
Heading into Sunday’s afternoon matchup in Pittsburgh, all the Steelers and Saints wanted to do was play a standard-fare professional football game. It’s mid-November, and both squads are trying to build on something. The Steelers want to see progress from young quarterback Kenny Pickett. The Saints want to see any kind of light at the end of the tunnel.
But as the two teams battled it out, Mother Nature — specifically lots and lots of birds — had different ideas about letting a football game happen unimpeded.