Will Leitch is a wonderful human being. I enjoy his writing, and I don’t particularly disagree with his assessment in his weekly power rankings that the Steelers are the best team in the NFL at this moment. (I don’t particularly agree with it, either, but that’s because power rankings are gay and exist only for people to argue pointlessly about something that the playoff system resolves for us.)
What I take issue with is Leitch’s foolhardy sentiment that accompanies the ranking:
1. Pittsburgh Steelers (11-3). Ladies and gentlemen, it’s the world’s only likable juggernaut franchise. I’m not sure why nobody hates the Steelers they way they hate the Cowboys, or the Yankees, or the Red Sox, or the Lakers, but they just don’t.
AU CONFUCKINGTRAIRE, mon backwater frere. They just DO. The Steelers are likable in precisely the way that the Yankees, or Manchester United, or the Wehrmacht is likable. The Steelers are the cancer of football teams: it usually wins, it’s a depressing pain in the ass, and anyone who cheers for it is an asshole.
Go ahead and count me as Pittburgh Steeler Hater Number One. I fucking LOATHE the Steelers. I despise them far more than any other franchise on the planet. And that’s saying a lot, because if the Italian national soccer team’s chartered jet collided with the Yankees’ team plane, I’d happily burn my penis jerking off on the flaming wreckage.
And you know what’s most irritating about the Steelers? It’s that Leitch’s statement has an element of truth: the team itself is, indeed, somewhat likable. Now that Joey Porter’s taken his fucktardery to Miami, Pittsburgh doesn’t have much in the way of egregiously repugnant assholes on the roster. Polamalu’s hair is annoying, but I like the way he plays. James Harrison is a badass. Hines Ward is annoyingly, quietly good. I dislike Roethlisberger, but mostly because he sheds sacks so easily.
No, what makes the Steelers the most loathsome team in all of sports are their dickface fans. The front-running fucks who fill up sports bars in their jerseys all over the country. Funny how Pittsburgh is one of the smallest markets in the NFL, penned in regionally by teams from Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia, and yet its fans are miraculously strewn all over the country in large numbers. Why, it’s almost as if most of them only became die-hard fans because the team is so successful!
These are the intellectual midgets who will point out that I, as a Seahawks fan, am only bitter because of Super Bowl XL. To which I say, FUCKING GODDAMN RIGHT. And I will be until the day I die. I’m entitled to this bitterness. It’s what Seahawks fans got instead of a victory parade. Because, you know, some fans cheer for teams that DON’T go to the playoffs every year, some fans DON’T bitch about the offensive line’s play when the team is 11-3, and some fans DON’T still bitch about Kordell Stewart a decade later when other fans suffered through Kelly Stouffer at quarterback.
FUCK YOU, Steelers fans. Fuck your shitty city, fuck your shitty field, fuck your excellent football team, and FUCK YOU.
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Do a little research schmuck and you will know why there are steeler fans, not only all over the country, but, all over the world. When the steel industry there collapsed everyone there had to move somewhere to find work, that is the reason we are all over the world.
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watch out the curtain will fool you and then even 1 point might be crucial ha ha you faggotts dont have a clue go p-burg suck me and all of troy ‘s privates lololololol
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Haha! Keep crying because your franchise is a shithole and will NEVER win a Super Bowl ring. Faggots.
The Steelers are a great football franchise! I say that being a total Seahawks fan since I was 8 years old(im 41 now). Superbowl xl was, without a doubt, the worst refereed game in the history of the Superbowl. I hated the refs more than the Steelers! I still believe we arent far from getting back!!
I love all the SteAler fan posts. They are proof of just how terrible the SteAler fans are. After looking into the actual city, I say let em have the SB rings. Crime, unemployeement, qualitly of life, average income, education. All of these things rate among the lowest in the country in Pitt. If not for Detroit it would be the worst major city to live in, in the entire USA. I guess that is why the NFL had officals from Pitt in SB XL. They wanted to get the suicide rate up a little as your fat stupid, ugly fans kept killing themselves without a title to attach themselves to. Another reason to hate SteAler fans is that they attach themselves to the SB wins like they were a assistan coach on the fucking team. Like they deserve credit for the win just like the players. I know of no other team where fans so regularly attach themselves to a teams acomplishments as SteAler fans do. Funny how the team itself is like-able but the fans are such ass clowns that the team is one of the most hated in the NFL.
