The NFL is doing their best to keep me busy with these “last time the Steelers played a game on this day” articles. First it was Tuesday. Now it’s Wednesday. Believe it or not, Week 12 won’t be the first time in Pittsburgh history their football team played in the middle of the week. But you have to go back a long ways to find the last occassion.
In fact, you have to go all the way back to 1933. The team’s first season. A time when they were still called the Pittsburgh Pirates, their name for their first seven years.