All Steelers All the Time (Rich)

Welcome to the Best Available Blog. Our goal here is to publish an ongoing conversation about all things Steelers--the games, the roster, the nostalgia, the moves, and The Chin--between two lifelong Steeler fans. With "Weegie Thompson" writing from the homefront and "Rich Erenberg" writing from the nether regions of Steeler Nation, we hope to be entertaining, fun, and just about but not quite so obsessive as to screw up the rest of our lives.

We are both of the generation that was born in time, but barely, for the Super Bowl teams, and for whom AFC Championship disappointment starts with Mark Malone and Louis Lipps, not Neil O'Donnell and Barry Foster. We've seen the Woodley/Blackledge/Brister era as well as the Kordell/Kent Graham era, which makes us especially happy at the prospect of a long and prosperous Roethlisberger era. We remember "Matt Bahr a-kickin' on a Chuck Noll Super Bowl team," "Chuck Noll is building but we don't know what, I hope it ain't the Maulers," and "And if we don't get in the end zone, we'll get 3 points off of Norm Johnson's toe."

OK, enough with the stage-setting, and let the Steeler talk begin!

--Rich Erenberg