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Cleveland Browns vs. Pittsburgh Steelers Rivalry

NFL

Rivalry Recipe

The mix of 10 rivalry ingredients that spark this rivalry, according to fans of each team who rated the importance on 1-7 scale.
Select a rivalry ingredient to see how fans of each side rate the importance to this rivalry.
Shared Supply
Competition for players and coaches
Same Values
Shared values between the teams/clubs/cities
Different Values
Different values between the teams/clubs/cities
Proximity
Teams are located relatively close to each other
Unfairness
Perceived preferential treatment by authorities
Dominance
Historical success of one team over the other
Moments
Specific incident between competitors
Characters
Extraordinary individuals (personalities/legacies)
Consistency
Recurring competition between the opponents
Competitiveness
Comparable success in recent time and a long period

Hostility

How fans of each team react to opposing fans in this rivalry
Prejudice
Discrimination

Rivalry Quotes

Quotes from fans and rivals
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Browns Fan
2015
Steelers: because they steal bandwagon fans in the Akron area with their success. Ravens: because they are the old Browns and the browns failures can be directly attributed the the corrupted move of the original Browns's franchise to Baltimore. Bengals: because they always lose to us when they should beat us and we always lose to them when we should beat them. Bills: because Lake Erie? The two teams play almost every year and it always seems to be a bitter game for one side.
Browns Fan
2015

Terms / Definitions

What does it all mean?

Rivalry Points

Rival Points
Average Rivalry Points assigned to a rival team. 0-100

Reverse Rival Points
Average Rivalry Points assigned to the favorite team by the rival team’s fans. 0-100

Rivalry Recipe

Rivalry Ingredients
Each Rivalry Recipe is composed of a mix of 10 common ingredients to rivalry discerned from thousands of fan comments (Tyler & Cobbs, 2015, 2019). Fans on each side of a rivalry have rated the importance of each ingredient on a 1-7 scale (7 being ‘extremely important’).

Hostility

Prejudice
How much prejudice do fans hold against fans of the rival team?  1 [lowest] – 7 [highest]

We measured prejudice using 4 questions that included: “A(n) [Rival] fan’s character is more questionable than a typical fan’s character.”

Discrimination
How much do fans discriminate in their relationships with fans of the rival team? 1 [lowest] – 7 [highest]

We measured relationship discrimination using 6 questions adapted from Pettigrew and Meertens (1995) that included: “I would be less likely to marry a [rival] fan than a typical fan.” and “As a boss, I would be less likely to hire a [rival] fan than a typical fan.”