The Steelers overthrew the Ravens
Like a scene out of West Side Story, the entire Baltimore Ravens roster gathered about 20 yards onto the field Monday night for the pregame coin toss, glaring at the Pittsburgh Steelers and verbally threatening the type of bodily harm for which they are famous.
“It looked,” said Steelers linebacker James Harrison, who authored what Steelers coach Mike Tomlin termed a “spectacular” overall outing in Pittsburgh’s dominating 38-7 win, “like they wanted to rumble.”
Turned out, though, that the Ravens were more ready to stumble, bumble and fumble. Instead of audacious thugs, Baltimore was all thumbs. And the Steelers, celebrating the franchise’s 75th anniversary and seeking a measure of revenge for their two embarrassing losses to the Ravens last season, by a combined 58-7 count, took full advantage.
No one more so than quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who was bent, folded, spindled and mutilated by Baltimore’s defense in 2006. Roethlisberger was sacked 14 times in the clubs’ two divisional matchups.
Brian H. Said,
November 6, 2007 @ 2:55 pm
that game was a really intense one, since they were also playing in the rain. it is also cool that the steelers actually beat them because they lost the other times to baltimore.