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To start things off, the NFL has released the inactive list for today's game...
Pittsburgh inactives:
Troy Polamalu SS, Dennis Dixon QB - Third quarterback, Keenan Lewis CB, Willie Parker RB, Kraig Urbik G, Tony Hills T, Shaun McDonald, WR, Nick Eason DE
Detroit inactives:
Matthew Stafford QB - Third quarterback, Ko Simpson SS, Terrelle Smith FB, Dylan Gandy C, Gosder Cherilus T, Sammie Lee Hill DT, Dewayne White DE
My first thought: Shaun McDonald is still in the league? Seriously?
My second thought: The Lions have 5 starters out? They're dooooomed. Then again, what if all 5 starters were healthy? They'd still be dooooomed.
If you are looking for the Pittsburgh side of things, which I'm sure will be mostly pointing at the Lions and laughing their asses off at their chubby QB, check out fellow Bloguin blogs Pittsburgh Sports and Mini-Ponies and Blitzburgh Blog for deep insight on the Steelers. Such as...
Um...yeah.
I'll be moving on now.
Dick Enberg: "Super Bowl champions do get road support." No shit, Mr. Oh, My.
And at 12:53PM, Enberg brings up the 19 game losing streak. Immediately afterwards, Dan Fouts talks up Ford Field being overrun with drunken, unwashed Steelers fans. (Well, I'm the one who came up with drunken and unwashed...) Before the game has even started, they are working the BLATANTLY OBVIOUS angles.
CBS is LIVE from a sold-out Ford Field with the Enberg and Fouts combo, while I'm LIVE from TWFE HQ! Lions will kick off, and we're ready to go1
Did Enberg just say "Ford's Field?"
We have out first big play, Steelers face a 3rd and 5 at the 28. Roethesbuurgerrrs pass is broken up by Eric King!
Steelers punt to...Dennis Northcutt? Oh, yeah, Derrick Williams is returning kickoffs, not punts.
First play from scrimmage: Culpepper is flushed from the pocket, sacked from behind, fumbles, recovers his own fumble. loses 4 yards. Wonderful.
3rd and long, Culpepper wants to throw...flushed from the pocket...again...BIG HOLE! He's off, pointing at Steelers to block, and rumbles for 32 yards to the Steelers 48! OMFG! Wow, when did Chubs get some of his speed back?
On 3rd and 10, after ANOTHER Culpepper fumble, he's back to throw..screen to Morris...he has blockers! Morris is all the way to the Steelers 30! There's a FLAG. Shit.
But...it's picked up! Lions 1st and 10. This has turned into a very, very nice drive to start the game! I'm actually HAPPY.
Happy Al!
But the drive stalls at the 25, as Culpepper misfires on a 3rd down pass to Pettigrew. It's time for Jason Hanson.
Cake from 46 out, 3-0 Lions!
Wait...As CBS was going to break, Enberg says there's a flag? Steelers offsides, which would have put the Lions thisdamnclose to a 1st down. But The Schwartz won't take the points off the board, won't even ask for a measurement?
So it's still 3-0 Lions.
We'll see if that decision returns to bite the Lions on the ass. For some reason, I think it will.
After the kick off, 2 Rothlessburggerr passes have the Steelers near midfield. Lions tackling has been...Wolverines-like. That means "BAD," for those of you not following college football.
The bad tackling continues, as Mendenhall breaks a tackle at the line of scrimmage, and sprints for 27 yards, and deep into Detroit territory at the 28. Wonder-fucking-ful.
2nd and long, Rotthlessberger to Ward gets the Steelers inside the 10. Ward pushed the Lions' DB backward damn near 10 yards after getting hit..."hit" being a relative term. More like "tried to get in his way quite unsuccessfully."
Then it's Mendenhall, untouched. around right end for a far too easy TD. The Lions defense was God awful on the drive, with missed tackles galore.
Steel Curtain leads 7-0.
We see Williams return kicks for the first time, and it's not half bad, as he's across the 35! Yea, Lions?
A Smith run and Megatron catch leave the Lions 3rd and 1. Big play? Maybe...
Smith plows off tackle for 4 yards and the 1st.
Culpepper to throw...has time...it's the other Johnson, Bryant, at the Steelers 39!
Culpepper will pass again...It's FELTON wide open in a middle seam! He's inside the Steelers 10! Great play!
Culpepper will pass for thr 3rd straight time...pressured...rolls right, back left...throws the ball out of bounds. FLAG. You gotta be kidding me! Intentional grounding? HUH? He was running all over the damn backfield! Refs claim he never left the tackle box, which I find hard to believe, as Culpepper is as wide as the tackle box itself.
SHITSHITSHIT. Calvin Johnson is getting "treatment" on the sidelines.
3rd and goal, might as be 3rd and forever, from the 27. Culpepper's pass isn't even close to being completed.
Hanson comes on, drills it thru from 40+ again. There's some confusion as to a flag, not even the CBS crew knows what's what, but in the end, the 3 points stay on the board.
The Lions, as is their wont, settle. They get 3, 7-6 Steelers still lead.
We see a CBS spotlight replay on new wedge buster Zack Follett, and he does his job well, as the Steelers will start at the 25.
Steelers face a 3rd and 4, with just over a minute left in the 1st. As if it was ever in question, Rothhlessberger hits Holmes for the easy 1st down at the 36. Cake, indeed.
Mendenhall crosses the 40 as the clock runs out on the 1st quarter.
The Lions' offense has been solid, the defense, not so much. But the offense, as always, can't finish, settling for 2 long field goals.FRUSTRATION LEVEL RISING...
We're on the 2nd, with the Terrible Towel dudes up 7-6.
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