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🏈 Aaron Rodgers will be playing at a familiar site when the Pittsburgh Steelers take on the Detroit Lions at Ford Field on Sunday afternoon. The Lions were a division foe when Rodgers starred in Green Bay for 18 years.
The crowd noise at Ford Field wasn’t a big factor in his early years with the Packers when the Lions were rarely a threat in the division.
“But I would say since Dan [Campbell} got there it’s been a different type of crowd. We were there when their run started going in 2022. We could’ve buried them and they beat us and went on a run there and finished the season hot and the next year they were in the NFC championship,” Rodgers told the Detroit media this week. Dan has obviously created a good culture there and the fans are believing and showing up early and really loud, so it’s a really good environment to play in,” said Rodgers.
While Rodgers has dominated the Lions, he said his relationship with Detroit fans “compared to Chicago is much less hostile, I would like to think.”
“For our fans in Green Bay, I feel like they borderline hate Minnesota and they just have a complex with Chicago because it was always ‘Big Chicago, Little Green Bay.’ In Detroit it was always battles, but there wasn’t maybe the hatred that they have for Minnesota or Chicago,” Rodgers said.
🏈 Former Steelers outside linebacker James Harrison said the Steelers better be ready for Lions running back David Montgomery on Sunday.
“I know Montgomery, ’cause he trains in Arizona with me. We have the same trainer and I ain’t gonna lie to you. Y’all better be ready to go ahead and drop the shoulder, body, everything on that dude because he’s looking for work,” Harrison said on the Deebo & Joe podcast. “He’s looking for action. That boy deadlifts like 700 pounds, dude. Lower body outta control. Listen, he ain’t tall in stature, but dude got power, man. I’m telling you right now, he is not trying to duck no smoke. He’s looking for all that. We gotta be ready.”
🏈 Steelers president Art Rooney II spoke with Jenna Harner of WPXI about the growth of the North Shore over the years.
“There’s really hardly a day in the year that goes by that there’s not some event taking place at one of the stadiums or Stage AE, and it’s been great to see,” Rooney said.
That didn’t used to be the case on the north shore.
“The North Shore was basically a junkyard on both sides of the bridge. When you got over there, it was like old tanks and jeeps from World War II laying around in a junkyard,” Rooney said.
🏈 Yahoo Sports Charles Robinson believes the Lions will put up 50 on the Steelers.
“I think it’s just the reality that the Steelers’ defense is...
