The video below is Tennessee Titan running back, Lendale White, cleaning the muck off his cleats with a Pittsburgh Steeler Terrible Towel after the Titans beat the Steelers, 31-17 on Sunday. Former Steeler coach and current CBS studio analyst, Bill Cowher was not amused, however.
"That looks like a pregame talk the night before to me," Cowher said, his eyes lighting up and his voice rising. "If [we'd] meet in the postseason, I know what I'm pulling out the night before the game."
Cowher admonished White by saying, "You've got to learn. ... I wouldn't do this, I wouldn't go there," and said Bulluck should know better because "you are a veteran, Bulluck."
Of course, nothing like this ever happened when one Joey Eugene Porter (now of the Miami Dolphins) played for Cowher. Aside from all that, the best way to curtail this sort of untoward behavior though is to not get your teeth kicked in by 17 points. That usually does the trick.
Headline guaranteed to spill coffee:
Confident Chargers focused on postseason
We would like to remind the Chargers that they will be inconvenienced one remaining time as they will actually have to close out the “meaningless” regular season with a victory over the free-falling Denver Broncos on Sunday in order to take their sorry 8-8 record into the post season.
“We're starting to develop a little swagger about ourselves,” linebacker Shaun Phillips said. “We're starting to put everything together. . . . Teams should be nervous.”
We freely admit that there is a small part of us that hopes the Chargers lose on Sunday night. That quote by Phillips illustrates the mentality that has existed on this team for the last 4-5 years. It seems that once a year, after a bad start to the regular season or bad stretch of games, we hear from the Chargers about how they got a little ahead of themselves, started reading the press clippings and lost focus, etc., etc., Unfortunately, we get these stories and these lines every single year because they never seem to learn – the lessons of not getting over-confident and retaining one’s focus appears to be completely lost on these guys.
And a win on Sunday night will only serve to further re-enforce the notion that the Chargers can just coast through half the season, flip a switch and… ta-da!… Playoffs!
And to help matters, the money thinks the Chargers only have to show up and the Broncos will roll over as the Chargers are currently 8-1/2 point favorites.
And the irony is that after going 4-8, win or lose, the Chargers have probably done just enough to save head coach, Norv Turner's job. Yaaay!
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To me, that headline is a sure sign that they're going to lose Sunday. If I were a betting man, I'd bet the house against them if I thought the U-T was accurate.
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