Most teams think it’s great to have alumni who remain invested in the organization’s future. It tends to be a little bit more convenient when things are going well, of course. It’s never worse than when things are going uncharacteristically bad, though, and we have had a few of those moments in recent Pittsburgh Steelers history, moments that have had certain alumni calling the team out, basically saying that they don’t recognize it as the team they once played for.
Merril Hoge has gone both ways in his comments about the Steelers in the past. Though a running back, he shared an awful lot of opinions about the current defensive side of the ball, however, when he appeared on The PM Team show on 93.