ESPN.com launched a poll of NFL Hall of Fame players' votes on which 20 players currently in the game could play in any era.

It shouldn't come as a surprise the Steelers have four players among the top 20, the most of any team.

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Onward with Michael Uhlhorn's next entry in the (so-far) well received series titled '25 Memorable Games from 25 Steelers Legends'. The premise is to highlight individual games that Steeler Nation will always remember their career by, and not necessarily a countdown of the 25 best Steelers ever. Not surprisingly, and just as Michael and I had hoped would happen, you all have offered some outstanding additions to the conversation. Our next addition to the list was a terror along the defensive line that, like Andy Russell, played a big role in helping the Steelers win their second of four Super Bowls in the '70s.. - Michael B. -

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17) L.C. Greenwood – Defensive End (1969-1981)

Ah, the era where players spent their entire careers with one team. L.C. Greenwood is an incredibly underrated member of the Steel Curtain. While he waits to be inducted into Canton, he symbolizes the best of the Steelers, saying once that he would not be upset if he were not inducted into the Hall of Fame because the other players there represent the whole Steeler team, not just themselves.

L.C. Greenwood won 4 Super Bowls; made the Pro Bowl 6 times; and was selected to 2 All-Pro teams, and is a member of the All-Time Team for the Steelers.

Career Game: Super Bowl X -- Pittsburgh Steelers 21, Dallas Cowboys 17 (1/18/1976)

Statistics: 4 sacks (Unofficial Super Bowl Record) and 1 forced fumble.

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While the contingent of Steelers players initially selected to play in the 2012 Pro Bowl dwindled a bit when SS Troy Polamalu (neck) pulled out, the additions of OLB James Harrison and FS Ryan Clark almost make it better.

It was announced Wednesday that Clark will replace Baltimore's Ed Reed in the game, making it the first Pro Bowl appearance of Clark's career.

Harrison has been to every Pro Bowl since 2007, though not being voted onto this one. He will replace 2011 Defensive Player of the Year, Terrell Suggs.

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No one will be lobbying for enshrinement into Canton for Steelers NT Chris Hoke, who announced his retirement today after 11 seasons in Pittsburgh.

We didn't see him in Hawaii in those annoying red AFC Pro Bowl jerseys. We didn't even see his name on the draft tracker on ESPN back in 2001, when the Steelers signed him as an undrafted free agent out of BYU.

We did see him on two Super Bowl championship roster, and three AFC Championship roster. We saw him more-than-adequately back-up Steelers legend Casey Hampton his entire career, and in 18 starts, Hoke's Steelers won an eye-popping 17 of them.

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"The Standard is the Standard." Mike Tomlin invokes this mantra on a regular basis, but never more than this season. He didn't say it, but he implied it in his press conference after the Broncos game:

Question: "Mike, how much of today's game was due to injuries?"

Tomlin: "You know better than that. We don't live in that world-we don't make excuses in regard to injury. The guys that we put on the field were capable of doing the job, and the reason we didn't do the job is because we didn't perform."

Well, Mike Tomlin may not live in that world, and that is admirable as an outlook, but there is no doubt that injuries, both during the course of a season and during the course of a game, are going to have an effect. To say that they don't is to be unrealistic about the differences between players. Not just the basic differences in their ability and experience, but the differences in preparation for a given game between players that practice with the first team and those that don't. However much a backup studies the playbook, he is not able to play as instinctively as the starter(s) in a position.

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Steelers former offensive coordinator Bruce Arians' retirement wasn't exactly seen as legitimate.

In his first comments since he parted ways with the Steelers last week, he suggested retirement was his decision, but only after the Steelers informed him he would not be receiving a contract offer.

Arians says all of this in an interview with Frank Bodani of the York Daily Record.

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The dust clouds (or in the case of Ravens fans, the fury) have settled a bit from two nail-biters in the conference championships and we begin to look ahead to one of the lesser-reported aspects of the Super Bowl; the game itself.

Amid all the overdone storylines we're bound to read ad naseum (did you know the Giants and Patriots played in a recent Super Bowl? Welcome back to relevancy, David Tyree. Can we please get Rodney Harrison to weigh in on how he got beat on that play?), writers around SB Nation are pointing out some interesting details on how the Super Bowl participants made it to the big game.

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