The National Football League was really hoping to make this season special. It is their 100th season, after all, an important centennial event. In many ways, the year has certainly been memorable, if nothing else, in spite of their—I would say ‘best’, but will stick simply with—efforts to put out the fires that have arisen around them at every turn.
One of the featured celebrations of their centennial they are putting together it to name an NFL 100 All-Time Team. Despite having two Hall of Fame running backs in Franco Harris and Jerome Bettis, the Pittsburgh Steelers were curiously shut out of the running back position on the list, consisting of 12 players ranging from Steve Van Buren to Emmitt Smith, the only player on the list to have played a single second in the 2000s.