It’s hard for Steelers fans to hate the Dolphins as much as they hate the Bengals.
But they can try.
Sunday’s AFC wild card game at Heinz Field doesn’t come with the animosity of last year’s wild-card game. We don’t have the Twitter wars that we had last year between the Steelers and Bengals.
Part of that is because the Steelers don’t face the Dolphins twice a year. They lost to them 30-15 in Week 6 at Miami, but Ben Roethlisberger has faced them just seven times in his 13-year career. There isn’t enough familiarity to breed the contempt that exists between the Steelers and Bengals.