"Seven days, my man. Seven days."
That's what Steve McLendon spoke in his standard soft tone to Cam Heyward in Seattle seven days earlier. I wasn't eavesdropping, mind you. It's just that the room was so silent otherwise you could have heard a playoff hope drop.
"Seven days. We've got seven days."
That's what Will Allen spoke to William Gay. This was across the room and several minutes later, but the reaction was the same and the sense of sting was the same.
No, not quite this sense of sting ...
That, of course, was Antonio Brown's instantly infamous, if not exactly, uh, inspiring celebration Sunday night following his 71-yard punt return in the Steelers' 45-10 crushing of the Colts at Heinz Field.
And no, this poor man's Peter Parker apparently had no desire to go privates first into the goalpost, though it remained wholly unclear -- maybe not even to him -- what exactly he'd hoped to achieve without the aid of a radioactive spider.
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