Wow, I am really happy that we are not playing the Steelers that game. They would probably whip our behinds like they always do.

Honestly,now,is'nt everybody getting tired of seeing grown people frantically waving yellow rags in the air during NFL games?I mean,do we have to constantly hear how great the Pitt Rooney family is for their team all season long again?I'd rather be oversaturated with other teams,say, like the AFC Patriots or NFC Eagles.I know the Steeler fans are absolutely flying off their seats about a scheduling situation but what's the big deal?Grow up!

It is a sad day for your team when you back down from a good fight , you will never know the meaning of walking into the valley of death and fear no evil , I had a deep respect for the Ravens because they go anywhere and play to the death , not anymore , go get your skirts you cry babies

I'm sure you're really from Baltimore, Bob.

Boo – Hoo! Snivel and cry! We don’t want to play a tough team in a tough stadium!
Doesn’t the NFL know we have Ray Lewis? Shouldn’t they just give us a first round bye now because we have him? Don’t they want to continue to promote him? Goodness knows we shouldn’t have to earn our way into the big game, it should be given to us. (By the way, didn’t the Steelers have to play the toughest schedule in the NFL last year?)

Are you kidding me? Begging out of a prime-time matchup because it would be in Pittsburgh? What the hell are we afraid of?! It wouldn't be fair??!! Well, have a solid season and let NBC flex us into a Pittsburgh at Baltimore matchup on a Sunday night. Why in the world are we trying to dictate the television schedule??? It's football, for crying out loud!

Pitts.v Balt to open the season, no matter at which stadium, is a trap game for whichever team loses. Pitts carries a lot of pressure every week next season. The target is on their backs; I, for one, hope it's hit early & often.
I'd like to see Pitts.v. Balt. maybe week 6-7 and again in December. Yinz can pick the sites

The Ravens have been reduced to Chickens! After going 0-3 against The Men of Steel last year, they wuss out of the season opener because it would be in Pittsburgh? Your team has become the laughing stock of the NFL by being cowards. You think me and the rest of Steeler Nation is going to put away our towels and treat you with respect now? Just became 10 times more difficult coming here knowing we got your heart.

I said this before and I will say it again, NFL is going to schedule the Ravens @ Pittsburgh game for December at 1pm and it will get flexed into primetime.

What a bunch of babies.The Steelers didn't whine when the nfl moved last seasons match up in Baltimore to a prime time game.The Ravens had a chance to steal the division at home and blew it.
I bet the Ravens add "hurt feelings" to the injury list this year.Ravens suck.

It's a savvy move. The Ravens will be dealing with a greater number of roster changes and younger players than the Steelers will, which means the Steelers are likely to be more "ready" on opening day than the Ravens. A night-game environment only increases that effect.

The Ravens still play the Steelers in Pittsburgh, regardless. But instead it will be a game later in the season, by which time the Ravens will have a chance to gel as a team, giving us a comparative advantage.

It's a smart move. And we'll beat the Steelers in their house.

Who's to say the Ravens @ Pitt game won't be nationally televised, just not in week 1. The Ravens lost a tough playoff game there and doesn't want to have to watch the Steelers get their rings too.

I'm kind of surprised the NFL didn't give Pittsburgh an easier opponent like Detroit or Oakland.

All during the AFC Championship game, the announcers were saying how the Balt/Pitt rivalry has gone unnoticed by the rest of the country, but no longer. The networks will want to show the fierce competitiveness each team brings to every game, playoff or not.

For the education of Steeler Nation, I'll fill you in on the current situation with the Ravens. We used to have a coach (Brian Billick) who loved playing you guys. We had some great battles and Billick always looked forward to the games -- especially the nationally-televised ones -- because they were good barometers for his team. I remember him saying, "I've never lost there" prior to the Ravens' 2001 playoff game in Pittsburgh (Billick was 3-0 in his first three trips to the 'Burgh). I also remember fondly the 31-7 drubbing by the Ravens in Pittsburgh in 2006.

