Bloody, Broken and Bruised: Is Ravens vs Steelers the NFL’s Best Rivalry?

December 7, 2010   ·   NFL Guru   ·   Jump to comments

If this particular rivalry between bitter division foes happened to be represented by a symbol -- think of it as Prince meets the NFL -- for 15 seasons now the bloody nose would have been entirely apt.
Steelers-Ravens is always a knock-down, drag-out fight, and it always goes 15 rounds. And if anything, Sunday night's outcome at M&T Bank Stadium only reinforced everything we already thought about the ferocious way Pittsburgh and Baltimore play football.
Just ask Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, he of the bloodied and broken nose in the first half, and the game-winning touchdown pass in the final three minutes of the Steelers' gut check of a 13-10 victory over the Ravens. Nothing about the way Pittsburgh played to win this game was remotely novel, but Roethlisberger made one key discovery on this night: You don't pay anywhere near as much attention to the pain in your broken foot once you break your nose.
"I just knew it was bleeding, and then when I got to th...

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