This won’t help image of Steelers

It has been a rough few weeks for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

First, a leaked hotel document made them out to be prima donnas, noting that players must be housed on floors with no outside guests, that equipment managers be served filet mignon and that Dan Rooney gets a special pillow.

Now a female Pittsburgh police officer is angry about being passed over for off-duty work at the home hotel. An officer who did the recruiting for the job told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that he chose not to include female officers because players “walk down the hallway with no clothes on.”

Trivia time

What was the last NFL team to win the Super Bowl after losing the title game the previous season?

We’re hurt

Who says the younger generation doesn’t read newspapers? Pro skateboarder Jason Dill told Transworld Skateboarding that mornings are not the same without one.

“I read the New York Post every day,” Dill said. “I get really bummed when I’m out in L.A. and can’t locate a newsstand that carries it. It’s the most ridiculous paper I have ever seen.”

Yeah? Well, Briefing has its moments too.

He can barely vote

Now that Seattle has traded Ray Allen, SuperSonics fans have begun referring to their top NBA draft pick, Kevin Durant, as “The Man.”

Durant, a freshman last season, is not buying into it.

The former Texas star told the Oklahoman: “I don’t think I’m ‘The Man.’ I would say that I’m willing to work hard and hopefully one day I could be a key contributor to the team. But as far as ‘The Man,’ I don’t think I’m ‘The Man.’ ”

Heck, at 18 -- his birthday is Sept. 29 -- Durant is barely a legal adult.

Bullish on football

A record $1.1 billion was wagered legally in Nevada last season, and Howard Schwartz, owner of the Gambler’s Book Shop, says sales of research material are at a high this preseason.

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” he told the Last Vegas Sun, adding, “I think when the stock market goes down, enthusiasm for sports betting goes up.”

Leap of faith

Hawaii football players were given a “pool day” instead of practice last week -- but only if they leaped from a 30-foot platform.

Problem: Running back Leon Wright-Jackson, formerly of Nebraska, cannot swim. But he jumped anyway and relied on teammates to rescue him.

“But when I landed I pushed them away because I was panicking,” he told the Honolulu Advertiser. “We didn’t do this in Nebraska.”

Trivia answer

The Miami Dolphins, who defeated the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII after losing to the Dallas Cowboys the previous season.

No Bull: Panda now a conversation piece

Sports fans in rural Colorado are mourning the passing of Panda, a raging bull that made a career of flinging rodeo cowboys.

Wrote John F. Russell in the Steamboat Pilot: “The 2,000-pound giant was like a dark, spinning tornado that tossed bull riders around the confines of the Brent Romick Rodeo Arena in much the same way a 16-pound bowling ball tosses pins around the backside of a lane at the Snow Bowl.”

Panda was euthanized recently after suffering a broken hip in a brawl with a younger bull. His owner could not part with the beast so she had his head mounted for display in her living room.

And finally

From Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle: “Pacman Jones did a wrestling gig, and will try hip-hop music because, ‘I have to keep my spirits up.’ I thought that’s what strip clubs were for.”

pete.thomas@latimes.com