Favorites and Likes: Stick to football? taken at Highmark Stadium (Courtesy of Moon Golf Club)

There's always a lot of backlash any time certain Steelers players have any kind of fun online.

If Le'Veon Bell raps or posts pictures of his dogs or JuJu Smith-Schuster makes interesting videos or Vince Williams tweets too much, they're met with choruses of "stick to football" or other demands for these guys to spend every waking hour on the field or in the gym.

I get that fans want the most out of these guys and they want the team to succeed, and that some fans have other reasons to be frustrated with Bell lately. But I always just think that it's so wild to attack these guys for having hobbies. All athletes have interests outside of their sport, and it probably wouldn't be healthy to eat, breathe, and live the game 24/7.

Obviously, JuJu and Le'Veon both have teams of producers and aren't personally fiddling around with GarageBand or Premiere or spending exorbitant amount of times creating these things. Why is it that when their hobby is in the public eye they're met with loads of criticism and labels like "pretentious jerks"? Are they only allowed to have lives away from the field after they bring home a championship?

Just something I always think is interesting.

The consensus among Steelers players is that LeBron James is good:

Alejandro Villanueva shared this moving essay for Memorial Day:

Nick Kingham is all in on Vegas:

Trevor Williams had to make a tough call:

Georges Laraque got some people riled up with this one, and not just because he thinks "Pitt" is the correct abbreviation for Pittsburgh:

Jamie Oleksiak, Zach Aston-Reese, Dominik Simon, and Olli Maatta are in Barcelona. Olli's comb got left in Pittsburgh:

Good times con mis amigos

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Geno took a stroll:

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