Should the Pittsburgh Steelers end up winning the Super Bowl this season, their seventh in team history, then I would argue that the documentary created to immortalize the 2017 campaign ought to have somewhere in the title the word ‘resilience’, because that to me best defines the way in which this team has navigated the waters of adversity this season.
Self-inflicted or otherwise, the Steelers have dealt with no shortage of controversy and struggle, more than I can ever recall for a single season in team history. Yet it has merely served to galvanize the locker room, which is a credit not just to head coach Mike Tomlin, but to the players themselves, chiefly the locker room leaders.