This is an excellent team, a blue-collar team, and it deserves to have the backing of its fans.

This is not your parents' blue-collar team.

They have borrowed a new look, have taken on a different personality - that of a blue-collar, hard-working team.

For us to win, we have to be a blue-collar, defensive-oriented team that plays hard.

We're a blue-collar team, that's how we approach it.

While the Pistons visualize themselves as a blue-collar team, with fans and even arena employees wearing hard hats, how then do you describe Martin?

The team apparently bought into Edwards's assertion that "we're a blue-collar, hard-working team" for good reason.

The Thunder is an anomaly: a blue-collar team in a sport generally reserved for the economic elite.

"People see us run the floor and Speedy scoring, but we're really a blue-collar, win-ugly team," he said.

But the play merely fit the pattern for the Steelers: they are the league's blue-collar team for which nothing comes easy.