It today’s NFL rivalries still exist, but they aren’t as heated or as chippy as they once were.
Part of that is due to free agency and players moving to new teams time and time again, developing relationships across the NFL landscape. And part of that is the style of play today, which is more wide-open, offense-centric unlike the NFL of yesteryear.
But for one Sunday at least, the matchup between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens at Acrisure Stadium provided that old-school feel. It was a physical, nasty game, one that featured a lot of bumps and bruises coming out of it.