Found November 20, 2008 on Mondesi's House:
Thanks to the many folks who answered my request for a screen shot of the guy who wore the strange combination of Steeler sweatshirt/Bills hat to the Monday Nighter in Buffalo this week. I was unaware that it actually ran on Yahoo's Shutdown Corner. Now that that's out of the way, I can assume we'll return to debating the wisdom of buying a Limas Sweed jersey at this point in his career.Update: Continuing the debate of rookie wide receiver expectations, here's a very interesting article from a few months back that examines the top rookie WR seasons since 1998. It also says this about what to expect from Sweed in 2008:Sweed is another big wide receiver that should see the field immediately, albeit most likely only as WR3 for the Pittsburgh Steelers. This off-season Ben Roethlisberger famously complained about not having a big wide receiver that he could get the ball to in the red zone and the drafting...
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