stillers4me
10-20-2013, 09:35 AM
Once upon a time, this was known around here as Ravens Week, a game between the Steelers and their most heated rivals that would take on a playoff atmosphere.
Sometimes it was better, like when Joey Porter chased after the Baltimore Ravens bus because he felt Ray Lewis had mocked him by portraying Porter's "boot" after a sack -- this while Porter watched from the sideline after getting shot in the posterior the previous week. Or former Steeler Rod Woodson going crazy because Hines Ward had the audacity to throw a block on him. Or the time Bart Scott said he hit Ben Roethlisberger so hard he could hear the air rush out of him.
Oh, those were the days. But those days are gone, and today's "rivalry" sounds like an attempt by some to keep the thing alive while the passion ebbs. As Douglas MacArthur might have said, "Old rivalries never die, they just fade away."................
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sports/steelers/on-the-steelers-ravens-week-not-what-it-used-to-be-708299/#ixzz2iGyhKlyp
Sometimes it was better, like when Joey Porter chased after the Baltimore Ravens bus because he felt Ray Lewis had mocked him by portraying Porter's "boot" after a sack -- this while Porter watched from the sideline after getting shot in the posterior the previous week. Or former Steeler Rod Woodson going crazy because Hines Ward had the audacity to throw a block on him. Or the time Bart Scott said he hit Ben Roethlisberger so hard he could hear the air rush out of him.
Oh, those were the days. But those days are gone, and today's "rivalry" sounds like an attempt by some to keep the thing alive while the passion ebbs. As Douglas MacArthur might have said, "Old rivalries never die, they just fade away."................
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sports/steelers/on-the-steelers-ravens-week-not-what-it-used-to-be-708299/#ixzz2iGyhKlyp