WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- It takes a lot to get people in this part of the world talking about Pittsburgh's football team when Pittsburgh's hockey team is in town, but the buzz over the Steelers' loss in Baltimore was everywhere from sports bars to the MTS Centre concourse before the Penguins and Jets faced off.
"Rough day for Pittsburgh already, eh?" I overheard one blue-clad fan say to another.
"Oh, yeah," the other came back. "I couldn't believe that."
They, of course, had no clue as to how bad it really was. They couldn't have.
It's not just that the Steelers committed maybe the greatest collective gag of the Mike Tomlin era. Or that Baltimore had 19 guys on injured reserve and were down to a fourth-string quarterback plucked off a playground somewhere. Or even that the Ravens had precious little motivation while the visitors had everything on the line.
No, it's that Tomlin, if we're searching beyond the symptoms for an actual cause, had his hat handed to him by John Harbaugh.
Again.
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