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    Using perceived slights as motivation is an NFL staple, but does it work?

    by Mike DiGiovanna, Los Angeles Times Jan 27, 2018 4 minutes

    Players made their final walk-through in the afternoon. Game preparations seemed complete. Then-Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher had one more video clip to show his players before they retired to their hotel rooms the night before a January 2006 AFC wild-card playoff game against the Cincinnati Bengals.

    It wasn't of Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer passing to Chad Johnson or Cincinnati's blocking schemes or blitz packages.

    It was from a month earlier, when Bengals receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh - after Cincinnati's 38-31 win at Pittsburgh - wiped his cleats with a bright yellow "Terrible Towel" in Heinz Field.

    To the Steelers and their impassioned fans, the gesture was akin to a parishioner blowing his nose on the pope's pallium.

    "It was the only clip

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