Cowher Admits Cleat Problem, Does
Little to Fix It
As you surely read in my postgame
analysis of the Miami game, the Stillers spent
the entire evening slipping and sliding like a hockey player wearing Armani dress
shoes in lieu of skates. �The Dolphs, meanwhile, had very, very few slips.�
Alas, in today�s PG,
Ted Bouchette makes note of Billy Cowher�s
comments about this problem, as follows:
The Steelers looked as if they were playing
on Chiquita Field rather than Heinz Field Thursday night because players
slipped so often.
Cowher noticed that and the fact that the Miami Dolphins did
not seem to have that kind of trouble with their footing, and he talked to his
players about it.
"I brought it to their attention," Cowher said. "Hopefully, it will be something that
will be rectified in the future."
In other
words, he wants his players to wear the proper shoes with cleats of an
appropriate length for the field conditions.
You just have to love Cowhard�s take-charge mentality.� �I brought it to their attention�, says the
blowhard. ��Sure, he brought it to their attention�.and
then sat fallow and watched, for 4 quarters, as player after player slipped and
slid like a toddler in the mud. �
There was no rain during the game, meaning the field wasn�t
in any worse shape during the game than it was in pre-game. �As such, Cowhard,
the dufus, should have, along with his TEN MAN
coaching staff, seen the slipping and sliding in pre-game warm-ups, and then
taken immediate action. �And
remember, this is Cowhard�s HOME field, and this
field is a well known atrocity that is notorious for poor footing.� �
�Hopefully, it will be something that will be rectified in
the future,� says Billy. �Hopefully, my ass !!�� It dadgum better get rectified, right
now, ASAP! ��And should a player show up to
pre-game with any cleats less than satisfactory for the surface being played
upon, it�s entirely incumbent upon the mega millionaire, Billy Cowhard, and his staff to pull the player aside and send
his ass over to the equipment manager to either swap-out screw-in cleats, or
change shoes entirely if wearing molded cleats.�
�Anything less
than this is pure dereliction of duty.�
Billy Cowher -- when it comes to
attention to detail and taking immediate action to fix simple problems, no one
else does less. �
(Still Mill and Stillers.com -- when
it comes to the analysis of the