Hard Hat Award (Super Bowl, vs. Packers)

Hard Hat Award (Super Bowl, vs. Packers)

No one is the winner of the weekly Hard Hat Award, given to the Stiller player who best embodies the iron-tough, hard-as-steel attitude of the steel workers inside the blast furnace of a still mill.

In a game that was readily there for the taking, no one on the entire team stepped forward with the kind of hard-hitting, game-changing play that is expect of this august committee.��

As is typical in a losing effort -- especially in a beating like this one -- very few Stillers were even in consideration by The Committee.�� Randle El showed some terrific gusto and enthusiasm -- which was all too lacking across the entire rest of the roster -- with 2 superb catches and a strong run to the pylon for a 2-pointer.�� Miller had good blocking at the POA.� That was about it.��� Most everyone else was error prone, feeble, tentative, and soft.��� Of course, the coaching staff did nothing to promulgate a Hard Hat effort, playing a sit-back defense that rarely harassed the QB and even less rarely punished receivers and ballcarriers.�

Most every other player mimicked the defensive coordinator and played a yellow, callow, chickenshit brand of football.�� It bears repeating that there is almost always -- if not always -- a strong correlation between the number of players in consideration for the Hard Hat, and if the team won or lost.� Simply put, Hard Hat kind of football leads to victory; pansy football (a term used here long before Troy Pola popularized it) leads to defeat.��

Kudos to no one for winning the Hard Hat Award.� Don�t wear the Hard Hat proudly, fellas.���

Previous 2010 Hard Hat Winners:

Game #1, vs. Atlanta:� Larry Timmons and Maurkice Pouncey

Game #2, @� Tenn.:� Larry Timmons and Jamie Harrison

Game #3, @� Tampa: Jamie Harrison and Doug Legursky

Game #4, vs. Balt:� Dan Sepulveda�

Game #5, vs. Clev:� Jamie Harrison

Game #6, @ Miami:� Hines Ward

Game #7, @ N. Orleans: Larry Timmons

Game #8, @ Cinci:� Larry Timmons and Jason Worilds

Game #9, vs. N.E.: Mewelde Moore

Game #10, vs. Oak:�� James Harrison and Anthony Madison

Game #11, @ Buff:� James Harrison and Shaun Suisham

Game #12, @ Balt:� Benji Roethlisberger

Game #13, vs. Cinci:� Troy Polamalu

Game #14, vs. Jets:� No One

Game #15, vs Panthers: Ryan Mundy

Game #16, @ Clev:� Mike Wallace and Stevenson Sylvester

AFC Div. Playoffs, vs. Balt:� Brett Keisel and Ryan Clark

AFCC, vs. Jets:� Rashard Mendenhall