[irish]

I know a lot of people love the conspiracy theories and corporate sell out rants but the fact is that a lot (and I do mean a lot) of people from Pgh live in DC and were in their seats rooting for the Skins at the last home game but since it was the Steelers they rooted for their home town team. The will be back in their seats rooting for the Skins at the next home game.

BTW, its not that Steeler fans travel well, its that no other city that size has seen people move away like Pgh and where ever one goes in the country there are lots of ex-Burghers living there. I travel a lot with work and everywhere I go has a Steeler bar. I have not encountered that kind of nationwide following for any other team exceppt maybe dallas. The difference I find is that the people at the Steeler bars actually used to live in Pgh while the dallas bars are populated with cowboy fans that never lived in dalas. IMO, because of the Pgh diaspora, the Steelers (not dallas) are America's team.