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Head-Hunting: Steeler Fans Calling For Changes at the Top

Pittsburgh Steeler fans are at once the greatest backers in sports and the sorest of losers.

With Thursday night's 13-6 loss (to the Cleveland Browns, of all teams), the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately facet of Steel City fandom has emerged with a vengeance.

Message boards on the websites of local and national news outlets, as well as independently-run fan sites, are almost unanimously calling for head coach Mike Tomlin to lose his job.

Last year everything was rosy, and Tomlin was the man, someone who had a gift for pushing the right buttons.

Now, the battle cry is that he was only riding former coach Bill Cowher's coattails.

Yes, that's how things work in Pittsburgh, especially when it comes to a football season in which a playoff appearance is almost certainly no longer possible.

Hindsight isn't always 20/20.

Fans wanted Cowher fired after a couple of dismal seasons in the...

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