Perhaps the Best Commentary .....

..... on the Pittsburgh Steelers' 3-0 defeat of the hapless Miami Dolphins, Monday night at Heinz Field, has absolutely nothing to do with plays called, yardage gained and points scored .....

"There is no excuse — none — for the conditions the Pittsburgh Steelers provided for their game Monday Night against the Miami Dolphins," writes Mike Celizic, in this opinion piece on msnbc.com . "It was a travesty of football and an insult to the NFL, the players, the fans, and anyone who turned on a television in the hopes of enjoying Monday Night Football."

For me, the pandering prattle from the ESPN crew didn't help the matter, a point that also raised Celizek's ire ... "The announcers kept talking about old-school football and summoning the names of the Chicago Staleys and Canton Bulldogs from the earliest days of the league, but that was an insult to those teams and those times. I've seen old-school football in old Cleveland Stadium in the days before modern drainage and turf science. Those games were played in mud. This one was played in a bog."

My beloved Steelers are marking their 75th anniversary this season. But as they pay tribute to perhaps the most storied past in American football history, they may want to consider taking their playing surface into a brave new world ..... goodbye grass, hello FieldTurf ?