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(The Burgh - January 22, 2007) - After a wild weekend of speculation and rumor, the Pittsburgh Steelers finally made it official today and formally announced that a press conference will be held at 3:30pm to introduce the new head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers - Mike Tomlin. The press release can be seen at Steelers.com , while the press conference audio comes from the

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(The Burgh - January 21, 2007) - After a wild day of rumor and speculation which included Mike Prisuta standing by his story that Russ Grimm would be named the new head coach of the Steelers, it appears as if the story has been removed from the Pittsburgh Tribune Review's home page around 9:15pm Sunday evening.With Prisuta's story removed, it seems more and more likely that Mike Tomlin will, in

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(The Burgh - January 21, 2007) - While the rest of us watched the AFC & NFC Championship games today, the rumors on who will be the next Steelers coach were flying fast & furious. To quash continued speculation on who would be the next coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the official site of the Steelers - www.steelers.com - posted a short, but sweet, message on the site eary Sunday morning

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(The Burgh - January 20, 2007) - Although the Pittsburgh Steelers have not formally announced who the next head coach will be, I am pleased to tell you it will be.....Mike Tomlin AND Russ Grimm. If you don't believe me, then read the conflicting reports by SI, ESPN, and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, all who claim getting the inside scoop by infamous, unnamed "sources". Although, the Pittsburgh

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(The Burgh - November 17, 2006) - Although the Steelers-Browns rivalry isn't what it once was, this weekend's match-up has the added drama of being the "Battle of the Basement" (of the AFC North). It's been a while since both of these teams have met for the first time in the season with equal records (3-6). For those of you going to the game, keep a lookout for Cleveland's finest - the Bone Lady

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(The Burgh – November 3, 2006) – Earlier this year, Stillers fans were asked to select the best phrase from 4 options for the new version of the fight song: “Here We Go”. After witnessing the team's play recently, maybe the song should be changed to “There We Went”.Needless to say, it’s been a rough year around town and Week 9 brings us the consistently good Denver Broncos, who are very familiar

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(The Burgh - October 31, 2006) - Halloween came and went along with a couple of roster spots in Stillers Nation. As expected, surgery will end the season for both FB Verron Haynes and LB Arnold Harrison, who are both expected to go under the knife sometime this week. Haynes will be first to have his ACL repaired with a procedure scheduled for tomorrow while Harrison will have to wait until the

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(The Burgh - October 30, 2006) - When it seemed things couldn't get worse, the defending Super Bowl Champs played more like chumps en route to literally handing (or should we say, tossing) the 1-5 Oakland Raiders their second victory in as many weeks. Although the Steelers outgained the Raiders by nearly 3:1, two (of four) bonehead Big Ben interceptions resulted in TDs for the Silver & Black

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(The Burgh - October 27, 2006) - With nearly half the season over, the Steelers find themselves a few games under .500, along with a tough road ahead, including games against 5-1's Denver & New Orleans and 4-2's Baltimore (twice) & Cincinnati. That's 5 of the final 8 games against teams with a combined 22-8 record. Fortunately, 3 of those games are at Heinz Field - the only place Ws seem to

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(The Burgh - October 26, 2006) If this Stillers season hasn't had enough of the Monday night, Sunday night, and Thursday night games, mixed in with a healthy dose of 4:15pm starts in Oakland and at home against Denver... now comes the topper. For whatever reason (and we're assuming a purely financial one associated with the surging Saints), the NFL has now moved the home game against the New

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(The Burgh - October 5, 2006) - Another week, another evening kick-off. I personally don't mind evening games, but it's definitely been difficult to get into the 2006 NFL Season when your team starts off 1-2 and plays 3 of its first 4 games at a time other than Sunday at 1pm EST.After a week off, Stillers Nation is chomping at the bit to shut the collective traps of all the hatas around the

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(The Burgh - September 20, 2006) - Click here for the Pittsburgh Channel's downloadable .mp3 podcast of Coach Bill Cowher's Weekly Press Conference from Tuesday, September 19, 2006 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Topics include: The debacle in Jacksonville Monday evening; the upcoming division battle against the Cincinnati Bengals this Sunday afternoon at 1pm; and an injury update.

