon-to-be one in Ben Roethlisberger 34 years later.

Steve King