I just recently moved to the Pittsburgh area from Charleston, SC. I usually don't care about football, but I must say that the Steelers are like a religion in western Pennsylvania. Since history is not paying the bills for me, I'm delivering pizza for Dominos full time. On my many travels up and down the snowy, dark, icy, winding, hilly roads of Connellsville and the surrounding area, I have noticed that the locals only root for one team. Being from New York, this is a strange concept, because we had two football teams and two baseball teams while I was growing up there.
In Charleston, people rooted for different teams. Although most Southerners really don't care about NFL stuff because they're into college football, there were quite a few Steelers fans down there too. Amazingly, there were even Steelers' bars in South Carolina. Can you imagine that? Southerners rooting for a Yankee team?
What I've learned about Pittsburgh is that it's a big city that thinks and acts like a small town. People in this area root for the Steelers with the same enthusiasm and die-hard devotion that people normally only show for their old college or high school. (As a Citadel grad, I would know this, although the Bulldogs keep getting creamed.)
