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Weekend Checkdown, Very Late Edition: the top Steelers stories of the week

Polamalu's retirement leads a Steelers news tsunami...

There were four stories, any one of which would have been the top news item the previous week. The Steelers exercised the fifth year option for guard David DeCastro, they re-signed safety Will Allen, Le'Veon Bell was issued a three game suspension by the league. And the top story, one that will certainly one of the biggest of this and many other years was...

This had 'be careful what you ask for' written all over it. The fate of Polamalu has been bandied about in clinical terms for months.