Well, a few years ago, Ravens ownership (based on a gut decision) decided that winning football for 9 years and a .500 record vs. the Steelers wasn't good enough. (Either that or Steve Bisciotti just didn't like the fact that Billick didn't play golf or go out drinking with him and the star players.) So the Ravens, with the help of Dick Cass, adopted more of a corporate mentality and, after interviewing players and office personnel, fired Billick and replaced him (in typical corporate fashion) with your run-of-the-mill, brown-nosing young buck to "run" the team. "Run" being a relative term as new coach John Harbaugh doesn't actually cut players (just ask Chris McAlister) or hire assistant coaches (Rex Ryan came with the job, as did many of the other assistants on last year's staff).

So now everyone at 1 Winning Drive is very happy (every time they're photographed they always have ear-to-ear grins), but they've hung us (the fans) out to dry, left waging the battle against the Steelers and their faithful fans because the team itself apparently isn't up to the task. Not that it's easy to argue the Ravens side on this one: they're 0-3 vs. Pittsburgh since Bisciotti listened to his gut, and they've now asked the NFL not to schedule their arch rival for nationally-televised games. Being a Ravens fan and arguing with the inbreds from Western PA used to be a lot of fun, but now we have no ammunition -- shooting back "but our new coach is a really nice guy" doesn't do much good as Hines Ward flashes his teeth after decking one of our defensive players.

The same corporate cowardice that has destroyed our economy is responsible for decisions currently being made by the Raven brain trust. Billick was fired because it was the popular and easy move. Last year's success was as much to do with Billick as anything else (other than maybe Ozzie). Next year is the true barometer for Bissciotti's corporate cookie-cutter approach- the same approach that put Starbucks on every corner and empty Brittany Spears' music in every child's brain.

Bisciotti got rid of a coach that wasn't afraid of our opponents or the league. Billick came out and said that he thought that the referees weren’t going to us a fair shot the first time we played Cleveland in Cleveland. He stuck up for our town and the players followed his lead. Now we have Dick Cass working out compromises that benefit Cleveland and Cincinnati (see last labor negotiation) and Bisciotti firing coaches because "his partners" (Jerry Jones) thought it is the right move. We had a Baltimore- tell it like it is- guy, we were just afraid of the big words he used so we thought he was a phony.

So now we have been sold a bill of goods by a couple of D.C. types- one of whom goes to a tanning salon and has hair plugs (real Baltimore guy). The guys running the Ravens now are no different than the Wall Street types that picked your pocket before. Of course these money lovers don't want to upset the league, they are all in partnership together to separate you from your money.

Read Harbaugh's empty quotes and then compare them to Billick's and than tell me who reminds you more of Earl Weaver. It won't be the young guy who came to his interview without a list of candidates to be his assistant coaches. Weaver worked hard and paid attention to detail and he sure as Hell wasn’t afraid of the Yankees. Earl Weaver would have had a list of candidates to be his coaches when he arrived for a job interview and he would not have asked the league to specially schedule games because he was afraid to take them on their field.

Maybe our football leaders need to stop reading the corporate play-book and retain employees that look, talk, or act funny. Maybe they should worry about results and work ethic. The corporate playbook would have said not to hire Vince Lombardi (Bisciotti admitted as much himself on WBAL after the Billick firing). Maybe being overweight doesn’t prevent people from doing good work. This mind-numbing need for corporate sameness is what has taken the life out of sports in this country. The result of this cowardice is that we manipulate schedules to be certain that the fans aren’t too loud when we play our opponents. Go get ‘em Harbaugh. Why don’t you have your players hit the Steelers a little harder during the games rather than each other during practice than maybe you might win a game against them for a change and our owner could spend more time drinking with his players and would not have to worry about the schedule so much.

Everyone needs to calm down a bit.
I dont believe the Ravens are afraid of the Steelers rather, The scheduling gets difficult because the Orioles pay home games in weeks 2 and 3. If we play the Steelers on the road week 1, We likley open the season with 3 straight away games
If both teams live up to their expectations, we probably will flex into prime time later in the season .

Too bad people , I see 0and 2 against the steelers and no playoffs this year from the team that no longer has any heart..................

I seem to recall the Ravens going to the Afc championship game this past season. In fact, I think they played the eventual super bowl champions in that game. They were even in position to win in the 4th quarter.

All you guys knocking Harbaugh, and the ravens heart, why don't we wait until the next game is played?

If your trying to defend the Ravens, your retarded. I do like Raven fans that admit defeat though.