Steelers Legend Wants To Return To Organization’s Coaching Staff

Joey Porter Sr. wants to return to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

He just isn’t going to ask to do it.

Porter — who was drafted by Pittsburgh in 1999, spent eight seasons with the organization as a player and five as a coach — explained when talking about the experience of watching his son suit up for the same club in an appearance on Cam Heyward’s “Not Just Football” podcast.

“The funny thing about it was, I’m in the stands, because I told [Mike Tomlin], Mike is good, ‘Man, you want to come?’ I’m like, Nah, man, until they give me a suite, I’ve got to sit in the stands,” Porter said. “I ain’t trying to use my Steeler power of being on the sideline, because it’s giving mixed emotions. I know how much I really do want to coach. I’m not trying to sit down here to look like I’m trying to ask for my job back, knowing I would take it back. But you don’t want to come off like that, and I want him to be a man and do his thing.”

So… the ball is in your court, Tomlin.

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