This episode might seem like it doesn't have a whole heck of a lot to do with

Pittsburgh or Pittsburgh's football team. It actually does. Good morning to you. Good

Wednesday morning. I'm Dan Kovachovic of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

This is Daily Shot of Steelers. It comes your way bright and early every weekday.

If you're into hockey and or baseball, I also happen to offer daily shots of the other two teams in town that I cover.

The Penguins and the Pirates, National Football League has the most bizarre, boneheaded controversy on its hands.

And I kind of think it's a good thing that Roger Goodell and everybody else involved hit it head on yesterday in New Orleans in advance of the Super Bowl.

And that began with Goodell addressing what I guess some people consider to be the elephant in the room that the referees and the officials favor the chiefs, or depending on who it is

that's telling this tale, they favor Patrick Mahomes. Now, this is something that goes back

throughout sports history. This is not new. The previous untouchable in football was, of course, Tom Brady. Well, it's probably not a

coincidence that Brady won all of those Super Bowl, so everybody saw every time that something went

his way, which was a lot because he was really good. Everyone used to say that all the calls

would go Wayne Gretzky's way in the NHL.

To some extent, he was respected enough that he would get protected, but certainly not to any scandalous extent.

In baseball, one of my favorite examples goes back to the Atlanta Braves of the 1990s and early 2000s when they had the

amazing trifect of Greg Maddox, Tom Glavin, and John Smoltz, and the common sentiment

was that umpires would give them strike zones that are four feet wide, as opposed to just

recognizing that Maddox in particular might have been the best control pitcher of all time.

But yeah, long come the Chiefs, and they make the AFC championship game pretty much for a decade straight.

They win a whole bunch of Super Bowls.

Mahomes is the MVP all the time.

And then a pattern emerges, mostly this season, I should add, mostly in this regular

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