Welcome to the terrible take a mini podcast telling Steelers Nation what's on our mind.

I'm Josh Carney. There are a lot of great traditions that are still upheld today within the

Pittsburgh Steelers organization, like the logo on just one side of the helmet.

The team's still being run by the Rooney family,

stability in the coaching staff,

no cheerleaders, and more. But the one tradition that continues to be rather irritating,

at least for me, is the usage of numbers for players. In the Steelers history,

just three numbers are retired. 70 for Ernie Stauner.

75 for Joe Green and most recently 32 for Franco Harris.

But they also have a handful of other numbers that aren't officially retired.

They're simply not in circulation. Like 12, 36, 47, 52, 58, 58, 59, and 68, just to name a few.

That's all well and good.

Those numbers shouldn't be in circulation, at least right now.

But the fact that the Steelers aren't letting new

quarterback Justin Fields where number one, a number he's warned since his high

school days. Because of that unofficial retirement of the number for kicker Gary Anderson is

quite frankly absurd it is not absurd that the Steelers hold Anderson in such a

high regard it's the fact that the Steelers simply refuse to reissue the

number and pick and choose when they want to do it. The number 10 is iconic in

Steelers history for the likes of Roy Jarella, Cordell Stewart and San Antonio Holmes.

Yet most recently the likes of Mitch Treviski and now receiver Marquez Calloway gets aware it.

The number 53 belongs to one of the greatest centers in Steeler's history in Marquise Pouncey.

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