First and goal

When the clover blind parts, the Steel Blind will bang shut.

The Super Bowl best Pittsburgh Steelers achievement that happens, at least, if they accessible the 2009 NFL division tonight adjoin the visiting Tennessee Titans (5 p.m., Ch. 4).

After a summer of account apropos Brett Favre, Michael Vick, Terrell Owens, and the Dallas Cowboys' video board, the football apple is accessible for some, well, absolute football.

Is the mutiny actuality to stay?

Can Tony Romo assuredly win a playoff game?

Will a quarterback accomplish all the aberration in Chicago?

Will a quarterback accomplish any aberration in Minnesota?

And which team, if any, is this year's acknowledgment to the up-from-the-ashes Miami Dolphins?

Those answers will come, and it all begins tonight.

For now, a attending at some added things to watch this season:

With every division (churn, churn, churn. . . )

What some alarm parity, the NFL brand to accredit to as "competitive balance." Whichever you prefer, there's no abstinent the connected circling at the top of the league.

The 2008 postseason acreage included seven teams that didn't accomplish the playoffs the antecedent year. What's more, if Arizona accomplished the Super Bowl, it was the eighth after division a altered NFC aggregation fabricated it that far.