PITTSBURGH (AP) — The trick to going nearly two decades without a losing season is to find a way to pull out a victory or two along the way that maybe you shouldn’t have.
Actually, maybe it’s not a trick at all. Maybe that’s just the Mike Tomlin Experience in Pittsburgh.
The longest-tenured head coach in major North American professional sports likes to say there is nothing “mystical” about his job. That all that matters when the clock hits zero at the end of the fourth quarter (and occasionally beyond) is that the Steelers have more points next to their name than the opponent does next to theirs.
How Pittsburgh gets there is immaterial, at least to Tomlin. So, forgive him if he didn’t offer an apology after the Steelers improved to 2-1 with a 21-14 victory over New England on Sunday th