They were the AFC's hottest team with five straight victories, and they had never lost a postseason game in Pittsburgh.
All those positive vibrations for the feel-good team of these AFC playoffs meant nothing. The Steelers play at home like no one else, and they weren't about to let the hated Baltimore Ravens reach the AFC championship game without them.
Not with yet another chance to win that title in Pittsburgh.
"They are going to fight like we are...
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