Pittsburgh Steelers vs Philadelphia Eagles Live Stream: Watch Online NFL Football (1 P.M. ET)
It's a near must-win game for the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, who will go up against their same state rivals, the Philadelphia Eagles.
It will be the tenth time in the last 42 years that the same state rivals will go up against each other, the Steelers with a record of losing to their neighboring friends. To make things more challenging, the Steelers are on a must-win basis, going in with a 1-2 record after their last game.
The bad news for the Steelers is that the team has only managed to make it to playoffs twice with a 1-3 season open, and they have a record of losing to the Eagles. Actually, the Steelers haven't won a game in Philadelphia since 1965, so its not hard to imagine the schoolyard bullying. The team's sole victory over the Eagles in the past 38 years took place in 1994 with 14-3 win at Three Rivers.
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But the good news is that a team loss to the Eagles hasn't always been the end of the road. Both in 1979 and in 2008, the Steelers lots to their Philly brothers and still went on to win the Super Bowl.
Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said that the hatred goes beyond a football rivalry, although his team is eager to avoid a 1-3 start.
"We definitely want to get back on track. But it's probably just as much Pittsburgh versus Philadelphia," Roethlisberger told The Beaver County Times. "It's not a division game. It's AFC versus NFC. But no matter what sport it is, it seems to be Pittsburgh versus Philly and a general hatred. That's what I've noticed since I moved here about Philadelphia."
Could the need to win be enough to bring one of the NFL's best teams over the past decade to a long-overdue victory against their interstate rivals? To watch the game, which begins at 1 p.m., E.T. click here.