This website is what makes it fun to be a steeler fan. Reason being is because every time we put your team into the fucking dirt all you pussies start crying. I’m so tired of you fucking faggot haters talking shit. I’m glad we put the faggot ass ravens out 3 times this year. I agree we are like a cancer except we dont die we multiply rings biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttttch. Check out that rock we got and suck a fat dick you hating cocksuckers. Oh yeah i also disown that fatbitch in the middle holy fuck. Go to youtube and type in hot steeler women and you will see the real deal buddy. Thanks for the website makes me proud that your day is so fucked up because our team is world champs hahahahaaha sorry about your luck you fucking nerd looking faggot.
Wow, Did anyone happen to catch the David Letterman show the night after the SEAHAWKS’ superbowl when Ben was on there talking about his “phantom touchdown”? If not ill sum it up for you shithead fagget stealer fans; HE ADMITTED BRAGGINGLY THAT HE DIDNT GET IT IN AND SNUCK IT OVER THE LINE AFTER HE WAS ALREADY DOWN BY CONTACT. What a fucking douche.
PA is 90% fugly women & men. I have to endure the hill-git-r-done, breed with only a few gene pools PA people. Look @ your fat, greasy Gov & unibrow Sen.
Mullets, huntin’, tinted wire rim glasses from the 70s. Just watch the audience in “Slapshot” & everyone looks the same- fat, white, doughy & SMOKES- GROSS
AZ is 90% beautiful people, healthy, way more in shape.. even the chubby people dress cool.
so say what you want…. all you sw PA people have is Super Bowls… a dying economy, run -down areas, corrupt gov’t… gloat all you want. BTW, I was born in sw PA & so glad my parents couldn’t stand the stupid talk: yunz, yinz, dems, doze & deez, BAD English- are your teachers are stupid as you are? YES… they are UNION… Keep your crappy weather & fatty foods. I’ll take the WEST- At least we make pretty kids instead of hee-haw, redneck, coot-coot inbreeds plus you has Jabba the Murtha embarassment. hahahahahahaa
Here we go Steelers here we go!!!!!!!
You sir are an uneducated bum.
Pittsburgh is simply the City of Champions and after we win the 6th Super Bowl on Sunday there will be no argument.
Can’t wait to play another Super Bowl as a home game!!!!!!!
Face it, the Seahawks would’ve lost Super Bowl XL even if they would’ve gotten 20 calls in their favor and the Steelers none. Why? Because Seattle will always be a loser franchise that specializes in finding ways to lose. Down deep, the Seahawk fan is happy about the ref controversy, because it gives him something to hide behind, to cover the stink of failure. Kind of like blaming the weather for making you flunk out of college.
And to the assclown who wrote this little whine piece — way to hate all the best teams in the world — the World Cup Champ Italian soccer team, the champion Steelers. You truly represent the Seahawk fan base well. As a loser, now and forever!
P.S. Anyone see my Super Bowl ring? Can’t seem to find it.
Hey, what’s all the fuss about? Can’t we all just get along?
P.S. A big shout out to the bitter, waste-of-DNA genetically inferior mouthbreathers on the Go-Bengals.com forums. Man I can’t wait to get out of this hick town when my contract’s up and back to California. Boy does Cincinnati suck donkey gonads!
Although I do confess I’ve grown a fondness for Cornhole since I’ve been here.
Ah my knee… aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
As someone who was born and raised in Pittsburgh, I am so freakin happy to see someone who shares my loathing for the steelers and their fans. You have no idea how many times I have had to explain to people that yes, I am from Pittsburgh, and NO I am not a steelers fan. Their players are pompous assholes and their fans are the most obnoxious people on the planet. It is so painful to have to sit through their chanting and singing polka songs for half the year. I love football, but the end of football season is a welcome release from listening to the damn steelers fans as much for a few months. Whines Hard is a prick. Ben is a douche. The only reason any of their defensive players with the exception of the caveman look good is because dick lebeau is a genius, not because any of the players are actually all that special. Notice the fact that the linebackers come out of nowhere and are great, and then suck ass when they go somewhere else. Its a SYSTEM defense. Anyway, f-ck the steelers
I wouldn’t call it a “little known fact” that Pittsburgh currently has half the population that it did in 1950. But when jobs dry up we don’t sit around feeling sorry and collecting unemployment and welfare, we go elsewhere looking for work.
You must be a Brown’s fan.
