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  • Since 1970 the Steelers are 53-24 against the Browns. That isn't even close to being a rivalry. They met in the playoffs only twice ever and the Steelers won both.

    Honestly most Steelers fans would rank the Ravens and Patriots much bigger rivals right now. Hell, even the Bengals and Titans are bigger rivals.

    DING DING DING DING............. we have a winner!

    Well said, and it is truthful.

    Except of course, the guy that made those statements doesn't believe them. He only says them to stir up shit....and to see how big gulper of his BS you are Ghoolie.

    How often do you think he climbs aboard the Titans/Bengals/Pats/Ravens trains. Never probably, but he certainly is here.

  • Since 1970 the Steelers are 53-24 against the Browns. That isn't even close to being a rivalry. They met in the playoffs only twice ever and the Steelers won both.

    Honestly most Steelers fans would rank the Ravens and Patriots much bigger rivals right now. Hell, even the Bengals and Titans are bigger rivals.

    @silverback said:

    Since 1970 the Steelers are 53-24 against the Browns. That isn't even close to being a rivalry. They met in the playoffs only twice ever and the Steelers won both.

    Honestly most Steelers fans would rank the Ravens and Patriots much bigger rivals right now. Hell, even the Bengals and Titans are bigger rivals.

    Once again Steeler fans think that football started in 1970.

    The Browns-Steelers rivalry is one of the most storied rivalries in the NFL. With 117 meetings and counting, it is the oldest rivalry and the most storied in the American Football Conference (AFC), surpassing any other rivalry in the conference by at least 5 contests.

  • Since 1970 the Steelers are 53-24 against the Browns. That isn't even close to being a rivalry. They met in the playoffs only twice ever and the Steelers won both.

    Honestly most Steelers fans would rank the Ravens and Patriots much bigger rivals right now. Hell, even the Bengals and Titans are bigger rivals.

    @silverback said:

    Since 1970 the Steelers are 53-24 against the Browns. That isn't even close to being a rivalry. They met in the playoffs only twice ever and the Steelers won both.

    Honestly most Steelers fans would rank the Ravens and Patriots much bigger rivals right now. Hell, even the Bengals and Titans are bigger rivals.

    strongly disagree S~Back ! What MAKES a Rivalry is History ...and The FANS ! Poll EVERY Person living in the Greater Pittsburgh as them the ONE Team they NEVER Want to lose to ...Area I am Sure its the Cleveland Browns. Please I dont live there but I am from there and My Friends and relatives from the Burgh are 100% Browns Haters. And Silverback... if the Browns weren't a Rival YOU wouldn't be here. Why bother ?

  • @silverback said:

    Since 1970 the Steelers are 53-24 against the Browns. That isn't even close to being a rivalry. They met in the playoffs only twice ever and the Steelers won both.

    Honestly most Steelers fans would rank the Ravens and Patriots much bigger rivals right now. Hell, even the Bengals and Titans are bigger rivals.

    Once again Steeler fans think that football started in 1970.

    The Browns-Steelers rivalry is one of the most storied rivalries in the NFL. With 117 meetings and counting, it is the oldest rivalry and the most storied in the American Football Conference (AFC), surpassing any other rivalry in the conference by at least 5 contests.

    @1-more-season said:

    Once again Steeler fans think that football started in 1970.

    The Browns-Steelers rivalry is one of the most storied rivalries in the NFL. With 117 meetings and counting, it is the oldest rivalry and the most storied in the American Football Conference (AFC), surpassing any other rivalry in the conference by at least 5 contests.

    NO we dont that's such a BS Statement , and always Tossed around. As much as saying you guys dont think whats happened since matters as much. we ALL Know whats up , what happened and what IS Happening. Steeler fans in General are WELL Versed in our Histoty ... it makes hwats happened SINCE 1970 all the more impressive. Thats argument is Total Bull S*** .. why keep tossing it out there ? And If a Few feel that way... we live in a What have you done for me Lately world anyway. But Most know our history extremely well.

  • A steeler fan brought up 1970 not me. When the teams have played close to 120 times a steeler fan only looks at half of those.

  • A steeler fan brought up 1970 not me. When the teams have played close to 120 times a steeler fan only looks at half of those.

    @1-more-season said:

    A steeler fan brought up 1970 not me. When the teams have played close to 120 times a steeler fan only looks at half of those.

    Well dont roll us all under the bus.

  • Fair enough. There's browns fan I wouldn't want to ne lump in with too.

  • A steeler fan brought up 1970 not me. When the teams have played close to 120 times a steeler fan only looks at half of those.

    @1-more-season said:

    A steeler fan brought up 1970 not me. When the teams have played close to 120 times a Steeler fan only looks at half of those.

    Your math is REALLY bad! The Browns have only been around since 1950 so the rivalry is 61 years old, with 41 of those years are after 1970. 20 is not HALF of 61. Everybody knows the modern era of professional football and the NFL as we know it began with the merger and the 1st Super Bowl. The fact of the matter is the Steelers and Browns have seldom been good at the same time. The Steelers and Ravens have met in the playoffs 3 times this decade alone and are consistently good at the same time. There have been more major match-ups between the Steelers and Ravens in their short history than there have been in 60+ years of Steelers vs Browns games. Aside from Cleveland being an AFC North foe, most Steelers fans don't care about the Browns any more than they do the Bengals.

