Subject: Pittsburgh Steelers

• The Next Head Coach of the Dallas Cowboys Will Be ...

  January 23, 2007

• You Know Who Likes Terrell Owens? Canadians. Dunno Why. Just Do.

  December 19, 2006

• Who Owns "America's Team"?

  October 27, 2006

• The Late Show

  June 15, 2006

• America's Schedule

  April 6, 2006

• Small Steps

  March 29, 2006

• A Forgotten Documentary About Super Bowl X, Starring a Topless Rayfield Wright, Phyllis George and Bill Murray

  July 7, 2008

• NFL Preview: The Quarterbacks

  September 3, 2008

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 4

  September 23, 2008

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 6

  October 7, 2008

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 8

  October 21, 2008

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 9

  October 28, 2008

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 10

  November 4, 2008

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 11

  November 11, 2008

• Dallas Cowboys Are No. 1! At Least in Something.

  November 12, 2008

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 12

  Not Tony Romo’s best day. But better than Brad Johnson. By a mile. Okay, I’ve got a long-distance, work-related field trip today so let’s get to it. Just for fun, let’s reveal ‘em in reverse order. Extrapolates the drama and all. Where you guys think Graham Harrell and Sam Bradford would fall on this list? 32. JaMarcus Russell – Raiders 31. Marc Bulger – Rams 30. Matt Hassellbeck -- Seahawks 29. Tyler Thigpen – Chiefs 28. Sage Rosenfels – Texans 27.

  November 18, 2008

• You Betcha: Week 13

  Something I never envisioned typing along my life’s journey: Thank you, Martellus Bennett. But because of the backup tight end’s athletic, dramatic touchdown grab in Washington last week I’m still in bidness. Barely. Down a cool $7,500 this season, but in better shape than the poor schmucks who got hosed on Steelers-Chargers last week. You familiar? In short, on the game’s final play the Chargers attempted to lateral their way out of an 11-10 deficit, but instead Pittsbu

  November 21, 2008

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 14

     Homer this.   Despite missing three games with a broken pinkie, Dallas Cowboys' quarterback Tony Romo leads all NFL quarterbacks in:   *QB Rating (103.2)   *Average yards per pass attempt (8.5)   *TD-Interception ratio ( 13)   If you watched his 331-yard, three-touchdown performance on Thanksgiving, there's no doubt Romo is back to being Romo. Which is great news for the Cowboys, and bad news for the quarterbacks he's leap-frogging i

  December 2, 2008

• Cowboys 115, Steelers 55

  I hear we've matriculated from MySpace to Facebook, right?Well, screw me. I never got around to creating a MySpace page. Was reminded why today.Don't tell the teens and the 'tweens - or my wife - but something about the whole deal strikes as, um, ridiculously fraudulent.Like, for example, the fact that there are  exactly 72 profiles using the handle, photos and persona of "Tony Romo".A little digging and I uncovered that the Cowboys may no longer be America's Team, but, compared to Sunday's

  December 4, 2008

• The Top 10 Sports Zingers I Can Think of Off the Top of My Head

  Not saying Sean Avery isn't an asshole. Or a horrible teammate. Or, for that matter, a room-wrecker the Dallas Stars should consider dumping.I'm just saying he shouldn't have been suspended - or worse, pending this afternoon's meeting with NHL poobah Gary Bettman in New York - merely for his "sloppy seconds" zinger.It was a classic barb. Years from now Stars' fans - shoot, all sports fans - will associate sloppy seconds with him. As in, "Dude, don't go home with her. Unless you want to be Phaneu

  December 4, 2008

• You Betcha: Week 15

  If Marion Barber was healthy. If Ben Roethlisberger was healthy. If Felix Jones and Miles Austin and Kyle Kosier were all 100 percent for Sunday's Cowboys-Steelers game.Oh yeah, and if the field wasn't a patch of slippery sod slop out of a Saving Private Ryan battle scene.If all those were in play, I'd feel comfortable about Dallas plus 3 points in Pittsburgh. No doubt that, at equal strength, the Cowboys are a better team. With Tony Romo in uniform Dallas is 7-2 with losses only in overtime at

  December 5, 2008

• Stealers 20, Cowbrrrs 13

  On a day when Wade Phillips looked like George Costanza stuffed in his Gortex coat and on a day when Tony Romo looked like Brad Johnson draped in his four turnovers, the Dallas Cowboys still looked like a playoff team. Until the final 12 minutes, that is. On a brutally Pittsburghish day, the Cowboys outplayed the Steelers until it mattered in a demoralizing 20-13 loss. Dallas led 13-3 and stopped Pittsburgh on fourth-and-goal from the 1 with 12:20 remaining. Rookie Tashard Choice was surp

  December 7, 2008

• The Jessica Jinx? Okay, What Then?

