All right, play along here with me.

Let's go back to last, I don't know, August, and you're at St. Vincent College,

and you're just soaking in, not just the rays, but all of the various football goodness

that's around you.

The grass of Chuck Knoll Field, the players are out there practicing, you hear them

kind of playfully barking with each other, the rolling hills of La Trobe as a framework.

And somebody tells you that in the middle of January, hills of La Trobe as a framework.

And somebody tells you that in the middle of January, your football team is going to be in the playoffs against its arch rival.

You'd take it like this, wouldn't you?

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It is Steelers versus Ravens. That's a real thing. Saturday night, 8 p.m. at M&T Bank Stadium.

And there are, believe it or not, people who are excited about it.

This was Mason McCormick after practice today on the South Side.

I mean, I feel like guys are on the edge of their seats.

It's playoffs now.

Obviously, we haven't liked how the last month has went, but that doesn't matter now.

I mean, we got to take this game for this week, one week at a time, and just go from there.

And you know what? Good for him. Good for all of them. This is, this is not the time.

I actually like the way, Tomlin hasn't had a great, Mike Tomlin hasn't had a great week of

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