The Steelers are on Mean Joe Greene's bad side.
In an interview Wednesday on CBS Sports Radio, the Steelers legend ripped this year's club for their lackluster effort and showboating. In particular, he took aim at Pittsburgh's first half against Minnesota, in which it allowed 23 unanswered points.
"In all the years I've been watching my team, the Pittsburgh Steelers — the black and gold — Thursday night, that first half, was probably one of the saddest days I've had in all of my years of playing, and all of my years since my retirement watching the Steelers play," he said. "That was a poor, poor example of the black and gold."
Unsurprisingly, Greene also wasn't fond of Chase Claypool pausing to signal his first down with time expiring in regulation. The taunt cost the Steelers several seconds on the clock.
"'Hey man, I thought you were educated. Didn't you go to Notre Dame?,'" Greene said. "'Why are you playing this game? For you to show your butt, or win the game? You made some plays, give the ball back to the officials, the clock is ticking, you're costing your team valuable time.'"
Greene is just the latest ex-Steelers star to rip them this season. ESPN analyst Ryan Clark has lambasted them several times, most recently calling Claypool "emotionally and mentally underdeveloped."
Compared to that, Greene was delivering pillow talk.
"The game is not about him pointing the first down. Hell, we can see. We know you made the first down," said the Hall of Famer. "Get your tail back to the huddle, get the ball back to the officials. Very immature."
If the Steelers continue playing this way, they're going to keep making their franchise legends very mad.
