Steelers Beat Titans in Season Opener

Someone bring Lendale White a tissue. I believe he would seek to hide his head beneath one during his trip out of Pittsburgh.

During a night when Troy Polamalu went down to a knee wound, Wille Parker and the rest of the Pittsburgh running back corps could not manage to get the ball rolling, and Hines Ward did something he hardly ever does - fumbled in a huge play scenario. Ben Roethlisberger stood firm in the backfield, took some sacks, however in the end architected yet another game winning drive to help Pittsburgh edge Tennessee 13-10 in the football season opener.

It didn't start off nicely for Roethlisberger and crew; The Titans looked as good as ever and just about locked the Steelers rush game down.

Big Ben was calm under pressure, although. Yeah, he threw two interceptions (Brett Favre does this religiously, and there are people willing to kiss his feet when he comes into a room, so get off it).

However he additionally threw for 363 yards, which included 60 yards on his last series of the game.

The team's defensive unit stepped up and performed when the chips were down, notably when it came to special teams, where a blocked Rob Bironas field goal led to their lone touchdown of the game.

Of course, that play cost them Troy Polamalu, however it only slowed them down for a moment or two.

If Hines Ward had either fallen down or turned somewhat more quickly at the end of his run in the 4th quarter, the game might have ended sooner.

Although this was too good a game to not go to OT. Both franchises had played hard, both teams had athletes lost to injury, and overtime seemed the only just way to resolve the game.

If, , you might call pro football overtimes fair.

After Pittsburgh won the coin toss, Roethlisberger and company took advantage of a winded Tennessee defense, driving downfield for 63 yards to arrange the game-winning field goal.