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An anti- Mount Rushmore

It's one of those questions that never gets old.

Who is on your favorite team's “Mount Rushmore?”

It's fun to debate and the conversation can be endless.

Here's an even more interesting activity, a spin on Mount Rushmore.

The anti-Mount Rushmore.

The four worst of the worst an organization has to offer.

It's just as challenging to come up with an anti-Mount Rushmore for a team as it is to come up with a Mount Rushmore.

It's nearly impossible to come up with a Mount Rushmore for the Steelers. You could construct an entire mountain range of Steeler greats.

Coming up with an anti-Mount Rushmore for the Black and Gold would also be a challenge.

Lots of stinkers in Steelers' lore as well.

How about we start with perhaps the most reviled Steeler of all time, Cliff Stoudt.

He wasn't that bad, was he? Well, yes he was. Stoudt completed just 51 percent of his passes and threw twice as many interceptions as touchdown passes in his NFL career.

The true disdain for Stoudt was no more apparent than when the Pittsburgh Maulers of the ill-fated USFL sold out Three Rivers Stadium for the first (and only) time so fans could boo and throw snowballs at Stoudt, who played for visiting Birmingham.

The rest of the Steelers anti-Mount Rushmore is fairly clear:

Limas Sweed. He famously faked an injury after dropping a pass and finished with seven career receptions.

Tim Worley. Failed drug tests and failure to hang on to the football lands this running back on this dubious monument.

Jamain Stephens. Couldn't pass a simple training camp fitness test.

LeGarrette Blount. Quit in the middle of a game and was a bad influence on Le'Veon Bell.

Dishonorable mention: Artie Burns, Huey Richardson, Donte Moncrief, Antonio Brown.

The Pittsburgh Pirates have a clear Mount Rushmore. The anti-Mount Rushmore for the Buccos? Not so much.

So many names, so little space.

I went with:

“Operation Shutdown” Derek Bell. He is the anti-Roberto Clemente.

Dale Berra. One of the central figures of the Pittsburgh drug trials and not a very good player to boot.

Ryan Doumit. He has a Pirate-worst career WAR of minus-4.2, which means if the Bucs would have pulled some shmuck off the street and put him in the lineup instead of Doumit, they would have won four more games.

John Van Benschoten. Coming out of Kent State University, he was a highly regarded hitter. So, of course, the Pirates plan was to use him as a pitcher.

Van Benschoten has the highest ERA in Major League Baseball history (9.20) of any pitcher with more than 75 innings.

Call it the Van Benschoten line.

Dishonorable mention: Jeromy Burnitz, Jimmy Anderson, Pat Meares, Jose Lind.

Mike Kilroy is a staff writer for the Butler Eagle.

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