STEELERS Cowher is more than ready to welcome Chiefs someday

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- When the Steelers hired Bill Cowher as their coach off Marty Schottenheimer's Chiefs staff in 1992, Cowher welcomed going back to Kansas City for a game that season.
Got to see old friends. Got to see his former employers. Got to stand on the opposing sideline for a change.
It was the next seven trips that began to get tedious.
A year later, it was a return visit for the playoffs. And when the Steelers journeyed to Kansas City every season from 1996-99, it was like renewing acquaintances with long-lost relatives -- they're great to see occasionally but not every year.
So when the 2003 schedule called for the Steelers and Chiefs to play for the eighth time since 1992, Cowher knew immediately where Sunday's game would be played.
He's going to Kansas City, Kansas City here he comes. Again.
"It was nice the first couple of times going back there to see old friends," Cowher said. "At some point, it gets old. I would love to introduce them to Pittsburgh. I guess one of these decades they will play here."
Under the NFL's current scheduling formula, that can't happen again until 2006, though the teams could meet before then should they have identical division finishes. (For example, should each win its division this season.)
The Chiefs haven't played in Pittsburgh since 1989, 11 years before the Steelers' final season in now-demolished Three Rivers Stadium.