By The Tues

• Maybe we've discovered the real reason there were so many Steeler fans invading NJ on Sunday. Guess the open air rotundas don't provide the same atmosphere: Halftime Harassment.
• PFW drops the Steelers to 5th in their power poll, only down a spot.

• He's tied for first among defensemen in scoring this year and is second over the past 7, trailing only Nik Lidstrom, yet is not on the All-Star ballot, maybe that's because people call his position defenseman, not forward. Still, he should be on the ballot, those All-Star games don't have any defense.
• Sid echoes my response if someone tried to doll me up in black leather jackets for a few pics. At least he keeps a good head about him despite all the extra things he does off the ice that we don't normally see:
  

  "I'll wear whatever you want, but I wouldn't usually wear this stuff," said Crosby, who arrived in jeans, a T-shirt, a gray hoodie and a Reebok ballcap.

• They're still here!!! The Bucs may roll out the carpet for Gary Varsho today!! Bring back the golden ages. This must mean that Cecil Espy and Joe Orsulak will be coaches too.
• A new Q&A on the Bucs site where fans continue to get all hepped up if marginal Jack Wilson were ever to leave the Burgh. Of course in the same Q&A fans ask about bringing back Jason Kendall and Barry Bnds - what is it with former Pirates coming back? Get over it! Especially Kendall, who didn't leave town a second too early. Thank goodness we have someone named Jenifer Langosch, who lets us know she'll be watching the Missouri/Kansas football game on Saturday (great! Welcome to big time college football guys, while you're at it, maybe you can get over that Civil War thing), to assure us that:
  

  The change in the Pirates' general manager and manager seems to have increased the chances that Wilson will remain with the team next season. So, too, does the fact that the Pirates decided not to exercise the option on Cesar Izturis' contract. Wilson wants to stay, and the rifts that had begun to form between he and the former management should be a non-issue now.

• Two more Steeler questions:
• Are teams taking advantage of Troy's aggressive freelancing? Seems like he's trying to read plays and bust plays up but is getting burned by missed tackles or bad reads.
• Ok, the o-line wasn't responsible for all 7 sacks on Sunday (the WRs, TEs and RBs weren't exactly blameless), but in conjunction with their inability to run the football, is this the worst Steeler o-line we;ve seen since the 6-10 2003 team which had so many injuries that Faneca was forced to play tackle for 6 games? That team didn't make the playoffs BTW, despite having Tommy Maddox at the helm.