When asked about the heavy expectations that come with coaching the club with the most Super Bowl wins in NFL history, Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin always says, “The standard is the standard.”
So what does that say about the team that invented the standard?
The New York Yankees, the greatest team in our oldest team sport, have a history that is too epic and obvious to recount. Add George Steinbrenner & Sons to the archives and you have a weighty, sweaty set of expectations in the locker room every season.
But, as we well know, the Yankees were in a rare moment of rebuild, an odd bottleneck of years when we don’t forward their mail to October.