{"id":569,"date":"2012-10-28T15:55:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T19:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=569"},"modified":"2012-10-28T15:55:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T19:55:51","slug":"steelers-wear-throwback-uniforms-in-win-over-redskins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2012\/10\/28\/steelers-wear-throwback-uniforms-in-win-over-redskins\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers wear throwback uniforms in win over Redskins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-571\" title=\"steelersthrowbacks\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/steelersthrowbacks.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"824\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/steelersthrowbacks.png 824w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/steelersthrowbacks-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 824px) 100vw, 824px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Steelers wore throw back uniforms in Sunday&#8217;s win over the Washington Redskins. Much of the attention about this game was given to the match-up between Robert Griffin III and the Steelers defense. When the game was played Dick Lebeau used his 53 years of experience to frustrate the Redskins offense.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Rothlisberger connected with Leonard Pope for an early touchdown and the Steelers added three more points on a field goal by Shaun Suisham.The Redskins countered with a touchdown pass from Griffin to Santana Moss.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers would score ten more points in the second quarter courtesy of a touchdown pass from Rothlisberger to Heath Miller and another field goal by Suisham. The Steelers carried a 20-6 lead into halftime and never looked back.<\/p>\n<p>Kai Forbath connected with two second half field goals for the Redskins but the inability to find the end-zone was their fault. Pittsburgh added another seven points on a touchdown pass to Will Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>In the Steelers were too much for Griffin and the Redskins. Griffin finished the day 16-for-34 with 177 yards passing. By contrast the Steelers quarterback was 24-for-33 for 222 yards. Jonathan Dwyer led the Steelers ground game with 107 yards rushing.<\/p>\n<p>Trailing by 15 with just over four minutes remaining the Redskins failed to convert on a fourth down which seemed to sum up their day.<\/p>\n<p>These throwback jerseys are based on the ones used by the Steelers in 1934. They are part of the teams celebration of its 80th season.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers will wear these throwback uniforms again when they play Baltimore on Nov. 18.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-570\" title=\"pittsburgsteelerstb\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/pittsburgsteelerstb.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/pittsburgsteelerstb.jpeg 596w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/pittsburgsteelerstb-300x227.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Steelers wore throw back uniforms in Sunday&#8217;s win over the Washington Redskins. Much of the attention about this game was given to the match-up between Robert Griffin III and the Steelers defense. When the game was played Dick Lebeau used his 53 years of experience to frustrate the Redskins offense. Ben Rothlisberger connected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[95,55],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-pittsburg-steelers","tag-washington-redskins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","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=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}