... I don't care where, as long as I have a monopoly on his attention and he can't leave until I've had my say. Put me in the urinal next to him, on an elevator with him, in a shared cab—it doesn't matter. Just give me the opportunity for a brief intervention.

That's right, I said intervention. That's what we call it when we corner someone we care about to slap some sense into their head before they continue down some ultimately self-destructive path.

In the coach's case, if the information on the rumorcoaster is even 10 percent true, the man who's steel jaw came to symbolize the steel-mill, hard-hat, failure-is-not-an-option outlook of the Pittsburgh Steelers, even when the steel mills themselves were long gone from Steeltown, is a...

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