Do you have the same feeling about the steelers?

You’d think after 61 years you’d think to learn not to measure one’s fandom. I do agree there are different levels of fans (casual to diehard), but just because someone isn’t at your level doesn’t mean they’re not fans.

 

Nothing More Than.......

WOAH
WOAH
WOAH

 

Ever since the Jags playoff loss I’ve just accepted and expected mediocrity. If we couldn’t get it done with the 3 Bs it’s never happening.

Even when they started 11-0 in 2020 and everybody on here was excited. I knew…

I think it goes a lot deeper than Tomlin. Despite what everyone thinks AR2 isn’t stupid. His pops believed in parity for the league. We aren’t allowed to win 7 right now and be at the top of every era. It’s the Chiefs/Philly/Bills time right now. That’s why Tomlin is the perfect coach with his no losing seasons. Keeps us relevant and gives us false hope a few times a year but we aren’t winning a Super Bowl. Once people accept this, it becomes a lot easier to take the Ls like last night.

 

I think this is a good point. They have had miserable QB play since Ben blew his arm out in early 2019. He was never the same afterwards.

The issues with the offence (and more broadly the team) are very fixable if the Steelers had a franchise QB. Rodgers is a legend but he is a pale shadow of the former MVP that he was

Whats really getting me this year is that there are no explosive plays on offence, ever. At least last year when Russ was chucking it down to Pickens there was always a chance of a big play. That’s all gone from the playbook now because they just don’t have the personnel to do it, and they’re nowhere near efficient enough in the running and / or short passing game either. The offence is just such a hard watch now.

The only excitement on offence is when Washington gets the ball in space and runs people over.

 

The Steelers, the Pirates, the Pens , they seem to be under the same management

 

Scary times in Pittsburgh for Pro sports.

 

I believe money has ruin sports. I'm to old to get nuts over it anymore and I am proud to say I saw 14 Pro Championships and 1 NCAA Title from my small market city. Not sure I'll see another.

The city of Pittsburgh only has a total of 16 Pro Championships. Least we forget those battling Bucs of 1909 and 1925.

 

This is me big time. I barely get excited about the team anymore and not surprised by anything. I just shrug my shoulders and keep in the back of my mind it's only a game.. I am not being paid to play and have no control over the outcome.

 

If I have something to do i don't watch them, I just get tired of the same old, year after year after year.

 

No, Tomlin is the reason...doesn't go any deeper than that IMO.

Parity is good for the league, but there can only be so much parity because there are only so many franchise QBs.

Get rid of Tomlin and find a QB...until then, the Steelers are doomed.

 

It's deeper than Tomlin as the ownership keeps extending Tomlin. This clearly says ownership is happy having Tomlin-type results.

I've been in hopeless-land for a few years. Difference this year is that Tomlin Troll Team have gone into hiding in their troll holes and aren't around to constantly troll posts.

Talking about the Tomlin Troll Team, I like how they have disappeared this season... Figures they would only show up in the "good" times, call others "non-fans", and then disappear in desperate times.

Man up and posts, bitches!

 

I still cheer them on regardless of who they're playing or playoff implications but how the games go no longer effect me like they used to. 10-15 years ago, I'd get downright sick with anxiety over a game. I think this is a natural progression with age and not a result of success or lack thereof.

 

if Tomlin has a losing season--------------

 

will be right again--- it will be historic...having a losing season

 

I was born in Pittsburgh, much of my childhood memories are a cross between "Stand by Me" and "A Christmas Story"
I remember my father sitting by the radio out in the garage listening to the game.
He admired The Chief so much and because his business brought him 1:1 with Art, he walked on air those days.
The Rooney's live just down the road from us, so he was a regular sight.

My career took me to Washington, but I always was a Steeler fan, it's in the blood.
I think that back then, they bottled it in those Iron City Beers, and I would take a sip when my dad wasn't looking.

Mr Rooney gifted him tickets now and then.... those were the best of times. The Steelers were bad, but fans were different then.

It's tough for me. I've walked among the legends that played here.
I've walked among the current roster.
I don't go to all the games anymore.
But I am a modern-day version of my father, there I am sitting in from of the idiot box calling plays before they happen and solving the Steelers woes over a pizza or something with other fans.
Nothing has really changed. Sure, the coach is failing, and sometimes the team looks like crap on the field.
It's what Sundays are for.

But I will say one thing.
In Washington, the season was almost always over by game 4, they were that bad from ~2000 to 2024. That's depressing.
There is no 1"If we can win the next 2 games" at all, they crushed all hopes by week 4.
And prime time games. ewww. They would get so bad, and records were set for futility. I recall we had a 21 game losing streak to the Cowboys.... how soul crushing is that?

Hopefully, changes are made here.

 

That's fair...they do keep extending him without "Steelers standard" results.

 

Parity breeds mediocrity. Parity is garbage.

 

Don't ever disagree with my post again. Or hell will be paid!

 

I still care, but I'm also not totally unrealistic in my expectations. When things go wrong or right it's hard to get overly excited because there's no real chance of them making a deep run. They're also not the kind of team you can see as a scrappy underdog like the 1989 team.
Truth is the entire NFL product has me much less invested than I used to be. I'm just glad I got to watch the NFL when they were still allowed to really hit. I used to stay up to watch all the prime time games of the other teams. Now it's so watered down I don't bother half the time.

 

My reaction was to chuckle when I saw Rodgers nose.

 

I still watch as avidly as ever.

 

I don't believe the NFL is scripted like this, and if I ever do come to believe it, I'll likely not watch anymore. I don't need to watch pro wrestling.