Well, They say that but.... this is a fan base that had recently booed Ron Hextall and Matt Canada right out of their respective buildings. No one is or was stopping them from doing the same thing to the other two, but they won't?
For the Steelers doing that to Tomlin right this minute would look pretty silly given how things are going but when they're not going, what's another 17 years? Lol.
Well, the last Penguins game I was at there were significant "Fire Sullivan" chants that broke out over the game as well as hefty boo's, and I've heard from others this has been a common thing at home games recently.
As for Tomlin it's kind of tricky. The ownership has a weird obsession with their low number of head coaches in franchise history and pride themselves on keeping guys for a long time. Also, Tomlin can string together good enough regular seasons to get by, but then doesn't get it done in the end. At almost any given point in Tomlin's recent career you can point to him and say that within each season he's not doing badly enough to warrant getting fired, so it's an odd situation.
Having as many "non-losing seasons" as he has had is pretty impressive in the NFL, especially with the QB situation since Ben declined.... but at what point does that outweigh the lack of playoff success? And who could actually be guaranteed to produce as well as Tomlin has?