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(The Burgh - September 19, 2006) - Well, as my Pops used to say: "if you ain't got nothin' good to say, then don't say anything". Oh, how true. However, Stillers Nation must give props to two defenses that played one helluva game last night. The Steelers win most games when the defense holds the opponent to 9 points. Unfortunately, that didn't hold true last night.In the lowest scoring game in

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(The Burgh - September 15, 2006) - Another week, another prime-time game for the Pittsburgh Steelers. After premiering last Thursday evening on NBC, the Steelers will play their 2nd game of the young 2006 season once again in front of a national audience on ESPN's Monday Night Football next Monday evening.Next up are the Jacksonville Jaguars, a team that has always found a way to keep the

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(The Burgh - September 8, 2006) - Well, the season opener is behind us, but I can't think of a better way for the Steelers to kick-off the 2006 NFL season than what I witnessed less than 12 hours ago. It was a beautiful night in the Burgh - and the 99 Bananas was flowing during the tailgate to get me into "game shape".The contest had its highs and lows, but the fourth quarter was one of the best

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(The Burgh - September 6, 2006) - As if hearing about how the refs handed the Steelers Super Bowl XL by John Madden the other night wasn't enough, now come the naysayers who say the Steelers have no chance to repeat in Super Bowl XLI. Stillers Nation has seen numerous articles [1] [2] [3], most of which don't even have the defending Super Bowl Champs winning the division. And then there is

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(The Burgh - September 3, 2006) - As has been widely reported on 6 o'clock local news in Pittsburgh, Ben Roethlisberger will miss the home opener this Thursday and most likely the first several games of the season, due to an emergency appendectomy earlier today. After Ben complained about a pain near his stomach this morning, he was rushed to Pittsburgh's Presbyterian Hospital where doctors

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(The Burgh – September 1, 2006) – Well, the pre-season is now behind us and the Steelers finished with a perfect record. Unfortunately, the perfect mark appeared in the wrong column and the Steelers finished their first pre-season since 1987 without a single victory. Not that it really matters.Going into last night’s game, we knew that most of the starters would not be playing. And a few players

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(The Burgh - August 24, 2006) - Click here for the Pittsburgh Channel's downloadable .mp3 podcast of Coach Bill Cowher's Weekly Press Conference from Wednesday, August 23, 2006 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.Topics include: The upcoming pre-season matchup against the Philadelphia Eagles this Friday evening at 8pm; and an injury update on Hines Ward, Chukky Okobi, Deshea Townsend and Jerame Tuman.

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(The Burgh – August 22, 2006) – After watching the Seattle Seahawks / Indianapolis Colts pre-season game the other night, some Steelers fans (yunz truly was one of them) were taken aback by some of the comments made by John Madden regarding the officiating during Super Bowl XL.This coming from a man who knows damn well about ass-whuppins handed out by the Pittsburgh Steelers. For those of you

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(The Burgh - August 18, 2006) - As if the Pittsburgh Steelers haven't had enough to deal with this off-season, including: Big Ben's near-death motorcycle accident, Santonio Holmes multiple arrests [1] [2], Barrett Brooks' audition for COPS, Chukky Okobi's neck injury, Coach Cowher's purported retirement after this season, and Big Ben's thumb injury, now Stillers Nation is hearing more than enough

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(The Burgh - August 17, 2006) - Click here for the Pittsburgh Channel's downloadable .mp3 podcast of Coach Bill Cowher's Weekly Press Conference from Thursday, August 17, 2006 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Topics include: Big Ben's thumb injury; the upcoming pre-season home opener against the Minnesota Vikings this Saturday evening at Heinz Field; and other questions related to the Steelers' 2006

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(The Burgh – August 17. 2006) – The 2006 Pittsburgh Steelers have 19 of 22 starters returning (only losing receiver Antwaan Randle El, defensive end Kimo von Oelhoffen and safety Chris Hope), so most starting jobs aren’t up for grabs during this year’s training camp and pre-season. However, there are some positional battles that are unfolding as the halfway point of the pre-season nears.Punter –

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(The Burgh - August 15, 2006) - After signing CB Ike Taylor to a one-year contract extension this past May for $1,573,000, the Steelers have unsuccessfully tried to negotiate a long-term deal. The reason seems to be Ike and his agent, Scott Smith, are looking for a signing bonus in the "eight figure" range, similar to other deals top corners in the league have recently inked, including:Green Bay

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(The Burgh – August 12, 2006) – Although the final score did not favor the Steelers in today’s loss to the Arizona Cardinals, there were a lot of first’s and positives that came out of the game, including: First game ever in Arizona’s beautiful new $465 million-dollar Cardinals Stadium with a movable field – the first of its kind. For games, the field is moved indoors, and while not in use, the

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