After you’ve lost two straight games to teams eight games below .500, you want your team to come out and make a strong statement on the football field. You want your squad to play like the season depends on it — because it does. Only the players weren’t the ones to make a statement; their head coach did, and it couldn’t have come at a worse time.
It’s as if Mike Tomlin knew his Pittsburgh Steelers team would go down in flames — as it had so often this season — that he wanted to avert the attention of the media and fans.
Tomlin’s choice of sideline wear — a variation also worn by his staff — spoke volumes louder than his team’s performance. Instead of his usual toned-down single Steelers logo shirt and team jacket, Tomlin sported a Steelers-branded long-sleeve shirt that read: “Justice, opportunity, freedom, equality, NFL.”
And X went wild as everyone who saw Tomlin wearing the shirt on the sideline knew they would.
“Can they eject Steelers coach “Woke” Mike Tomlin for that ridiculous propaganda rag he calls a shirt,” one fan tweeted.
No, SMELLYWALMARTHILLBILLY@ChandlerJonesStiffarm, they won’t.