No Love For Boswell???

[JIMBO]

I thought it was a great,clutch performance! I especially enjoyed the picture on the online Post Gazette this morning of him flashing the " Touchdown Jesus " sign in Josh Shaw's face after the score. Classic humor!!

[Shoe]

He was the MVP of the game, if you also consider his shoe-string tackle. He was in a zone with his kicking.

[BradshawsHairdresser]

He was the player of the game. However, the play of the game, IMO, was DeCastro's shot on thug Burfict. Essentially neutralized Burfict for the rest of the game.

[Iron Shiek]

Coach Tomlin said he gave him the game ball.

[Moonie]

He deserved the game ball. Hitting 6 FGs, most from long range, on a cold day, is something most kickers can't do. And the tackle was just a great effort.

[RuthlessBurgher]

He deserved the game ball. Hitting 6 FGs, most from long range, on a cold day, is something most kickers can't do. And the tackle was just a great effort.

Yup...45, 49, 49, 40, 49, 30. And a great job whacking the returner's one foot into his other leg, causing him to trip.

[Starlifter]

no doubt about it. mvp of the game. what's interesting to me, is other than the scobee fiasco (and who saw THAT coming) - the steelers have been terrific at finding kickers who perform well, especially at heinz field. all the way back to skippy.

the kid did awesome. now shave that ridiculous 'stache and accept the fact you look like you're 15 years old.

[RuthlessBurgher]

no doubt about it. mvp of the game. what's interesting to me, is other than the scobee fiasco (and who saw THAT coming) - the steelers have been terrific at finding kickers who perform well, especially at heinz field. all the way back to skippy.

the kid did awesome. now shave that ridiculous 'stache and accept the fact you look like you're 15 years old.

I assumed the moustache was for Movember. Several Pens players rocked the stache last month.

[SanAntonioSteelerFan]

He deserved the game ball. Hitting 6 FGs, most from long range, on a cold day, is something most kickers can't do. And the tackle was just a great effort.

Probably game-saving, it what could be considered one of our playoff games.

Reminds me of Big Ben tackling Harper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUcDGLHCOi4

[Captain Lemming]

Funny thing about this is that had he missed a couple (what one would actually expect considering the distances) and we lost everyone would be whining about how lousy this team is. I cant recall the game I think it was last season and I recall arguing what were int not for a back kicking day we win. People were livid at how bad the team was at the time.

[Slapstick]

Personally, I think he had a little extra motivation, knowing that Bullock was on the other sideline...

In any case, that's the kind of performance that puts a player onto the Pro Bowl radar...

[RuthlessBurgher]

Justin Tucker has sewn up the Pro Bowl kicker for the AFC a long time ago with probably the best kicking season in NFL history (he is 10-10 on kicks of 50+ yards, and the only miss this season on 59 combined FG & PAT attempts this year was a guy leaping over his longsnapper to block the kick).

Incidentally, are they back to doing the AFC vs. NFC thing for the Pro Bowl again as opposed to the dumb Jerry Rice vs. Michael Irvin fantasy draft garbage?

[RuthlessBurgher]

Posted by Mike Florio on June 9, 2017, 12:17 PM EDT

Leave it to a kicker to act like an idiot.

Steelers kicker Chris Boswell was ejected from Thursday night’s Stanley Cup Final game. Via SteelersDepot.com, Boswell tweeted that he had been kicked out for doing something that most (including me) didn’t realize could result in a one-way ticket out of the arena.

“Got kicked out for banging on the glass?!” Boswell said. “Man that’s crazy!! Sorry we just won two fights!”

The Penguins have enjoyed plenty of support from the Steelers, in the same way that the Predators have enjoyed plenty of support from the Titans. Football players, who play a rough and tumble sport that does serious damage to the anatomy, seem to understand and respect the raw toughness of hockey players, who unlike football players have to deal with 82 games in the regular season, up to 28 in the playoffs, sharp blades, solid sticks, a hard rubber projectile that slams into human bodies at high rates of speed, and the never ending extra-curricular shoving and cross-checking and punching and elbowing and generalized business-giving that makes Josh Norman vs. Odell Beckham look like a heated disagreement over parliamentary protocol.

The Penguins secured a 6-0 victory over the Predators on Thursday, sending Pittsburgh back to Nashville with a 3-2 lead. NBC’s Keith Jones joined PFT Live on Friday to discuss Game Five and more.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/06/09/steelers-kicker-gets-the-boot-from-penguins-game/

[feltdizz]

they kick you out for banging on the glass now? I thought that was part of the appeal?

if it was during the fight then he got kicked out with half a minute left in the 3rd period