The Pittsburgh Steelers visited Foxborough, Mass., to play against the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium, Sept. 20,206. They returned to Pittsburgh after a 20-3 drubbing administered by the Patriots and were forced to gaze into the mirror of reality and saw that their thick macho man healthy and “Rumpelstiltskin-type” beards had been removed, painlessly, along with their dignity.
In November 2025, I penned an article titled: “Is the problem with the Steelers the defense, or Aaron Rodgers?” Here are a few excerpts from that article. The column pointed out that, “The Pittsburgh Steelers kept their cowboy costumes on as they corralled and placed a halter on the bucking and feisty Indianapolis Colts and broke the number one offense in the NFL by the score of 27-20, Nov. 2. One of Mike Tomlin’s recent acquisitions, defensive back Jalen Ramsey, gave a pregame motivational oration that might’ve been just what ‘Doc, Mike Tomlin,’ ordered.”
Well ladies and gents, during this year’s foray into Beantown, the Steelers were not as fortunate because they had no prognosticator besides Paul Revere and yours truly and as we all know, they very seldom pay any attention to me. However, at that time, the “prince of narcissism,” Aaron Rodgers was disturbed by the pregame motivational speech from Steelers defensive back Jalen Ramsey. Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers found fault with the length of the speech that Ramsey delivered to the team saying: “Jalen kind of went on and on and had the attention in the room and he said some really, really good stuff.”
Now hear and read this; in the near and distant future, I suggest that Aaron Rodgers enlist the help of Ramsey and his oratorical skills in the hope that there might be a more positive outcome for the squad from the Steel City in upcoming games. However, this next excerpt I wrote hit me like a ton of bricks. I was thoroughly convinced that, “Ramsey spoke to his teammates from the heart. It also had a positive effect on his team. The prior week that the Steelers were preparing to face the Packers, it is my opinion that Aaron Rodgers (had) spent a bit too much time talking about being inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame as a Green Bay Packer as opposed to avoiding the NFL 2025 ‘Hall of Shame’ as a Pittsburgh Steeler.”
Did Aaron Rodgers’ comments help to motivate the men from Lambeau instead of the Men of Steel? Was Ramsey supposed to go by the 125-words-per-minute format so as not to keep “Mr. Green Bay Packer” too long?
Now let’s take a look at the 2026 “bus schedule” that bus driver Aaron Rodgers has posted and what teammate will be destined to become a “Rodgers round the Rosey” speed bump during this Pittsburgh Steelers current season. Brandon Contes recently posted an article: “Aaron Rodgers throws Mike McCarthy under the bus.” Contes writes, “Aaron Rodgers has looked like one of the worst quarterbacks in the NFL through two weeks this season, but don’t expect him to take any of the blame. In recent years, NFL fans have grown accustomed to Rodgers appearing like a shell of his MVP-self. They’ve also grown accustomed to Rodgers reflecting on his poor performances by finger-pointing. And Rodgers was at it again Sunday evening after the Steelers appeared offensively inept in their 20-3 loss to the New England Patriots.”
Aaron Rodgers is not infected by the gene of narcissism. That is much too simple of an analogy. Could narcissism be centrally located somewhere in the reservoir of his gene pool? Historical journals state that the chant, “He’s here, he’s there, he’s everywhere, so beware” comes from English football terrace chants, part of a long‑standing fan tradition of celebrating high‑energy, “workhorse” players whose presence seems to cover the entire pitch. The earliest well‑documented versions come from chants used for Premier League players like Park Ji‑sung and Joey Guðjónsson, long before its pop‑culture reuse.
I was on the train at the beginning of the week, and I listened to a few inebriated post-teens chanting: “He’s here, he’s there, he’s everywhere, so beware.” They also had chant number two waiting in the can. By that time, I turned on the record mode on my phone and they drunkenly began to shout, “Aaron Rodgers looked like the artful dodger, the Patriots made him holler.”
Man, the “yinzers” are colder than a polar bear in Alaska chowin’ down on a lukewarm seal. Hey, but they can be consoled by the fact that at the very least, Steelers ex-head coach Mike Tomlin won’t be issuing any quotes about “standards,” because current Steelers head coach Mike McCarthy is now currently talking about new standards, of which there appears to be none. Many of the local yokels are diligently searching for a few “worthy” individuals whose images they can chisel onto the face of “Mt. Saint Yinzer,” but they had better check with Pittsburgh’s chief meteorologist Stephen Cropper before they get to work because they don’t want all of their hard work to be in vain, erased in the future by a landslide, lava flow, or a wildfire or two. The Pittsburgh Steelers offense currently resembles “men on fire” with multiple arsonists residing comfortably in the Steelers locker room. Heck, there might even be a fire-starter or two, hanging around the front office.