For everyone who grew up watching football in the late 2000s and early 2010s, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens were must-see TV. Not just for the razor-thin outcomes but the brutality of the game. As the oldheads would say, “when football was football.” Games where receivers like Hines Ward turned into linebackers.
While the stakes are just as high this time around, the way the game will be played is a little different than a decade ago.
“I used to watch Hines Ward all the time,” WR George Pickens said via the team’s Twitter account of Steelers-Ravens games of yesteryear.