Washington, D.C. Philadelphia. Miami. Baltimore. Cleveland. Indianapolis. Buffalo. Cincinnati. These are the cities that the Pittsburgh Steelers had to travel to over the course of the regular season. It was an extremely favorable schedule in terms of travel concerns. Their most distant opponents—Dallas and Kansas City—both made the trek into Pittsburgh, rather than the other way around.
That will change on Sunday when the Steelers have to return the favor with the Chiefs, who will be hosting them in Kansas City for the AFC Divisional Round. While Pittsburgh may have been able to beat them on their own grass back in the early portions of the season, they will find it a taller task to bring them down the second time around, which I talked about yesterday, from a football perspective.