  How do you explain Tony Romo's worst game as a Dallas Cowboy? A) Cold, windy, atrocious throwing weather. B) Absence of his pinkie splint. C) Steelers' No. 1-ranked defense. D) The Jessica Jinx. In yesterday's excruciating 20-13 loss in Pittsburgh, Romo was down right putrid. He looked like a kid running around just to keep warm, not necessarily to make positive plays. He was like a baseball pitcher with a flaw in his mechanics. High and wide all day. Worse, his ball security was amateurish.

  December 8, 2008

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 15

  Okay, I'm swamped up to here penning a cover story about a former Cowboy you haven't thought about in a long time, so let's make this snappy. Besides, isn't it best to eat your crow on the run? After praising Cowboys' quarterback Tony Romo in a swath of I-told-you-so's last week, he went out and looked like the goofball from the worst flag football team you ever played on. Goofy grins. Running to the heater between plays. Sailing passes. Fumbling. Throwing high and wide intercep

  December 9, 2008

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 16

  Tony Romo, all is forgiven. At least for a week. After one of the most Gawd-awful performances of his career - or, let's face it, any career - in Pittsburgh, the Cowboys' quarterback went out Sunday night and padded his legacy with a game straight from Hollywood. Aching back and nagging teammates be damned, Romo willed Dallas to a crucial victory over the Giants by throwing two touchdowns, committing zero turnovers and withstanding four brutal sacks. Two more games like that and

  December 16, 2008

• Final NFL Quarterback Rankings

  According to the Pro Bowl, Peyton Manning and Kurt Warner are the two best NFL quarterbacks of 2008. According to me, nonsense. Warner has the best receivers in the league and throws in the worst division in football. Manning was steady, but hardly spectacular. My rankings, which take into account quarterback rating, team record, TD-to-Int differential and which way the wind's blowing, culminate today. And my winner - surprise - ain't even headed to Hawaii. 32. Dan Orlovsky - Lions 31

  December 23, 2008

• 10 Questions: Fitzgerald Dodd

  For a chef now dedicated to "upscaled" Southern cooking, Dodd trained in some unusual settings.Before opening the acclaimed Screen Door in One Arts Plaza, he learned the gumbo trade at Brennan's in Houston, worked alongside Southwestern pioneer Stephan Pyles, played with all the toys money--and Voltaire--could buy, and so on. His resume includes time at Hotel ZaZa and running his own catering company.This is one hard-working chef, who would love to make you eat hogshead cheese...

  January 29, 2009

• The Top 10 Best Super Bowl Commercials in the History of My Memory

  Go Daddy made me giggle at its "wardrobe malfunction." But, nope, not on the list.No Cowboys? No problem. We're still watching Sunday's Super Bowl, right? Still ingesting chips, dips, beer, bets on the coin flip and, of course, commercials. When our rooting interests are between a 9-7 Cardinals team led by a gloved quarterback and a coaching staff littered with former Cowboy assistants, and a Steelers team trying to pass Dallas with its sixth trophy, the ads are about

  January 29, 2009

• Discounting Super Sunday

  Are you ready for some football? You better be, because you're going to get some! Sunday is Superbowl XLIII, and the Pittsburgh Steelers square off against the Arizona Cardinals in Tampa Bay, Fla. Assuming you don't socialize with NFL sponsors and thus can't make it over to the Sunshine State yet don't want to watch at home, there are other options. Uptown favorite Frankie's Sports Bar and Grill will have drink specials all day and through the evening while hosting the game on more than 50 pl

  January 29, 2009

• Burning Question: Which Super Bowl City Has The Best Food?

