Steelers Digest

Washington, Hodges, Tomlin

From the notebook of a sportswriter who found Sunday’s game so fascinating the officiating couldn’t even ruin it:

• Well, barely. Can we have another 10-minute committee meeting about an offsides/illegal procedure call?

• The league apparently sent its heavy-handed crew in anticipation of a classless performance by unruly thugs. But, as the Steelers tried to convince reporters all week, the game was too important for either side to devolve into ugliness. It was only the officiating that tried to do that.

• One of the more humorous concerns after

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