Archive for January, 2010

The Immaculate Reception – A Timeless Play in Steelers History

Still to this day voted as the greatest play in NFL history, the “Immaculate Reception” continues to be relived time and time again. Today for “hump day” Steelers Gab gives you a little blast from the past…a quick 2 minutes from the teams official highlight film, with the original call from the great Jack Fleming [...]

Walker: Kicker Reed Would Be Tough to Replace

There’s some free agent talk in the AFC North these days, and James Walker the blogger from ESPN is giving some thoughts on some of the “under the radar” free agents, one of which is Steelers kicker Jeff Reed: Jeff Reed Position/team: Kicker, Pittsburgh Steelers Why he’s important: As we alluded to earlier on Tuesday, [...]

Wide Out Coach Fichtner Moved to Quarterbacks Coach

On a day with a couple moves, the Steelers also announced that the club has a new quarterbacks coach, as the club has officially hired Randy Fichtner to take the role left by Ken Anderson. Fichtner had been hired by Tomlin to coach the wide receivers back in 2007. “Randy has extensive experience coaching quarterbacks [...]

Steelers Ink CFL Special Teams Ace Derrick Doggett

The Steelers are hoping to have another diamond in the rough come to the club, as the club today announced they have signed linebacker Derrick Doggett, one of the top special teams players in the Canadian Football League. The team had so many issues on special teams, that inking a solid player from Canada is [...]

Al Everest Closing in on the Special Teams Coordinator Job

We all know how bad the Steelers special teams was last season, and now the Post-Gazette reports that the club seems to have their mind made up in who will handle the special teams next: The Steelers are close to hiring a new special teams coordinator — Al Everest, who spent the past three seasons [...]

Steelers Executive Kahn Staying; Seattle Hires GB Exec as New GM

First the Steelers got some good news as Keith Butler turned down the Fins to stick around as linebackers coach, and now it looks like they are going to get more good news, as executive Omar Khan is sticking around as well. If you don’t recall, Khan was up for the GM job for the [...]

100 Things Every Steelers Fan Should Know Before They Die: Roethlisberger’s Rookie Season

In the summer of 2010, my first book will be coming out in stores entitled “100 Things Every Steelers Fan Should Know Before They Die.” The book, which is being published by Triumph Books, will be in stores next Summer and will retail for $14.95. We will have ordering info through Amazon as soon as [...]

Former Steelers Coordinator Ready to Step in for the Bills as Coach

The Bills have been looking for a coach the past few weeks, and there’s a surprise guy about to get the job, and he’s got a tie to the Steelers. Reports from FOXSports.com and the Buffalo News say that former Steelers WR and offensive coordinator Chan Gailey will be named as the new top guy [...]