The Sommer Frieze

As a Penn State alum and a Steelers fan, usually I watch the same brand of football. Solid running game, strong defense, good special teams.

Um. Strike that last one for the 2009 season—for both teams. Penn State’s big weakness this year has been its special teams unit.

And today, for the fourth time in the last five games, the Steelers gave up a kickoff return TD. This time it was the opening kickoff. It’s costly as the Steelers lose in OT 27-24. Without that…

Not only that, the Steelers outgain KC by a huge margin. The kickoff return. Another return (long INT return) that sets up points. Big Ben threw for plenty of yards, but the Steelers still lost.

And the Tazmanian Devil as I call him—Polamalu—is out a month. Ouch.

There is only one thing for me to say…

What is going on out there? Besides me, some special teams coaches must be pulling their hair out. It’s every week.

Vikings still rolling. As much as I don’t like Favre’s wishy-washiness the past few years concerning his retirement, I have to begrudgingly give him his due as of now. Speaking of tearing his hair out, Tim the Wizard might be doing that regarding Favre right now…since he is a Jets fan and had Favre last year.