The Pittsburgh Steelers are an organization with a convenient name for sports cliches. It sounds better to talk about iron sharpening iron when your name involves metalworking. It’s probably just a smidge less potent for, say, the Dolphins or the Browns. It just works. It gives off that hardworking yet chippy persona that resonates with the identity the Steelers have forged for 90 years.
And it’s one that thrives on young blood with an edge. They have that in guys like WR George Pickens and rookie CB Joey Porter Jr., a pair of recent second-round picks who should see quite a lot of each other for the next several years, or one would hope.