Steelers rearrange blocks on O-line

0 Comments | USA TODAY, September, 2008 | by Skip Wood

It seems nostalgically appropriate that fans from two of the NFL's more venerable franchises, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers, are forced to look at the New York Jets much in the same way another league blueblood -- the Baltimore Colts -- did nearly 40 years ago.

That's when, in 1969, the Jets and the old AFL rocked the pro football culture by shocking the heavily favored Colts in Super Bowl III.

Four decades later, legendary Packers quarterback Brett Favre was traded to ... the Jets. Seven-time Steelers Pro Bowl guard Alan Faneca left in free agency to join ... the Jets.

For many, "Damn Jets!" has supplanted "Damn Yankees!"

Yet both the Packers and the Steelers appear at peace with these developments, or at least...