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PITTSBURGH (AP) Maybe it’s Ramon Foster’s pep talk in the tunnel before the Pittsburgh Steelers head out onto the field. Sure Cheap Vincent Valentine Jersey , let’s go with that.
Before every prime-time game, the longtime left guard will gather his teammates around him and remind them that the rest of the NFL has stopped.
There is only one game on.
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And the Steelers are playing in it. Their peers are watching.
So, potentially, are all the doubters.
Time to put them in their place.
”I tell the guys, `For everybody that said you weren’t going to make it, this is why (we play),”’ Foster said Wednesday.
”For the teacher that failed you in geometry in the 10th grade, this is why. For the girl that didn’t give you her number Cheap Trey Flowers Jersey , this is why you’re playing. Whatever the reason is. It’s mentioned. Whatever the motivation is, it’s out there.”
Whatever it is, it’s working. Pittsburgh (9-2) has won 10 straight games (playoffs included) that kicked off after 7 p.m. heading into a visit to Cincinnati (5-6) next Monday.
The Steelers are in the middle of a stretch in which they play four straight in prime-time.
”I don’t know if there’s any secret recipe to it,” quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said. ”Maybe we’re just night rangers.”
Or maybe the offense that sometimes looks sleepy underneath the sun’s glare gets it together when the lights are on.
Pittsburgh is averaging 30.1 points during its 10-game unbeaten prime-time run, a number the Steelers almost hit on the nose in a 31-28 victory over Green Bay last Sunday night.
The victory came on the heels of a 40-17 hammering of Tennessee the previous Thursday night. Roethlisberger has thrown eight touchdown passes in his past eight quarters, including four to Antonio Brown.
”It’s fun when you win and you put on a good show,” Roethlisberger said.
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The Steelers had just three days to recover from a taut win in Indianapolis on Nov. 12 and get ready to prepare for Tennessee.
Thursday nights, Sunday nights, does make it hard to get into a routine. But we’re all professionals.”
And, if they’re being honest, showoffs.
”Everybody likes to turn it up a little bit when it’s prime time,” wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey said. ”Now, you’d like people to turn it on for a 1 p.m. game too. Guys do. But it’s something a little different under the light.”
Heyward-Bey would know. His high school field in Reisterstown Cheap Tedy Bruschi Jersey , Maryland, didn’t have lights.
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