The final Monday night of Dancing with the Stars was last night and Steelers receiver Hines Ward and dance partner Kym Johnson made it another great Monday as the two danced two dances. For their week 10 performances, Ward and Johnson danced the Quickstep and a Freestyle dance that saw Ward dressed in a black and gold band member costume. Their freestyle dance earned them a perfect score of 30 while their quickstep earned them a 29 from the judges. Several Steelers teammates and former players were in the audience as Franco Harris, Lynn Swann, Jerome Bettis, James Farrior and Chris Kemoeatu were Read more [...]

There seems to be several misunderstandings out there of the timeline of events that eventually led to the Steelers not re-signing guard Alan Faneca and letting him walk following the 2007 season. I wrote a few days ago that it was a good decision based on the money wanted by Faneca and the attitude he had. I have assembled a timeline of the offseason prior to the start of the 2007 season below so everyone has a firm grasp of how those events transpired. It should be noted and no surprise that the Steelers like to extend their potential free agents the offseason before they are to enter the Read more [...]

Mike Florio was on 93.7 The Fan a week ago and was talking about the LaMarr Woodley contract situation. Florio had a quote that intrigued me when he said, “Is it the system or is it the player? Sometimes they decide it’s the player and they pay the player. Sometimes they decide it’s the system and they let the player walk away.” I went back and compiled the stats of Steelers left outside linebackers going back to 1994 and the numbers have been fairly consistent for the most part over the years. For years that players did not start all 16 games, I added the stats of the players that started Read more [...]