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jason 30th January 2006
Winning a Super Bowl is, for anyone who does it, priceless. But it also does carry a price as well.
Steelers WR Nate Washington is one win away from cashing in.
Each winning player will receive a $73,000 bonus, not to mention the Super Bowl ring that is worth less but means more. Each player on the losing team receives a $38,000 bonus.
Now $73,000 might not seem like much to players who make hundreds of thousands of dollars. But there are exceptions. For example, Steelers undrafted free-agent wide receiver Nate Washington earned just over $200,000 this season.
With one win, Washington would receive a bonus that would be more than 35 percent of his base salary from this past season. Good work if you can get it.
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jason 30th January 2006
Even before Super Bowl X-tra L-arge kicks off, the Seattle Seahawks coaching staff can be proclaimed, the Lords of the Rings.
Seattle's coaching staff has an impressive 18 Super Bowl rings, while Pittsburgh's has only eight.
For Seattle, defensive coordinator Ray Rhodes has five Super Bowl rings, Dwaine Board, four; Mike Holmgren, three; John Marshall, two; Nolan Cromwell, one; Gil Haskell, one; Jim Lind, one and Gary Reynolds, one.
For Pittsburgh, running backs coach Dick Hoak has four Super Bowl rings; Russ Grimm, three and Ray Horton, one. Hall of Fame defensive tackle and current Steelers special assistant/college and pro personnel Joe Greene also has four, but he is not included on Pittsburgh's coaching staff.
Yet the Steelers have a distinction that the Seahawks do not. They have four full-time employees who are attempting to get one for the thumb. The Steelers officials with four Super Bowl rings include owner Dan Rooney, Hoak, Greene and video coordinator Bob McCartney. Longtime Steelers scout Bill Nunn also has four, but after retiring, he no longer works for Pittsburgh full time, just part time.
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jason 25th January 2006
If ever a Super Bowl was made to be played in a home stadium, Steelers-Seahawks is it.
Just think: The road warriors against the unvanquished hosts. A dominant sixth seed needing one more away victory, and needing it at the NFL's toughest venue for visitors.
How juicy that would be.
Sorry, folks, but the big game is so BIG it needs to be planned years in advance. And 2006 was reserved for Ford Field in Detroit, where thousands of Pittsburgh fans figure to drive in and paint the city black and gold.
Many, perhaps most of them, won't have tickets, though. So the Seahawks could get something of a fair shake in the stands on Feb. 5.
What the Seahawks (15-3 overall, including 10-0 at Qwest Field) won't have is the ``12th man,'' the boisterous crowd that every player and coach credited with providing that extra impetus to get to the NFL title game. One player even claimed (mischievously and anonymously) that he expected the 12th man flag that sits atop the Seattle Space Needle to somehow fly above Ford Field on Super Sunday.
And what the Steelers (14-5) won't have is the opportunity to shatter yet another opponent's air of invincibility at home after winning at Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Denver in the playoffs.
Too bad.
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jason 16th January 2006
Back when they were 7-5, the Pittsburgh Steelers knew one more loss would end their chances of playing in the Super Bowl.
Six weeks and six victories later, they still haven't lost.
Because they haven't, the unofficial Jerome Bettis farewell tour makes an unexpected stop Sunday in Denver for the Steelers' sixth and least-likely AFC championship game appearance in 12 years.
'Denver's been underrated all year and so have we, and that makes for a really great game,' Bettis said.
Even if Bettis nearly fumbled away the Steelers' season and any opportunity to end his career by playing in a hometown Super Bowl in Detroit.
With the Steelers readying to close out the top-seeded Indianapolis Colts with 80 seconds remaining in their AFC divisional game Sunday, Bettis fumbled at the 2-yard line and the Colts' Nick Harper scooped the ball up and started running.
He returned it to the Colts 45 and, if it hadn't been for quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's shoestring tackle, might have scored arguably the most wildly improbable game-winning playoff touchdown since Franco Harris' Immaculate Reception in 1972.
'Ben saved our season,' wide receiver Hines Ward said.
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