Just because it’s 17ºF and very windy doesn’t mean it’s not a great idea to sit outside for three and a half hours, drink overpriced but crappy beer, and watch the Steelers beat up on one of the worst teams in football. Actually, it’s quite fun.

A coworker of mine had procured some of us tickets to the game. I was glad to have the opportunity to go because I’m not sure if I’ll be around these parts for another football season and I can’t leave Pittsburgh without having seen the Steelers in person at least once. The final score was 27-7. It probably should have been 27-0, but the refs failed to call a fumble on the part of the Browns late in the forth quarter. The replays made it look pretty clear, but when you’ve got less than 7 minutes left in the game, and you’re ahead by 27-0, it’d probably just be sort of a dick thing to do to throw the red flag.

Willie Parker had quite the game too. He’s now the first Steelers running back since Bettis to have two consecutive 1,000 yard rushing seasons, the first Steelers running back to have two 200 yard rushing games in their career, and he set the all time Steelers record for rushing yards in one game with something like 223 yards.

It wasn’t a very interesting game in the “who’s going to win” sort of way; the Browns just never really started playing. But it was really good to see the team play well again. If they could have only been in this groove a month and a half ago…

At any rate, I really don’t have anything insightful to say about this. So I’ll stop now.

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