Bengals are too soft.

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(11-12-2018, 04:43 PM)6andcounting Wrote: This isn't even the right way to use bandwagon smack talk.

Anyone born around 1960 and onward would have watched the Steelers perform as one of the few premier franchises since they were kids. They wouldn't be fans of other teams and jump on the Steelers' bandwagon when things got good - things would have always been good and they would have been Steelers fans from the start. Calling someone who has been a fan since childhood a bandwagoner doesn't really work.

While it's still losing smack regardless, the better approach is to suggest Steelers fans would stop being fans if the team wasn't good. Every home Steeler game since the 70's has been sold out and the Steelers have never been bad for long, so finding evidence to support this approach is still tough. You can try to point to very specific instances where the Steelers are losing by a lot late in the game and the camera pans to people already starting to leave as proof they aren't real fans. I will warn you though this is referred to as the Bra....err umm …. the complete moron approach and will have even Bengals fans telling you that you should feel embarrassed.

Good luck if you decide to stick around in smack.

No rational person would ever say every Steelers fan is bandwagon. No doubt there are hundreds of thousands that were there from day one--being a sports fan--and just as many that were born in Pittsburgh. That doesn't really discount the other hundreds of thousands that latch on because they win a lot and have the most SB trophies. Case in point, my nephew. He was born around the Bay area in Cali and moved back here when he was around 10 or so. I'm not sure who or if he ever liked anyone else but he's a Steelers fan right now and has been for several years. 

(11-13-2018, 07:58 PM)Dill Wrote: Seven years without a Superbowl appearance is just as hard on Steeler fans as 26 years without a playoff win on the Bengals.

That's typically referred to as entitlement.