Steelers fight for playoffs in season finale

PITTSBURGH — It was always going to end up like this for the Pittsburgh Steelers, wasn’t it? Week 18. At home. Their biggest rival on the other sideline. A playoff spot on the line. It’s a proposition the perpetually erratic Steelers happily would have taken four months ago when they began the season with the NFL’s oldest player at quarterback and plenty of question marks surrounding him. Funny, it doesn’t quite feel that way now. Not after a chance to clinch the AFC North disappeared into the muck in Cleveland on Sunday, when Aaron Rodgers and an offense that sure played like it missed suspended wide receiver DK Metcalf spent three hours running scared from...