The Pittsburgh Steelers versus the Baltimore Ravens sets the gold standard for what a football rivalry looks like. A lot of hate, a lot of trash-talking, but mutual respect on each side. When it came to Steelers versus Bengals, it was just pure hate. On the second episode of his new podcast, Footbahlin, Ben Roethlisberger outlined his meetings against Cincinnati and the different level their rivalry was at.
“When you played Baltimore, you knew it was gonna be a physical football game,” he said. “But it was gonna be physical in the sense that two teams were just going out and they were gonna pound and grind.