KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- As a decorated Army Ranger and Afghanistan combat vet, Alejandro Villanueva has been through a lot worse than making a couple of lousy plays in a football game. But you wouldn't know that to have seen the man Sunday afternoon.
"Sorry, man," Villanueva told me at his stall as I approached after the Steelers' 23-13 loss to the Chiefs. "I'll be right back. I've got to shower this one off."
True to his word, he was back a few minutes later, everything all washed off but the sullen expression that clearly wasn't going anywhere.
"When you give up a sack and put them in a drive to win the game, and then give up a strip-fumble, it's a terrible feeling," Villanueva said of his NFL starting debut in place of Kelvin Beachum. "Especially since it's the first sack I've given up going one-on-one."
He was referring to Kansas City veteran Tamba Hali's second sack of the day, the one in the fourth quarter that forced the ball loose from Landry Jones:
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