That’s solid research.
Little known fact: Allegheny County used to have a population to rival that of Shanghai.
You must be a Brown’s fan. Look the reason Steelers fans are throughout the country is because we moved away from Western PA due to economic reasons, but choose to follow our Black and Gold vs. Bandwagonning whatever crappy team happens to be near by. Sorry you weren’t lucky enough to be born a Steeler Fan.
Perhaps you should seek counseling for your Obvious Envy of a Real Team with Real Fans, because we are out at the Bars in our Jerseys Win or Lose….can’t say the same about any Other Team.
Also while I think about it, Buffalo and Detroit are losing population now about as fast as Pittsburgh was in back the 80′s. Get back to me in 20 years if there are Bills and Lions bars and fan clubs all over the country. Two years ago I happened to be driving through Buffalo on a Sunday and irate people were calling the sports talk station because the home Bills game was blacked out. Well, if you’d sell out the stadium that wouldn’t be a problem. Pittsburgh has sold out every home game since 1972.
Steeler Nation does not have to travel. We’re already there. If anybody doesn’t get it, go to MySpace, click on the Videos tab, and type in “Steeler Nation”. Then watch and learn.
Besides which, back when there was a mass exodus from here in the 80′s, there were very few teams in the Sunbelt where most people moved to. No Carolina team. No Jacksonville. No Tennessee. No Phoenix. Atlanta and N.O. mostly sucked. And Tampa Bay was, well, Tampa Bay. So most people who moved continued to follow the Steelers.
The Steelers are symbolic of the city. We aren’t fancy, we just get the job done.
‘Why, it’s almost as if most of them only became die-hard fans because the team is so successful!’
Well fuck me…and there I was thinking it had to do with the steel factories and coal mines shutting down in the 70′s and 80′s…and then the more recent corporate outsourcing of what was left of the Pittsburgh industrial base forcing hundreds of thousands of Pittsburgh natives over the decades to find work in other parts of the country…which in turn led to Steelers bars cropping up in every corner of the country. Had no idea it was all just a success driven bandwagon…apparently… Thanks for the clarification.
And for the record…the first Steelers game I went to was late in a 5 win/11 loss season…and we were beaten badly by the Bengals at home. Three Rivers was full ’til the end. Success isn’t why a person becomes, and remains, a Steelers fan. Only 2 or 3 other teams in the NFL have fans that share that sense of loyalty (even if they don’t travel nearly as well as the Steeler Nation to away games). Seattle, I’m afraid to say, ain’t one of those teams.
Holly shit, she ate Big Snack(Casey Hampton). Damn I guess I’m an asshole, love it, wouldn’t change it. Seattle fans, now I know why that area has the highest suicide rate in the US. You guys can’t get over something that has happen over 3 years ago, sounds like you guys need help here’s a number 1-800-273-TALK, please don’t kill yourself..
The reason why there are Steeler fans across the nation is not due to fair weather fans picking them up. Part of it is from that sure. Even more likely comes from itis from the success in the 70s.
But the bulk of it is because of the mass exodus of people from Pittsburgh. The population literally shed a good million people in the past 30 years or so. It’s not just the Steel industry going away.
I remember in elementary school when Gulf Oil left Pittsburgh. Many of my friends moved away as their parents were transferred or got new jobs.
It’s truly a Steelers Nation, but not by choice.
[i]Conversely, he’s struggled some this season behind a crappy offensive line while playing hurt, so you would have to be a total hater for you to think a QB with a career rating of 90 and a 50-19 record as a starter is average at best.[/i]
Living here in Pgh, Ben gets an unfair amount of hate from Steelers fans. Have they seen some of the other QBs teams have to deal with?
Be real now. The Steelers don’t get any more lucky calls than anyone else in the league. It just so happens that they caught big breaks at big moments and that’s what pisses everyone off. But they were just as unlucky as their opponents more than a few times. Ask James Harrison’s strangulation marks how many holding penalties were missed in the Baltimore game. Ask Polomalu’s anal beads how they were able to stay in after his overturned game winning interception against the Colts in 2005. Ask Jerome Bettis’s gravitational pull what strange effect it had on the Thanksgiving Day coin toss.
You’ve got to have a more realistic position than, “The Steelers paid the refs for every call ever.” Maybe refs are as stupid as their explanations of their calls would lead you to believe they are. i.e. the Holmes TD, “The reciever had posession and both feet down.” Who gives a fuck! Where was the ball!?!?!?!