  • not "our" as in yourself is included....your schtick is rather old...kinda like u.

  • Silverback if you truly don't care about the browns or the Clev. Pitt rivalry the go the eff away!!! Go to a steeler board and take ghoulisional with you.

  • It is just the lack of the Browns competitiveness lately?????

    Lately??, how bout lack competitiveness since the 80's

    Nah, this Steeler/Browns rivalry is dead....and has been dead for a looooongg time now..

  • @1-more-season said:

    A steeler fan brought up 1970 not me. When the teams have played close to 120 times a Steeler fan only looks at half of those.

    Your math is REALLY bad! The Browns have only been around since 1950 so the rivalry is 61 years old, with 41 of those years are after 1970. 20 is not HALF of 61. Everybody knows the modern era of professional football and the NFL as we know it began with the merger and the 1st Super Bowl. The fact of the matter is the Steelers and Browns have seldom been good at the same time. The Steelers and Ravens have met in the playoffs 3 times this decade alone and are consistently good at the same time. There have been more major match-ups between the Steelers and Ravens in their short history than there have been in 60+ years of Steelers vs Browns games. Aside from Cleveland being an AFC North foe, most Steelers fans don't care about the Browns any more than they do the Bengals.

    @silverback said:

    Your math is REALLY bad! The Browns have only been around since 1950 so the rivalry is 61 years old, with 41 of those years are after 1970. 20 is not HALF of 61. Everybody knows the modern era of professional football and the NFL as we know it began with the merger and the 1st Super Bowl.

    Actually, nobody knows that because A. It is not true, and B. it is only stupid Steeler fans way of trying to delete the shitty part of their teams history why they believe that.

    The fact of the matter is the Steelers and Browns have seldom been good at the same time.

    OK, the one fair statement you have said.

    The Steelers and Ravens have met in the playoffs 3 times this decade alone and are consistently good at the same time. There have been more major match-ups between the Steelers and Ravens in their short history than there have been in 60+ years of Steelers vs Browns games.

    So? The Steelers have had more playoff games against the Raiders and the Patriots than against the Browns. Like I said, that is only a function of accident that the two teams have been good at the same time

    Aside from Cleveland being an AFC North foe, most Steelers fans don't care about the Browns any more than they do the Bengals.

    Well, when I asked for Steeler fans input on this subject, I note that you are the only Steeler fan that thinks that way.

  • G gmp

    It is just the lack of the Browns competitiveness lately?????

    Lately??, how bout lack competitiveness since the 80's

    Nah, this Steeler/Browns rivalry is dead....and has been dead for a looooongg time now..

    @gmp said:

    It is just the lack of the Browns competitiveness lately?????

    Lately??, how bout lack competitiveness since the 80's

    Nah, this Steeler/Browns rivalry is dead....and has been dead for a looooongg time now..

    Well, so, the Browns beating the Steelers and knocking them out of the playoffs two years ago doesn't count in your book?

    I mean, wha if, hypothetically the Browns win the next say, 6 in a row to do it for you?

    But if that were the case wouldn't there then be no rivalry because the Steelers would be no match for the Browns?

  • @1-more-season said:

    A steeler fan brought up 1970 not me. When the teams have played close to 120 times a Steeler fan only looks at half of those.

    Your math is REALLY bad! The Browns have only been around since 1950 so the rivalry is 61 years old, with 41 of those years are after 1970. 20 is not HALF of 61. Everybody knows the modern era of professional football and the NFL as we know it began with the merger and the 1st Super Bowl. The fact of the matter is the Steelers and Browns have seldom been good at the same time. The Steelers and Ravens have met in the playoffs 3 times this decade alone and are consistently good at the same time. There have been more major match-ups between the Steelers and Ravens in their short history than there have been in 60+ years of Steelers vs Browns games. Aside from Cleveland being an AFC North foe, most Steelers fans don't care about the Browns any more than they do the Bengals.

    @silverback said:

    Your math is REALLY bad! The Browns have only been around since 1950 so the rivalry is 61 years old, with 41 of those years are after 1970. 20 is not HALF of 61. Everybody knows the modern era of professional football and the NFL as we know it began with the merger and the 1st Super Bowl. The fact of the matter is the Steelers and Browns have seldom been good at the same time. The Steelers and Ravens have met in the playoffs 3 times this decade alone and are consistently good at the same time. There have been more major match-ups between the Steelers and Ravens in their short history than there have been in 60+ years of Steelers vs Browns games. Aside from Cleveland being an AFC North foe, most Steelers fans don't care about the Browns any more than they do the Bengals.

    When did I mention "20"? Your too dumb to argue with.

    DO all of you steeler fans who claim to not care about the Browns spend this much time on ravens or pats boards? Doubt it.

