Pittsburgh is hated, big time. They might have the most obnoxious non-Cowboys fan base, as well as the most ubiquitous. Every NFL city is loaded with Steelers bars and obnoxious Steelers fans. Their 70's teams were successful scumbags. The Patriots are almost perfectly matched to the Red Sox. Irrelevant until this decade, save for an embarrassing loss in the big game in the mid 80's, a woe is me fan base that has now become spoiled babies. Sure it's cheap and easy to combine the two, but they are really the same.