Some stuff 2 1/2 hours before kickoff:
-- NBC has the game and they sent me some highlights from some of the exclusive interviews they had this week with various Steelers. One of the comments Mike Tomlin made to Bob Costas jumped out after Costas asked the coach what effect he thought the 35-7 loss to Baltimore would have on his team the rest of the season.
"Good teams don't have performances like that,'' was included in Tomlin's reply.
--- This will be the first of three straight domes the Steelers play on the road. They go to Houston next week and on Oct. 23 play in Arizona, with two home games between the Texans and Cardinals. The last time they played in three? 2005 when they were at Houston, at Indy and at Minnesota and then made it four when they won the Super Bowl at Detroit.
-- The only time the Steelers played the Texans in Houston, it was the second game of the 2005 season and sweltering hot. The Texans have a retractable roof and opened it so the Steelers presumably would get over-heated. The Steelers won 27-7. The only thing overheated were all those Texans fans whose taxes helped build an indoor stadium for when it was hot and humid, and they kept it open anyway.
-- It makes you wonder, why do they need a dome in Indy but not one in Green Bay or Buffalo? Why do they have one in Houston but not Miami or Tampa Bay? Why no domes in the Northeast?
-- Dan Rooney flew home from Ireland yesterday and is here for the game today.
-- Terry McAulay is the referree for today's game.
-- Again, if you can get a pass rush on Tom Brady, he's going to fold. The Giants did it, the Jets did it and now the Bills did it. Do you have to be a New York team in order to get a pass rush on Tom Brady?
-- I will say the new Lucas Oil Stadium, as indoor arenas go, ain't bad. It's certainly an improvement over the previous stadium here, the Hoosierdaddy Dome. If Jerry Jones had to build a stadium to host the Super Bowl, he should have built this one because it's a better fit. And they probably won't be constructing seats the week before Super Bowl XLVI.
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