Here they go, indeed. The Pittsburgh Steelers, proud as they once were, are almost back.
And I know that not because they're back in the playoffs for the first time in three years, not because it was the defense that pushed them through by crunching the Chiefs, 20-12, not because that defense is "attacking instead of guessing" in the words of Jason Worilds, not even because that defense was fueled by a fully reborn James Harrison, the facet that undoubtedly offered the most familiar feeling of all on this sunny winter's Sunday at Heinz Field.
No, I know this because they still want another piece of the Bengals.
"Want 'em bad," Ramon Foster was saying afterward. "You look at how this has been setting up for weeks now, and this is what we've wanted. Beat Cincinnati, and the division's ours. And if we get 'em again in playoffs, that's OK, too."
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