Steelers' bark as big as bite

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This might come as a surprise to you, but the Cleveland football fans weren't exactly friendly to their visitors from Pittsburgh Sunday night. "We saw a lot of middle fingers and heard a lot of f-bombs," Steelers linebacker Larry Foote said.

Imagine that.

How rude!

Pittsburgh fans would never be so obnoxious.

Of course they wouldn't.

But I digress ...

This was before the game, before the Steelers won, 10-6, with a performance that, though hardly dominant, was good enough to give them an early two-game lead over the Browns in the AFC North Division. Most of the Steelers ignored the taunts from Cleveland's great unwashed and went about their warm-ups at the end of the stadium near the infamous Dawg Pound. Not Foote and linebacker James Farrior. They moseyed over and gave the business right back to the, for lack of a better word, dawgs.

"We told 'em it was a puppy pound, not a dawg pound," Farrior said.

That didn't hurt nearly as much as this:

"I told 'em to cheer for us, not a losing team," Farrior said.

Ouch.

"They were egging us on, telling us to come into the stands. Like they were going to do something to us," Foote said, rolling his eyes.

The abuse continued during the game. Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward especially was targeted after he dropped what should have been a touchdown pass in the second quarter. "They were just killing me after that," he said. "They were saying a lot of mean stuff about me and about my mama. I mean, c'mon guys, I'm here to play football. Leave my mama out of it."

Wouldn't you know Ward caught an 11-yard touchdown pass from Ben Roethlisberger on the play after the drop? Now, it was his turn to have some fun. He scratched like a dog in the end zone grass, right in front of the very same dawgs. "Just marking my spot," he said, grinning. "That silenced 'em."

Ward, Farrior, Foote and the rest got the last laugh. "We didn't have to say anything walking off the field. The scoreboard said it all," Foote said. It was the Steelers' 10th consecutive victory against the Browns and their 16th in the past 17 games in the series. Foote, in his seventh NFL season, has never lost at Cleveland Browns Stadium.

"Never. Not there or in Cincinnati," he said.

"It's like the big brother beating up on the little brother all the time. The little brother can't help but get discouraged.

"They know it's our division."
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Steelers' bark as big as bite

Clowns fans are rude.

Mistake By The Lake
 
We're equal opportunity haters. Right now I'm not to keen on Cleveland for basketball and baseball. As for football, the whole division is a storied hate fest, one sided, record wise though. We can't beat anybody, so actually the hatred is turned towards the Lions, themselves. You've read my posts, I'm just the tip of the iceberg. Some people around here are really pissed off.
 
HD MM said:
That's what you got from that article?

What the hell did you expect when your "classy" players taunted our crowd before, during and after the game? We were just defending our turf. You may have beaten us on the scoreboard this time around, but we sure as hell aren't going down without defending ourselves.
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Didn't you read it? The fans started it.

Most of the Steelers ignored the taunts from Cleveland's great unwashed and went about their warm-ups at the end of the stadium near the infamous Dawg Pound. Not Foote and linebacker James Farrior. They moseyed over and gave the business right back to the, for lack of a better word, dawgs.
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The abuse continued during the game. Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward especially was targeted after he dropped what should have been a touchdown pass in the second quarter. "They were just killing me after that," he said. "They were saying a lot of mean stuff about me and about my mama. I mean, c'mon guys, I'm here to play football. Leave my mama out of it."
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Typical Stooler crybaby....

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Wouldn't you know Ward caught an 11-yard touchdown pass from Ben Roethlisberger on the play after the drop? Now, it was his turn to have some fun. He scratched like a dog in the end zone grass, right in front of the very same dawgs. "Just marking my spot," he said, grinning. "That silenced 'em."
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They still lost.
 
HD MM said:
Newsflash: Cleveland fans don't like Pittsburgh. No hard feelings. That's just the way it has always been. Besides, the NFL players are supposed to be the "professionals" here.
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And Pittsburgh doesn't like anything about Cleveland. We have that in common.:D
 
Paul Wozniak said:
We're equal opportunity haters. Right now I'm not to keen on Cleveland for basketball and baseball. As for football, the whole division is a storied hate fest, one sided, record wise though. We can't beat anybody, so actually the hatred is turned towards the Lions, themselves. You've read my posts, I'm just the tip of the iceberg. Some people around here are really pissed off.
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I don't know if ant two cities have the same hatred for each other as Pittsburgh/Cleveland.
 
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