Pittsburgh Steelers Rivals of All Times

The Pittsburgh Steelers is an NFL franchise who found themselves having three primary rivals with all three playing in the same division as theirs. The team's rivals are the Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals, and Baltimore Ravens. Further, the team also have other rivals in the post season games namely the Oakland Raiders, New England Patriots, and the Dallas Cowboys. An intrastate rivalry between the Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles also arose but they play against each other only once every four years as per scheduling regulations.

The rivalry between the Cleveland Browns and the Steelers started way back 1950 when they first played against each other. At the start of the rivalry, the Browns had the advantage over the Steelers who had a 9-31 record at that time. The Steelers continued to lose for 16 straight years. It was only recently that the Steelers took over the rivalry for the first time ever with a 17-3 record. It was during this time that the team won ten straight games. To intensify the rivalry, former head coach of the Steelers had actually coached the Browns earlier in his career.

On the other hand, the Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens have a really bitten division rivalry evidenced by countless memorable match-ups between the two teams. Both teams caused each other's first loss in the home fields. The Pittsburgh Steelers won their first game at the M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore and three years later, the Ravens crushed the Steelers in a game at the Heinz field. The rivalry between the Ravens and the Steelers is like a seesaw winning and losing against each other and serve as a great complement by showing their fans how they can field really strong defenses against each other.

The Cincinnati Bengals dates the rivalry with the Steelers from the 1970 season when the merger was completed. The most memorable game of their rivalry happened in the 2005 AFC Wildcard playoff game when the Steelers made a come from behind win over the Bengals to compete for a Super Bowl title. This particular win was partly due to the knee injury the Bengal's quarterback experienced and thus was forced to leave the game.

Rivalry between the Steelers and the New England Patriots started when the latter upset the Steelers in 2001 at the Heinz Field. Later, in 2008, the Patriots were accused of videotaping hand signals of the opposing team's coaches which added to more controversy. The rivalry between the Oakland Raiders and Steelers was most heated during the 1970's. While that of the Cowboys started with the team's first game as a franchise in the 1960's.

As a team, the Pittsburgh Steelers will still have a lot to challenges to face, not just with their current rivals but with the new and upcoming teams of the NFL. Although the team have made their mark as one of the most competitive teams in the NFL, they still have to perform at their best to balance out every competitor they play against

The Pittsburgh Steelers and the era Bradshaw

In the National Football League, there is no team in the history have more success in the modern Super Bowl than the Steelers Pittsburg. As a member of the NFL since 1933, the Steelers have participated in more American Football Conference title games-and won more of them than any other team in the League. Moreover, their record of six Super Bowl WINS them first on that list too. One of the really top teams in the professional football, the Steelers Pittsburg played in a Super Bowl game one or more times during each decade for four straight decades. Four of the six victories of the Super Bowl, however, all took place during the reign of their legendary quarterback, Terry Bradshaw.

Mister steel Arm
Younger fans of the game can only Bradshaw know from his current activity as a commentator for Fox Sports, and as a long time verbal foils for Howie long. There was a time, though, when "Mister steel Arm"-as he was known during his time with the Steelers-one of the best field General of his time was. Bradshaw had a strong arm, to be sure, but it was his strong presence on the field that has played the biggest role in his ability to the dominant Steelers teams of the 1970s. Never the exciting of players (he had rarely contests in which he hit the ball for more than a few hundred metres threw), Bradshaw yet knew how to win games and was allowed to call his own game for the fourteen seasons he spent in the NFL.

Leads the troops
Prepared by the team in 1970, Bradshaw not the starter until the next season. The first years of the Bradshaw tenure as quarterback gave little indication of the greatness that he later would enjoy. In fact, his frequent interceptions, and Louisiana accent, gave the media lots of ammunition to support their story that he might not be smart enough to lead a team at the highest level of the game was. Once he hit his stride, however, he was undoubtedly the best of his time. During his fourteen seasons won the Steelers eight Division Championships to go with a total of four Super Bowl titles.

Better than remember
Today, Bradshaw remembered-when he is remembered as a player-as a quarterback who focuses mainly on the steel curtain defense to win games and titles. Far too few fans of the game today recognize how powerful his passing can be, and how the threat of a deep pass Bradshaw could loosen up an opposing defense and strengthening of the game is running. Bradshaw has always maintained a reserved perspective on his many accomplishments and the spot that he as a quarterback for his alleged experienced even in pas has taken below average intelligence. In response to the notion that he's not smart enough to have been that big of a general and history records, field Bradshaw just pointed out that he doesn't have to be a smarter than he was because football is not rocket science. The truth is that if it was, his accomplishments qualify him as a rocket scientist to come!

 

Attention all Pittsburgh Steelers Sports Fans!

It seems no matter where you are from, or if you've ever lived in Pittsburgh or not, Pittsburgh Steeler fans everywhere in the country. In fact, through out my time online and in real life that I in many people from States have who have really good football teams, and they don't even take notice of these teams, all they care about is the Steelers! And with good reason. I'm not saying the Steelers are better than any other team; I don't think so, but I say it not! I'm just saying that for some reason people always seem to flock to the Steelers. They have a long way since its the oldest team ever in the NFL, when the franchise started back on July 8, 1933 as the "Pittsburgh Pirates."

The Steelers have many Championships under their belts. With 6 League Championships, 5 Super Bowl Championships and 18 Division Championships, what's not to love?!? If you are a fan of Steelers are you enjoying all things Steelers. Including clips, videos, stats, games, team members, tributes, news, etc. Is that your online reading this now gives you a great opportunity to go and look at some videos of past interviews, clips and actual games. So if you're interested in something like this, how do you go about it? Well its pretty simple because the Steelers are the best team ever, can you all info your searches only by going to your favorite search engine and typing in "Steelers" or "Pittsburgh Steelers." If you're in the Pittsburgh Steelers or a die hard fan (who, fan-a person who eats, sleeps, breath, and bleed black and gold!) and then these sites are worth checking out!

-Steelers-the official website for the Pittsburgh Steelers. You will find tons of info on this site, and what you can't find you don't need!

-Pittsburgh Live-information about the Pittsburgh steelers, including schedules, results, news, stats and roster.

-ESPN-A site for all thing is sport! This is also a good site for information about players and football training camp.

-NFL-this is of course another official site. It can be used to find the game roster, team leaders, injury reports, headlines, player and coach quotes and game previews.

If your looking for other things online in addition to Steelers sites, such as Steelers Video sites you can search with your favorite search engine for keywords that are relevant with Steelers videos such as "Watch Steelers videos Online" or "Watch Interviews Online."

I don't know about everyone but I really wish that professional football was played all year long! I can't really wait our boys back on that field and start kicking some ass! Black and gold all the way!

This author is a big fan of Pittsburgh Steelers