  • Top 10 NFL Local TV Market Ratings for 2010:

    Team Household rating

    Saints 43.9

    Steelers 41.9

    Packers 41.3

    Chiefs 36.9

    Colts 34.9

    Vikings 34.5

    Ravens 30.9

    Patriots 30.9

    Bills 30.9

    Browns 29.1

    Actually, I think you have to give it to the Bills and Browns fans which were after all 5-11 teams and haven't done that well for a decade or more. The others in the top 10 had the last 4 SB teams (Saints/Colts/Steelers/Packers) or teams that had been in recent conference title games (Ravens/Vikings/Pats), plus the Chiefs.

  • @gmp said:

    It is just the lack of the Browns competitiveness lately?????

    Lately??, how bout lack competitiveness since the 80's

    Nah, this Steeler/Browns rivalry is dead....and has been dead for a looooongg time now..

    Well, so, the Browns beating the Steelers and knocking them out of the playoffs two years ago doesn't count in your book?

    I mean, wha if, hypothetically the Browns win the next say, 6 in a row to do it for you?

    But if that were the case wouldn't there then be no rivalry because the Steelers would be no match for the Browns?

    @the-gipper said:

    Well, so, the Browns beating the Steelers and knocking them out of the playoffs two years ago doesn't count in your book?

    I mean, wha if, hypothetically the Browns win the next say, 6 in a row to do it for you?

    But if that were the case wouldn't there then be no rivalry because the Steelers would be no match for the Browns?

    No, winning that game was the blind squirrel finding a nut once in a while....and even if the Briowns win the next 6 games in a row...the series has been so un-competitive for so long it would take years to establish again....Rivalry's develope over time and are recognized thruout the league based on the competitvness and history of the teams back and forth copetition...the Browns have been back for so long, they'll need a decade of forth to establish the rivalry again.

  • G gmp

    @the-gipper said:

    Well, so, the Browns beating the Steelers and knocking them out of the playoffs two years ago doesn't count in your book?

    I mean, wha if, hypothetically the Browns win the next say, 6 in a row to do it for you?

    But if that were the case wouldn't there then be no rivalry because the Steelers would be no match for the Browns?

    No, winning that game was the blind squirrel finding a nut once in a while....and even if the Briowns win the next 6 games in a row...the series has been so un-competitive for so long it would take years to establish again....Rivalry's develope over time and are recognized thruout the league based on the competitvness and history of the teams back and forth copetition...the Browns have been back for so long, they'll need a decade of forth to establish the rivalry again.

    @gmp said:

    No, winning that game was the blind squirrel finding a nut once in a while....and even if the Briowns win the next 6 games in a row...the series has been so un-competitive for so long it would take years to establish again....Rivalry's develope over time and are recognized thruout the league based on the competitvness and history of the teams back and forth copetition...the Browns have been back for so long, they'll need a decade of forth to establish the rivalry again.

    Well, you are wrong. A rivalry that was established over 50 years doesn't go away because of a little lopsidedness. If that were true, as I said earlier on this thread, the OSU/Michigan rivalry would have disappeared over the years that John Cooper was here because it was lopsided in favor of Michigan....or it would have disappeared in the Jim Tressel era because it was lopsided in Ohio State's favor.

    And as I pointed out elsewhere, the Browns/Steelers rivalry has never NOT been lopsided.

    the Browns dominated the first 20+ years until the 70s when the Steelers dominated. Then the Browns dominated the 80s, then the Steelers have dominated since about 1990ish.

    There has never been parity in this rivalry where over the course of say a decade the teams have won nearly equal numbers of games.

    So, there goes your theory out the freeking window.

  • Just FYI, here is the Browns/Steelers breakdown by decade since 1950 when the rivalry started:

    1950s: Browns 16 wins; Steelers 4 wins

    1960s: Browns 15 wins; Steelers 5 wins

    1970s: Steelers 15 wins; Browns 5 wins

    1980s: Browns 12 wins; Steelers 8 wins

    1990s: Steelers 8 wins; Browns 6 wins (3 years no games)

    2000s: Steelers 17 wins; Browns 3 wins

    2010s: Steelers 2 wins; Browns 0 wins

  • Here is the Ravens/Steeler breakdown by decade:

    1990s: Steelers 6 wins; Ravens 2 wins

    2000s: Ravens 11 wins; Steelers 9 wins

    2010s: Steelers 1 win; Ravens 1 win

    FYI on neither this nor the Browns did I include postseason games.

    The Steelers are actually 3-0 against the Ravens in postseason play with games in '01,'08 and '10 and they are 2-0 against the Browns with games in 1994 and 2002 (of course, that '02 game was the game that Butch Davis went into the prevent defense in the middle of the 3rd qtr with a 17 pt. lead against the advice of his DC Foge Fazio).

  • To continue this ad nauseum, here is the decade breakdown of the Bengals/Steelers matchups:

    1970s: Steelers 14 wins; Bengals 6 wins

    1980s: Bengals 13 wins; Steelers 6 wins (1 game lost to strike)

    1990s: Steelers 13 wins; Bengals 7 wins

    2000s: Steelers 14 wins; Bengals 6 wins (plus one Steeler postseason victory)

    2010s: Steelers 2 wins; Bengals 0 wins