For one night during the NFL offseason, the Ravens’ purple and the Steelers’ black and gold were a perfect match at a charity event meant to connect strangers and fight cancer
BALTIMORE — The groans rose quickly, making the far corner of a hotel ballroom sound like the 500-level at M&T Bank Stadium following a Ravens’ turnover. John Harbaugh, the city’s beloved Super Bowl-winning coach, was mingling with a succession of well-wishers when Derek Shaffer, a 55-year-old Baltimorean by way of tiny Yatesboro, Pa., made his way to the front of the line clad in a yellow Steelers polo shirt.