HOUSTON -- At some point in the reasonably near future, these Steelers will resume facing NFL-caliber competition.
Not next week, of course. The Browns are coming to town.
And dear God in heaven, it certainly didn't occur on this Christmas Day deep in the heart of Texas, where Houston's forever-.500 football franchise somehow dug up new depths of despair in the form of a 34-6 flogging that, for a bonus laugh, had the home team subjected to, uh, cheers all afternoon from an overwhelming majority of black-and-gold partisans at NRG Stadium.
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