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Well, Jerome Bettis is just keeping it real and Big Ben wishes he would mind his own business. Isn’t it amazing the amount of gossip that goes around whenever the Steelers are losing? If they win, not much is said and everybody is happy. If they lose, the soap opera begins in full force. So far this week we had Ryan Clark give his opinion on the media and he got hell for it and now they’re pitting Bettis and Roethlisberger against each other.

In my opinion, I don’t think Ryan Clark was out of line at all. I think he was pretty nice about it. Holy hell, don’t you think that he’s frustrated too. If I was an athlete and I had some of the incredibly stupid questions asked to me week in and week out, I would of flipped out a long time ago. I’d be knocking tables over and making an ass out of myself on a weekly basis! People would want us to get beat just to see me lose it during the post-game interviews! I always want one of them to just be honest for once. No politically correct answers or no canned responses, just real and uncut replies to the same stupid questions. It would be more entertaining than watching these games lately!

As far as Jerome and Ben, I don’t think that Bettis said anything different than what most of us were thinking anyways. He said that they lost their spirit and that they lack leadership. That’s kind of what it looked like to me against Cleveland! When I watched that game, they looked like they were lost and confused. It seems like as a past teammate, Bettis could keep those kind of comments to himself, but that’s what he gets paid for now. Jerome Bettis was just doing his job, doing what he gets paid to do. I wish we can say the same for the Steelers these last five games.

Hopefully we can win these last three games and by some remote chance still make the playoffs. I’m not holding my breath, just hoping. But if we lose, you can be sure that the soap opera will continue. We can call it “The Young And The Useless” which I won’t name any names about who the “useless” would be, because Ryan Clark might flip out. How about “The Old And The Washed Up”?

Well I’m sure that we can come up with many other fun names to belittle our beloved Steelers, but I would rather they just start winning or at least play like they are capable of playing. I like that there is a buzz around town and a lot of angry callers on the talk shows. It just means that we care and that we want them to win. Good luck Steelers. We may have a funny way of showing it, but your still our team and we support you.