Reply #27: You seem to be conflating the teams with the cities.

[crispini]

You wrote a nice romantic post, but let's look at reality for a second. The "match" was not one of yuppies vs. street smarts but of high paid players from all over the nation vs. high paid players from all over the nation. I find it ironic when people contine to "buy in" to the myth of the "local" team. These days with free agency, players are usually a recent transplant to their new hometown and have very few local roots. The ownership of the Steelers is more local than most, true, but that certainly doesn't make the players a hapless gang of down and out locals who were any way affected by the loss of the steel industry.

And as far as underdogs go, you should have been rooting for Seattle, if you wanted the underdog to win. A five time superbowl winning championship team against a team with their first time IN the superbowl? A team that hadn't even WON a playoff game in 21 years verrus a team who has won TEN playoff games in that time? The "underdog" was certainly not the Steelers.