But I digress…The human candy bar silo in the “XXL” Steelers tent somehow managed to get a wedding ring on one of her bratwursts.
We have not even started talking about how racist Steelers fans are.
See, the difference is, we made fun of Pats fans last year and their fans showed up and popped off the N-word every other comment. Nice try, though.
You have to be a total homer to not think Ben is an average QB at best.
Conversely, he’s struggled some this season behind a crappy offensive line while playing hurt, so you would have to be a total hater for you to think a QB with a career rating of 90 and a 50-19 record as a starter is average at best.
I like the steelers. Is it wrong to be a pats fan and really admire troy polomolu? They got robbed by the Colts! Maybe its just my undying hate for the colts that makes me like the steelers? Or maybe that whole “steel curtain” thing still as a nice ring to it and is ingrained in my memory from when I was a kid? I never even QUESTIONED why I didn’t hate the steelers at all until I read this post!
Thanks! I must be brainwashed.
At any rate. The steelers are a great team. I don’t know why the fans seem to hate the Pats, but then again, everyone in america does. Thats all right. I hate everyone else in america anyways!
I hope the steelers kick the crap out of the titans. And hopefully they make it to the superbowl, because everyone laughed at me at the beginnig of the year when I said they were going in 2009! Make it happen.
We have not even started talking about how racist Steelers fans are.
Coach Tomlin is… so articulate!
The only two teams that come close to matching the Steelers in fandom are the Packers and the Cowboys, and those teams peak and valley in their fandom, unlike the Steelers.
Have you ever been to Wisconsin? There are no valleys in rooting for the Packers.
My God, you Steelers fans are whinier and more self-centere than Patriots fans. Believe it or not, the world does not revolve around you or your team. There are plenty of fanbases just as dedicated as yours. Get over yourselves.
… Well, I didn’t hate the Steelers too much when I started reading this thread, but after finding out what all their fans are like, I think I do now. LOL.
and he does all this with hines ward.
“Christmas Ape Says:
December 18th, 2008 at 12:25 am
And how many picks has Ben thrown in the five games since? One.”
Yeah, but he fumbled it twice, also. Showcasing his other flaw: staying the pocket too long and not protecting the ball enough. Also, let’s look at what teams he faced in that stretch: chargers (crappy defense), bengals (crappier defense), New England (so-so defense with their primary weakness being pass coverage. he threw a pick.), Dallas (fumbled once), Ravens (fumbled once). You have to be a total homer to not think Ben is an average QB at best.
Turnovers/TD ratio for 2008 season–
Ben – 17/15
Elisha – 12/20
I am one of those Steelers fans who got the hell out of Pittsburgh the day after I graduated from high school – I’m in northern California now for grad school and I think I know more Steelers fans here than Niners/Raiders fans. How confusing…
I still love my Pens and Pirates too, though I can’t bring myself to watch a full Pirates game since 1992 because I was 11 years old and I cried my eyes out after Sid Bream destroyed the Pirates World Series hopes and well….look at what’s happened since. :(
J.L. White Says:
December 16th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
I know there are some non-douche Steeler fans jere (like Ape), but the rest of you asses can kiss me right here:
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jl white suckin off christmasape. your life seems to have went down hill after watching super bowl xl. perhaps suicide?
i admit i am an asshole when it comes to the steelers, but i’ve been watching the steelers every game every sunday since i was 7 years old and attend games whenever i can (i live in ny). I was actually at the regular season game last year where we shit on seattle. they didn’t even score a fucking touchdown. fuck the patriots.
It’s like when I talk to Canadian people, and they want to talk about how they know more about hockey than me!!! Really!?!?
And I hate it when Greek people act like they founded the fucking olympics, when they were born in the 1980′s!
I only respect football fans that are old as hell!!!!!
You are a total idiot if you moved away from Pittsburgh when the steel mills closed but still kept your football allegiance in your family!!!!!!!
(This douche is easily the worst writer on the staff and that includes Flubby)
And how many picks has Ben thrown in the five games since? One.
@J-daddy: all I wanted was a Pepsi
blah, blah, blah…this post goes on forever.
anyway, if I’m a Steelers fan I would be scared shitless that Big Ben is my quarterback. Sure, they have a good defense but I just can’t see Ben winning three games in a row in the playoffs against elite NFL teams without turning the ball over a bunch of times. In one three game period this season (Giants, @Redskins, Colts) Big Ben threw eight interceptions.
