PITTSBURGH (AP) – The players who arrive from other teams notice it immediately. There’s something different about a Ravens-Steelers game.
Along the line of scrimmage, the hitting seems louder. The bumps and bruises last longer, the following week’s game seems to arrive much sooner than usual.
Competitively, no NFL rivalry is closer. Each of their last four regular season games was decided by 3 points – a mere field goal’s difference. Last season, the Ravens won in Baltimore, the Steelers won in Pittsburgh. This season, the Ravens won in Pittsburgh, the Steelers won in Baltimore.
As the mirror-image AFC North rivals from adjoining states await their eighth game in the last three seasons – the equivalent of a half season’s worth of games – there appears to be one discernible difference between them.
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