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JAMES HARRISON, THE (OLD) MAN OF STEEL: Tim Rohan profiles the ageless, and outspoken, Steelers LB THE TIME JOEY PORTER CAME FOR RAY LEWISīOUCHETTE: Joey Porter was shot in the butt in Colorado when he was out there for a Colorado State game, so he couldn’t play in the Ravens game.

It is not a rivalry when one team is kicking the hell out of the other team.īOUCHETTE: After the Ravens won the Super Bowl in 2000, that’s when it really started taking off. But then in the 1999 season, we were able to win at Pittsburgh, and that was a big deal for us. Priest Holmes hits the hole in Pittsburgh in 2000.īILLICK: From an organizational standpoint, it had been since they had beaten Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh. The next year we started to play them close. I think Ray Lewis said, we are not going to be chumps anymore to these guys. Great players don’t take kindly to being mauled like that. Well, within five to 10 minutes, they took that game back over. What I remember is we were up, 24-7, at the half, and I was feeling like we had really arrived. 5, 1997, that shows up as a 42-34 win by the Steelers. These guys are going to be our rivals, because they are in our division, and this is sort of what we aspired to be. But about four or five years later, Baltimore got it. In those first few years, the Steelers just came in and owned Memorial Stadium. The Baltimore Colts in their heyday didn’t overlap with the Steelers in their heyday. The Steelers-Baltimore Colts rivalry was not a good one at all. But I don’t think anybody in the city of Baltimore got that this was supposed to be our rival. STAN “THE FAN” CHARLES, Baltimore sports talk radio host, 1983-2001: When the Browns moved to Baltimore, for the Modell family, Steelers week was a big deal right away. So we wound up having to get the Steelers PR guy to bring us down to the ref.

The Pittsburgh writers requested a pool report from the referee. That was sewn into the fabric of the Ravens.ĮD BOUCHETTE, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Steelers beat writer, 1985- : I remember one time, this was at the old Memorial Stadium, so they had just moved not too long ago. Not necessarily for the city, but Art Modell and Ozzie Newsome, their history, coming from Cleveland. But there is a little bit of a carryover. Or Ravens-Cleveland, because Art Modell moved the team from Cleveland.īRIAN BILLICK, Ravens head coach 1999-2007: The Ravens history is so brief, relatively speaking. There is more history, I think, with Cleveland and Cincinnati. The weird thing is, I don’t really know where it started. That football hate-it runs deep in both cities. But in the AFC North there is only one rivalry, and that’s Baltimore-Pittsburgh. PRYCE: I came to Baltimore from Denver, where our big rival was the Raiders or the Chiefs. A GIFT FOR FOOTBALL PURISTS: Andy Benoit previews the Steelers-Ravens Christmas Day matchup ORIGINS, 1996-2000.Just another Raven battle wound, I guess. And then afterward, I looked, and it was completely plastered to my face. He got my nose, and I remember everyone saying it wasn’t that bad. ROETHLISBERGER: It wasn’t a good situation. That was my introduction to, anything goes here. Plaxico got up and swung at him, and both of them got ejected.

Trapp swung Plaxico Burress around to the ground, then proceeded to jump in the air and land on his chest with his cleats. Anything.īART SCOTT, Ravens linebacker 2002-08, CBS studio analyst: The first time I played the Steelers, in 2002, I watched Plaxico Burress and James Trapp get into a tussle on their side of field, probably about the 20-yard-line. I didn’t care if it was a defensive lineman, linebacker, cornerback or safety. I would just hit anything that had purple on it. Our motto around the building, excuse my language, was, blank purple. If a player had some purple on your Jordans or on your outfit, somehow, it ended up in the trash can. I remember they made the office lady go home because she had a purple blouse on. During Ravens week no one could wear purple in the building. We hated everything, from the color purple. HINES WARD, Steelers receiver 1998-2011: Pure hatred.