Man oh man, I’ve missed out on this thread. I’m not going to add my two cents, because it’s all been said. But I wouldm have loved to. Damn work, making me miss all the hatehatehatehate.
All work and no hate makes bobby something something.
There are more Steeler fans than fans of any other team in the NFL. Go to any grocery store in any state on a sunday morning and you will see more people decked out in Steeler gear (jerseys, not just hats), than stuff for any other team. Steeler fans are legion, and it’s not just transplanted people from PIttsburgh. The Steelers gained their rabid fandom in the 1970′s when they were on TV all the time (winning Super Bowls, throwing towels for a bottle of Coca-Cola) and people adopted them as their team. Those people have also remained Steeler fans because they grew to indentify with the team, and the Rooney family (the best owners in all of football). The only two teams that come close to matching the Steelers in fandom are the Packers and the Cowboys, and those teams peak and valley in their fandom, unlike the Steelers.
200th?
Yup. The Steelers took the title. And they’re never giving it back.
I just played my brother with the Jets and von Oelhoffened tom brady – it was probably the most satisfying video game experience I’ve ever encountered.
I’m pissed I missed all of this, I’ve been suffering from haterade withdrawl, shaking and shit, seriously. And now if I may, the Steelers stole SBXL when Kimo von Oelhoffen von Oelhoffed Carson Palmer. Eat a fat cantelope juice soaked dick Ape.
Waiting for Lions2027 to pull out the “Ape, you’re just being glib………You don’t know fanbases…….I know fanbases” mantra that worked so well for another not-so-well-informed “opinionater”
I know I shouldn’t bother, but it is kind of staggering that Lionsdude can actually write what he just wrote and not want to punch himself in the face shortly after reading it. Note this section of the aforementioned article: “For the record, I grew up in eastern Pennsylvania, was an Eagles fan during my youth and subsequently played for five NFL squads that were not located in Pittsburgh, so I have no allegiance whatsoever to the Steelers or their fans. I just call it like I see it.” Thats the part where the author explains how he is not biased toward Pittsburgh. He then goes on to make the point of the article, despite his ambivalence towards the team.
This is similar to how you suggested we ask some fans from Arizona or St. Louis. But fans will always think they are the best. However, if you ask players without the risk of alienating their fan bases (anonymously) and the consensus which they arrive at is that the Steelers have the best fans (and this is not just one player, but several) – well where is the bias there?
An old proverb reads, “The stick won’t break & the snake won’t die”……….figure out if applies to this discussion.
A chair, a few feet of rope and a Cher album on repeat is usually pretty convincing.
Dibbly, don’t even bother.
Someone that hellbent on hanging onto their opinion, no matter how clearly wrong it is, won’t be convinced with any amount of evidence.
Really?? that’s all you have to say? Ok…if you want to be technical, he’s just reporting his opinion. It’s not fact. Opinions are biased or else you wouldn’t have one.
How’s the article biased?
Thanks Joe, I think I will get a Second Life. I’ve always wanted to try online gaming. Right after I go take a hike…I just ate too much fruit…I cut it up into a nice fruit bowl as to not choke on it.
Part of the ranking is also based on how fans “travel” and Pittsburgh is ranked second in that category.
Do you have any idea how gay this sounds?
The Chicago folks made some excellent points as to why the Bears have the craziest and most widespread fan base: Alot of people leaving Illinois to live in cities spread around the country (at a higher rate than most of course), their Superbowl against the Colts had the most TV viewers EVER (until last year), opposing stadiums half filled with Bear fans, multiple championships and Superbowl appearances, and accounts from ex-players like Walter Payton and Refridgerator Perry about how wild and crazy Bear fans were at road games. Now lets see what Cowboy nation has to say on the subject. See ya later!
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Lions, please get a fucking life.
Hey Dibbly
I’m going to go to a Chicago Bears blog now and argue that THEY don’t have the best fans and biggest fan base in the NFL.. and that the Steelers have the most die hard fans, lol. So basically I’ll be having the exact same discussion as i am here, but with opposite teams… I’m sure they will have plenty of biased articles to prove THEIR points as well as you do yours about the Steelers. Who’s holding the water now my friend??
YES Thank you Ape, Steeler fans traveling FROM Pittsburgh. They don’t live in those cities. I’m sure a few do, but not to the extent you people think.
