Steelers receiver Cedrick Wilson has obtained a protection-from-abuse order against his girlfriend, who is charged with firing two shots in the player’s home.

Lindsey Paulat, 26, of Fawn, is charged with aggravated assault and reckless endangerment in the incident Saturday. She remains in custody and her family has said they won’t comment on the case.

Police say Ms. Paulat fired two shots from Mr. Wilson’s gun after they got in an argument, but after Mr. Wilson left the home in Pine. Police say Ms. Paulat refused to surrender for about 12 hours, prompting them to evacuate some neighbors.

Curious though that she fired the gun after he left. Couldn’t she have just thrown his clothes out the window or smashed the TV like normal people?

Riding shotgun on the way to Lambeau Field — and getting special attention from the flight attendants — should be the Seahawks defense. They stonewalled the Skins on the ground and came after Todd Collins from every direction. Marcus Trufant and Jordan Babineaux both came away with pick sixes in the fourth quarter to ice the game for Seattle.

Poor Collins, though. His brilliant and unexpected career as a starter after a dozen years in the league probably just ended with the Redskins season. Had he led Washington deeper into the playoffs, who knows what could have happened, but now he’ll probably just get benched again next year — a flash in the pan, a one hit wonder — replaced by someone younger and prettier.

Speaking of pretty, Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger used to date Natalie Gulbis. Now she is pretty, and a way better girlfriend if you ask me than Jessica Simpson. But they broke up for reasons unknown and now Big Ben is on the outside looking in as far as the NFL playoffs are concerned.

Last night’s AFC Wildcard game was virtually a repeat performance of the regular season meeting between Pittsburgh and Jacksonville: The Jaguars took an early lead, the Steelers battled back, but the Jags had just enough left in the tank to come away with the victory. Game ball goes to quarterback David Garrard for his 32-yard scramble on fourth down in the final minute that kept Jacksonville’s season alive. Or maybe it should go to Maurice Jones-Drew for his 96-yard kickoff return and a 43-yard touchdown reception. Or maybe Rashean Mathis, who had two interceptions in the first half, including a pick six. Seriously, none of these guys got voted to the Pro Bowl?

Jacksonville has to wait until the conclusion of today’s game between San Diego and Tennessee to find out where they will be playing next, but odds are the Jags will be traveling to Massachusetts to face the unbeaten New England Patriots. They’ll need to be hitting on all cylinders if they’re to beat the Pats on the road, but they’ll have everyone outside of Boston rooting for them.

Thankfully the NFL still provides scores for free on its Web site, so I can tell you Pittsburgh won the game 41-24, but really all I can do is repeat what they have written there as far as what happened in the game and how it was that the Steelers snapped their two-game losing streak to keep themselves in the hunt for a division title. So you might as well just click here and read the story yourself.

On a related note, isn’t it great that with a recession looming, gas prices spiraling out of control, and an unpopular and ill-advised war still raging overseas that our senators and congressmen can find the time to get involved in the battle between Big Cable and the NFL? I’m glad to see that we have our priorities straight around here.

Kansas City 12, Cleveland 16
Quick thinking. Benny Sapp scooped up an incomplete pass from Charlie Frye to Jerome Harrison that was ruled a lateral and took it 56 yards for the Chiefs’ only touchdown.
What’s he thinking? Brady Quinn was holding the clipboard all night after holding out on the Browns for 12 days trying to get his contract done. Of course, Larry Johnson wasn’t even in a Chiefs uniform as he’s still holding out.

Green Bay 13, Pittsburgh 9
Brett who? Backup QB Aaron Rogers completed 18 of 27 for 168 yards and a touchdown after Green Bay’s first team offense gained all of 12 yards on 12 plays.
Oh that Brett. Favre completed just two of seven passes for seven yards. No interceptions, though.

Carolina 24, New York Giants 21
Funny names are good. Wide receiver Taye Biddle caught two touchdown passes for the Panthers, a 23-yard catch from David Carr late in the first half, and an 85-yard catch and run that shredded the Giants’ secondary early in the third quarter.
Funny names aren’t so good. Giants linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka got beat repeatedly by the Panthers’ rushing attack.

Chicago 20, Houston 19
Sexy. Rex Grossman *gasp* completed his first eight passes for the Bears to go 8 of 10 for 50 yards.
Not so sexy. New Texans QB Matt Schaub missed his chance to score a TD when he overthrew Kevin Walter in the end zone. He finished three of five for 25 yards against a Bears defense that was missing Brian Urlacher and Tommie Harris.

Washington 14, Tennessee 6
Heads up play. Rookie corner Byron Westbrook recovered a fumble in the end zone late in the game to give the Redskins the win.
Head somewhere else. QB Vince Young was benched by Titans head coach Jeff Fisher for violating a team rule.

Arizona 23, Oakland 27
A win is a win. After going 2-14 last year and loosing Art Shell as head coach, Raider Nation will take anything they can get.
A loss is nothing new. One of the Raiders’ wins last year was a 22-9 thrashing of the Cardinals.

Oh, and she has one smokin’ hot bod tee-shot.

Boyfriend Ben Rothlisberger is listed as probable for Monday’s road trip to Indy, though if were him, I’d take a few more weeks off for some TLC from Natalie.