stillers4me
10-11-2014, 11:00 AM
One Steelers player knows what the rivalry against Cleveland was like back in the old days.
Before new stadiums were built in both cities. Before the Browns were torn from the NFL for four years by Art Modell. Before Ben Roethlisberger made it a one-sided and less-meaningful series.
Tight end Heath Miller's 11th birthday present while growing up in Virginia in 1993 was a ticket to the Steelers-Browns game in old Municipal Stadium.He, his dad and family friends drove for hours to join more than 78,000 others in watching Eric Metcalf pull off two dazzling, long-distance punt returns for touchdowns as the Browns won 28-23.
What Miller remembers most are the sights — the huge, ancient stadium, the size of the players, the gnarly grass field — and the sounds of the NFL. The way it used to be when the Browns-Steelers rivalry was more meaningful.............
Read more: http://triblive.com/sports/-topstories/6915225-74/steelers-browns-game#ixzz3FqvVFE3E
Before new stadiums were built in both cities. Before the Browns were torn from the NFL for four years by Art Modell. Before Ben Roethlisberger made it a one-sided and less-meaningful series.
Tight end Heath Miller's 11th birthday present while growing up in Virginia in 1993 was a ticket to the Steelers-Browns game in old Municipal Stadium.He, his dad and family friends drove for hours to join more than 78,000 others in watching Eric Metcalf pull off two dazzling, long-distance punt returns for touchdowns as the Browns won 28-23.
What Miller remembers most are the sights — the huge, ancient stadium, the size of the players, the gnarly grass field — and the sounds of the NFL. The way it used to be when the Browns-Steelers rivalry was more meaningful.............
Read more: http://triblive.com/sports/-topstories/6915225-74/steelers-browns-game#ixzz3FqvVFE3E