Talk:Pittsburgh sports lore

Article contains neutrality dispute
"Afterwards, Colts Defensive Back Nick Harper picked up the ball and started heading for what would have been the game-winning touchdown."

This needs to be reworded. There would have still been over a minute left in the game had Harper indeed scored. Who's to say the Steeler's wouldn't have managed to drive the length of the field to score again in the game's final minute had this tackle not have taken place?

Mmeinhart

I went through and reworded quite a bit of the article. I've removed some assumptions.

myselfalso 22:38, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Removed netrality stamp, article reworded.

mmeinhart 20:33, 25 January 2006 (EDT)


 * Thanks for rewording, but it still seems as Harper ran right into Rothlesburger on that play--Aviper2k7 23:35, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

The Tackle II
What is The Tackle I? If it is involving a different team, then it should be linked. It shouldn't be listed as The Tackle II, since this article specifically is about Pittsburgh sports history. --myselfalso 22:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I linked to The Tackle in the See also section I added. But why are there other Pittsburgh sports events here? They're irrelevant to the subject of the article. I think they should either be listed elsewhere or the article should be renamed accordingly. Dom Rem  | Yeah? 23:13, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree. I suggest renaming this article Pittsburgh sports lore. -- myselfalso 05:11, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Moved page
I moved the page from "The tackle (Roethlisberger)" to "Pittsburgh Sports Lore." After doing so I realized that the article will now need converted so that "The tackle" is only included as the main highlight of this page. If anyone can help out, I'd appreciate it, otherwise I will edit it when I have some time. Thanks!

mmeinhart --Mmeinhart 06:58, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Could you please add some references
To provide evidence that all of the events mentioned are part of Pittsburgh sports lore, or else this article will seem at face value to fall under the no original research rule. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 17:27, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Do you want to add this back into the article?
This section below is pasted here from the article. I'm not sure it belongs...but I took it out because it ruined the blocking and page formatting. I'm not sure what the problem is. Do you see the problem? Look below, it ruins the page. Read it and take it OUT!!! I don't think it belongs anyhow, which I explain below


 * 1) The Comeback II(January 5, 2003, Cleveland Browns vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, AFC Wild Card Playoff Game)


 * Trailing by a seemingly insurmountable 24-7 disadvantage with 19 minutes left to play, the NFL Comeback Player of the Year Quarterback Tommy Maddox rallied the Steelers, scoring three passing touchdowns in four offensive drives. The Browns managed to score 9 points in the 4th quarter keeping them in the lead (33-28) until a 61-yard drive, culminating in a 3 yard rushing touchdown and a successful two point conversion by the Steelers. At 36-33, with 54 seconds left in regulation, it was the first time in the game that the Steelers had been leading on the scoreboard. The Browns failed to answer back in their final drive, ending the game in one of the greatest comebacks in NFL playoff history.

Now a little of my personal opinion, take it or leave it:

Hey listen....Do what you can to add it back in. BUT be aware that it causes a problem on the page. And by the way, is this really called THE COMEBACK II? I'm not sure that works. Maybe LOCAL Pittsburgh lore, but aren't you talking about Pittsburgh Lore that has crossed out of the city limits, to take on a mythology of its own. MILLIONS still know about the Immaculate Reception, whether they follow sports or not.

The IMMACULATE REDEMPTION, which personally I don't like (coined by Chris Berman I believe) will have a similar impact but probably not the LEGENDARY status of Franco's catch. Solid sports fans EVERYWHERE know that Big Ben made that season saving tackle and it redeemed the hopes of Bettis of course, who probably returned for this final season because he thought this team had something special...yes, Pittsburgh Lore BIG BIG LEGEND forever. But outside of Pittsburgh as the years pass, I'm not sure it takes on the quality. Now if Steelers repeat this year as Champions, or Big Ben goes on to have Tom Brady wins, or Joe Montana savvy and career exploits, then maybe the IMMACULATE REDEMPTION will add to his legend, and it will gain that mythological status like THE CATCH, and so on. Christian Roess 07:15, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Remove Francisco Cabrera section??
I'm questioning the inclusion of this section as Pittsburgh lore. I would think this would be more relevant to the Braves than the Pirates, especially since all the other topics in this article discuss the successes of Pittsburgh sports teams. Uber-h 04:00, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Pittsburgh sports lore
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Pittsburgh sports lore's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "brown": From Pittsburgh English:  From Andy Brown (ice hockey):  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 21:15, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

AB’s Kick and JuJu’s Hit
Would love to see Antonio Brown’s kick-in-the-head, Juju’s hit on Burfict, added 74.199.48.138 (talk) 01:21, 13 October 2022 (UTC)