  Actually, this question came to us as your basic "who will win the Super Bowl" sort of thing, presumably hoping for some insight from our crew's most recent has-been athlete. (See photo).Dave Faries almost gets away with an ill-advised spin move during a Prague Lions practice session last spring.But we're charged with covering the food scene. And since an incident last week--of which we have no recollection but involved alleged calls made from our editor's phone--left us with plenty of time (bei

  January 30, 2009

• 43 Observations About Super Bowl XLIII

  To the victor go the spoils. Right, Hines?Steelers 27, Cardinals 23: Best Super Bowl ever? Santonio Holmes' tip-toe TD: Best Super Bowl catch ever? The Boss: Best Super Bowl halftime show ever? Better late than never, I've got XLIII thoughts about Super Bowl 43: 43. Gotta make it snappy. My free Grand Slam at Denny's is calling. 42. If you watched the Australian Open final, you saw Roger Federer break down into tears after losing to Rafael Nadal. Which begs the question, "After

  February 3, 2009

• Black out

  February 26, 1998

• A fan's sour notes

  November 26, 1998

• As General Motors Tries to Move Cars Off the Lot, It Turns to One Local Saturn Dealer

  Saturn of North Texas managing partner Jim Smith in one of two G.M. national ad spotsJim Smith's been a hard man to track down this a.m. -- though, seeing as how he divides his time between his three Saturn dealerships (in Irving, Lewisville and Plano), that's completely understandable. (And, as a former wide receiver for the USFL's Birmingham Stallions and the Pittsburgh Steelers and Oakland Raiders, he is, by instinct, elusive.) But we do have good reason for wanting to speak with Smith, who,

  March 19, 2009

• Mojito Bowl

  January 22, 2009

• Cowboys' Winter Wonderland

  Can Jerry's boys turn around the December jinx?

  December 4, 2008

• Fallen Star

  A small town turns away from a football hero convicted of drug crimes

  September 7, 2000

• Screen Steelers

  February 2, 2006

• Play It Forward

  Sports' smallest acts often come laced with giant implications

  February 2, 2006

• Odds and Ends

  The more things change, the more we try to keep up

  January 3, 2002

• A Love-Hate Relationship?

  Flipping through the whatweredoin.com blog the other day, I came across a discussion of our Top Ten Overrated Restaurants that included this comment from "Bread Winners": "Interesting that not a week later, City of Ate...named us one of 'Uptowns 10 Best Patios.' They love us, they hate us, they love to hate us." Funny how often restaurateurs--and for the sake of this post I'll believe these are the thoughts of someone in Bread Winners' management--assume critics have something against them. Th

  July 20, 2009

• Radio Daze: 7.22.09

  Let's see, what went down on the dial while I was ransacking the craps table at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas? *Weird story about Pittsburgh Steelers' quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Not that he's accused of sexual assault. That happens. The bizarre twist is that ESPN - your worldwide leader - has decided to totally ignore it. Same network that went wall-to-wall with Kobe Bryant's similar situation, the way I remember it. Something smells fishy here. ESPN head honchos in Bristol, Conn.

  July 22, 2009

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 1

  ​Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings - if I had one of those little encircled R's to signify a trademarked idea, it'd go here - the criteria is everything, nothing and all that's in between. Past performance and future potential is considered, but mostly - like college football's weekly Top 25 - it's

  September 15, 2009

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 5

  ​Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings - if I had one of those little encircled R's to signify a trademarked idea, it'd go here - the criteria is everything, nothing and all that's in between. Past performance and future potential is considered, but mostly - like college football's weekly Top 25 - it's

  October 7, 2009

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 6

  ​Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings - if I had one of those little encircled R's to signify a trademarked idea, it'd go here - the criteria is everything, nothing and all that's in between. Past performance and future potential is considered, but mostly - like college football's weekly Top 25 - it's

  October 14, 2009

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 7

  ​Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings - if I had one of those little encircled R's to signify a trademarked idea, it'd go here - the criteria is everything, nothing and all that's in between. Past performance and future potential is considered, but mostly - like college football's weekly Top 25 - it's

  October 20, 2009

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 8

  ​Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings - if I had one of those little encircled R's to signify a trademarked idea, it'd go here - the criteria is everything, nothing and all that's in between. Past performance and future potential is considered, but mostly - like college football's weekly Top 25 - it's

  October 27, 2009

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 9

  ​Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings - if I had one of those little encircled R's to signify a trademarked idea, it'd go here - the criteria is everything, nothing and all that's in between. Past performance and future potential is considered, but mostly - like college football's weekly Top 25 - it's

  November 3, 2009

• NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 9

  ​Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings - if I had one of those little encircled R's to signify a trademarked idea, it'd go here - the criteria is everything, nothing and all that's in between. Past performance and future potential is considered, but mostly - like college football's weekly Top 25 - it's

  November 10, 2009

• NFL Quarterback Ratings: Week 10

  ​Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings - if I had one of those little encircled R's to signify a trademarked idea, it'd go here - the criteria is everything, nothing and all that's in between. Past performance and future potential is considered, but mostly - like college football's weekly Top 25 - it's

  November 17, 2009