National Exposure against Pitt...most likely

CIN @ ATL might be the bigger game, actually. But I’d guess we have the second largest coverage.

This Steelers game is the big one. We need this just as much as we needed the Jets and Pats games.

 

We'll have CBS' #2 team calling it (Gumbel/Dierdof).

I haven't looked at the schedule yet and who's playing at 4 PM. But it's getting the some elevation.

 

I just hope Wake somehow ends Big Ben's career on national television.

 

Well, it's not like it matters that it's a home game because the stadium is going to be packed with Steeler fans anyway. Hopefully it is national so I don't have to go out and hang out at a bar which will invariably filled with Steeler fans.

 

my only wish for that game is we leave injury free

 

That would be awesome. I am 5 for 5 for non sunday ticket games. Glad I didn't pay for it this year. That's 5 for 5 in Ontario of all places!

 

Has there ever been a team in any sport with more bandwagon fans than the Steelers? For every diehard you find at least one who only likes them because they win a lot. I just hope we can find some way to beat these guys.

 

I'm actually a die-hard Hines Ward fan. Dude's the football player every highschool football kid should assimilate.

 

Yes, New England.

I live in CT, and growing up, I couldn't find a pats fan if I tried. After they won the SB in 01, all these Patriot "fans" came out of the woodwork.

 

too bad we can't play the rest of our schedule on the road. We seem to have better focus on the road.

 

I guess that's one way to look at it. They win a lot. I'd call Lions fans one of the best fanbases in all of sports. They come back year after year and are repeatedly rewarded with more failure. I've met plenty of people who are Steelers fans b/c they basically rejected their loser local team and picked one that's easy to root for. There are a lot of Steelers fans here in the Baltimore area leftover from after the Colts left. I wonder why these people picked the Steelers over say the Redskins, the Eagles, the Giants, or whoever? It couldn't possibly have been b/c the Steelers win all of the time. Like it's so hard to go around waving a terrible towel everywhere when your team has winning seasons all the time. Give me the guy who was wearing his Lions stuff all year long during the 0-16 season. That's my superfan.

I'd be interested to see what would happen to the Steelers fanbase if they had to endure any extended period of losing and irrelevance. Some would stick around for sure, but would it still be what it is now?

 

One of the largest, sure. One of the best? I don’t know about that. They travel well, but like the Yankees, Red Sox, Colts, Patriots, Cowboys, and Lakers, it’s easy to be a Steelers fan. It’s the path of least resistance.

Another thing I’ll credit Steelers fans with is that they don’t pretend that they’re the underdog or are being somehow slighted by everyone else. Yankees fans act like their team is universally despised despite the fact that they have the largest fanbase in baseball. I mean, Tom effing Brady is a Yankees fan and he plays in Boston.

But beyond that, Steelers fandom really isn’t all that remarkable.

 

Steelers are known to put more fans in the seats of away games than any other fanbase. I wouldn't really call that bandwagoning. Patriots and Cowboys on the other hand...

 

Our team doesn't know how to take praise. They don't know how to respond with the crowd behind them...It freaks them out.

They're the ultimate contrarian team so far.

 

With my luck up here in NE, they will probably broadcast BUF-BAL...

Jokes aside, it has a shot along with, as Desides stated, the CIN-ATL game

 

I agree wholeheartedly, NH and Boston, MA is riddled with bandwagoners...It is incredible to see let me tell you. I first saw it when they went to the Super Bowl against GB way back in the late 90s...Leroy Butler/Desmond Howard time period (guys remember that one?). All of a sudden you see all these Patriots fans everywhere and the news...everyone was in shock they made it that far after years of mediocrity. Continues to now where...omg there is a waiting list for season tickets. For this reason, I have skewed my hatred for a team in the division from the Jets to the Patriots more recently. The majority of their fans, also, know jack **** about the team...honestly...I am proud when I meet Dolphins fans around the country that know the team, players, history. In this, I find solace for now...

 

That just might be an excellent point...have any other thought's about that?

 

We don't do well when national audiences are watching...

 

Sad but true.

But if we ever want to win the Super Bowl, then this team needs to get used to playing in the spotlight.

 

you both lose.

San Diego. Before they started winning it was more than 50% of other teams filling up the stands. You cannot top that, anywhere. Raider games, the local news would estimate that 2/3 would be raider fans, 1/3 charger fans and I'm dead serious.

Oh, on more than one occasion raiders fans would jump and in one case stabbed Charger fans, in their own stadium.

 

You know what, I just thought of something.....could that be the reason why we have trouble at home this year. I mean it can't be a great feeling to have so many of the opposing teams fans in our home stadium cheering against them in their own backyard.

Maybe it's a psychological thing.

The Jets and the Pats fans usually have a good turnout at our home games...right?

Either way these guys need to get a chip on their shoulder when they play this next game and have that "Anthony Fasano" FU attitude (faking the Lambeu Leap) this week against the Steelers.

 

I still recall hearing, "J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS," a couple times over the tv...but I still agree in that it was loud for the most part and quite a bit of energy was there. Along with a great looking Fergie popping up the goods for the national audience.

 

It's counterintuitive, I know, but we as fans need to continue to nitpick, berate and belittle them. They seem to love proving us wrong.

They are a bunch of losers and that's all they'll ever be

All I know is that as soon as we give them a full vote of confidence, they'll screw the pooch.

It's kind of like life..."The day you make up your mind to smile, you will see that everything seems to conspire to make you cry. The day you make up your mind to be patient and forgiving, it will seem that others suddenly become harder to get along with."-Yogananda

 

Dierdof can possibly be the dumbest person in the world, and I'm being serious. He's just dumb. He doesn't know what he's talking about.

 

steeler's will have just as many fans, this is their vacation week ive heard.

Bad *** move by Fasano...doesn't get better.

 

Dammit. I WANT THE GUS.

 

The one thing we CAN look forward to if they do make this broadcast a national one is creating a terribly awkward moment between Dan Dierdorf and Greg Gumbel when the crowd is caught on camera and mic chanting "She said no! She said no!" over and over again.

 

I hope we don't have dan dierdof... I hate that guy.... Hey doesn't know what he is talking about, and doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut

 

I want to see how big the fine is for the two head shots James Harrison took out on the Browns this week.

 

Perhaps a suspension!?!

 

This season, I am 3-2. 3 Ticket wins! I was at the Jets game, the Patsies game was on national TV.

 

"You don't want to injure people. I don't want to injure anybody. But I'm not opposed to hurting anybody."

 

The hits are not going without notice from league observers.....

From Shutdown Corner:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/sh...on-destroy-the-heads-of-two-Cl?urn=nfl-277524

From Football Night in America:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22825103/vp/39714910#39714910

......and Harrison shows no remorse setting himself up for the perfect target for hit with the crown of the helmet.

http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2010/10/pittsburgh_steelers_lb_james_h.html