mike tomlin
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Pittsburgh Doesn’t Deserve Mike Tomlin
So this premise is already operating at a deficit: If born, I guess, you deserve the ability to continue living, and whatever’s necessary to achieve that goal—food, water, safety, shelter, etc.—exists under that umbrella. But once we get into concepts like happiness and fulfillment, our application of “deserve” becomes nebulous, as it gets conflated with…
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Pittsburgh-Area Fire Chief Resigns After Calling Mike Tomlin the N-Word on Facebook, Blames His Racism on … the Media?
If reincarnation is real, I hope that I come back as a cheetah or a jaguar or some other fast and sexy jungle cat after I die. I already enjoy yawning, taking long naps and watching Animal Planet, so I imagine the transition wouldn’t be too stark. If I cannot be one of those things,…
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Fire Chief Says Pittsburgh NFL Coach Mike Tomlin Added Himself to ‘the List of No-Good [N-Words]’
Paul Smith, the chief of Cecil Volunteer Fire Station No. 2 in Washington County, Pa., was in his feelings after Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin decided to keep all the players in the locker room during the national anthem Sunday. So Smith logged into his Facebook account and got all white-bothered and indignant and…
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Did Mike Tomlin Pull Some Black-Ass Judo With His Answer to Why the Steelers Stayed in the Locker Room?
The present-day Pittsburgh Steelers exist as a paradox. They have been led, for the last 11 years, by a black coach who was considered for the position in large part because of the Rooney Rule—a policy requiring NFL teams to interview minority candidates for coaching and upper-management positions. The rule is named after Dan Rooney—the…
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Is Mike Tomlin A Great Coach? A (Very, Very, Very, Very) Quick Survey
Last week, concussion-ridden jack-o-lantern with curious sentience Terry Bradshaw stated that Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin was a “nice” coach and “great cheerleader” but not a great coach. This, of course, is the same Tomlin who’s amassed a 102–57 record in his 10 years with the Steelers, is the youngest coach to win a Super Bowl,…
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The Consistently And Embarrassingly Underappreciated Mike Tomlin
It is 1:40pm EST. Mike Tomlin is trending right now. By the time you read this, however, he probably won’t be anymore. Although (moderately) famous, he doesn’t have the type of fame that would keep him a day-long trending topic in July. Unless, of course, something bad happened. Which is exactly what I first assumed when first…