We bill brownsdailydose.com as a website where you’re going to get something different and interesting about the Browns om a daily basis.

Yes, we’ll get to head coach Hue Jackson and the Big Boy restaurant question of, “Should he stay or go?”, later this week. But for now, we’re going to stay true to that billing and give you something different and interesting. I guarantee you that you aren’t going to see the following anywhere else.

I respect the Pittsburgh Steelers and what they’ve done the last 45 years.

You have to.

You absolutely have to.

It’s been incredible.

But It doesn’t mean I have to like the Steelers.

And I don’t.

I really, truly don’t.

Oh, I like Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin, who spent the 2000 training camp with the Browns as part of the NFL’s minority coaching push.

I like Steelers quarterback Big Ben Roethlisberger.

And the Rooneys? When you look up “class acts” in the sports dictionary, the family photo is right there for all to see.

But as an organization, I don’t like the Steelers, and I certainly don’t root for them. Come on, they’re the arch rivals of the team I grew up watching.

As part of that, then, I have to admit I shrieked with unbridled joy when Roethlisberger’s deflected pass got intercepted in the end zone on the game’s next-to-last to enable the New England Patriots to hold on for a 27-24 victory on Sunday at Heinz Field in a thrilling display of football between the two best teams in the NFL, not just the AFC.

But that’s not the play that lost the Steelers the game. It was the “touchdown” pass just seconds before that to tight end Jesse James that, because of the league’s hard-to-figure-out catch rule, turned into a dropped pass.

A rule is a rule, and in that respect, the call was spot on. But in all honesty, the Steelers got the shaft.

I waited 39 years for them to get the shaft on a big, important call, just like the Browns did in a game against Pittsburgh on Sept. 24, 1978 at Three Rivers Stadium.

The teams, which entered that game with identical 3-0 records, battled to a 9-9 tie at the end of regulation after the Browns, under first-year head coach Sam Rutigliano, blew a 9-3 fourth-quarter lead.

The Steelers won the toss to start overtime. Returner Larry Anderson took Don Cockroft’s kickoff and, after getting his feet cut out from under him, clearly fumbled the ball at the Pittsburgh 18 and the Browns recovered. It set up Cockroft for a chip-shot field goal – his fourth of the day – to win the game and end the hated “Three Rivers Jinx.”

But the officials didn’t see the fumble, and there was no video replay in effect then to prove their error. So the refs gave the ball back to the Steelers, who drove down the field and won the game 15-9 on a 37-yard touchdown pass from Terry Bradshaw to tight end Bennie Cunningham on a flea-flicker play that completely fooled the Browns.

The Steelers never should have won that game on a TD pass to their tight end.

And that’s just like they should have won the game Sunday on a TD pass to their t tight end.

Justice finally was served.

Finally.

Now, was it worth the long wait?

Well, yes. Yes, it was.