I’m all for keeping streaks alive.

I once had a 29-game strikeout streak that I extended to 30 by taking a fastball down the middle, to the dismay of my baseball coach.

I once had a streak of consecutive holes without a par or lower that stretched well into the triple digits. So, I pulled a four-foot putt for par.

Of course, I didn’t do either of those things on purpose. They just happened.

And that’s how streaks should live — or die — by happenstance.

Not premeditation.

By now, most of the Pittsburgh fan base knows why the Steelers elected to throw a meaningless swing pass to Antonio Brown on Sunday against hapless Jacksonville with less than two minutes left in a game that was already decided.

Brown was one reception shy of extending one of the most arbitrary and inane football streaks ever conceived of: consecutive games with five or more receptions for 50 or more yards.

Really? We’re keeping track of streaks like that now?

Worse yet, we’re worrying about extending them?

If we’re in the business of coming up with preposterous streaks, why not keep track of these:

Most consecutive games with a stupid celebration after a first down.

Most consecutive games with a dropped pass.

Most consecutive games with an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.

Brown is good at keeping streaks like those alive, too.

What is troubling is the Steelers organization, one that typically prides itself on being bigger than the individual, indulged a player and a streak like that.

It’s un-black-and-gold-like.

There seems to be a certain tolerance for misbehavior that wasn’t there in years past.

Le’Veon Bell and LeGarrette Blount still haven’t been punished for their Cheech and Chong cruise in August.

Of course, nothing can technically be done by the Steelers and/or the NFL until it plays out in the legal system.

Due process, all that jazz.

Of course, if Bell and Blount were say, middling fourth string players, they most likely would have been given their walking papers.

Talent trumps trouble.

A lot has been made of the off-the-field trouble in the NFL. There is plenty of on-the-field trouble that is just as, well, troubling.

The Bills carried Jim Schwartz off the field after the defensive coordinator returned to Detroit, where he was fired as head coach in January, for the first time and beat his former team.

Well, sort of. Three missed field goals from the Lions had a lot more to do with that result than Schwartz. The Bills should have carried Lions’ kicker Alex Henery off the field on their shoulders.

One player and one coach should not be put before the team. It’s Being Part of a Team 101.

Mike Kilroy is a staff writer for the Butler Eagle.