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PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A two-year playoff absence is barely a hiccup in most NFL cities. In Pittsburgh, its a drought that forced one of the leagues most successful franchises to rebuild itself on the fly.Consider the project right on schedule.Ben Roethlisberger passed for 220 yards and a touchdown, LeVeon Bell added a score and the Steelers locked up a post-season berth with a methodical 20-12 win over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday.Pittsburgh (10-5) faces Cincinnati next week for the AFC North title. Either way, the Steelers will be playing January football for the first time since Tim Tebow and Denver stunned the defending AFC champions in the wild card round three years ago.Now, Roethlisberger, Bell and Antonio Brown lead one of the NFLs best offences, and the defence is starting to show some snarl for the only franchise with six Lombardi Trophies.Alex Smith passed for a season-high 311 yards but was sacked six times as the fading Chiefs (8-7) lost for the fourth time in their last five games. Kansas City had little trouble moving the ball but couldnt seem to get the one big play that mattered.Instead, the big plays — and most of the smaller ones — went to the Steelers. A roster thats undergone a youth movement since a Super Bowl appearance four years ago is growing up quickly, though with a few familiar faces leading the way.The Steelers win also eliminated the Dolphins from the playoffs. The Chiefs need to beat San Diego next Sunday and receive plenty of help to make it back to the playoffs for a second straight year under coach Andy Reid.Roethlisberger wasnt as dynamic as hes been at times this season but led a pair of long touchdown drives. The second ended with a 3-yard strike to Brown that gave Pittsburgh a 17-6 lead late in the third quarter. Roethlisberger briefly went to the locker room with a right knee injury but returned after a Kansas City field goal to guide a 12-play, 70-yard march that ended with Shaun Suishams 23-yard kick with 4:04 remaining to all but clinch it.The teams spent the first half trading methodical drives, but Kansas City kept getting bogged down near the end zone, a rarity for a team that came in second in the league in red zone touchdown percentage. Three times the Chiefs drove inside the Pittsburgh 20. Three times they failed to cross the goal line.The first drive ended with Cairo Santos 23-yard field goal.The second included a flip from holder Dustin Colquitt to tight end Travis Kelce on fourth-and-4 at the Pittsburgh 11. Kelce converted it into a first down, but three additional downs produced a single yard and another kick from Santos.Pittsburgh responded to go in front 10-6 when Bell ended a crisp 80-yard drive with a 1-yard dive over right tackle. Smith deftly guided the Chiefs back downfield when a rare moment of aggression by Reid wound up costing Kansas City a chip-shot field goal.Facing fourth-and-inches at the Pittsburgh 12 with 27 seconds left in the half and no timeouts, Reid sent the offence back onto the field. Charles was drilled by Lawrence Timmons behind the line of scrimmage, and when Will Allen piled on, the Steelers had the ball and the momentum with a post-season berth just 30 minutes away.___Online: http://pro32.ap.org/poll and http://twitter.com/AP_NFL Custom Jacksonville Jaguars Jerseys . - Free agent defensive end Will Smith has signed with the New England Patriots. Brandon Linder Jersey . -- Among the 31 players at the Montreal Canadiens rookie camp, none feels closer to cracking the NHL roster than right winger Aaron Palushaj. http://www.officialjacksonvillejaguarsfootball.com/authentic-marqise-lee-jersey-womens .Brooks, a three-year veteran, was slow to get up after suffering the injury during a 5-yard run by Arian Foster.Brooks limped off the field midway through the quarter and then slowly walked to the locker room a few minutes later. Logan Cooke Jersey . 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I was excited about it. Its big stuff in my household and Im the only that has the T-shirt. So I got a lot of jealous kids and a jealous wife over my Pitch Perfect 2 T-shirt.The movie comes out in May. The Hollywood buzz provided a brief but pleasant diversion from the more pressing matter of getting ready for Sundays game against the Minnesota Vikings.Matthews was limited for a second straight day with what appears to be a minor groin injury. The star linebacker said he doesnt think that hell have any limitations Sunday.Lang was limited with a left ankle injury, while Sitton was limited with a left big toe injury. The Packers best offensive linemen are following the same practice blueprint that theyve had the last couple weeks with their lingering ailments.The injuries havent affected the quality of play. The line is keeping quarterback Aaron Rodgers clean and upright. McCarthy has said this line, which includes rookie centre Corey Linsley, left tackle David Bakhtiari and right tackle Bryan Bulaga, has a chance to be one of his best starting fives in his nine seasons as head coach.The line has allowed just one sack overall in the last two games, during which the Packers have outscored opponents a combined 108-34.I think its the best line that Ive been a part of. I havent been shy about saying that all year, Sitton, a seven-year veteran, said this week. We just keep grinding and keep working at practice and finding ways to get better.But enough about football.Only football questions, Bakhtiari deadpanned when approached by a media throng at his locker about the movie.It started with a Twitter post in the off-season by Bakhtiari, a fan of the initial Pitch Perfecct, which stars Anna Kendrick as a college freshman who joins an all-girls singing group and competes against a rival all-male group on campus.ddddddddddddccording to Bakhtiari, movie producer Max Handelman first read about his interest in the movie after seeing a couple articles online. Handelman then started following Bakhtiari on Twitter.Lang had a slightly different take.If you talk to Bakhtiari, he will definitely refute it. But basically started with him tweeting at all the producers and everybody, telling them what big fans we are. You could research that for yourself — true story, Lang said tongue-in-cheek. And, basically, just begging them to let us in their movie, which is kind of embarrassing.Not embarrassing enough, though, for the quintet to make the cameos. They were also joined by Rodgers younger brother, Jordan Rodgers, in the scene filmed in June.I put myself out there saying, Id love to be a part of the film, Bakhtiari said. We worked around a lot of obstacles. It wasnt easy. You have five high-profile NFL football players, trying to schedule within a month and a half they have to film.The trailer online shows the quintet onstage wearing dark suits at what appears to be the start of a singing competition. Lang, Matthews and Sitton stand in front, before the two linemen pull down on Matthews tear-away jacket sleeves.The pony-tailed linebacker then strikes a pose as if he was celebrating a sack.Obviously, as a fan of the original Pitch Perfect movie, David Bakhtiari and his affinity for social media and reaching out to other people — in weird, direct messages, and replies — was somehow able to get in the right touch with other people and to me like that, Matthews said. So I thank him for his creepiness.Lang said the Green Bay five had just one song, lasting no more than 45 seconds. He didnt want to give away the tune. The scene in the movie was pretty short.For us, most of us being offensive linemen, we dont get exposure like that very often, Lang said. 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