@Kordell
When the Steelers play an actual good team on the road then see how many Steeler fans you see. Half the fans at the Vikings Lions game were from Minnesota. Nobody wants to go see there own shit team play, so it looks like the place is packed with Steeler fans.
Part of the ranking is also based on how fans “travel” and Pittsburgh is ranked second in that category.
Or maybe you should just ignore any evidence that runs counter to whatever opinion you’re set on maintaining. This has been a fun exercise in arguing with a wall. I think this post and the comments that have followed it are evidence that people care about the Steelers, for good or worse. If that’s not good enough for some tard determined not to have a clue, then whatevs.
So the article by the former player recounting his time playing for several teams that were not the Steelers, and having no connection to the Steelers or the Pittsburgh area in any way, who also took a poll of current players that resulted in the Steelers fans being called the best in the NFL is off base? How? Because you don’t agree with it? Nothing you have said holds any water.
That ranking is for fan bases WITHIN their own city based on HOME ticket sales. Clevland is #3 on the list…..you think people around the country love them some Browns? AHhahahaha
@Lions
I know you think the Steelers are “boring,” but watch any way game the Steelers play in. It seems that no matter where the game is played, close to 40-50% of the fans are Steelers fans. Hell at the Redskins game this year, there were probably more Steelers fans than Redskins fans.
Maybe I should cut and paste my own posts…my point in the first place is that the article is off base and that the idea that “People around the country love the Steelers” comes completely out of left field. You know why America doesn’t hate the Steelers like they hate the Yankees, Patriots, or Red Sox??? It’s because they DON’T CARE about the Steelers enough to hate them!!! The Steelers aren’t relevant enough to form an opinion about geniuses. Win or Lose, regular unbiased fans don’t care!!!
Some quality hate here from both sides. My two cents:
First of all, I have never met a Pens or Pirates fan who was not from the Pittsburgh area. I cannot say the same about Steelers fans. Be that as it may, Leitch is right. I wouldn’t go so far as to say they’re likable, but they haven’t inspired the same backlash as every other successful franchise. Sure, there’s Steeler hate, but it tends to be concentrated in areas like Cleveland and Cincinnati and Seattle.
Personally speaking, I disliked Pittsburgh quite a bit in the mid-90s when the Dolphins and Steelers were both legit AFC contenders. But it was the garden-variety hate you have for a team that threatens your playoff position, not a blood feud. Then in the late 90s, the Steelers hit a rough patch. By the time they had recovered, the Dolphins were in free-fall. Why waste hate that could be directed at the Patriots or Cowboys? Right now, I’m just glad the Dolphins are relevant enough to be worth mocking again.
Bottom line, though, is this: Fuck every team that’s doing better than my own! Who’s with me?
Once again, I submit to you: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/preview08/columns/story?id=3530077
And, hey, look, the Cowboys aren’t even in the top 10
@Ape-
Talk about solipism! Just because YOU think the whole country recognizes the Steelers as one of the best all time teams or that they recognize the Steeler fan base as one of the best, don’t make it so my friend.
Folks, go to a message board for any other NFL team and they will tell you that THEY have the biggest fan base or the craziest fans. Better yet, go to an unbiased team like the Arizona Cardinals or St Louis Rams and I gurantee you they will be cluless to this whole Steeler-fans-are-all-over-the-place thing.
maybe i should just cut and paste the first part from that article in case detroit guy can’t figure out how to follow the link
@dibbly
I didn’t say mutiple Super Bowls in 10 years, I said 30. I don’t think Steelers have bandwagon fans and I don’t think they have particularly crazy or devoted fans either. My point was and is that the Steelers are just like most other teams when it comes to having a fan base around the country. I don’t know what reality you guys are living in, but when most people around the country think of large, widespread fan bases or particularly crazy fans, The Pittsburgh Steelers aren’t particularly high on the list. I guess it’s just a Pittsburgh thing and you guys think your fans are wild and crazy and all over the country. Sorry, but most people aren’t in on the secret.
And maybe YOU care about the Packers because they’re a division rival of your Lions.
Yes, like the Steelers, the Packers are a divisive, popular team. But you seem to think your personal opinion about each franchise can be extrapolated to define what the country thinks about them. That’s mighty good solipsism if that’s the case.
at least the Packers give the impression they win multiple titles.
What the fuck does that even mean?
You’re so full of shit.