Back in 2009, the Steelers came to Northeast Ohio to play the Cleveland Browns in a frigid Thursday Night Football game. Now, when you are playing in Cleveland and it is six freaking degrees with a cold 25 mph monsoon (wind chill -15 Fahrenheit) blowing in off Lake Erie, the game plan is to run, right?
The Steelers were coming off a Super Bowl win the previous season, and had one of the best rushing attacks in the NFL with Rashard Mendenhall on his way to a 1,100-yard season, sharing the halfback position with Fast Willie Parker.