Nitpicky item of the week
Jerome Bettis has a column featured on the homepage of Sports Illustrated today, with the tagline:
What's wrong with the Steelers?
Tough to pinpoint their problems.
I'm sorry. But why -- other than the fact that it is authored by literary marvel and former running back Jerome Bettis -- would I click on that link? I mean, it might as well read:
What's wrong with the Steelers?
I don't know.
- Jerome Bettis
I mean, this is the kind of stuff that often forces me to remove myself from the presence of all sports-related media, which has exceedingly become an unstoppable avalanche of nothingness.
Now granted, I didn't actually click on the link, so it may very well contain an in-depth and accurate assessment of what is ailing the Pittsburgh Steelers and a viable solution, the toughness in pinpointing this information notwithstanding.
Wait. I clicked on it. It doesn't. But it does include the line:
I wish I knew the answers, Steelers fans.
No worries, Jerome. We can't all have the answers when it comes to the age-old question of: Why have the Steelers lost several football games in a row? The point is that you tried. Kind of. But not really.
What's wrong with the Steelers?
Tough to pinpoint their problems.
I'm sorry. But why -- other than the fact that it is authored by literary marvel and former running back Jerome Bettis -- would I click on that link? I mean, it might as well read:
What's wrong with the Steelers?
I don't know.
- Jerome Bettis
I mean, this is the kind of stuff that often forces me to remove myself from the presence of all sports-related media, which has exceedingly become an unstoppable avalanche of nothingness.
Now granted, I didn't actually click on the link, so it may very well contain an in-depth and accurate assessment of what is ailing the Pittsburgh Steelers and a viable solution, the toughness in pinpointing this information notwithstanding.
Wait. I clicked on it. It doesn't. But it does include the line:
I wish I knew the answers, Steelers fans.
No worries, Jerome. We can't all have the answers when it comes to the age-old question of: Why have the Steelers lost several football games in a row? The point is that you tried. Kind of. But not really.
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