Five or six times over the past few months, I’ve sat down and tried to pen my thoughts on the latest news about the NFL lockout. Every time I’ve failed. It’s not that I wouldn’t be upset if there is no 2011 season or that I don’t pay attention to the news. I would be […]

While the NFL Network’s ongoing series profiling the top 100 NFL players of today has been interesting to follow, I’ve been equally curious on Peter King’s top 100 list. The SI writer his been delivering his picks each week in his column. King gets a lot of criticism from people — some of it deserved […]

Every year, EA Sports adds a few different things into Madden, their NFL franchise. This year the big thing is Dynamic Player Performance. It’s a pretty radical update to the traditional attributes used in the Madden franchise. In the past, players in the game are given scores on things like agility, speed, throwing power, etc. […]

Plaxico Burress will be released from prison on June 6th. He’ll also be reinstated into the NFL by Roger Goodell and will be a free agent.  Burress will be 34 years old and hasn’t played a snap of football since the 2008 season. Plenty of teams will still be interested in him. Should the Steelers […]

I didn’t watch the show a single time (including the finale). I also vowed not to post anything about it on the blog, but since Hines won the whole thing we at least owe him this much.  He’s come a long way. http://youtube.com/watch?v= 02f809wc8Oc[/youtube] Congrats Hines!  EDIT: Always amusing, here are Chad Ochocinco’s thoughts on […]

Bill Cowher and the Pittsburgh Steelers won the Superbowl to conclude the 2005 NFL season, and much of that squad still remains intact. Star players like Ben Roethlisberger, Troy Polamalu, and Hines Ward are all still performing at a high level for the black and gold. But there are 33 players that were in Detroit […]

Bill Cowher and the Pittsburgh Steelers won the Superbowl to conclude the 2005 NFL season, and much of that squad still remains intact. Star players like Ben Roethlisberger, Troy Polamalu, and Hines Ward are all still performing at a high level for the black and gold. But there are 33 players that were in Detroit […]

Bill Cowher and the Pittsburgh Steelers won the Superbowl to conclude the 2005 NFL season, and much of that squad still remains intact. Star players like Ben Roethlisberger, Troy Polamalu, and Hines Ward are all still performing at a high level for the black and gold. But there are 33 players that were in Detroit […]

Bill Cowher and the Pittsburgh Steelers won the Superbowl to conclude the 2005 NFL season, and much of that squad still remains intact. Star players like Ben Roethlisberger, Troy Polamalu, and Hines Ward are all still performing at a high level for the black and gold. But there are 33 players that were in Detroit […]

Bill Cowher and the Pittsburgh Steelers won the Superbowl to conclude the 2005 NFL season, and much of that squad still remains intact. Star players like Ben Roethlisberger, Troy Polamalu, and Hines Ward are all still performing at a high level for the black and gold. But there are 33 players that were in Detroit […]

All-time Steeler great Alan Faneca has decided to call it career. The Steelers’ first round pick in 1998 out of LSU, Faneca was the best player on the Steelers’ offensive line for a decade, highlighted with a Superbowl championship in 2005 (Max Starks is the only remaining player from the 2005 starting line). Faneca is […]

http://youtube.com/watch?v= CmrXMAmcWSg[/youtube] Sad day for Pittsburgh sports. Kenny Geidel, better known as Cotton Candy Guy at Pens games or Lemonade Guy at Pirates games, passed away today.  His voice was the soundtrack to many summer nights for me at PNC Park and winter evenings in Civic Arena. If everybody was as passionate and as professional […]

First podcast of the offseason talking about all kinds of things. We recap the draft, talk about Rashard Mendenhall’s tweets, NFL scheduling, Madden, training camp, Super Bowl etc Music: Blackbird Blackbird – “Hawaii(Niva Remix)”

Technically the name “Blitzburgh Blog” only implies Steeler coverage. We watch all the Pittsburgh sports. We came from WPIAL high schools and we root for them. Bam and Matt are loyal to Penn State, while Brian is attending the University of Pittsburgh. As such, we may be tempted to post about our alma maters once […]

I promised myself yesterday that I wasn’t going to write a single word about Rashard Mendenhall’s Twitter comments on Osama bin Laden, but this has become a much bigger story than I had imagined it would. The Pittsburgh papers all picked up the story this morning and now the national media is talking about it […]