{"id":5334,"date":"2013-09-20T12:29:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T16:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=5334"},"modified":"2013-09-20T12:29:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T16:29:53","slug":"steelers-banning-younger-players-from-ping-pong-and-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/09\/20\/steelers-banning-younger-players-from-ping-pong-and-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers banning younger players from ping pong and pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5335\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5335\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5335\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/iketaylorryanclark.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/iketaylorryanclark.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/iketaylorryanclark-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/iketaylorryanclark-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Steelers have put up signs. Signs that notify players with less then four years of experience that they are no longer allowed to play pool or ping pong during work hours.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously the joke is whether or not they can play football&#8230; as the Steelers are 0-2 to start the season.<\/p>\n<p>A group of veteran players got together and determined that the source of the teams problems were younger players not taking things seriously.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Redman: &#8220;We need to win a football game here before guys are coming in worrying about whos first on the pool table. So that elimnates that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jory Rand (@JoryRand) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoryRand\/statuses\/380791478059933698\">September 19, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Safey Ryan Clark <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoryRand\/status\/380739151298973697\" target=\"_blank\">added<\/a> that the signs were from a meeting between players and was not open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly the signs have since been removed. Probably the negative attention. The Steelers will look for their first win of the year as they play the Chicago Bears in Sunday&#8217;s nights game on NBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Pittsburgh Steelers have put up signs. Signs that notify players with less then four years of experience that they are no longer allowed to play pool or ping pong during work hours. Obviously the joke is whether or not they can play football&#8230; as the Steelers are 0-2 to start the season. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-5334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5334"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}