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Classic Grind: Winners will win, and losers will lose

To readers: This is part of a now-weekly series reprinting columns I've done from significant settings over our company's nine-year tenure.

And on the occasion of the Steelers' opening week ... well, suffice it to say I've never covered an event like this one. Not in any sport. And I expect I'll never do so again. Which is probably a good thing, since I vividly recall not completing this one until roughly 9:30 a.m., a true all-nighter and the longest it'd ever taken me to write anything:

CINCINNATI -- Mike Tomlin and James Harrison had somehow gotten word.