Football isn't pretty, which means teams don't have to win pretty in order to make statements. The Pittsburgh Steelers won ugly Sunday night in Detroit, and they made a statement while doing so.
In its first prime-time game of the 2017 season, a team that took heat for a weird loss to the inferior Chicago Bears in September and an even weirder loss to the inferior Jacksonville Jaguars in October reminded a national audience that it should be viewed as a top-tier Super Bowl contender.
And it did so despite scoring just 20 points.