The Dick Harmon of espn.com

There certainly hasn't been a lack of material for SRAM to write about over the last couple of weeks, which has unfortunately caused me to neglect one of my best potential sources: Len Pasquarelli, "senior NFL writer" (snort snort) for espn.com. Len is more of a comic relief guy, though, and is too easily lost in the shuffle in these urgent times. I apologize to Len for my neglect and hope to get to him eventually. In the meantime, I needed to throw out a quote from his column today on the Steelers beating the Pats, because I have a feeling it'll come in handy some day:

Getting into the spirit of the holiday, Staley suggested his offensive linemen carved up the Patriots front "like a Halloween pumpkin." While somewhat forced and more than a tad hackneyed, the analogy was an apt one.

Len Pasquarelli as literary critic! Ho ho ho! And flaunting his journalistic superiority to the jocks: "Forced"! "Hackneyed"! That's rich! Pardon me while I wipe the tears away. Just fantastic stuff. We'll come back to Len, I promise.